Tired of romanticized visions of the Paris of the past, author Will Mountain Cox sets out in Roundabout to write Paris present: from the Notre Dame fire, to the November 2015 attacks, to concerns of gentrification, climate, and hyper-tourism. Cox, founder of the Belleville Park Pages, first proposed this present-tense vision in With Paris in Mind, a collection of interviews which dismisses the mythology of Paris as a city of artists and features the voices of the new creative generation. This generation is depicted yet again with attentiveness and insight in Roundabout— this time, through the prism of fiction. Ever sensitive to the spirit of the age, Cox will speak at the Library about the living Parisian cultural landscape.
About the speaker:
Will Mountain Cox is a writer from Portland, Oregon, living in Paris, France. His work has appeared in Forever Magazine, Hobart, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Shabby Doll House, and The Drunken Canal. He is the author of With Paris in Mind and was a cofounder of the literary magazine Belleville Park Pages. He is a graduate of Boston University and Sciences Po. Roundabout is his debut novel.
