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...complimentary breakfast and a second rude awakening. My illusions of Paris were quickly shattered during that meal: not only by the stale croissant, but by the horrors of MTV France.I had arrived in the patrie of Edith Piaf, Serge Gainsbourg, and Daft Punk—and in the summer of Justice, no less, the Parisian duo whose “D.A.N.C.E.” was omnipresent in America at the time of my departure. This was the land of baguettes and Bizet, and I, a professed Francophile, was gagging down processed pastry and watching similarly packaged English-language videos...
Unlikely as it sounds, Günter Grass and I switched places over the summer. Or maybe it only seemed like we did. It could have merely been a trick of the pen, but his newest book, “Peeling the Onion,” certainly made me feel as if we had switched bodies and situations for a moment. Perhaps it was because jaw surgery had left me incapable of intermaxillary motion, unable to chew and unable to eat real food, that the younger Grass resonated so powerfully with me. There was a confluence between my real life...
They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but this summer, four of our editors found out that there’s more than one meaning to that aphorism...
Make sure to catch their written snapshots—assembled alongside photos of their summer locales, from Berlin to Beijing—in our special two-page spread...
...family and community. And, most of all, it’s a damn fine story, one that makes art and entertainment indistinguishable and reminds us of the many reasons that we began to read—and the many reasons that we still do. More than any other time, summer offers a chance to indulge these literary passions. Six Crimson editors now share the summer reads that inspired in them the fervor of a child awaiting the new Harry Potter. They may have approached these books for different reasons, but one thing is certain: They were all entertained...