Elaine Sciolino has crossed the line. Her article in this Sunday's Times is about the Rue des Martyrs in the Ninth Arrondissement. That's my neighborhood! That's where I go for the bank, the dry cleaners, the newspapers, the cheese, the everything. It is also a very trendy street on which you can also find the quirky antiques, the art galleries, the hipster cafes and restaurants, the La Perla lingerie, the gorgeous lamps, and the coolest boutiques. Apparently the part I live on, in the Ninth, is "bourgeois" (ok, I'll accept that) and the part of the street above Blvd Clichy in the Eighteenth is "bohemian." So all those "bobos" we hear so much about must actually live right there on the border on Blvd Clichy...?
Anyway, do read the article. It's satisfying to find one's neighborhood is a "hot spot" when one moved there with no pretense to hipness. If the New York Times and its readers are on their way here, at least I'll look like a local, dragging my drycleaning up the hill with a baguette tucked under my arm, my pint-sized dog straining ahead of me on his leash.
More on the London trip shortly.
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- Lauren Elkin is a PhD candidate in English literature at the Université de Paris VII and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Originally from New York, she has lived in Paris on and off since 1999 and continuously since 2004. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and her work has appeared in Gridskipper, the Huffington Post, Nextbook, The Forward, Parisist, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and the Paris Voice. She is the author of the novel IN DORSODURO, which is currently under representation by Diana Finch, and is at work on novel number two, set in present-day Paris.
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