I suspect his memoir can easily be added to the shelf of famous literary exiles who wrote about that milieu-Sylvia Beach, Janet Flanner, Ernest Hemingway, Edmund White, et al. Glassco, or Buffy as he was known by his friends, was born in Montreal and was a poet who dropped out of McGill University in 1927 and did what every other self-respecting writer of that era seemed to do-he went to Paris. It was originally published in 1970 by Oxford University Press and then reissued by NYRB Classics in 2007. I had not hard of John Glassco before, but when my eye ran over the spine of this particular book and caught Memoirs of Montparnasse my curiosity was piqued and off the shelf came the book. I'm always pleased when a book that catches my eye in the stacks turns out to be not quite so "lost" after all.
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