The Paris Notebooks

Quentin S. Crisp

In 2007, Quentin S. Crisp visited Paris and kept a diary of his stay there and his return to Britain. An experiment in literary improvisation, the Notebooks are also a tribute to mood, moment, image and allusion.

Making a virtue of pareidolia, the author sifts through the subjective impressions of cumulative duration in an attempt to distill beauty and truth from the everyday, and to reclaim first-person experience from the ravages of 21st century media saturation.

About the Author
Quentin S. Crisp was born in 1972, in North Devon, U.K. Leaving A-level college without grades, he spent five years working with Wolf and Water Arts Company as an actor and stage manager before going on to study Japanese at Durham University, graduating in the year 2000. His first collection of fiction, The Nightmare Exhibition, was published in 2001, by BJM Press, while he was teaching English in Taiwan. He returned to Japan later that year to research Japanese literature on a scholarship at Kyoto University, studying in particular the works of Higuchi Ichiyo. He returned to Britain in 2003, and his second collection, Morbid Tales, was published by Tartarus Press in 2004. Since then he has had work released through a number of publishers, including the novella Shrike (PS Publishing), which was shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award in 2009. His work has been translated into German and Spanish and he was a speaking guest at the 15th International Book Fair in Mexico City. He currently resides in a damp flat in the London Borough of Bexley, and works as a freelance writer and editor. His first collection of poetry, September, was published by Snuggly Books in May, 2016.

Paperback, 126 pages. Release date: September 4, 2017
ISBN-13: 978-1-943813-40-7
Price: US$13.50

Hardcover, 128 pages. Limited edition of 60 copies
Price: US$26.00