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Joseph Lestrange profile

Joseph Lestrange is an American writer who has been wandering around Paris without any particular destination in mind for many years. His interest is in ordinary life at street level, and the subjects of his stories are consequently and naturally varied or, when you get right down to it, promiscuous. He may write about falling off a jump seat in the Métro, a blind man in an art museum, getting stuck in an elevator, freaked-out foreigners, being stalked by a fat lady, and about garbage cans, pissoirs, shovels, or anything else he has bumped into. He will not tell you the best places to eat mussels, which bus to take to the Opéra, or how to arrange a vacation on a barge. His only intention is to show you Paris from day to day, not as a museum or an array of monuments, but as a city many people live in and many others visit—or hope to. His take on his experiences is personal if not altogether eccentric. His real name of course is not Joseph Lestrange.

Stories

A NightWalker in the City (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-02-04 14:36:29
A Tale of the Tape (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-09-14 09:17:25.093104
About Four Dollars (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-08-27 10:54:34.480326
About Rosalie (Memoirs)
Story created: 2011-05-16 12:24:38.197522
All Wrong (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-11-03 18:13:11.764658
Alésia (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-09-28 07:46:06.971314
Anarchist (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-06-20 23:41:07.985568
Andie (Memoirs)
Story created: 2011-02-05 08:21:26.913682
Art (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-09-24 15:14:15.477712
As I Was Crossing the Street (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-11-16 13:26:03.057521
Beware the Sirens (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-03-05 09:36:04
Blinded by Bread (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-08-08 15:08:21.033482
Blues (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-07-21 08:06:21.535659
Blues for Bassoon (Memoirs)
Story created: 2011-04-20 07:43:07.868810
Bonhomme (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-12-27 02:48:47.939816
Br’er Joe in the Métro (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-08-09 11:29:26.248069
Business, Casual (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-03-06 07:22:26.848790
Canal Saint-Martin (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-02-28 07:24:57.563730
Cardboard (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-06-09 17:19:29.913654
Coffee with Kitty (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-03-05 10:33:11
Combat Zone (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-05-25 10:37:53.961931
Commuter (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-11-24 14:37:47.714322
Corkscrew (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-01-08 03:21:27.284227
Counter Clock Wise (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-04-03 10:23:31
Couples (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-07-26 01:09:18.875250
Dear Thief (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-08-09 15:09:10.437259
Descartes à la Carte (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-05-31 18:53:10.060000
Dinner for Three (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-02-26 12:06:22
Directions (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-08-16 00:12:57.372829
Dirty Old Men (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-07-12 14:06:40.284850
Doors (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-06-06 09:29:32.331459
Dope (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-10-28 12:47:48.810213
Down and Out in Paris (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-07-02 19:16:28.775893
Earworm (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-04-15 19:13:38.623519
Elevator Music (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-01-30 10:50:08
Envy (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-10-30 15:46:11.913190
Fatalism (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-09-13 08:18:50.963287
Fight (Memoirs)
Story created: 2011-01-03 12:14:36.660970
Footwork (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-05-19 22:21:58.087116
Fountain (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-07-11 11:48:14.037584
Francoise (Memoirs)
Story created: 2011-03-08 09:54:01.260575
Frozen (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-01-31 23:30:07.573837
Grandpa in the Park (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-09-07 09:48:27.821519
Green (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-07-26 11:09:29.729441
Gypsy (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-11-19 00:09:31.148578
Happy Ending (Memoirs)
Story created: 2011-05-27 03:34:31.412148
Happy Street (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-10-18 07:51:10.410422
Heartburn (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-01-12 15:15:34.861636
Impresario (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-03-24 17:01:59.016975
Invisible Man (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-05-13 12:08:20.378165
Kitty (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-07-31 07:55:36.176629
Lassitude (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-07-16 09:39:16.536454
Le Quartier Juif (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-08-19 15:46:14.695330
Les Fourberies de Jerome (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-01-30 11:24:23
London Fog Paris (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-03-26 17:33:48
Lord’s Day (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-05-03 13:17:07.644207
Love in the Park (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-02-26 08:44:51
Love on a Full Stomach (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-01-11 15:54:38.831532
Lovelorn (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-04-05 11:08:14.942286
Marching Band (Memoirs)
Story created: 2011-07-01 01:14:52.975854
Massage (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-11-13 07:55:40.953419
Memory (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-07-04 23:38:18.257213
Metro or Coddling (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-05-02 07:28:14.894586
Mirror (Memoirs)
Story created: 2011-10-11 00:18:32.346304
Missed Train (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-09-30 23:57:41.990649
Monday at Midday (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-08-03 09:05:27.174806
Morning Coffee (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-02-02 10:30:32
Night Music (Memoirs)
Story created: 2011-01-11 11:46:56.654170
No (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-02-21 19:51:32.236369
No Appetite (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-11-05 13:51:35.646188
No Dowdy Women (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-02-13 08:41:57
Nostalgia (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-01-26 13:19:24.162600
Odette (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-08-16 00:29:21.724172
One Way (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-04-24 09:53:52.145820
Ordinary (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-02-26 00:35:48.370745
Overcoat (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-09-17 11:42:11.008482
Paris by Bike (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-05-19 08:37:26.351821
Patience (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-06-12 03:32:28.157446
Penmanship (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-01-04 08:50:31.146638
Pigeon (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-05-31 12:04:42.432614
Pixie de la Légion d'Honneur (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-07-02 09:52:08.487616
Potholes (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-03-12 14:34:48.956210
Poubelle (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-02-20 09:18:19
Pretty Woman (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-05-23 18:29:12.903229
Rain (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-12-27 20:36:27.811511
Red Coat, Red Light (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-06-14 17:51:26.892780
Rue Daguerre (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-05-05 10:26:37.159239
Rules of the Game (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-02-17 08:52:22.342915
Scooters in Paris (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-05-02 07:30:27.861743
Shadow (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-10-16 11:10:49.399253
Shockwaves (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-10-11 23:01:12.363085
Shoes (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-12-27 09:59:44.501176
Shoot the Piano Player (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-08-14 09:31:36.642281
Shovel (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-03-18 08:55:29.123584
Signs of the Times (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-05-02 07:33:12.723374
Sitter (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-02-14 13:06:18.105052
Spontaneous Combustion (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-05-24 13:19:15.499587
Stalked (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-08-19 09:10:58.611945
Table Talk (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-12-01 01:05:47.619742
Tall Girl: A Delayed Valentine (Memoirs)
Story created: 2011-01-31 07:51:26.156983
The Baker’s Dance (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-08-29 17:40:54.109509
The Customer (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-08-10 08:28:37.520568
The Drunk Across the Street (Memoirs)
Story created: 2011-05-14 10:18:34.647438
The First American President of the French Republic (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-03-14 21:08:33
The Judge (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-08-09 11:33:03.427082
The Match (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-03-21 12:19:40.316484
The Tip (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-06-13 08:38:15.838511
The Word (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-09-19 09:26:40.779962
There Is Music in the Air (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-05-02 07:36:58.765995
Three Squares (Memoirs)
Story created: 2009-10-09 15:31:43.163344
Two Cups (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-11-22 08:10:42.910369
Unruly and Lovely (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-06-14 11:29:26.504895
Where? (Memoirs)
Story created: 2008-10-08 17:55:41.797324
Witness (Memoirs)
Story created: 2010-02-04 20:52:23.762515

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