Oh I dream of visiting a Parisian cafe. They look so romantic in the movies!
Parisian cafés serve as a center of social and culinary life in Paris
Yeah, they always look crowded and have so many friendly looking people there.
Parisian café
Parisian cafés serve as a center of social and culinary life in Paris. They have been around since the 17th century, and serve as the meeting place, neighborhood hub, conversation matrix, rendez-vous spot, and networking source, a place to relax or to refuel - the social and political pulse of the city. Parisian cafés show the Parisian way of sitting undisturbed for a couple of hours, watching things happening and people going by.
Typical Paris cafés are not coffee shops. They generally come
I wrote it back in 2009 and some of the core plot takes place among young radicals protesting on Wall Street. The pages in "Spiderland" look like they're directly lifted from Occupy Wall Street, but Anna actually illustrated those pages last summer before Occupy started. It's funny because when "Silent War" started coming out people were telling me they didn't believe there would be a populist youth movement targeting Wall Street, but now when "Spiderland" comes out everyone will be like oh yeah that's so obvious