L. Elkin “No 91/92: Notes On A Parisian Commute”

A love letter to Paris written in iPhone notes and in the troubling intimacy of public transport post-Charlie Hebdo attacks, Lauren Elkin’s diary of a year on a Parisian bus pays homage to Georges Perec and Annie Ernaux.

In this chronicle of the ordinary makings of a city and its people, the author’s own body is a threatened vessel; that of the author as a woman as an author as a pregnant woman on the bus.