1. Paris has been a literary capital for actual centuries, and while I do love wandering official literary sites, I’m also a huge fan of the random literary details that crop up here and there. I stumbled upon this sodden book page on my way to the metro, and while it definitely made me kind of sad, I also found the image fairly lovely.
2. This is one of my favorite literary statues: Voltaire, the great philosopher (and writer of Candide) presiding over the Saint-Germain area of Paris, one of the most literary neighborhoods of them all.
3. This old-fashioned sign announces that the shop below purchases old books, including whole libraries. I wouldn’t mind having that job, though I’m not sure the Country Boy would love it.
4. This bust signals the spot where Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote No One Writes to the Colonel: the Hôtel des Trois Collèges in the Latin Quarter.
5. No literary roundup would be complete without my one and only: Victor Hugo, looming from a 5th arrondissement wall.