"This collaboration - posthumous in McAlmon's case - has proved amazingly successful. It gives us pictures of two lives - and many surrounding lives - from different angles, as if they had been taken with a stereoscopic camera. Thereby it gives us an impression of depth and substantiality that have been lacking in other memoirs of Paris in the 1920's." - Malcolm Cowley, New York Times Book Review
There was no more exhilarating decade in the history of modern letters than the twenties in Paris....