View from Rue Saint-Georges
A blog about expatriate life in Paris. Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author of a memoir, Losing My Cool. He is at work on a book about how we define race in America, told through his own experience of growing up with a white mother and black father, and of raising a blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter in France.
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#SelfExile
On waiting for the political tide to change
By Thomas Chatterton Williams August 22, 2018
Versed in Outrage
A poet’s capitulation highlights the challenges facing artists and intellectuals
By Thomas Chatterton Williams August 8, 2018
History Is Not Everything
There is more to life than what has come before
By Thomas Chatterton Williams August 1, 2018
Strangers on a Train
A new perspective born of unexpected kindness
By Thomas Chatterton Williams July 25, 2018
Reaching Out
The best way to escape our current political predicament is to keep talking
By Thomas Chatterton Williams October 30, 2019
You Must Be Joking
A comic book, a movie, politics, and race
By Thomas Chatterton Williams October 9, 2019
Language Unbound
How the words we use influence how we think
By Thomas Chatterton Williams October 2, 2019
On the Turning Away
Our tendency to ignore human suffering
By Thomas Chatterton Williams September 25, 2019
License to Chill
Life slows down when you can’t drive
By Thomas Chatterton Williams September 18, 2019
Too Much of a Good Thing
Relief at the end of summer vacation
By Thomas Chatterton Williams September 4, 2019
Priceless Moments
How having children focuses a writer’s mind
By Thomas Chatterton Williams August 28, 2019
