:: Jake Lamar - Official Author Website

in bookstores
May 2006!

Ghosts of Saint-Michel
Marva Dobbs has a life most people envy. An American who has lived in Paris for most of her adult life, she runs a popular soul food restaurant, and her thirty-nine year marriage has brought her a beautiful grown-up daughter. So why is she jeapordizing everything for a fling with her sous chef, a mysterious twenty-eight-year-old Algerian man named Hassan?

now in paperback!

Rendezvous Eighteenth
"Always a witty and astute social observer, Jake Lamar illuminates the interaction of French locals with Americans abroad, some of them on the lam, in a suspenseful and funny thriller set in the seamy, particularly fascinating Eighteenth Arrondissement of Paris."
-- Diane Johnson author of Le Divorce, Le Mariage and L'Affaire

France 24 Debate June 18th 2008	Could France have an Obama? Host Andrea Sanke and her guests discuss the French fascination with US presidential hopeful Barack Obama, and ask, could France ever have its own Obama?
France 24 Debate April 21st, 2008	Defining black identity today As the poet and politician Aimé Césaire is laid to rest, what future lies ahead for his concept of "négritude"? Is it, as some suggest, at odds with French Republican values?
France 24 Jan 4th, 2008	Jake Lamar, novelist - a great video profile of Jake
Soul of Paris	African-American Writers In Paris Includes interview with Jake.
Belles Lettres Interview	David Collins interviews Jake Lamar. Visit the Belles Lettres site to browse the entire Jan/May 07 magazine as well as previous issues.
Paris Update	Podcast Interview with Jake Lamar : Listen to Jake talk about his latest book (Ghosts of Saint-Michel), his other works and his life in Pars.
The Washington Post	Dark Days in the City of Light : Jake is quoted extensively in this article on the recent riots in France.
M & C's Book Features	Interview: writer Lamar`s trans-Atlantic view on race.
BonjourParis	Literary Rentrée Celebrates American Author Jake Lamar.
Africana	A great feature article on Jake.
Discover Paris	"A chat with Jake Lamar"
Discover Paris Walks	"Rendezvous Eighteenth : Our most recent self-guided literary walk was created in honor of African-American writer and Lyndhurst Prize winner Jake Lamar..."
Publisher's Weekly Interview	Diane Patrick interviews Jake Lamar for Publisher's Weekly.
Paris Through Expatriate Eyes	read an interview with Jake Lamar.
BonjourParis	get to know the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris with Rendezvous Eighteenth