So, this afternoon my son Matthew and I found a beautiful little pocket of the Left Bank, at the intersection of the rue de la Bucherie and the rue Frederic Sauton. Matt was having a cafe creme, and I was having a glass of red wine, when an American man walking by stopped and asked, “Are you Rod Dreher?”

Turns out this was Daniel Polansky, a fiction writer and a reader of this blog. He recognized me from the picture I published the other day. He just arrived in Paris, and is headed to London in a couple of days to promote his new book “Low Town.” Take a look at this excerpt of the book, a fantasy crime novel. It was such a kick to meet an American writer, here in Paris, out of the blue like that. Gotta get that book when I get back home. I think Matt was awfully impressed to meet a fiction writer. After we finished our drinks and said goodbye to menschy Daniel, a boon drinking companion (the two of us shared a couple carafes of wine), my son and I walked a couple of blocks away to Shakespeare & Co., where I bought Matthew a copy of “A Moveable Feast,” and had a literary geek father-son bonding moment. Writers in Paris. Ahhh….