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James Earle McCracken
James Earle McCracken's novel, Rue de la Pompe: A Satiric Urban Fantasy, was firmly set in Paris before writing actually began. McCracken arrived in The City of Lights in September 2005 for a three-year work assignment, and was immediately struck by how "foreign" it was to be an American. Though he lived about half of his adult life outside the U.S., and had been to some out of the way places like Mongolia, Paris still surprised him with its uniqueness and eccentricities.

As McCracken walked up and down Rue de la Pompe on his way back and forth to the office every morning and every evening in the autumn of 2005, the story gradually came to him. The odd collection of shops, stores, restaurants, and residences along the street caught McCracken's attention, and he tried to imagine the back-story for each place. A number of them wound up in the book: a dry cleaners, an English pub, a travel agency and the protagonist Michael’s apartment building. The name of the street in English is nothing special—Pump Street—but James did like how it sounds in French.

James is currently working on a sequel to Rue de la Pompe.

Rue de la Pompe: A Satiric Urban Fantasy

James Earle McCracken
iUniverse, Inc. (2008)
ISBN 9780595485055
Reviewed by Tina Avon for RebeccasReads (8/08)

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