QUOTIDIAN PRESS

City of Maps: Navigations in Paris, France
By Delphine Bedient
Release Date: July 28, 2013
48 pp, 4.25” x 5.5”, bound pamphlet
Hashtag: #cityofmaps

“This book features a collection of hand-drawn maps depicting various parts of Paris. I had the pleasure of living there for a month and explored a great deal. I did my navigation for the most part without the aid of a smartphone or city map. As I became aware of places I wanted to visit I would look them up online from where I was staying and draw myself a simple map, generally to a place from the closest metro station. Upon my arrival back in the states, I realized that I now had this small collection of maps, each with its own related memories. This book exists to showcase these maps as interesting images, to impart some of my adventures in navigation and to serve as an offbeat guide of sorts to the Paris I discovered. ”

-Delphine Bedient

Delphine Bedient is a writer and maker currently based in Portland, Oregon. Her work has been featured by Blunderbuss Magazine, Fog Machine, and Bottlecap Press, and a collection of her short fiction, entitled Down and Out on a Yacht, is available from Two Plum Press. She likes the color blue, writing in cursive and wearing sunglasses. She spends most of her time touching books.