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The Streets and Spirits of Writers: A Review of Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London by Lee Jackson and Balzac’s Paris: The City as Human Comedy by Eric Hazan By David J. Goodwin The young writer hunched over their desk in a cramped apartment, the morose poet scribbling in a notebook in a cafe, the frustrated playwright buttonholing a producer on the sidewalk, the cynical journalist waiting for a source in a seedy bar—men and women of letters belong to the narratives of cities embedded in the public imagination and immortalized across various artistic media. http://themetropole.blog/2026/02/12/the-streets-and-spirits-of-writers-a-review-of-dickensland-the-curious-history-of-dickenss-london-by-lee-jackson-and-balzacs-paris-the-city-as-human-comedy-by-eric-hazan/