SOURCE: A review of Village, in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring, 1991, pp. 332-333.

In the following review of a reissue of McAlmon's Village: As It Happened through a Fifteen-Year Period, Pekar writes that he believes the book would have been improved by revisions.

Anyone reading about American expatriate writers in France during the 1920s and '30s is likely to run across the name of Robert McAlmon, who lived in Paris from 1921 to 1940 and there, through his Contact Publishing Company, printed the work of William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Djuna Barnes, H. D., Nathanael West, and Robert Coates's brilliant Eater of Darkness, as well as his own works. McAlmon was quite controversial and has been called everything from an opportunist and hanger-on to a generous patron of the arts. His marriage to the wealthy Winifred (Bryher) Ellerman, the long-time companion of H. D...