Hiring his 96-year-old mother to review a proof copy of a book he co-edited about Paris in the 1970s that will be published next month.
The Idiot’s mother reads one of her son’s three anecdotes in The Paris Metro 40th Anniversary Issue: The Book About Paris Yesterday. The vignette that has her smiling is entitled How I Lost My Day Job, My Virginity And My First Fortune At The Paris Metro.
About Joel
Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."
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