Mary Duncan is the author of Henry Miller Is Under My Bed: People and Places on the Way to Paris, a lively and thoughtful memoir of a fascinating life. A few months ago Janet Hulstrand interviewed Mary for Bonjour Paris: you can read that interview here. This follow-up interview focuses on Mary’s work as founder of the Paris Writers Group, the Paris Writers Press and the Paris Writers Atelier. Mary, when did you start the Paris Writers Group, and more importantly, why did you? What are some of the most exciting things that have come out of it, from your point of view? And is this group open to new members?  In San Diego, I belonged to the San Diego Writing Women and I really missed them after I started spending more time in Paris. In June 2008, I invited three or four writers to meet in my apartment to create the Paris Writers Group; I believe that “Birds of a feather flock together.” Gradually, we grew to around 30 members. We are a support group: we discuss agents, publishers, marketing, our writing projects, our problems. We celebrate our successes and drown our failures in champagne. We don’t read or critique our work. Basically, we are writers meeting and learning from other writers.  Each person has three minutes to discuss their writing. Our three-minute egg-timer keeps us within our meeting’s two-hour time frame. New writers are admitted as members move from France, change their interest, or die. We have a waiting list.  In 2022, we created the Paris Writers Atelier, a permanent space that can seat 25 people, on the rue de la Bûcherie, near Shakespeare and Company. We host small literary events, and we have a wish list of writers we would like to host there. George Saunders is at the top of my list.  Shakespeare and Company book shop Last summer you worked on creating a video that explains the history and describes some of the activities of the Paris Writers Group and the Paris Writers Atelier. It is now available for viewing on your YouTube channel. Can you tell us more about this? We launched this 30-minute documentary about the Paris Writer’s Group and the atelier in July 2025. It features talented writers who live in Paris and prominent guests we’ve had at the atelier in a series of colorful interviews, along with snippets from some of our literary events.  To date we have had over 60,000 views on our channel. We are now expanding the content with new videos about Ted Joans, the surrealist poet, and more interviews from our Henry Miller archives. James Halfacre and Max Tuana, our creative videographers, are very busy working on this project.