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A new bookstore for Children's books in French
16 January 2012
Congratulations to Idlewild Books, founded in 2008 in New York City by David Del Vecchio: the travel guide and literature store has opened a second location, in Cobble Hill, in Brooklyn, where it is selling...
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How to Be an Avant-Garde Publisher?
07 January 2012
The Tender Hour of Twilight, Richard Seaver’s "lovely posthumous memoir" on his years in Paris in the ’50s and New York in the ’60s has just been released by Farrar, Strauss & Giroux.
It has...
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A gift book for the holidays!
08 December 2011
If you're looking for gift ideas, PERFUME, The Alchemy of A Scent by Jean-Claude Ellena, makes a great stocking stuffer.
Mr Ellena, the exclusive perfumer for Hermès, has been recently interviewed...
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Antoine Bello at Cornelia Street Cafe
28 November 2011
Please join us for an hour of French literature, read in translation and in the original at the Cornelia Street Café on Wednesday, December 7 at 6 pm.
Enquête sur la disparition d’Émilie Brunet/The...
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The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irène Némirovsky
11 September 2011
The Mirador by Élisabeth Gille has just been released in English by New York Review Books.
Here are some of the great reviews from The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The Washington...
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Obituary
06 July 2011
Michel Prigent / CEO of Presses Universitaires de France (1951-2011)
A former student of the École Normale Supérieure, Michel Prigent completed a PhD in Literature before starting his career...
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Hygiene and Assassin
31 May 2011
Please check PW's great review for Amelie Nothomb's novel HYGIENE AND ASSASSIN:
"Written nearly two decades ago, this is the first novel of the award-winning Nothomb to be translated into English...
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The Pianist in the Dark
31 May 2011
Please check PW's great review of Michèle Halberstadt's novel:
This spare and elegant depiction of the life of blind Austrian piano prodigy Maria-Theresia Von Paradis--friend of Mozart, and...
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French Thought Today: A Publishing Perspective
09 November 2010
The Cultural Services of the French Embassy, the French-American Foundation, and the French Publishers' Agency co-sponsored and hosted a series of discussions on the social sciences and humanities in France...
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L'histoire De La Lingerie reviewed in The Gloss
26 August 2010
Please check Lilit Marcus glowing review of HISTOIRE DE LA LINGERIE by Chantal Thomass and Catherine Ormen:
The French sure know how to put together a book. L’histoire de la Lingerie (The History...
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