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Didier Jacob
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Confesseur d'écrivains. Notamment Philip Roth, Doris Lessing, V. S. Naipaul, Louise Glück, Martin Amis, David Foster Wallace, Joyce Carol Oates, Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Tom Wolfe, Paul Auster, J. M. Coetzee, Zeruya Shalev, Elfriede Jelinek...
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Umberto Eco in Michelangelo Antonioni‘s “La Notte” (1961).
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For some novelists, writing is “a way of going up toward something,” Annie Ernaux said. “For me, it’s the absolute opposite. Not going underground, exactly. But into a well.” What draws her down? An idea of some kind? No: “An obsession.”
Annie Ernaux Turns Memory Into Art
Many authors write about their lives. Over nearly fifty years, the Nobel laureate has discovered new ways to do it.
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"Cortazar comparait volontiers Vargas Llosa au rhinocéros particulièrement ingérable du zoo de Buenos Aires, et le fait est que sa disparition, dimanche 13 avril à Lima à l’âge de 89 ans, marque l’extinction d’une espèce."

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One of my favourite things is discovering new manuscript collections tucked away in the corners of Edinburgh: today's was the at the Royal College of Surgeons! Who knew that they had 15th C french books of hours and such a beautiful library....?
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All Protocol Observed

Welcome to Issue 196 of The Continent

Undeveloped photo films are gathering dust in studios all over Lagos. What is on those old camera rolls?

Find out here. bit.ly/Continent196
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Ravie de retrouver Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, pour le superbe "Inventaire des rêves" (Gallimard). Interview à retrouver demain dans le @nouvelobs.com et déjà en ligne www.nouvelobs.com/bibliobs/202...
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"Après sept cents pages, le protagoniste [du roman] n'était pas encore né, et mon éditeur a trouvé cela fastidieux"... Très belle idée du romanesque comme digression, ralentissement. Loin de servir la tension narrative, le roman comme retardement.
Article incroyable dans lequel on apprend que William T. Vollmann, l’un des plus grands écrivains américains en activité, a souffert ces dernières années d’un cancer, d’une embolie pulmonaire et d’un accident de voiture. www.metropolitanreview.org/p/the-last-c...
The Last Contract
William T. Vollmann's Battle to Publish an American Epic
www.metropolitanreview.org
Pour la première fois, un écrivain et l'IA s'affrontent dans un match inédit : écrire un texte de fiction de 3000 signes avec une première et une dernière phrase imposées. @herveletellier.bsky.social face à #ChatGPT (piloté par @benoitraphael.bsky.social). Le score est dans @nouvelobs.com
L'IA capable d'écrire un texte vraiment littéraire et de battre même un Prix Goncourt : ce n'est plus de la science-fiction. C'est fait. Et c'est plutôt angoissant. Toutes les explications sont dans @nouvelobs.com cette semaine.
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If you want to actually do something for #Ukraine apart from posting blue and yellow flags on your social accounts, you can donate to this GoFundMe for our dear friend Alex Dunai in L’viv, who uses these monies to purchase vehicles for the war and rescue efforts.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-alex-...
Donate to Help Alex GET SUVs for Ukraine, organized by Carol Reisman
My name is Carol, and I opened this GoFundMe on the OK of my friend Alex Dunai, who needs… Carol Reisman needs your support for Help Alex GET SUVs for Ukraine
www.gofundme.com
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Ukraine is Europe!
We stand by Ukraine.

We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor.

Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
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Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.
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Désormais, une fois par an, je serai l’éditrice d’un titre au sein de la collection Fiction & Cie, dirigée par Bernard Comment, aux éditions du Seuil. Pour commencer, ce recueil de textes de jeunesse de Karen Finley, traduits par Malik Boutebal. (Première trad de Finley en France). 🦇🖤
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Americans proposed that Ukraine concede half of the profits from its mineral rights in perpetuity... in exchange for essentially nothing. This is not a monetary proposition, let alone a "deal," but rather the demand that Ukraine become a permanent American colony.
snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...
"Recoup the costs"
The sadism of American policy to war-torn Ukraine
snyder.substack.com
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In his 1962 essay, “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” James Baldwin dissects the mentality of white Americans: “not only overt racists but the sort likely to be well-meaning readers of The New Yorker,” Kevin Young writes.
Kevin Young on James Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind”
The essay served as a definitive diagnosis of American race relations. Events soon gave it the force of prophecy.
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