Le salon · essays & ideas
The Salon
Essays and ideas — the place of literature in French life.
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Why France Reads
The peculiar place of literature in French public life — the writer as public figure, the rentrée littéraire, the pantheon, and a country that treats its novelists as national property.
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Paris and the Writing Life
Paris as a literary machine — the cafés and the Left Bank, the little magazines and the publishers of Saint-Germain, and the myth of the writing life the city keeps selling.