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An article in the French newspaper Le Figaro today on the biggest successes of the summer quotes Laurence Deschamps, the president of the major French retailer Fnac, on the state of book sales. Deschamps says that numbers are up from last year, and two books in particular are breaking records: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and [...]
Here’s the new British cover for The Year of Fog. It was kind of surreal to see the “International Bestseller” tagline above the title, considering the book’s lowly beginnings. The manuscript made the rounds of New York publishing houses for a year, under the tireless efforts of my wonderful agent, before Caitlin Alexander, a young [...]
England’s The Daily Mail included NO ONE YOU KNOW in its “ultimate summer reading list,” published today, along with fourteen other titles.
Meanwhile, the book critic for ELLE France named L’Annee brouillard, the French translation of The Year of Fog (translated by Sophie Aslanides) “the book of summer” on the popular French television program Tele [...]
Here’s a screenshot of Olivia de Lamberterie talking about L’Anee brouillard, the French translation of The Year of Fog, today on French television, for the Telematin program.
And here’s Lamberterie’s very kind review of the book:
Sur une plage à San Francisco, une jeune photographe avec sa belle fille (la fille de son fiancé) de 6 [...]
The Kenyon Review has just published a new anthology of work culled from the magazine over the past seventy years. Editor David Lynn writes:
Readings for Writers is a very different creature from your usual anthology…A different principle of selection comes into play: choosing stories, poems, and essays from across the decades to provoke lively responses [...]
Coutts & Co, the UK private banking arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland, publishes a magazine for its female clients called Coutts Woman. The magazine runs a monthly feature called “Coutts Woman Loves,” and this month, Coutts woman loves No One You Know: “Betrayal and tragedy are the two themes beautifully explored in this [...]
