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Nicholson Baker - publié le 13/06/2012

"My first book was about a lunch hour – the second about sitting in a rocking chair holding a baby – the third about literary ambition. There was almost no sex in those three books. But I always wanted to be a pornographer – because after all sex is amazing and irrational and embarrassing and endlessly worth thinking about."

François Chaignaud - publié le 16/02/2012

"((Beauty, Intensity, Asymmetry)) are born in my mouth like three goddesses ripe for veneration - far more than ((Identity, Gender, or Transgression)), and utterly different from them. But this Beauty, of which we know only that some wish to buy but never to sell it, much less allow it to disappear or cause it to flee - nor to be the man or woman who no longer possesses anything but memories of it - is she a prescriptive goddess?"

Pierre Bayard, Arthur Goldhammer - publié le 14/02/2012

"The idea of attributing old works to new authors is not original. It has long been practiced by those lovers of literature, our students, who do not hesitate to attribute ((The Old Man and the Sea)) to Melville or ((War and Peace)) to Dostoevsky. What is interesting is that this kind of reinvention is not always properly appreciated by teachers."

Wendy Lesser - publié le 14/02/2012

"As an element in Shostakovich's music, the shame is perhaps not as audible as the dread, but it is everpresent nonetheless. One cannot point to a precise place in the music where you can hear it, but it underlies and supports most of the other painful emotions, and if it were removed from the mix, you would certainly notice the difference."

Craig Calhoun, Dupuy Jean-Pierre, Klinenberg Eric, Lussault Michel, Mirzoeff Nicholas, Patrick Savidan - publié le 20/01/2012

During one year leading French and American social scientists met several times in Lyon and New York to explore our cultural interest in knowing and not knowing about recent catastrophes and emerging threats to our climate, cities, and communities. They will share the result of their reflection.

Wayne Koestenbaum - publié le 18/04/2011

Wayne Koestenbaum (États-Unis), poète, romancier et essayiste, est l'auteur d'une œuvre protéiforme et subversive qui explore les multiples facettes de l'identité américaine à travers de nombreux thèmes (les arts, la célébrité, les gender studies...) et où se mêlent les cultures littéraire, artistique, musicale et populaire. Dans ((Hotel Theory)), il met en regard une enquête philosophique sur les hôtels et le récit d'une rencontre improbable entre deux icônes de la culture (...)