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Muriel Barbery Opens up to Adam Gopnik about “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”
Every now and then a book comes along that is so off the beaten path, that so wholly and charmingly occupies its own space, that the world can’t help but stop and take notice. The story behind the unlikely success of The Elegance of the Hedgehog –the international bestseller from French author Muriel Barbery—is as disarmingly... »
“Every Word Contains the World,” A Conversation Between Adam Gopnik and Nobel Prize Winner J.M.G. Le Clézio
In her introduction to Friday night’s festival-opening event, Caro Llewellyn, Director of PEN World Voices: The New York Festival of International Literature, feted the festival’s fifth birthday with a retelling of its roots. She recalled skeptics’ claims that the volume of literary events and readings in New York negated the need for such a... »