Budd Schulberg died, a month ago, in his home, in Westhampton, New York. It was August 5th. He was 95 years old… I met him a couple of times and he was an incredible gentle, clever, witty and funny person. He was full of life and always stood up for equality and justice. He gave [...]

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Strand is a great bookshop in the city. It’s a huge one (18 miles of books), with almost only great publications and because they are second hand, there is also something special on reading a book that previously had a new york life. But each time I head there I forget how rude are the [...]

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Chandler Burr wrote a comment under his post -that I just published -and wanted to let us know that  annerosenbaum.com, the website of  his book, is up now and is a public forum for discussion about his fiction and therefore religion. Think about it: Religious values are also about considering gays, women and children inferiors. They [...]

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wrote  You or Someone Like You, a novel that was just published. He had a reading and signing this evening at one of the Barnes and Nobles in the Upper West Side. It was a New York/american experience. The crowd was almost a cliché. Old Jewish lady hidden by a hat, stuck on her cell [...]

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America is praised for its will to fix problem and always move forward. It’s a powerful thought to believe that everything is possible. Once you stick up from  it, you began to realize that this belief is ultimately very relative.
Gregory Rodriguez of the LA Times reports on this cultural behavior  refering to  Batista Schlesinger’s book [...]

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Bernard-Marie Koltès, French writer, died twenty years ago. He was 41. Here what he wrote to his parents about NYC  in 1968 when he spent sometime in the city « Ici, on a l’impression d’être sur une immense scène où tout bouge, rien n’étonne. New York n’est vraiment comme aucune autre ville du monde : c’est [...]

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Power House is another independant bookshop of the city that is worth knowing for those who love books. This huge space set in Dumbo, for almost 10 years,  is mostly furnished with photo books included those from prestigious publishing companies as Steidl and has a wide range of books about street culture from Martha Cooper to Ron [...]

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Book lovers always look for good bookshop i.e. human sized places with a distinctive selection and  literate sellers. In NYC, it’s not the easiest thing to find since Barnes &Nobles and those kind of chains took over. So when you stumble upon  Three lives you feel you have to pencil this address in your booknote. Not [...]

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The Pen Book Festival ended a week ago. Time to think about words and writing. To me, they bring truth alive. But in order to do it, you have to have a good writer who is not only or even at all a well-educated person. He has to feel and see the world in which [...]

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This literary festival started yesterday and for six days, the city will hold conversations, panels, performances and readings with 160 established and emerging authors from 40 countries. However some events were organized a few days before. Thus on Friday, I attended the conversation of J.M Le Clezio with Adam Gopnik at 92 Y. I didn’t [...]

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