Bookworm
An American Bookworm in Paris, Part IV
Grégoire Bouillier The Mystery Guest: An Account (Farrar Straus & Giroux) and Report on Myself (Houghton Mifflin) Olivier Cadiot Colonel Zoo ( Green Integer) Marc Cholodenko Mordechai Schamz (Dalkey Archive) Finally at ease in Paris, the Bookworm encounters three French novelists and attempts to navigate the tangle of philosophy, artifice, intertextuality and hilarity that exemplifies the art of the new French novel. Note: More installments of an American Bookworm in Paris will air over the next few months.
By Michael Silverblatt • • 30m ListenGrégoire BouillierThe Mystery Guest: An Account (Farrar Straus & Giroux) and Report on Myself (Houghton Mifflin)
Olivier CadiotColonel Zoo ( Green Integer)
Marc CholodenkoMordechai Schamz (Dalkey Archive)
Finally at ease in Paris, the Bookworm encounters three French novelists and attempts to navigate the tangle of philosophy, artifice, intertextuality and hilarity that exemplifies the art of the new French novel.
Read an excerpt from The Mystery Guest
Read an excerpt from Report on Myself
Read an excerpt from Mordechai Schamz
Note: More installments of an American Bookworm in Paris will air over the next few months.