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Le French Book signs on 7 new authors and 52 stories!

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on May 17, 2012
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It’s surrealistic! Literally. Le French Book has just signed on a collection of 52 short stories, each written by seven different authors. What? I warned you, it’s surrealistic. They are what the French call cadavres exquis, whose direct translation is delightfully morbid: exquisite corpses. This term refers, in fact, not to decaying bodies, but to a writing game invented by the Surrealists in about 1925. One author begins and then passes it on to the…
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Series news: a sequel out tomorrow in France

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on May 15, 2012
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The 7th Woman is the first of the series and is now being translated. The third in the series comes out tomorrow in France! Here, Frédérique Molay talks about the books she has written and her Inspector Nico Sirsky series.  I was eleven when I started writing. Of course, I already loved reading and was very intrigued by the mechanics of suspense. I ended up having a need to create and recount my own stories and to…
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Fact in fiction: What’s that wine?

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on May 10, 2012
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We’re polishing off the translation of Treachery in Bordeaux by Jean-Pièrre Alaux and Noël Balen right now and I thought it would be fun to share a wine-tasting scene. Here, our hero, the winemaker detective Benjamin Cooker, is challenged by a friend to guess what wine he is tasting.  “Taste that!” Cooker lifted the glass to eye level. Then he lowered it slowly, tilting it slightly in front of the white tablecloth…
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