Virginie Despentes

Nov 30, 2024 | monde-diplomatique.fr | Virginie Despentes

Zoé KatanaMa voix est un flocon de neige dans l’avalanche qui vous engloutit. Moi je prends la parole, je dis je suis allée chaque jour avec le ventre noué. Me sentant dégoûtante d’être aussi dégoûtée et d’y aller quand même.

Aug 21, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | David Vogel |Tobias Carroll |Virginie Despentes

Dear Dickhead, the latest novel by Virginie Despentes (translated from the French by Frank Wynne), is a rare beast—a literary work that successfully uses an old-fashioned form (in this case, the novel of letters, which reached its height of popularity in the eighteenth century) to speak refreshingly to the current moment.

Aug 20, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Alan Hollinghurst |Virginie Despentes |Maylis de Kerangal |Mark Haddon

Richard Price. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-16815-5Price (The Whites, as Harry Brandt) delivers a remarkable excavation of urban angst in this story of a five-story East Harlem tenement building that collapses, killing six of its tenants.

Aug 16, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Alan Hollinghurst |Virginie Despentes |Maylis de Kerangal |Mark Haddon

Ann Schlee. McNally Editions, $18 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-9613-4109-8This masterful novel from Schlee (1934–2023), shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981 following its publication in the U.K., chronicles an unmarried middle-aged woman’s repressed emotions. It’s 1851 and Charlotte Morrison is sailing along the Rhine with her censorious but beloved older brother, Rev.

Aug 14, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Alan Hollinghurst |Virginie Despentes |Maylis de Kerangal |Mark Haddon

Chloe Seager. Morrow, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-330709-4Seager (the Emma Nash novels), a literary agent and YA author, makes her adult debut with an effervescent chronicle of two women’s inverse dating lives and their illuminating friendship. Holly, an aspiring fashion designer in London, suspects her boyfriend of nine years, Will, is finally ready to propose. Much to her dismay, he instead suggests they open their relationship.