“There’s at least one man who won’t be surprised by the news that the best-known French bookshop in the USA, the Librairie de France in New York’s Rockefeller Centre, will close next September. That man is Horace Engdahl, the Nobel literature prize’s permanent secretary who described American writing as “too isolated, too insular” in an inflammatory interview last autumn.”
Read more: Alison Flood: New York’s French bookshop bids adieu | Books | guardian.co.uk.
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