Éditions Gallimard

And it's so strange, and it has no corollary in any other art form.

Do you think so? This is my editor, by the way, Tiffany, from Gallimard.

So here we have Gallimard, this celebrated, world-renowned publishing house that still, the effort at all turns is to engage with real readers and actual people, and not to separate what you do from, but to engage as many people as possible, correct? And so why would it be, and music has always been incredibly democratic and welcoming, why is it that visual art...

Do you have ever had that experience where you go into a gallery and you feel instantly tense and unwelcome, and that you need some kind of special invitation and a manual to...

Isn't that strange? Of all the art forms, why this one, right? But then our museums, like I was at the D'Orsay, which is my favorite museum in the world, I was there yesterday, is incredibly welcoming and chaotic in a beautiful way.

By then, the decline in the readership for literary fiction was becoming cataclysmic.

His then latest novel, The Zone of Interest, had been refused by his long-standing French publisher, Gallimard, and this hurt him enormously.

so much that he was prepared to make waspish remarks about French collaboration during the Second World War in conversation while my French wife was present.

I think that even as the shades of night gathered for Amos, he was at last beginning to feel the chill wind blowing through human cognition, intellection, imagination, discretion, understanding, and judgment itself.

For 25 years, literature has been under assault, not only from without, but from within, by an academy which has either balkanised the fictive art into sectarian provinces of local moral adjudication – feminist, racial, post-colonial and otherwise – or totalized it through linguistic analysis or else ignored its particular claims as irrelevant in the face of the industrialization of meaning none of these developments is foregrounded or even meaningfully considered in the companion the crisis in literacy is not something happening outside literature it is happening inside literature A lowering tide lowers all boats.

The world's largest bookseller is Jeff Bezos's Global Packaging Waste Redistribution Company.

Major publishers increasingly concern themselves with logistics rather than the cultivation of new talent.

editors long entrained by pattern recognition to identify whatever might still provide a financial return derogate their standards in much the same way as men looking at naked women on the internet have fed recommendations that further pervert their already perverted tastes Forty percent of Britons recently told YouGov that they had not read or even listened to a single book during the preceding year.

That's also kind of a, a trope with French literature.

It used to be, like, all the Gallimard, the, the...

There's a certain imprint in France where they would just repeat, like, they would just print the, the very first lines of whatever novel was on the back, which in some ways I really like, and in other ways I was like, "I'm gonna need a little more, uh, specificity here.

Also, I could just open the book and look at the opening lines, so, like, give me something new." But, but this is, um, a trope in French literature that I imagine that Rachel Cusk is playing with at least a little bit.