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Goodbye to Stéphane Hessel
25 February 2013
Stéphane Hessel, a philosopher, writer, human rights activist, environmentalist, ambassador and the last living person who had participated in drafting the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, died...
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Mamika is in THE NEW YORK TIMES!
03 February 2013
Sacha Goldberger, a French photographer, has turned his grandmother, 93-year-old Frederika Goldberger, into a minor European celebrity.
In the photos, you can see the qualities grandson and...
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Mamika is in PEOPLE Magazine!
26 November 2012
It's a bird ... it's a plane ... it's super grandma!
When 94-year-old Frederika Goldberger retired in the early 80s, she was bored and unhappy, so her grandson, Sacha Goldberger, began creating...
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Gwenaëlle Aubry in New York
09 October 2012
A critically acclaimed novelist and a philosopher, Gwenaëlle Aubry will be discussing her book NO ONE, in a conversation with Rick Moody at the 192 Bookstore on October 18 at 8pm.
192 Books...
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Just published!
19 August 2012
If you are a fan of French singer/songwriter and provocateur Serge Gainsbourg, don't miss GAINSBOURG, his must-read biography by Gilles Verlant, just published in the U.S. by Tam Tam Books.
Here...
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The French Still Flock to Bookstores
20 June 2012
Good news for the French Indies!
As independent bookstores crash and burn in the United States and Britain, the book market in France is doing just fine. France boasts 2,500 bookstores, and for every...
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French literature on Melville House's website
24 May 2012
If you're looking for beautifully translated novels in translation for your summer reading list, check Melville House website mhpbooks.com.
Baudelaire, Constant, Flaubert, and Simenon, as well as...
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A new bookstore for Children's books in French
16 January 2012
Congratulations to Idlewild Books, founded in 2008 in New York City by David Del Vecchio: the travel guide and literature store has opened a second location, in Cobble Hill, in Brooklyn, where it is selling...
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How to Be an Avant-Garde Publisher?
07 January 2012
The Tender Hour of Twilight, Richard Seaver’s "lovely posthumous memoir" on his years in Paris in the ’50s and New York in the ’60s has just been released by Farrar, Strauss & Giroux.
It has...
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A gift book for the holidays!
08 December 2011
If you're looking for gift ideas, PERFUME, The Alchemy of A Scent by Jean-Claude Ellena, makes a great stocking stuffer.
Mr Ellena, the exclusive perfumer for Hermès, has been recently interviewed...
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