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Thirty pieces, laid out by section — the complete list, in one place.
Novels
The Novel Nobody Wanted, Printed at the Author's Expense
Novels
Bovary in the Dock
Novels
Candide Written in Three Weeks, Denied by Its Own Author
Novels
What the Paper Knife Was For
Novels
The White Cover Has Not Changed Since 1911
Novels
Céline's Night, Denoël's Gamble
Novels
Writers
Montaigne Locked Himself in a Tower and Invented a Form
Writers
Five Years on One Sentence
Writers
Colette's Name, Colette's Credit
Writers
Rimbaud Stopped Writing at Twenty
Writers
Ernaux and the Word She Won't Use
Writers
The Cork-Lined Room at 102 Boulevard Haussmann
Writers
Houses
Gallimard and the NRF: One Cover, One Hundred Years
Houses
Minuit Printed Underground
Houses
The House That Moved to Arles
Houses
Le Livre de Poche Changed the Price of Reading in 1953
Houses
What the Pléiade Promises the Reader
Houses
Fights
The Night Hernani Opened and the Pit Fought Back
Fights
The Quarrel That Ran for Three Decades
Fights
J'Accuse…!
Was a Front Page, Not an Essay
Fights
Breton's Manifesto Declared Everything Else Finished
Fights
Oulipo Set Rules in Order to Break Different Ones
Fights
Rooms
The Reading Room on the Place du Panthéon
Rooms
Two Shops, One Name, Two Streets
Rooms
The Flore in 1945 Was Not What People Think It Was
Rooms
What the BnF Keeps Under Glass
Rooms
Prizes
The Goncourt Lunch Has Happened Every November Since 1903
Prizes
Forty Chairs, Numbered, and One Is Always Empty
Prizes
The Femina Was Founded Because the Goncourt Would Not Have Women
Prizes
The Renaudot Is Announced in the Same Building, an Hour Later
Prizes