This meeting will be virtual instead of in-person due to coronavirus-related precautions taken by NYU. Note that the meeting time has changed to 3:00 p.m.
Celebrated French writer Catherine Cusset leads a French Book Club, exploring new tendencies in French and Francophone literature in a relaxed setting. Discussion is in French.
The book to be discussed on April 10 is the first volume of Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes.
Purchase and read the book in advance. Book available at albertine.com. E-book available on Amazon.
RSVP required: mews-book-club-virtual-april-10.eventbrite.com.
Please register by April 8.
Registrants will receive the direct link to the meeting the week of the event.
Free and open to the public. Space is limited.
Catherine Cusset is the award-winning, best-selling author of thirteen novels published by Gallimard. She taught literature at Yale between 1991 and 2002 and lives in New York City. Her novel Un brillant avenir received the Goncourt des Lycéens Prize in 2008 and her novel L’autre qu’on adorait was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize in 2016. The Story of Jane was published by Simon & Schuster in 2001 and Life of David Hockney came out in May 2019 with Other Press.