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He is the YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, and the NEW the New Books column for author of several novels. PHILIPPE FOREST is the prize-winning YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, where he is a HARPER’S MAGAZINE, La Conjuration, published Salon author of several books columnist for “Bookends.” where she is also a last year, recounts a cult’s on art and literature. contributing editor. Her journey through secret He teaches literature at OLIVIER MONGIN is the editor-in-chief reviews and essays have Parisian passageways. Vasset classifies his LANGUAGE the University of Nantes of ESPRIT, co-editor-in- been published in many work as “exofiction”, which he defines as the EDUCATION, and taught previously at chief of the journal TOUS magazines, including THE NEW YORKER, exact opposite of “autofiction”. Reviewers NOV 7–8, 2014 universities in Great Britain. URBAINS, and the vice THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, and credit him with forging a new genre of

HIGHER Forest has contributed to the French magazine president of Syndicat de BOOKFORUM. Her fiction has been published geographical literature. Previously, he served ARTS, FRENCH ARTS, ARTPRESS, and is the editor-in-chief of LA la presse culturelle et in THE PARIS REVIEW and is forthcoming in as editor-in-chief of AFRICA ENERGY NOUVELLE REVUE FRANÇAISE (NRF). In scientifique. He has published MCSWEENEY’S. INTELLIGENCE and worked as a private addition to numerous essays, he has written six pieces on democracy, globalization, intellectual life investigator in Washington, D.C. novels, which have been published by Gallimard in France and urban living. Previously, he was an ROB SPILLMAN is the editor of TIN and translated into over a dozen languages. editor at Hachette and at Seuil. HOUSE magazine. His work CAITLIN M. ZALOOM is editor-in-chief has appeared in THE NEW at PUBLIC BOOKS. FLORENT GUÉNARD is co-founder KAREN NAREFSKY is a community YORK TIMES BOOK Associate Professor of

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