"Originally published in French in 2016 by P.O.L, France, as Il est avantageux d'avoir où aller."
Contents:
Orbiting Jupiter: my week with Emmanuel Macron. The Romand case -- Philip K. Dick -- The lost Hungarian -- Nine columns for an Italian magazine -- Death in Sri Lanka -- vRoom 304, Hôtel du Midi in Pont-Évêque, Isère -- The invisible -- Capote, Romand, and me -- The last of the possessed -- vHow I completely botched my interview with Catherine Deneuve -- You fool, Warren is dead! -- The life of Julie -- Four days in Davos -- Generation Bolotnaïa -- The journalist and the murderer by Janet Malcolm -- Resemblance -- In search of the dice man -- Letter to a woman of Calais -- Orbiting Jupiter: my week with Emmanuel Macron.
Summary:
97,196 Words introduces Carrère's shorter works to an English-language audience. Featuring more than thirty extraordinary essays written over an illustrious twenty-five-year period of Carrère's creative life, this collection shows an exceptional mind at work.
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