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Tavi Gevinson, la troisième ado la plus influente du monde

La bloggueuse de mode et actrice Tavi Gevinson se place en troisième place du classement que le magazine Time a dédié au 25 teen-agers les plus influents du monde, nouvelle relayée en France par le site internet Konbini.

Tavi Gevinson avait seulement 15 ans lorsqu’elle a fondé Rookie, blog de mode destiné à sa génération. Ses ROOKIE YEARBOOK sont des recueils d’articles et d’images tirés de son site, chacun des volumes correspondant à une année du blog.

Tavi s’est révélée comme une auteure visionnaire, proche de ses lectrices : le site compte désormais 400 000 visiteurs et 3,5 millions de pages visitées par mois ! La moitié des visiteurs sont étrangers et la France est le deuxième pays non-anglophone, derrière l’Allemagne.

Même le magazine Elle en parle…

Green et Dashner : En tête des listes de bestsellers

Le classement de Livres Hebdo pour le mois du 29 septembre au 26 octobre 2014 nous a réservé d’excellentes surprises.

Huit de nos titres se placent dans le top 25. John Green et James Dashner monopolisent les ventes :

ROMANS JEUNESSE du 29 septembre au 26 octobre 2014

1 – NOS ÉTOILES CONTRAIRES de John Green – Nathan Jeunesse

2 – L’EPREUVE, vol.1 : LE LABYRINTHE de James Dashner – Pocket Jeunesse

3 – L’EPREUVE, vol.2 : LA TERRE BRÛLÉE de James Dashner – Pocket Jeunesse

4 – L’EPREUVE, vol.3 : LE REMÈDE MORTEL de James Dashner – Pocket Jeunesse

11 – QUI ES-TU ALASKA? de John Green – Gallimard Jeunesse

15 – LA FACE CACHÉE DE MARGO de John Green – Gallimard Jeunesse

17 – WILL ET WILL de John Green – Gallimard Jeunesse

22 – LA MAISON DE LA NUIT 11 – RÉVÉLÉE de Phyllis C. Cast et Kristin Cast – Pocket Jeunesse

Retour des nouvelles : dernière tendance de la littérature anglophone?

Le 10 octobre 2013, le prix Nobel de la littérature était décerné à Alice Munro, considérée comme la « Reine des Nouvelles ».
Un an après, l’engouement pour ce genre littéraire s’est confirmé à l’occasion de la Foire du Livre de Francfort dans le choix des ouvrages présents, dont notamment les trois recueils suivants :

A collection of connected short stories by an amazing debut author

AN UNRESTORED WOMAN
by Shobha Rao
Flatiron Books, Winter 2016

In AN UNRESTORED WOMAN, the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 cuts a jagged path through the lives of ordinary women and men, leaving ripples of sorrow through time and space. Each couplet of stories spans the Indian subcontinent, from refugee camps and torched trains to the spacious verandas of the British Raj, and billows into the wider world. An old woman recounts the murdering of what was most precious to her, and the many small cuts that led her to that act. A girl forced into prostitution wields patience as deftly as a weapon, and manages to escape her fate. An Indian servant falls in love with his employer, and spins a twisted web of deceit.

The characters in these fearless stories stumble – occasionally towards love, more often towards survival – and find that history, above all, is their truest and greatest opponent. And what emerges, in the midst of newly erected barriers, boundaries, and nations, is a journey into the center of the only place that matters – the human heart.

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From a striking new talent, it comes an insightful collection of nine stories in which the author moves deftly between nouveau riche Los Angeles and the working-class East Coast as he explores the vicissitudes of modern life

WHITE MAN’S PROBLEMS
by Kevin Morris
Black Cat, January 2015

“A wonderful group of stories . . . you will love it” – Gus Van Sant

Whether looking for creative ways to let off steam after a day in court or enduring chaperone duties on a school field trip to the nation’s capital; the heroes of White Man’s Problems struggle to navigate the challenges that accompany marriage, family, success, failure, growing up and getting older. The themes of these perceptive, wry and sometimes humorous tales pose philosophical questions about conformity and class, duplicity and decency, and the actions and meaning of an average man’s life. Morris’s confident debut strikes the perfect balance between comedy and catastrophe—and introduces a virtuosic new voice in American fiction.

Kevin Morris has written for The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Filmmaker Magazine. He is the Co-producer of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, The Book of Mormon, and producer of the classic documentary film, Hands on a Hardbody. This is his first collection of fiction.

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From a student of George Saunders a collection of interconnected stories all set in one town

WE’VE ALREADY GONE THIS FAR
by Patrick Dacey
Holt, Fall 2016

“Patrick Dacey is one of my favorite young American writers. His work is fast, poetic, edgy, and full of tremendous heart. » – George Saunders

A seemingly crazy woman who attacks a memorial to a neighbor’s son (he’s an Iraq veteran), a father who has an imaginary conversation with his daughter through a series of strange postcards, an alcoholic father and his slightly unhinged teenage son who make a journey to the local ice rink where they each find themselves falling in love, of a kind…

The stories of WE’VE ALREADY GONE THIS FAR all take place in the fictional Northeast town of Wequaquet, a town that lives in the shadow of militarised America,where apathy vies with a vague perennial disquiet, and yet where life’s strange intensity and occasional magic is still felt. The stories are the lives of neighbours and friends: those who’ve spent their whole lives in Wequaquet and can’t wait to leave; those who’ve been gone a long time and find themselves pulled back; those who live on the margins and those who live in the eye of the storm. This is the small-town America where has-been football coaches get drunk on the porch and shoot bunnies and bored housewives get bad cosmetic surgery, and where the demons of modernity manifest as terrorists and/or grizzly bears.

THE GIRL IN THE GARDEN de Parnaz Foroutan

If your child is your legacy, who are you without one? What story will you leave behind?
A wrenching and heartfelt debut novel

THE GIRL IN THE GARDEN
by Parnaz Foroutan
Ecco, Fall 2015

Set in the Iranian town of Kermanshah at the turn of the twentieth century, THE GIRL IN THE GARDEN is the intimate, poetic, and brutal story of a young woman beholden to the schemes and strictures of a male world. In a cloistered household of wealthy Jewish merchants, at a time when a woman’s worth is measured only by the number of male heirs she can produce, Rakhel, a barren young bride, must do the impossible: produce a son and satisfy her husband Asher’s wild desire for preeminence. Their struggle slowly rends their family asunder, dividing Asher from his family and breaking the delicate bonds between the women of the house, which have grown like flowers in a garden as they battle impossible odds to save Rakhel and her place in the household.

THE GIRL IN THE GARDEN’s lyrical prose and heartbreaking evocation of female struggle in a forgotten time and place is reminiscent of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits, but it is not just a novel about women. It is a story of Iran, of a lost cultural moment and identity that flourished before the wars and the reign of the shahs. And it is a story about family—about the things that draw us closer and perhaps inevitably push us apart.

Parnaz Foroutan was born in Iran and spent her early childhood there. This novel, for which she received PEN USA’s Emerging Voices fellowship, was inspired by her family history. She has been named to the Hedgebrook Fellowship and residency, and has received funding from the Elizabeth George Foundation, among other institutions. Writers like Holly Morris, Gloria Steinem, and Carolyn Forche have reviewed her work with praise and hold the project in high esteem.

Harlan Coben, star au MIPCOM!

Dimanche 12 octobre, Harlan Coben présentait au MIPCOM de Cannes l’adaptation en série télévisée de NO SECOND CHANCE, paru aux éditions Belfond et Pocket sous le titre UNE CHANCE DE TROP.

L’auteur aux 60 millions de livres vendus sera le showrunner de cette série de six épisodes, réalisée par François Velle pour TF1, avec, dans le rôle féminin principal, Alexandra Lamy.