Report from France's book fair

By Tom Teicholz on March 18, 2008 11:04 AM | | TrackBacks (0)
This year's Salon du livre honored Israeli literature on the occasion of Israel's 60th anniversary, a choice, that became controversial with Arab and Muslim countries threatening to boycott, with Israeli writers threatening to boycott because of the controversy and with the bookfair going off quite well, until a fake bomb threat was called in at the end of the event. Lauren Elkin shares her experience of the Salon on the NBCC blog, Critical Mass

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