Date
Wednesday January 22, 2025
The newspaper Le Chiffon will present its critical report on the book industry and its unbridled productivity, as part of the release of its number 15 (Winter 2024-2025). Evening co-organized with the association for book ecology.
The Rideau Rouge bookstore welcomes the newspaper Le Chiffon for the presentation of its latest report which is a critical charge on the book industry and its fraught productivity (number 15 of winter 2024-2025). Evening co-organized with the association for book ecology.
Debate and meeting with part of the Chiffon editorial staff.
Extract from the introduction to the file:
« The floods which, in the fall, submerged the inhabitants of Crécy-la-Chapelle and Saint-Rémy lès-Chevreuse went beyond what was expected. Yet they were predictable. An overflow that drowns us: this is also the image that the literary season can leave, its overproduction of titles, flooding the tables with surprisingly uniform novelties, overwhelming the capacity to read, without this mass clearly irrigating new conversations , ways of being in the world that give joy…
Facing this ocean, it is a fragile raft that we are trying to create with this file. What evils are afflicted by books, bookstores, public reading? ? Where did the Ile-de-France paper pulp go? ? Is a counter-world in the making? ? Why criticize the computerized sale of second-hand books ? How does a bookseller fill his fund? ? How editorial over-publication should invite us to slow down ? Come on, let's go: don't forget your paddles. »
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Le Chiffon is a critical news journal devoted to Paris and Île-de-France. A twenty-page quarterly, Le Chiffon nourishes a critical approach to the capital region through its reports, investigations and portraits.
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