Hence the new book, which seeks to present some familiar names and ideas afresh – possibly, to rehabilitate them. That took her back to existentialism, which she read eagerly as an adolescent, and to the existentialists themselves. Researching it, she tells Schulz, she read an essay on Montaigne by Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It is also distinctly difficult to hear.īakewell, though, is on a publicity tour, and three days later she is at Albertine, a bookstore run by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, for a Q&A with New Yorker writer Kathryn Schulz.īakewell’s last book, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, was a bestseller and award winner on both sides of the Atlantic. It is a distinctly pleasant way to conduct an interview. At the closely packed tables, conversations buzz. Waiters bring manhattans while a pianist plays jazz.
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