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""Sara Kippur's much awaited New York Nouveau is full of surprises: an Ionesco script for American tv called 'Hard-boiled egg;' a French language textbook by Alain Robbe-Grillet, co-written with Yvonne Lenard at Cal State--her name was promptly erased when Robbe-Grillet reissued Le rendez-vous in Paris as Djinn; Harry Mathews' passionate collaboration with Georges Perec, seen from Ellis Island. New York Nouveau is not only the story of French writers in thrall to American universities and publishing houses, it's a demonstration of what is to be gained from a truly transnational approach to literary history."" --Alice Kaplan, Yale University ""This highly original book combines a materialist approach to the social conditions of the circulation of books with close reading. Innovative and compelling, based on rich unknown archival sources, New York Nouveau renews our view of literary history."" --Gisèle Sapiro, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ""You've heard about Americans in Paris, but how about Paris in America? Sara Kippur pulls back the curtain on how international literary reputations are made in this captivating, original book about the enduring fascination between France and the United States."" --Lauren Collins, Staff Writer, The New Yorker

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Sara Kippur is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Wellesley College and author of Writing It Twice: Self-Translation and the Making of a World Literature in French (2015).

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