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January 18, 2021 at 7:55 PM
The quarterly magazine America, which told the United States of Donald Trump through the prism of literature, will publish Wednesday, the day of the inauguration of Joe Biden, its sixteenth and last issue, an epilogue of remarkable editorial success. This “mook” (publication halfway between book and magazine) was launched in March 2017, at the start of the Trump presidency, by journalist and literary critic François Busnel and his accomplice Eric Fottorino, also co-founder of the weekly Le 1 and the magazine Zadig. Their idea: to tell the Trump era through great American authors, including Toni Morrison (godmother of America), Paul Auster, James Ellroy, Bret Easton Ellis, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, and also thanks to the cross point of view French or French-speaking writers.
A recipe that has been very successful and has helped to launch the fashion for “mooks” in newsagents and bookstores, with more than half a million copies of America sold in total for its first 15 issues. . But from the start, the founders had planned that the review would last the time of Donald Trump’s first term, whether he is re-elected or beaten at the polls in 2020. It is therefore symbolically Wednesday, the day when Joe Biden will take the oath and s ‘will install in the White House, which America will bow out. In the contents of this final issue, the pagination of which has been increased to 220 pages, readers will discover a great interview with Collum McCann, Irish author living in New York, a text by JMG Le Clézio, a dossier “Where is America going”, or even a novel by Ernest Hemingway, unpublished in French, entitled “The pursuit as happiness”.
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