THE MOOD OF THE DAY – Born in March 2017 with the ambition to tell the story of the United States under the mandate of Donald Trump, the review hosted by François Busnel and Eric Fottorino is publishing its latest issue this Wednesday, after a brilliant mission. accomplished.
Mission accomplished ! And even brilliantly accomplished, one is tempted to add, to salute the last issue of the review America, released on January 20, the inauguration day of the new president, Joe Biden. François Busnel and Éric Fottorino, the initiators of the project, had promised at the launch in March 2017, this ambitious quarterly designed to “Tell America as we had never read it before” would only live during the chaotic mandate of Donald Trump. The good fairies were not lacking around the cradle, starting with the godmother Toni Morrison. And what was announced from the start as a resistance manual in the Trump era has become over the sixteen issues the chronicle of a country in shock told by the best pens of Anglo-Saxon literature.
Car America always thought big. Judge rather: we read the interviews of Salman Rushdie, Richard Powers, Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Franzen or Joyce Carol Oates. The unpublished texts were signed Joan Didion, Thomas Pynchon or Cormac McCarthy. And when the magazine prided itself on making us discover an American city, it was Lola Lafon who took us to Seattle or Alice Zeniter to Las Vegas. Thanks to this very chic literary salon, we explored the United States in all its dimensions, from the dream country to its most extreme violence, from the dollar king to wild America. As it turns the last page, loyal readers will have a pang of heart, but that ending is a happy ending: Trump has finally returned the keys to the White House.
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