1) Great writer and truly vicious anti-Semite Céline was dropped from French national celebrations after Serge Klarsfeld protested according the Nazi collaborator state honors.
2) Céline scholar Henri Godard cried "censure!" at Frédéric Mitterand's decision despite the fact that Céline's works are widely available in France and figure among the most translated works of French literature in the world. (See debate in Le Monde)
3) PPDA accused of plagarism (again) this time on Hemingway bio: read his defense in Le Monde
4) Michel Levi and Michel Houellebecq fight over the title "La Carte et le territoire" rue89
5) Servier Labs manages to force publisher to recall books on Mediator scandal because of subtitle: "How Many Deaths?" before widening public outcry over confirmed deaths obliges courts to overrule previous ruling. Bravo to Doctor Irène Frachon and the publisher who defended her, Charles Kermarec!
6) Aurélie Boullet, better known under her nom de plume Zoe Shepard, has been reinstated in her civil servant post after being temporarily suspended for the publication of her satire of official sloth in Absolument Débordée, soon to be a film.
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