Publishers Lunch
Little, Brown will publish a "posthumous manifesto" by Stéphane Charbonnier,
the editor in chief of French magazine Charlie Hebdo, OPEN LETTER: On
Blasphemy, Islamophobia and the True Enemies of Free Expression, in January
2016 -- one year after the attack on the magazine's offices in which Charb and
11 others were killed. The manuscript was completed just days before his
murder. The book will have a foreword by Adam Gopnik.
CEO of Hachette Livre Arnaud Nourry says in the announcement: "The murder
of Stéphane Charbonnier and his colleagues at Charlie Hebdo was a tragic moment
for France, and for the world. To have journalists and illustrators silenced so
brutally for lampooning bullies and extremists was a brazen attack on the
fundamental freedom to publish. I am pleased that we will be able to share
Charbonnier's views with readers, and to contribute to the conversation about
the insidiousness of religious intolerance."
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