What is French Weird?

French Weird hosts dispatches from a book in progress. This will be a book about contemporary French culture, a strange book that explores what is “weird” about France today. This newsletter thinks about culture - books, music, film, art - as much as it does about society, history and place. “Weird” here is not, as it often is, an adjective used to dismiss but a mode of perception or a starting point for critical thinking. Throughout its history, France has been a crucible for clear, rational thought. French Weird aims to uncover another side of French culture: the irrational, the unconventional, the overlooked, the liminal, the strange. Along the way, and while thinking about France, I hope we’ll also learn a little more about global weirdness. As befits its subject matter, French Weird is also a weird place to be. I look forward to hearing from, and exchanging with, whatever readers I might pick up along the way.

I’m trying to produce two posts a week, one longish (1,500 words or so) and one shorter.

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