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Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 02.15.06 | 12:41 PM ET
In Slate this week, Christopher Hitchens takes on Garrison Keillor, who took on Bernard-Henri Lévy and his book American Vertigo
Hitchens says Keillor suffers from “England’s oldest prejudice” when writing about Lévy: “An arsenal of Francophobic clichés lies ready to hand, like a pile of rocks and rotten eggs stacked by a pillory: The French eat frogs and horses, fetishize fromage, practice loose gallantry, chew raw garlic, and behaved badly enough under Vichy to make Woody Allen go see Marcel Ophüls’ Le Chagrin et la Pitié until he had it by heart.” For his part Keillor, or as Hitchens calls him, the “Homer of Middle America,” writes in his review that “Bernard-Henri Lévy is a French writer with a spatter-paint prose style and the grandiosity of a college sophomore.” For a look at the man who made all the barbs possible, check out Terry Ward’s recent World Hum interview with Lévy.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor of World Hum.
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