Another fine edition of you

Gallimard's parent company Madrigall has purchased Christian Bourgois Editions and will take over the publishing company's catalogue which includes The Lord of the Rings, The Satanic Verses and authors such as Toni Morrison, Fernando Pessoa and Jim Morrison. Christian Bourgois also published the French language editions of my novels Shirker, Electric, Departure Lounge and The Church of John Coltrane. Gallimard and CB were technically competitors but it's good to see the catalogue go to this new respectful home. Christian died in 2007. He and Dominique Bourgois were very generous to my writing, and two of the best things about Paris. The stories they told were fantastic.