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...have a book coming out called “Gold Metal Fitness,” which is a fitness book, comes out in May—I’m doing a book tour for that. I’m doing motivational talks; I’m sort of busy with that. I’m going to wait and see in the summertime how my knee is, and I’ll make a decision whether to keep going...
...months spent living with Hadza hunter-gatherers in the savanna of northern Tanzania, an extended conference in Japan, touring in central Tanzania, and of course time in Uganda with Elizabeth’s Kasiisi schools project and Richard’s chimpanzee studies. Richard also hopes to edit a book on chimpanzee behavioral ecology, and make headway on a book about violence...
...turns out, is not a real person - he's a fictional character created five years ago by Frédéric Pagès, a journalist at the French satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné. Using Botul as a pseudonym, Pagès published a verbose book on Kant in 1999, which was intended to be a playful dig at French intellectuals. "Everyone knew it was a joke," says Pierre Assouline, author of The Republic of Books, a blog published by France's biggest daily, Le Monde. "All BHL had to do was to Google Botul...
Until the error was revealed Monday, Feb. 8, by the journalist Aude Lancelin in the French weekly Nouvel Observateur, the media in France were buzzing with praise for Lévy's new book - as they did for his previous works, including Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, an investigative book about the killing of the American journalist, and American Vertigo, a meditative tome about his journey across the U.S. Lévy had also been doing the promotion rounds, appearing on major talk shows to discuss his new book and posing for photographs in French magazines, wearing his trademark white shirt...
...part, the philosopher has tried to brush off the incident with rare self-deprecating humor. In a TV interview, he confessed that he had found the spoof book on Kant "astonishing" and the fictitious Botul "a very good philosopher." And on his website, titled The Rules of the Game, which is owned by his book publisher, Grasset, he admitted that he had been completely duped by Botul. "He has tried to be smart and funny," says Assouline. "It's all nonsense. He was clearly annoyed." Meanwhile, Grasset has refused requests from journalists to explain how the error crept into...