Word: lec
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...switch out again. (This was so pleasurable that I repeatedly entered airplane mode while using the iPhone, even though I wasn't actually on an airplane.) As soon as my phone realized it belonged to someone with a nonsense-name like Lev, it started correcting typos like "Leb" and "Lec" to match...
...notes, a boom in bottom-feeders and one-hit-wonders doesn't cancel out the sizable body of gifted authors, new and established, being published. Also featuring in this year's rentrée are the prolific and ingenious Amélie Nothomb, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Yann Queffélec and Nina Bouraoui. Foreign translations - a significant part of French publishing output - include new books by Nadine Gordimer, Jim Harrison, V.S. Naipaul and Jonathan Franzen. All that ensures enough quality and variety for returning vacationers to read themselves out of any rentrée blues...