After an exceptional year for the world of French publishing, only 490 novels are expected at the start of the 2022 academic year. The headliners are called Virginie Despentes with Dear asshole which is the event of this new school year, Amélie Nothomb with The Book of Sistersor the journalist Monica Sabolo with The Clandestine Life. The literary re-entry is the almost obligatory passage to win the Goncourt, the Renaudot or the Femina. Interview with Olivier Mony, writer, journalist and literary critic at Ssouth-west Sunday and to Books-Weekly.