Houellebecq makes sweet music

Michel Houllebecq isn't the first author to turn songwriter - but he may be the first to do it wellSurprisingly for a writer whose latest literary works generally seem to cause a media kerfuffle in his native France and beyond, Michel Houellebecq's new single seems to have slipped into the public domain with little fanfare. Lady Gaga he is not.Yes, you read that right. The bad boy of the literary world has taken to the mic – and the results are impressive. While many writers and poets have pen...

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