Victor Brand is a freelance writer in New York who writes about photographers, writers, and Frenchmen, the more obscure the better.

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  September 2010: Review of Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud’s A Life on Paper
• August 2007: The Song of the Bomb in the Heart
  Boris Vian produced reams of novels, plays, poems, and songs, played dazzling jazz trumpet, and never forgot to muddle his misery with his joy.