Alexandra Schwartz on Vian for the newyorker (August 2014). Article is on Vian’s “L’Écume des Jours” and “I Spit on Your Graves,” Michel Gondry’s “Mood Indigo”, James Baldwin’s remarks on Vian in “The Devil Finds Work,” and some of Vian’s contemporaries – Curzio Malaparte’s “The Skin” and Vladimir Pozner’s “The Disunited States.”