| Uniform title | Prose works. Selections. English |
| Variant title |
Ninety-seven thousand one hundred ninety-six words |
| Contents |
Three crime stories -- The Romand case -- Philip K. Dick -- The lost Hungarian -- Nine columns for an Italian magazine -- Death in Sri Lanka -- Room 304, Hôtel du Midi in Pont-Évêque, Isère -- The invisible -- Capote, Romand, and me -- The last of the possessed -- How I completely botched my interview with Catherine Deneuve -- You fool, Warren is dead! -- The life of Julie -- Four days in Davos -- Generation Bolotnaïa -- The journalist and the murderer by Janet Malcolm -- Resemblance -- In search of the dice man -- Letter to a woman of Calais -- Orbiting Jupiter: my week with Emmanuel Macron. |
| Abstract |
"A selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writer"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | "Originally published in French in 2016 by P.O.L, France, as Il est avantageux d'avoir où aller." |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| LCCN | 2019019747 |
| ISBN | 9780374178208 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0374178208 hardcover |
