Q&A: my favorite books & authors, reading in French, my music, academia

Get to know me a bit better! You asked me enough questions that I've decided to break up my answers into two parts. Here, I talk about books, authors, being French, my music career & my academic life. Come back for more about my life in New York, my style & general bits and bobs about me 🖤
People & books mentioned:
The Metamorphoses by Ovid (8 CE)
the poems of Catullus
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (1984)
Katalin Street by Magda Szabó (trans. Len Rix) (1969)
Love by Toni Morrison (2003)
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib (2017)
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (1912)
Gustave Flaubert
Honoré de Balzac
Marcel Proust
Albert Camus
Simone de Beauvoir
Frantz Fanon
Jacques Derrida
Michel Foucault
Roland Barthes
Julia Kristeva
Apollonaire
Stéphane Mallarmé
Charles Baudelaire
Louise de Vilmorin
Marie Ndiaye
Chloé Delaume
Cécile Coulon
Léonora Miano
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