else? vegetables, chickpeas, merguez sausage, chicken, hunks of lamb, and meatballs. what people say is that everybody sees themselves as marseillais first and french second regardless of your background. is that true? cedric: because in marseille, we love the city. it s our city, and in the same time we hate a lot of aspects. we have both love and hate. it s part of a complex, i think. marseille has always made the bad choices in politics. when france lost its colonies, it was an economic disaster for marseille. i m thinking about one of your cities in the states, detroit. it was a huge city. it was very important. anthony: yep. and beautiful. cedric: and what happened. anthony: yeah. we abandoned detroit. we abandoned it. it became too black for america to love. cedric: maybe france is abandoning marseille. sometimes people say, in
smells of africa permeate the city. there has been attempts to dissuade me from, oh, marseille, you don t want to go there. and yet i come here. correct me if i m wrong it is a beautiful city. it smells good. you smell the different pastries. the tajine, bouillabaisse and bourride. and it s an extraordinary-looking city and the people are really interesting-looking. cedric: i must say, you are in the center of the world because the world is in marseille. we are connected to the mediterranean sea so it s very different from the north of france. i feel closer to a guy from morocco than a guy from maybe germany or, etcetera. it s different. anthony: cedric fabre is a marseillais crime writer, who spent decades deciphering the dense layers of crime and corruption, pastiche, and sunshine. it s a perfect town for writers of noir. plenty of atmospherics and lurid
history. why do you think it s such a fertile ground to set a crime novel? cedric: for me, it s more interesting because you write about the place you live in. i walk in the street, i have an idea, etcetera. i couldn t write about past things, like james ellroy does, because i have to know the real the real part of the city, the people. anthony: here, it s a really interesting stew of characters. cedric: in marseille, there is a very poor area and a very rich area. the difference between those two areas is the worst in france so that makes an interesting city because when we write a crime novel, we write about those differences between the poor people, the rich people, etcetera, so that s interesting. anthony: femina s is an algerian restaurant with some of the better couscous in town, and since it s a very filling dish and i ve only got one crack at it, i go for the royale, what
oracle than a guy from maybe germany or it s different. cedric fabre is a marseillaise crime writer who spent decades deciphering the dense layers of crime and corruption, pastis, and sunshine. it s a perfect town for writers. plenty of atmospherics and lurid history. why do you think it s such a fertile ground to set a crime novel? for me it s more interesting because you write about the place you live in. i work in the street, i have an idea, et cetera. i couldn t write about past things because i have to know the real part of the city, the people. here it s a really interesting stew of characters. in marseille there is a very poor area and a very rich area. the difference between these two areas is the worlds in france so
center of the world because the world is in marseille. we are connected to the mediterranean sea. so it s really different from the north of france. i feel closer to a guy from oracle than a guy from maybe germany or it s different. cedric fabre is a marseillaise crime writer who spent decades deciphering the dense layers of crime and corruption, pastis, and sunshine. it s a perfect town for writers. plenty of atmospherics and lurid history. why do you think it s such a fertile ground to set a crime novel? for me it s more interesting because you write about the place you live in. i work in the street, i have an idea, et cetera. i couldn t write about past things because i have to know the real part of the city, the people. here it s a really interesting stew of characters. in marseille there is a very poor area and a very rich area. the difference between these two