Mr Biard said he did not believe the attack was linked to the magazine's latest front page, which featured novelist Michel Houellebecq.
There is nothing new, of course, about the Man Booker list featuring novelists from the former colonies.
Segments from her pre-recorded interview were interspersed with a live panel discussion chaired by Garvey and featuring novelists Joan Smith and Kathy Lette, Prof Myra Hunter and journalist Rosamund Urwin.
Unusually for a popular writer, Rendell frequently featured novelists as characters, and the last of these is Carl Martin, although, in contrast to a creator who was prolific until the end, Carl, at 23, seems doomed to leave a one-shot canon.
Then we featured novelists Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn, writer Robert Leleux chatting with writer, actor, and drag legend Charles Busch, and lesbian novelists Ellen Hart and Val McDermid.
Arranged in a line across the stage are nine chairs, in which sits an unlikely array of people, beginning with Simon and "Wild at Heart" author Barry Gifford, and featuring novelists Russell Banks and Don DeLillo and actor Willem Dafoe.
If you'd like to read more about Don DeLillo, you can check out John Updike's 2003 review of the novel "Cosmopolis" (now unlocked) and our 2010 Fiction Podcast which features the novelist Chang-Rae Lee reading DeLillo's short story "Baader-Meinhof".
As well as Warner and Frank, this year's panel features the novelist Nadeem Aslam, the writer and University of Oxford English professor Elleke Boehmer, and SOAS professor of Arabic and comparative literature Wen-chin Ouyang.
Set in a prison castle after the victory of Franco in the civil war, with an ambience of lice, cold and summary executions, it features a novelist, imprisoned and denounced as "the worst writer in the world", who is blackmailed into polishing the prison governor's own execrable literary efforts.
"Paauer" is one of the newest tracks to come out of Baauer's arsenal since he released his debut album, Aa, earlier this year with guest features from Novelist, Leikeli47, M.I.A., G-Dragon, Pusha T, Future, and Rustie.
