Lengthy, broad-ranging recent Michel Houellebecq interview with the Paris Review, available in full from:

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6040/the-art-of-fiction-no-206-michel-houellebecq

According to amazon.co.uk, the English translation of Houellebecq’s “La carte et le territoire” is to be published  as “The Map and the Territory” by Wiliam Heinemann on 1 September 2011.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Map-Territory-Michel-Houellebecq/dp/0434021407/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292320482&sr=8-1