News and views about books, authors, the life of the mind, the information age, and the American Library in Paris.

20 September 2010

Festival America at the ALP

Festival America, the dynamic literary gathering that brings together 60 North American writers, kicks off this week — and the American Library in Paris is thrilled […]
7 September 2010

Libraries of yore

Have you ever wondered what circulating libraries in the 18th and 19th centuries were like? We have. (Then again, we do work in a library.) This […]
3 September 2010

What I read on my summer vacation

The Library director’s peculiar (and occasionally regretted) choice of  reading matter – and an invitation to share what you are reading. Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher […]
3 August 2010

New short story contest announced

It’s no secret that writers find Paris inspiring (Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Joyce would agree). And now, with the advent of the Paris Writers News Short Story […]
New short story contest announced
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