The Library will be closed on the following days in May:
Wednesday 1 May – Fête du Travail (Labor Day)
Wednesday 8 May – Fête de la Victoire 1945 (WWII Victory Day)
Thursday 9 May – Jeudi de l’Ascension (Ascension)
Join Columbia Global Centers (online) to discuss
with Linsdey Tramuta and Lauren Collins
What does it mean to be a Parisian woman in the 21st century? To mark the French-language release of writer and journalist Lindsey Tramuta’s myth-busting book The New Parisienne: The Women and Ideas Shaping Paris, or La Nouvelle Parisienne in French, join us for a conversation between Tramuta and New Yorker staff writer Lauren Collins (author of “When in French”) on how women in Paris are forging the way for a more progressive city, the diversity and creativity of the modern woman in the French capital, and why it’s time to say au revoir to the outdated archetype of the Parisian woman.
Lindsey Tramuta is an American culture & travel journalist and podcaster. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times, Fortune, Conde Nast Traveler, among other news and travel publications. Her first book, The New Paris: the People, Places & Ideas Fueling a Movement, was published in 2017. Her book, The New Parisienne: the Women & Ideas Shaping Paris, was published last year and features more than 40 women challenging the “French Girl” trope. Lindsey’s podcast, The New Paris podcast, continues the conversations and themes explored in both books.
Lauren Collins has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008. Her subjects have included Michelle Obama, Donatella Versace, Emmanuel Macron, the refugee crisis, and equal pay. Since 2015, she has been based in Paris, covering stories mainly from France. She is the author of When in French: Love in a Second Language, which the Times named as one of its 100 Notable Books of 2016. She is working on a second book, about a coup d’état perpetrated by white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, and its effects over the past hundred and twenty years.
The Library will be closed on the following days in May:
Wednesday 1 May – Fête du Travail (Labor Day)
Wednesday 8 May – Fête de la Victoire 1945 (WWII Victory Day)
Thursday 9 May – Jeudi de l’Ascension (Ascension)
Friends of the Library (50€ – 249€) will receive invitations to unique, donor-only programs.
Folio Society (250€ – 1 999€) supporters will be invited to the annual Book Award ceremony, as well as donor-only programs.
Gutenberg Society (2 000€ – 9 999€) patrons will have the opportunity to host a dinner with an Evenings with an Author sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg speaker, as well as all the benefits listed above.
Ex Libris Lux Society (10 000€ and above) sponsors will be invited to an annual dinner with Ex Libris Lux donors and Library leadership, as well as all the benefits listed above. They will also be invited to an exclusive cocktail dînatoire with our Gala speaker.
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