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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Creating and Inventing with Ayşegül Savaş
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in-person and online*) to discuss \nWhite on White\nwith novelist Ayşegül Savaş \nClick here to RSVP\nUnder the watchful eye of the anonymous narrator in Ayşegül Savaş’s second novel\, White on White\, a picturesque setting begins to fall apart. Having arrived in an unnamed European city to study Gothic sculpture for her doctoral thesis\, our narrator is trained in observing inert bodies. What readers confront\, however\, is her struggle to see real life clearly–particularly in the case of her landlord-turned-friend\, whose experience and philosophy as a painter is juxtaposed with the narrator’s scholarly background. \nAs the story evolves\, the student finds herself caught in the same trappings of representation and revelation that she had intended to study. Ultimately\, Savaş pushes the boundaries between artistic creation and self-invention to the point of breaking. A compelling and deeply psychological story of identity\, connection\, and storytelling\, White on White been praised as an elegant and haunting masterpiece. Join Savaş as she discusses this immensely impressive new release: its inception\, its characters\, its commentary on the relationship between art and self.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nAyşegül Savaş is the author of Walking on the Ceiling\, published in 2019. She has been published in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, and The Guardian\, among other outlets. Originally from Turkey\, Savaş currently resides in Paris.  \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Savaş will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nClick here to RSVP\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant: on-site information regarding COVID-19 \nIn compliance with French regulations\, a pass sanitaire is required for all visitors ages 12+. Visitors ages 6+\, staff\, and volunteers are required to wear masks on the premises.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/savas22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:90s London\, Surveillance\, & Young Black Artists with Jamika Ajalon (ages 12–adult)
DESCRIPTION:For ages 12–adult \n\n“Skye Papers” may be Ajalon’s first novel\, but she is an experienced artist: a sonic slam poet\, musician\, multimedia performer and filmmaker with a deep back catalog\, evident on every page. From the rhythmic\, riffing\, incantatory prose to the novel’s cinematic crosscutting and recursive structure\, to the minutiae of Skye and her friends’ daily struggles as artists\, we get lost in a world that Ajalon renders with a precision and lyricism that elude her main character.” — New York Times \n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \nJoin us for an interview with novelist Jamika Ajalon\, the author of Skye Papers\, followed by a Q&A with the audience\, and a reception. Ajalon will be in conversation with three members of the Library’s Teen Writing Group for a discussion focused on her inspiration\, her research\, and her writing process. This event will take place in the Library’s reading room. \n\nSkye Papers is a debut novel by Jamika Ajalon that follows three Black queer artists\, musicians\, and poets-Skye\, Scottie\, and Pieces-as they meet in New York and travel to London\, navigating the 1990s underground art scene as it becomes increasingly threatened by the rise of CCTV and state surveillance. \n\nAbout the author: Jamika Ajalon is an interdisciplinary artist and lecturer\, fortunate enough to have collaborated with many brilliant creatives across the globe. She is a creative polymath; a writer at base (poet\, novelist\, essayist)\, she uses a melange of interdisciplinary practice as her pen\, (filmmaker\, producer\, songwriter\, electronic/digital artist/archivist). She has a BA Film/Video from Columbia University\, and a Masters in Communications in Culture and Society from Goldsmiths University\,London \nAdvance registration is required for this event. Participation is is free for Library members\, and 10€ per person for non-members. If you are not yet a Library member\, but would like to participate\, please join the Library. \n \n  \n\nImportant: on-site information regarding COVID-19: In compliance with French regulations\, a pass sanitaire is required for all visitors ages 12+. Visitors ages 6+\, staff\, and volunteers are required to wear masks on the premises. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n  \nQuestions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \n  \nWe thank you for your continued support and for being a part of the Library community! If you would like to support the Library\, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/90s-london-surveillance-young-black-artists-with-jamika-ajalon/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens
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SUMMARY:(Online) Getting Real with Claire Messud
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nA Dream Life\nwith novelist Claire Messud and journalist Christopher Beha \nClick here to RSVP\nA novella as much about the sharp bite of reality as about the allures of living in a dream\, A Dream Life is novelist and essayist Claire Messud’s newest addition to an impressive and diverse body of work. When a family moves from New York to a chateau of fairytale proportions in Australia\, the matriarch\, originally drawn to a Mrs. Dalloway-esque existence of hosting and managing the home\, finds herself trapped in the opulence and frivolity which had originally enticed her.  \nDrawing on tropes of the bourgeois novel–the grandiose estate\, the domestic affairs\, family drama and class relations–Messud has produced a book about confined spaces and the dynamics that emerge within them. Described by writer Helen Garner as “a perfect frolic of a book\,” the novella is a balanced take on fantasy\, deception\, and dissatisfaction\, all within the domestic realm. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nClaire Messud is a novelist and professor of creative writing. Her novel The Emperor’s Children is a New York Times bestseller and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Messud is a PEN/Faulkner Award nominee and recipient of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Addison Metcalf Award and its Strauss Living Award. She has taught creative writing at Harvard University\, Yale University\, and John Hopkins University\, among other institutions.  \nChristopher Beha is a novelist and memoirist\, and serves as the executive editor of Harper’s Magazine. The Index of Self-Destructive Acts\, his most recent novel\, was nominated for the 2020 National Book Award. Beha’s essays and reviews have been published in the New York Times\, New York Review of Books\, and London Review of Books. He received his MFA in creative writing from The New School in 2006.  \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \nClick here to RSVP
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/messud22/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:(Online) The Subversive Simone Weil
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nSimone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas\nwith Professor Robert Zaretsky \nClick here to RSVP\nIn 1929\, Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil\, both students\, had a brief and heavily-mythologized confrontation. Having started the conversation\, de Beauvoir stressed her belief in human freedom. Weil responded that feeding humankind took priority. And when de Beauvoir maintained her initial point\, Weil told her\, quite simply\, “It is easy to see you have never gone hungry.”  \nSimone Weil was in a particularly suited position to make this retort\, having renounced her bourgeois background in order to\, among other pursuits\, work in a car factory and volunteer in the Spanish Civil War. A Marxist and an anarchist\, as well as\, later\, a Catholic mystic\, Weil and her life present many enigmas. The supreme achievement of researcher and writer Robert Zaretsky’s new book\, The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas\, is its reading of the complexities of Weil’s work as complementary contradictions of her life. Identifying five central concepts from Weil’s writing\, Zaretsky deftly explores each one by way of Weil’s biography\, demonstrating how her experience informed and inspired her politics and ethics. An original approach to an original philosopher\, Zaretsky unifies Weil’s actions with her thought\, arguing that\, above all\, the philosopher conceived of ideas as\, first of all\, practice.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nRobert Zaretsky is a professor of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston\, specializing in European political and intellectual history. He is the author of many works\, including A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest of Meaning (2013)\, Boswell’s Enlightenment (2015)\, and the forthcoming Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague (2022). Zaretsky is a frequent contributor to the New York Times\, Washington Post\, and Boston Globe\, and is the former history editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \nClick here to RSVP
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/weil22/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:(Online) The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nWAKE: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts\nwith lawyer\, historian\, and writer Rebecca Hall \nClick here to RSVP\nIn her new graphic novel WAKE: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts\, Dr. Rebecca Hall asks what gaps exist in accepted historical narratives\, and what techniques we have at our disposal for not only making these gaps visible\, but for remedying them. Piecing together the lives and experiences of enslaved women at the front of slave revolts through painstaking archival work\, while also detailing her own experience bringing this history to light\, Hall reinserts Black female resistance into the very historical record which had previously excluded even the possibility of such a phenomenon.  \nWeaving together in-depth research with personal narrative\, the novel is both an historical account and a commentary on history. It embraces a practice of careful imagination–of the names of women\, of their biographies\, and of their outcomes–which in turn demonstrates the value of imagination as a tool in historical reconstruction. Rejecting the position of the distanced historian who describes history without participating in it\, Hall has deliberately inserted herself into the narrative\, assuming the responsibility and the emotional weight which her position as teller of these women’s stories entails. Frequently compared to other graphic novels such as Maus and Persepolis for its striking combination of image and text\, the work enacts a confrontation of the historical with the present\, showing readers that no one is exempt from the wake of the past.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nRebecca Hall is a tenants’ rights lawyer and historian. She was a 2020-21 scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She has taught at UC Santa Cruz\, UC Berkeley\, and was a visiting professor of law at the University of Utah. Hall is a committed activist and has worked to support movements in women’s and LGBT rights\, Climate Justice\, and Black Lives Matter.  \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \nClick here to RSVP
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/hall22/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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