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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Natasha Brown on Assembly
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In Natasha Brown’s debut novel Assembly\, a carefully crafted identity begins to come apart. When a successful Black woman receives unsettling news\, she considers the constituent parts of her life: her high-paying job in finance\, her prestigious education\, her white boyfriend. Having formed herself into a success story\, she finds her life reduced to the narrative white society demands of her. Ultimately\, Brown’s narrator is forced to decide the price she is willing to pay to undo the structures which limit her\, and reclaim agency over her circumstances. A poetic and concise examination of race\, gender\, and class\, the work refuses to look away from the power relations comprising the core of the modern world.  \nAbout the speaker: \nNatasha Brown is a British novelist. She was a 2019 London Writers Award recipient\, a 2022 Burgess Fellow at the University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing\, and a Women’s Prize x Good Housekeeping Futures Award finalist. Assembly (2021) was shortlisted for the Folio Prize\, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Orwell Prize for Fiction. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Brown 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. \nThis conversation will be followed by a catered reception. \nThis event requires advance registration. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/brown23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Akil Kumarasamy on Radical Compassion
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Meet Us by the Roaring Sea\, the debut novel from writer Akil Kumarasamy\, takes place in a future located ambiguously near the present. Dealing with a loss in the family\, the narrator escapes from the monotony of her AI job and her personal grief by translating a mysterious manuscript written in Tamil. Originally seeking a distraction\, she uncovers channels of human connection lost in her impersonal\, technology-driven world. As she dives into the multiple voices of the text\, the boundaries between her own identity and those of its authors begin to thin. Written in vivid\, striking prose\, Kumarasamy’s novel is rich in detail and endlessly imaginative. Kumarasamy will appear in conversation with Dinaw Mengestu at the Library. \nAbout the speakers: \nAkil Kumarasamy is the author of the novel\, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea (FSG\, 2022)\, and the linked story collection\, Half Gods (FSG\, 2018)\, which was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice\, was awarded the Bard Fiction Prize and the Story Prize Spotlight Award\, and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s\, The Atlantic\, among others. She is an assistant professor in the Rutgers University-Newark MFA program. \nDinaw Mengestu is the author of three novels: The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2008) How to Read the Air (2010)\, and All Our Names (2014)\, all of which were New York Times Notable Books. His fiction and journalism have been published in the New Yorker\, Granta\, Harper’s\, Rolling Stone\, and the New York Times. He is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor in the Humanities at Bard College. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Kumarasamy and Mengestu 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/kumarasamy23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
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SUMMARY:Critical Conversations Meeting Three: The Society of the Spectacle
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In La société du spectacle (1967)\, French philosopher and avant-gardist Guy Debord describes an image-saturated world overtaken by the market economy. He writes\, “The Spectacle is not a collection of images\, but a social relation among people\, mediated by images. … The more he identifies with the dominant images of need\, the less he understands his own life and his own desires.” \nWhat challenges or limitations does a society of spectacle inflict on its members? And\, without abandoning all digital interaction\, how can individuals and communities invite more direct experience into their lives while keeping the spectacle at bay? \nIn partnership with Analog Sea\, an offline publisher of printed books\, we’re delighted to announce the fourth season of Critical Conversations\, an expert-led discussion series that allows Library members to ponder the most important issues of our time. This season\, we will reflect on how to lead a contemplative\, vital\, and unmediated life in an ever-faster digital world. We will discuss questions such as: What do we gain from disconnecting\, and how can we do it? How can we sharpen our senses and redirect our attention in order to change our thoughts and actions? And most of all\, how can we live in contemporary society with nuance and intention? \nThe Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset writes that agitation dazzles\, blinds\, and compels us to act mechanically\, like “frenetic sleepwalkers.” To address the perils of today is\, first of all\, to name them. Whether distraction\, compulsion\, and isolation\, or noise\, bright light\, and convenience\, during meetings one\, two\, and three\, we will identify and begin to understand the snares of today’s increasingly digital world. \n Some details: The 2022–23 series will unfold over nine sessions\, from November 2022 to July 2023. Conversations will begin at 19h00 CET and run for ninety minutes\, in person\, at the Library; technology of all description is happily forbidden. Each participant will receive copies of all four Analog Sea Review volumes published so far. Course reading and discussion will\, for the most part\, be based on work published in The Analog Sea Review. Jonathan Simons\, founding editor of Analog Sea\, will begin each meeting with some opening remarks\, before guiding a group discussion. \nAbout Critical Conversations: Whether in France or America\, debate is central to healthy democracy. Critical Conversations encourages both disagreement and agreement through thinking\, talking\, reading\, and actively participating in community. Since the series’ inception in 2020\, we have tackled race in America\, the climate crisis\, and migration. Across seasons\, participants have challenged themselves\, their peers\, and the world in which we live. Please write to Emilie Biggs at biggs@americanlibraryinparis.org with any questions. \nAbout the Critical Conversations 2022-23 leader: \nJonathan Simons is the founding editor of offline publishing house Analog Sea and its literary journal\, The Analog Sea Review. As a poet and essayist\, he has written for publications including The London Magazine\, PN Review\, El País\, subTerrain Magazine\, and The Analog Sea Review. His work has been covered by\, among others\, the Guardian\, the Times Literary Supplement\, the Washington Post and La Vanguardia. He researched Buddhist poetics at Naropa University and McGill University and was formerly a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development\, Center for Humans and Machines\, in Berlin. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1665240973767{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Register for Critical Conversations 2022-23″ style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”left” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSfu4-PA93z4p-WV7S4q0mn5cY0Ly_476uzyMAOKMvu12vUwjA%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Dsf_link”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Jean D'Amérique: A New Voice of Haiti
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Celebrated author Jean D’Amérique\, lauded one of the most prominent voices in contemporary Haitian literature\, will be speaking on his debut novel\, A Sun to be Sewn. A rhythmic\, phantasmagoric journey into a Haitian neighborhood plagued by violence\, the work adopts the voice of a child to observe the many tragedies and cruelties of the adult world. At the center of this story\, D’Amérique carves out a space for love as a redemptive and remedial force. The result is a poetic\, dream-infused account of the harshness of reality and the imaginative work which permits one to survive it. Join D’Amérique\, in conversation with his English translator Thierry Kehou\, at the Library as they speak on language\, form\, genre\, the Haitian present\, and the Haitian future.  \nAbout the speakers:  \nJean D’Amérique is a poet\, playwright\, and novelist. He is the director of the festival Transe Poétique and the poetry journal Davertige. He received the Prix de Poésie de la Vocation for his poetry collection Nul chemin dans la peau que saignante étreinte (2017) and the Prix Jean-Jacques Lerrant des Journées de Lyon des Auteurs de Théâtre for his play Cathédrale des cochons (2020). A Sun to be Sewn (2021) was awarded the Prix littéraire Montluc Résistance et Libérté 2022. \nThierry Kehou is a writer and literary translator from French. He is a founder and board member of Lampblack\, a magazine and literary organization. His writing and translation have appeared in Departures Magazine\, Lampblack\, The Huron River Review\, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Fulbright\, a Katherine Bakeless Nason Endowment Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference\, and his completed translation of Francis Bebey’s Three Little Shoeshiners was longlisted for the 2020 John Dryden Translation Competition. A Sun to be Sewn is his debut translation. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (D’Amérique will appear in the Reading Room and Kehou will appear on Zoom)\, 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/damerique23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
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SUMMARY:(Online) Martin Rees on How Science Can Save Us
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In a time of unprecedented climate crisis\, as faith in channels of communication erodes and systems of knowledge fracture\, the development of a public scientific consciousness has never been more urgent. In new work If Science is to Save Us\, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees demonstrates the extreme importance of science in confronting humanity’s most pressing challenges\, and the social framework which needs to accompany this. Scientific progress must take social good as its object; simultaneously\, the public needs to develop a scientific register which allows them to participate in major scientific decisions. Join him as he discusses the vitality of scientific funding\, training\, and research in the fight for the future of humankind.  \nAbout the speaker: \nMartin Rees is the UK’s Astronomer Royal. He is based at Cambridge University where he is a Former Master of Trinity College. He is a former President of the Royal Society\, co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risks at Cambridge University (CSER)\, and has served on many bodies connected with education\, space research\, arms control and international collaboration in science. In addition to his research publications he has written many general articles and ten books. \nImportant information: This event is online. Attendees will receive a Zoom link upon registration. Participants will be able to pose questions through the Zoom chat function. \nThis event requires advance registration.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/rees23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230119T200000
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SUMMARY:(ONLINE) Entre Nous: Ellington Plays Shakespeare with Robert G. O’Meally and Courtney Bryan
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Please note that this event will take place online due to planned metro disturbances. \nFor the Stratford\, Ontario Shakespeare Festival of 1957\, the American composers Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn created Such Sweet Thunder\, a jazz concert honoring Shakespeare. “Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today\,” said Ellington\, “he might be a jazz fan himself. He’d appreciate the combination of team spirit and informality\, of academic knowledge and humor\, of all the elements that go into a great jazz performance.” \nThis talk will examine scores and recordings of Duke and Strays’ dark bluesy “harlemizations” of certain Shakespearean scenes and characters. Ellington had said that Lady Mac\, for example\, “had a little ragtime in her soul.” The talk will also feature contemporary video responses to these richly vibrant materials by the award-winning composer Courtney Bryan. \nThe Entre Nous series is co-organized by Columbia Global Centers | Paris\, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, and the American Library in Paris. \nAbout the speakers: \nRobert G. O’Meally is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University\, and the founder and director of Columbia’s Center for Jazz Studies. For his production of a Smithsonian record set called The Jazz Singers\, he was nominated for a Grammy Award. O’Meally has co-curated exhibitions for The Smithsonian Institution\, Jazz at Lincoln Center and The High Museum of Art (Atlanta). He has held Guggenheim and Cullman Fellowships\, and was a recent fellow at Columbia’s new Institute for Ideas and Imagination at the Global Center/Paris. \nCourtney Bryan is “a pianist and composer of panoramic interests” (New York Times). Bryan is currently the Albert and Linda Mintz Professor of Music at Newcomb College\, Tulane University. Bryan was the 2018 music recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts\, a 2019 Bard College Freehand Fellow\, and is currently a 2019-20 recipient of the Samuel Barber Rome Prize in Music Composition and a 2020 United States Artists Fellow. She has recently begun a new role as Creative Partner with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO). \nImportant information: This event will take place in person at Reid Hall | Columbia Global Centers at 4 rue de Chevreuse. \nAccess to this event requires registration through Columbia Global Centers | Paris. Click on the button below to reserve your place.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Register now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”left” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.fr%2Fe%2Fsuch-sweet-thunder-ellington-plays-shakespeare-tickets-481659264827″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/en_omeallybryan23/
LOCATION:Reid Hall\, 4 Rue de Chevreuse\, Paris\, Paris\, 75006\, France
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230124T193000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Zimbabwe Yesterday and Today with Lucy Mushita and Kidi Bebey
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Lucy Mushita’s Chinongwa is a riveting and emotional coming-of-age story set in rural 1920s Zimbabwe. A young girl seeking to understand the boundaries between family myth and cultural mythology finds herself cast into a situation of nightmarish proportions. As the violence surrounding her is increasingly wrought upon her\, the fantastic intervenes as a way to understand and cope with her reality. Ultimately\, the protagonist translates her own life into a mythical register\, refusing to succumb to the raw\, magicless cruelty of the world. Mushita will be in conversation at the Library with journalist Kidi Bebey about the writing of this work and its enduring relevance throughout the multiple transformations of present-day Zimbabwe.  \nAbout the speakers: \nLucy Mushita grew up in a small village in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Six years after the 1980 end of apartheid\, she settled in Nancy\, France\, where she started writing Chinongwa\, her first novel. She also taught Business English in multinationals\, universities and grandes écoles. Chinongwa was first published in S. Africa in 2008\, then translated into French (by Elise Argaud) and published by Actes-Sud in 2012. \nBorn and raised in Paris\, Kidi Bebey is the daughter of the late Cameroonian artist and composer\, Francis Bebey. A writer and journalist\, her novel\, My Kingdom for a Guitar\, (translated from French by Karen Lindo and published by Indiana University Press in 2021) is inspired by her family history. Currently\, Kidi writes online weekly chronicles on African literature in Le Monde. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Mushita and Bebey 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/mushita-bebey23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:(Online) Barnabas Calder on Architecture and Energy
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A central question in the climate debate today is that of energy. Yet the problem of energy–how to acquire it\, how to wield it–is as old as human civilization. Behind every building\, from the Parthenon to the modern home\, lies the energy technology used to build it. Barnabas Calder’s project in Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency is to trace out the history of architecture from this perspective. From manual labor and the Parthenon to coal’s impact on Victorian building styles\, Calder maps out transformations in built space along the timeline of industrialization. Leading us all the way to the present day\, he proposes a new approach to energy\, seeking to revolutionize architecture and lead us away from environmental collapse.  \nAbout the speaker: \nBarnabas Calder is a historian of architecture specializing in the relationship between architecture and energy throughout human history. Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Liverpool\, Calder is the author of two works: Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (2021) and Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism (2016). \nImportant information: This event is online. Attendees will receive a Zoom link upon registration. Participants will be able to pose questions through the Zoom chat function. \nThis event requires advance registration.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/calder23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:Ecologues Meeting One: What is the Climate Crisis?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\nWe find ourselves firmly in the Anthropocene\, the period in which human activity is the dominant influence on the natural world. We wonder: what is happening to the earth\, the sky\, and the oceans? How did we get here\, and where are we going? \nIn partnership with News Decoder and the Climate Academy at the European School of Brussels\, we’re delighted to announce Ecologues\, a series of interactive webinars featuring experts on various aspects of the environmental crisis. Attached to The Writing’s on the Wall (WoW)\, a year-long project helping students across the world grapple with the climate crisis through journalism\, activism\, and art\, the series will allow participants of all ages to deepen understanding\, tackle disinformation and\, ultimately\, inspire change in their communities. Reconciling science and art\, knowledge and action\, pragmatism and hope\, the conversations will stir curiosity and encourage participation. \n\nAbout the speakers: \nAlister Doyle\, author of The Great Melt\, formerly reported on the environment for Reuters. \nMatthew Pye\, founder of the Climate Academy\, is a teacher\, philosopher\, and author. \nRahmina Paulette\, founder of Kisumu Environmental Champs\, is an activist and conservationist.  \nImportant information: The 2023 series will unfold over six sessions\, from 26 January to 29 June. Conversations will begin at 19h00 CET and run for ninety minutes. Conversations will be hybrid\, taking place both in person at the American Library in Paris and online. Though participants are encouraged to join all six sessions for a holistic overview\, the discrete and diverse nature of topics will allow audience members to attend based on interest. Alice McCrum\, head of cultural programming at the American Library in Paris\, will begin each conversation with brief opening remarks\, before guiding an in-depth group discussion. The Library’s contribution to this joint program is supported by the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Arts and Culture. \n\nThis event requires advance registration. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/ecologues1/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230131T193000
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SUMMARY:Looking to Sea with Lily Le Brun
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Across British history\, from ancient conflict to contemporary Brexit\, the water surrounding the islands has served as a symbolic and political boundary as well as a physical landmark. Lily Le Brun’s innovative work Looking to Sea examines the central motif of the ocean across representations of modern British life. The sea–an instrument of both imperial expansion and isolation\, a place of both leisure and work\, representing both refuge and danger–has served as muse to British artists across centuries. Considering ten depictions of the sea from the past hundred years\, Le Brun uncovers a changing and multifaceted image of Britain itself. Join her at the Library to discuss navigating the troubled waters of identity and ways of seeing oneself through the sea.  \nAbout the speaker: \nLily Le Brun is a writer from London. A graduate of Edinburgh University and the Courtauld Institute of Art\, she has written on art for publications such as Art Quarterly\, the Financial Times and the Economist. In 2018 Lily won a Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Award for the early chapters of Looking to Sea. She lives in Paris\, and this is her first book. Author photo © Sophie Davidson. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Le Brun 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/lebrun23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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