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SUMMARY:An Evening with Cultural Fellow Elizabeth Gilbert
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Purchase Tickets” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3Df7f03527-adad-46d6-a81c-6c62174ef640%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]From her early career as a journalist to the global phenomenon of Eat Pray Love and her influential reflections on creativity in Big Magic\, Elizabeth Gilbert has shaped how millions of readers think about living authentically. In this wide-ranging conversation\, Gilbert discusses her new memoir\, All the Way to the River\, alongside the themes that run through her work—love and obsession\, freedom and responsibility\, devotion and self-reinvention. Join us for an intimate evening with Gilbert\, the Library’s Spring 2026 Cultural Fellow\, as she offers a candid look at a career defined by curiosity\, risk\, and hard-won wisdom. This conversation will be moderated by Rachel Donadio\, Curator of Cultural Programs. \nAbout the speakers: \nElizabeth Gilbert is the bestselling author of novels and nonfiction that explore creativity\, spirituality\, and love with intelligence\, wit\, and irresistible warmth. Her memoir Eat Pray Love was a #1 New York Times bestseller translated into more than 30 languages and adapted into a major film starring Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem. Beginning her career as a magazine journalist\, Gilbert went on to write several bestselling books\, including Committed: A Love Story and Big Magic. Her books have sold more than 25 million copies worldwide. She has also earned major critical recognition\, including finalist honors for the National Magazine Award and the National Book Award for The Last American Man. With over 21 million views\, her TED Talk on creativity is among the most viewed of all time. She is the founder of The Onward Book Club and writes the Substack newsletter Letters from Love. All the Way to the River is Gilbert’s first non-fiction book in a decade.  \nRachel Donadio\, the Library’s Curator of Cultural Programs\, is a Paris-based writer\, journalist and critic\, a contributing writer for the Atlantic\, a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and a former European Culture Correspondent and Rome Bureau Chief of the New York Times.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available in-person only. Please note\, tickets are non-refundable and non-transferrable. \nAutographed copies of All the Way to the River will be available in English and French (published by Calmann-Lévy) for purchase. Please note that the event will not be followed by a book signing. \n\n18:40-19:00 – Doors open & check-in\n19:00-20:00 – Event begins\n20:00-20:30 – Book sale\n\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_1758032823591{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-color: #9e0143 !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/gilbert26/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author,General,Ways of Seeing
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260310T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260310T203000
DTSTAMP:20260413T172034
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Alison Bechdel at Théâtre de la Concorde
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Ftheatredelaconcorde.paris%2Fevenements%2Frencontre-avec-alison-bechdel%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Alison Bechdel is one of the most influential writers working in comics today. She is the author of the graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic\, a landmark work of queer literature adapted into a Tony Award–winning Broadway musical and honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Yet her books—including Fun Home—have faced a wave of bans in American schools and libraries.  \nJoin us for a conversation tracing the evolution of Bechdel’s work\, from Dykes to Watch Out For to her latest graphic novel\, Spent\, in which she turns from memoir to autofiction to explore drawing as a form of resistance.  \nAn iconic figure in lesbian culture and the creator of “the Bechdel test\,” Bechdel will reflect on graphic storytelling in a fractured America\, where intimacy remains a political act. \nThis conversation\, held in collaboration with the Théâtre de la Concorde\, will be led by the Library’s Curator of Cultural Programs\, Rachel Donadio.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: This event will be offsite at the Théâtre de la Concorde (1-3 avenue Gabriel\, 75008 Paris) in the Grande salle Joséphine Baker. The conversation will take place in English and will be translated into French. Following the event\, there will be a book signing. \nFor any ticketing questions\, please contact the Théâtre de la Concorde directly.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/bechdel26/
LOCATION:Théâtre de la Concorde\, 1-3 avenue Gabriel\, Paris\, 75008\, France
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author,General,Ways of Seeing
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260317T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260317T203000
DTSTAMP:20260413T172034
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SUMMARY:Speaking Out: Women and Justice in France
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3Db98dcfbd-43d9-46a2-8201-d49fd6cc01a8%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F89362976647|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]A conversation around A Hymn to Life\, the memoir by Gisèle Pelicot\, who was drugged and raped by her husband and dozens of other men\, in a case that stunned France and the world. Journalists Catherine Porter\, Anne-Sophie Moreau and Valentine Faure\, together with translator Natasha Lehrer\, will examine the broader questions Pelicot’s case raises about violence against women\, justice\, and public reckoning in France and beyond. Drawing on courtroom reporting\, literary translation\, philosophy\, and cultural criticism\, the panel will explore how such cases are narrated\, understood\, and remembered—and what they reveal about the status of women today. \nAbout the speakers: \nCatherine Porter is an international correspondent for the New York Times based in Paris. A foreign correspondent for the past 14 years\, Ms. Porter is an expert on Haiti\, having reported on the country since the devastating earthquake in 2010. Her book about the experience\, entitled “A Girl Named Lovely\,” was published by Simon & Schuster in 2019. She was part of a team in 2022 that won the George Polk award for their reporting on the assassination of former Haitian president Jovenel Moïse and she led The Times’ five-part investigation into the Haitian independence debt\, which won the prestigious Hillman Prize in 2023. Based in Paris since 2022\, she was one of a handful of foreign journalists who covered the Pelicot trial since the day it opened\, sure it would spark existential discussions in France. Thankfully\, she was right. \nAnne-Sophie Moreau is a French journalist and editor-in-chief at Philosophie Magazine. She is the author of Fermentations (Le Seuil\, 2025)\, a philosophical inquiry about microbes and politics. She addresses social and moral issues in her essays and articles. \nValentine Faure is a French journalist who works for the Ideas section of Le Monde. Her writing has appeared in the Nation\, the Atlantic\, and the New York Times. She is the author of Quand je me suis relevée j’ai pris mon fusil (Grasset\, 2018)\, focusing on a widely publicized case in France to examine female counter-violence—its history\, moral dimensions\, and repression. \nNatasha Lehrer’s essays and reviews have appeared in the Guardian\, Observer\, Times Literary Supplement\, the Nation\, Frieze and other journals. She has translated over two dozen books. In 2016 she won the Scott Moncrieff translation prize for Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger. Her translation of Neige Sinno’s Sad Tiger was shortlisted for 2025 National Book Award for translated literature and for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Greg Barrios Book in Translation prize. She teaches at the University of Oxford translation summer school and is regularly invited to speak at universities in France and the United States.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers 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. \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_1758032823591{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-color: #9e0143 !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/speakingout26/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author,General
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260318T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260318T203000
DTSTAMP:20260413T172034
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SUMMARY:Flashlight with Susan Choi and Lauren Collins
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D54d2febf-07aa-4fac-a80e-d6f0bb23abbe%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F87322885763|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Beginning with a father’s disappearance on a breakwater in Japan\, Susan Choi‘s sixth novel Flashlight unfolds across decades and continents\, tracing how loss\, exile\, and political upheaval shape one family’s fate. Joined in conversation with The New Yorker staff writer Lauren Collins\, Choi will explore how both memory and history illuminate\, distort\, and leave certain truths in shadow. \nAbout the speakers: \nSusan Choi is the author of Trust Exercise\, which received the National Book Award for fiction\, and the novels The Foreign Student\, American Woman\, A Person of Interest\, and My Education. She is a recipient of the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction\, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award\, a Lambda Literary award\, the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \nPhoto Credit: Laura Bianchi\, Bogliasco Foundation  \nLauren Collins is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her subjects have included Michelle Obama\, Emmanuel Macron\, Demna\, the street artist Invader\, French tacos\, 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. Her second book\, “They Stole a City: Wilmington’s White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live With Its Legacy\,” will be published on July 7\, 2026.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers 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. \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_1758032823591{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-color: #9e0143 !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/choi26/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author,General
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260321T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260321T153000
DTSTAMP:20260413T172034
CREATED:20260307T094723Z
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SUMMARY:The Vocabulary of U.S. College Admissions with College Goals (ages 14–adult)
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Given the demands of the American university application process\, students interested in pursuing higher education in the U.S. are well advised to begin preparing early in their high school career for its demands\, perhaps even before they embark on their final two years of study toward the French bac or IB. In this presentation with guests from College Goals\, teens and their parents will explore the application and admissions process for US colleges and universities and how best to prepare. What do families need to know for their students to be successful and satisfied by the university search and application process? How can students produce a strong and interesting U.S. university application? In the first of a series of presentations on aspects of the American college application process\, College Goals’ counselor\, Andrea van Niekerk will discuss the concepts\, language\, and protocols students need to be aware of if they hope to apply to US institutions. \n  \nAbout Andrea van Niekerk: Andrea served for a decade as Associate Director of Admission\, with a focus on international applicants\, and as Freshman Academic Adviser at Brown University\, and as Residential Fellow in a dorm at Stanford. Still based in Silicon Valley\, she now works with both American and international families as part of College Goals. Andrea has over 20 years of experience in college admission and academic advising. She is a member of NACAC\, HECA and WACAC. \n About College Goals: College Goals is a university admission consulting practice specializing in counseling families interested in higher education opportunities in the US and in English-medium universities around the world. The team of counselors collectively offers decades of professional experience in higher education. College Goals provides expert counsel and support throughout the college search and application process\, including choice of appropriate institutions\, test requirements\, recommendations and interviews\, essay writing\, and the preparation of distinguished applications. Find out more at www.collegegoals.com \n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1709040324351{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”]Important information: \nThis event is for Library members\, and advance registration is required. All visitors are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. \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.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Library Policy” style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-child” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Famericanlibraryinparis.org%2Fchildren-in-the-library-policy%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Register here” style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” i_icon_fontawesome=”” css=”” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSeudN7b0bADuje4mbdd7Axm6vqZt17Bdzct7NX3Os6INgM_Lg%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Dpublish-editor|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/the-vocabulary-of-u-s-college-admissions-2026/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260324T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260324T203000
DTSTAMP:20260413T172034
CREATED:20260203T091402Z
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SUMMARY:From Baldwin to Today: Queer Black Expats in Paris with Rasheed Newson
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D7e77723c-d93d-4867-bc53-3ae6645af4c1%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F87257427106|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]From Josephine Baker and James Baldwin to André Leon Talley and today’s artists\, Paris has long drawn queer African Americans seeking freedom\, visibility\, and creative possibility. In this interactive lecture\, novelist and current American Library Visiting Fellow Rasheed Newson examines how queer Black Americans have been perceived and received in France\, and why so many have chosen expatriate life in the City of Lights. Blending history\, visual media\, and cultural analysis\, Newson interrogates Paris as a refuge—and the limits of that promise. \nAbout the speaker: \nRasheed Newson is the author of the national bestseller My Government Means to Kill Me. The novel was a Lambda Literary finalist for Gay Fiction and was named one of the “100 Notable Books of 2022” by the New York Times. His forthcoming novel\, There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood\, is slated for publication by Flatiron in 2026. Rasheed is also a television drama writer\, producer\, and showrunner. Along with his screenplay writing partner\, T.J. Brady\, Newson co-developed and is an executive producer of Bel-Air. At the Library\, Newson will be conducting research for a novel about the experience of a gay\, African-American\, male runway model with a dark complexion\, who becomes a brief international sensation during Paris Fashion Week in 1992.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers 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. \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_1758032823591{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-color: #9e0143 !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/newson26/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author,General,Ways of Seeing
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260326T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260326T200000
DTSTAMP:20260413T172034
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260130T154532Z
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SUMMARY:[Patron Circle] From Collector to Curator: The Story of Isabella Stewart Gardner with Natalie Dykstra
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Join award-winning author Natalie Dykstra for a captivating journey into the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner\, the visionary creator of the iconic Boston museum. From personal tragedy to glittering friendships\, world travels\, and a relentless passion for collecting\, Gardner remade her life—and her museum—through art. Dykstra delves into the stories behind the masterpieces\, objects\, and curated spaces that transform the museum into a living memoir\, offering a portrait of an American original whose legacy continues to inspire. \nThis event is reserved for Library Patron Circle members (formerly: Friends of the Library) and will be followed by a champagne cocktail apéro. If you’d like to join\, please email giving@americanlibraryinparis.org. \nAbout the speaker: \nNatalie Dykstra is the author of Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life\, which won a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship and was a finalist for the 2013 Massachusetts Book Award. Her recent book Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner has received a New England Society of New York Book Award and the Marfield Prize\, the national award for arts writing. Her work has been supported by a Public Scholars grant from the NEH and an inaugural Robert Caro Research Fellowship from the Biographers International Organization. She has been an honorary fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society since 2011 and is an emerita professor of English at Hope College. She lives with her husband near Boston.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: This is an event reserved for the Library’s Patron Circle members (formerly: Friends of the Library). The Patron Circle follows a yearly cycle beginning each September\, bringing together our most committed supporters through a tiered donor programme. With giving levels for individuals and families\, it invites those who wish to invest more deeply to enjoy exclusive access and meaningful recognition. Learn more about joining. \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][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/dykstra26/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author,General
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