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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230905T193000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Poetic Confluence: Marilyn Hacker and Karthika Naïr in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join Marilyn Hacker\, one of the most celebrated figures in American poetry\, and Karthika Naïr\, known for her dynamic work at the borders of dance\, poetry\, and the visual arts\, as they discuss the many migrations of the poetic voice. When confinement forced artists into their homes\, Hacker and Naïr adopted an ancient poetic technique\, the renga\, in order to co-author A Different Distance: a poetic exploration of distance\, written at a distance\, as a way of understanding and overcoming it. Hacker\, an award-winning translator of French into English\, and Nair\, known for adapting narrative into dance performance\, are masters of movement. They will consider the poetic act as that of bridging distance between disparate and linked images\, sounds\, languages\, cultures\, and forms. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nA renga is a special kind of poem that’s created by multiple poets working together. It’s like a poetic conversation where each poet adds lines to build a poem that flows from one part to another. Read excerpts of Hacker and Naïr’s renga\, A Different Distance.  \nMarilyn Hacker won the National Book Award for her first book\, Presentation Piece. She is known for writing about identity\, womanhood\, sexuality\, illness\, power\, and social issues such as the AIDS crisis. A.M Juster has claimed that “there is no poet writing in English with a better claim for the Nobel Prize in Literature than Marilyn Hacker. Discover her incredible career.  \nNaïr works with choreographers to script dances\, taking into consideration the different ways environment\, soundscape\, and movement can combine to tell a story. See examples of this: a performance of her book Until the Lions\, and a queer reimagining of Madame Butterfly.  \nAbout the speakers:  \nMarilyn Hacker is the author of nineteen books of poems\, most recently\, Calligraphies (2023)\, and translator of twenty-three books of poetry and essays. She has received the Lenore Marshall Prize and the Voelcker Award from the Poetry Society of America\, the PEN Award in Translation\, the Audre Lorde Prize and the National Book Award. She was editor of the Kenyon Review for five years\, and on the editorial collective of the French journal Siècle 21 for eight. \nPoet\, librettist\, and fabulist\, Karthika Naïr is the coauthor of A Different Distance\, renga written with Marilyn Hacker. Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata\, her reimagining of the foundational South Asian epic in multiple voices\, won the 2015 Tata Literature Live Award for Book of the Year\, and was highly commended in the 2016 Forward Prizes. The dance performances Naïr has scripted and co-scripted have been staged at venues across the world. These include Akram Khan’s multiple-award-winning DESH and Until the Lions\, and Carlos Pons Guerra’s Mariposa\, a queer reimagining of Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Hacker and Naïr 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][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][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/hacker-nair23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230906T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230906T203000
DTSTAMP:20260611T175614
CREATED:20230827T143453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230904T102316Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Meditations on Life\, Politics\, and Journalism with Roger Cohen
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message]In-person registration for this event is now closed. Please register to attend online using the link above.[/vc_message][vc_column_text]From China and Kyiv\, to Afghanistan and Israel\, to elections in Iran and the debacle of Brexit\, for over forty years New York Times Paris bureau chief Roger Cohen has journeyed to all corners of the world to cover everything from truth and dissent\, to dictatorship\, revolution\, and displacement.  \nNow\, in An Affirming Flame: Meditations on Life and Politics\, Cohen’s finest columns\, dispatched from Tehran\, China\, Cairo\, Libya\, Vietnam\, Gaza\, Ukraine\, Munich\, Hungary\, and Poland\, and more\, have been compiled together for the first time\, accompanied by a never-before-seen essay on the state of the world. In these writings\, offering an assessment of politics and journalism in the twenty-first century\, Cohen traces out a path for the future of democracy. He will appear in conversation with European history expert Jacques Rupnik.  \nThis event will be followed by a cocktail reception.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nRoger Cohen was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the invasion of Ukraine. Reporting for the New York Times\, he recently traveled from Moscow to Siberia to the Ukrainian border\, seeking to understand the “nationalist lurch into an unprovoked war and its mood more than 17 months into a conflict conceived as a lightning strike\, only to become a lingering nightmare.” Discover what he found. \nWatch Cohen’s appearance on CNN to discuss An Affirming Flame. When asked why he describes himself as a “stubborn optimist\,” Cohen responded: “We have to believe in our capacity to improve the world.”  \nThe title of Cohen’s book\, An Affirming Flame\, is the last line of a poem written by W.H. Auden on the eve of World War II. In the poem\, Auden writes\, “We must love one another or die.” Read it here.  \nAbout the speakers: \nIn 2023\, Roger Cohen and a team of New York Times reporters were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and a George Polk Award in Foreign Reporting for their coverage of the war in Ukraine. Cohen is the Paris bureau chief for the New York Times\, where he began working in 1990. He has also worked for the Times as bureau chief in Berlin and in the Balkans\, where he covered the Bosnian war and received the Eric and Amy Burger Award from the Overseas Press Club of America. In 2021\, he received the Légion d’Honneur from the French Republic for his work over four decades.  \nJacques Rupnik was educated at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and at Harvard\, is currently Research Professor at CERI-Sciences Po in Paris as well as visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. Executive director of the International Commission for the Balkans  he was previously advisor to president Vaclav Havel.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Cohen and Rupnik 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_message]In-person registration for this event is now closed. Please register to attend online using the link above.[/vc_message][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Copies of An Affirming Flame will be available for purchase at the Library in the week leading up to this event and while the event takes place\, generously provided by Smith&Son. All sales support this local independent bookstore. \nAttendees will have the opportunity to have their copy signed following the conversation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”54548″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][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/cohen23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230912T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230912T203000
DTSTAMP:20260611T175614
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Journalism under Siege with The Dial and Forbidden Stories
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We live in a dangerous time for journalists. Killings of reporters are on the rise\, while countless journalists have been forced to work in exile. Why are journalists such targets? How does this affect how they report? What can readers do to support the free press? Faced with danger\, what can journalism do? We are delighted to welcome Madeleine Schwartz\, editor-in-chief of global magazine of culture and politics the Dial\, in conversation with Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud of Forbidden Stories\, an organization whose mission is to protect\, pursue and publish the work of other journalists facing threats\, prison\, or murder. They will discuss their work bringing the work of endangered journalists to readers\, share recent projects\, and consider why journalism matters. \nThis event is organized in partnership with the Dial. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nForbidden Stories enables journalists under threat to share dangerous information through secure channels\, and carry on the work of reporters imprisoned or murdered for their work.  \nIn their words: “We send a powerful signal to enemies of the free press: even if you succeed in stopping a single messenger\, you will not stop the message. What is the point of killing a journalist if 10\, 20 or 30 others are waiting in the wings to carry on their work? Collaboration is the best form of protection.” Learn more about the history of Forbidden Stories and discover the reporting they have brought to light.  \n“The world’s little magazine\,” The Dial is a new online magazine of culture\, politics\, and ideas with a focus on locally sourced writing from around the world. A space where daring writers stage global conversations unconstrained by geography\, the publication spotlights writers who write the world as they see it—from wherever they might be. Check out their recent issue\, with contributors from Sudan\, Ukraine\, Sweden\, Chile\, South Korea\, and more.  \nAbout the speakers: \nLaurent Richard is a journalist\, executive producer of investigative documentaries\, founder and executive director of Forbidden Stories. A French award-winning investigative reporter for Premieres Lignes Television and 2017 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan\, he was named “European Journalist of the Year” at the Prix Europa in Berlin in 2018.  \nSandrine Rigaud is a French investigative journalist. As editor of Forbidden Stories since 2019\, she coordinated the “Pegasus Project” published in July 2021 and the “Cartel Project\,” a massive cross-border collaboration to finish the investigations of a murdered Mexican journalist that won a George Polk Award and the Maria Moors Cabot Prize. \nMadeleine Schwartz lives in Paris\, where she writes about the rise of the far right\, urban politics and art fraud. Her work appears in the London Review of Books\, the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books\, where she previously worked as an editor. In 2019\, her article “The End of Atlanticism: Has Trump killed the ideology that won the cold war?” won the European Press Prize. She teaches journalism at Sciences Po.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Schwartz\, Richard\, and Rigaud 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_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][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/forbidden-stories23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230913T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230913T203000
DTSTAMP:20260611T175614
CREATED:20230828T091610Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Picking Evil Flowers with Gunnhild Øyehaug and Daniel Medin
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In partnership with the Center for Writers and Translators\, Shakespeare and Company\, and NORLA\, we are delighted to present Norway’s most celebrated contemporary writer\, Gunnhild Øyehaug\, in conversation on her latest collection of short fiction Evil Flowers.  \nAcross its 25 stories\, Øyehaug renovates the form again and again\, confirming Lydia Davis’s observation that each of her fictions is “a formal surprise\, smart and droll.” Inspired by Charles Baudelaire\, the groundbreaking book features an ornithologist whose brain slips into the toilet bowl\, medicinal leeches that ingest information from fiberoptic cables\, and an elderly woman who is trapped with a ravenous lion. Join us as we step inside Øyehaug’s wonderfully imaginative mind and explore the marvelous new directions she has paved for short fiction.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more:  \nGunnhild Øyehaug was described in a 2017 New Yorker review as a “master of the short story.” Find out why.  \nWant to discover her innovative style first-hand? Read an excerpt from Evil Flowers. \nAbout the speakers: \nGunnhild Øyehaug is an award-winning Norwegian poet\, essayist\, and fiction writer whose work has been translated into many languages. She teaches creative writing in Bergen.  \nDaniel Medin is an editor and professor of comparative literature at the American University of Paris.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Øyehaug and Medin 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_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Copies of Evil Flowers will be available for purchase at the Library in the week leading up to this event and while the event takes place\, generously provided by Smith&Son. All sales support this local independent bookstore. \nAttendees will have the opportunity to have their copy signed following the conversation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”54548″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1694182826903{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][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/oyehaug23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230914T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230914T203000
DTSTAMP:20260611T175614
CREATED:20230828T093738Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) “a place that lives in me”: Writing Caribbean Identity
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What does it mean to be Caribbean in the 21st century? Is it imprinted in the landscape\, the language\, or is it perhaps\, in the words of Mireille Jean-Gilles (tr. Eric Fishman)\, “a place that lives in me\, and that I unfurl\, like a nomad his tent\, in each place where I live”? In Elektrik: Caribbean Writing\, eight female writers from Haiti\, Martinique\, and Guadeloupe explore the beauty\, pain\, and complexity wrapped up in their identity. Writers Marie-Célie Agnant and Gaël Octavia join poet and translator Danielle Legros Georges to read from the collection and discuss language as defiance.  \nThis event will be hybrid. While Gaël Octavia will appear in-person at the Library\, Marie-Célie Agnant and Danielle Legros Georges will remotely join from Quebec and Boston\, respectively. A live remote viewing will be held at the Brooklyn Center for Fiction and the San Francisco Center for the Art of Translation. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]About the speakers: \nGaël Octavia writes novels\, poetry\, theater\, and short stories. She also paints and makes short films. Inspired by Martinican society\, her texts explore themes of family\, identity\, and the female condition. Her plays have been read and performed in France\, the United States\, the Caribbean\, Reunion Island\, and Africa. Her first novel\, La fin de Mame Baby\, received the Wepler Jury Special Mention Award in 2017. \nDanielle Legros Georges is the author of The Dear Remote Nearness of You and translator of Island Heart\, a collection of poems written by Haitian-French writer Ida Faubert\, among other titles. Her poems have been widely published\, anthologized\, and included in international artistic commissions and collaborations. In 2014\, Legros Georges was named Boston’s poet laureate. She is a professor of creative writing at Lesley University. \nMarie-Célie Agnant was born in 1953 in Port-au-Prince\, Haiti\, and has lived in Canada since 1970. Her writings include four novels\, two short story collections\, and three volumes of poetry. She has also worked as a storyteller\, an interpreter\, a teacher\, and an environmental activist. She received the Prix Alain- Grandbois of the Academie des Lettres du Quebec in 2017 for her most recent collection of poetry\, Femmes de terres brûlées (2016). In 2023\, she was appointed Canada’s 10th Parliamentary Poet Laureate. \n\nMyriam J. A. Chancy\, Ph.D. is a Guggenheim Fellow and Hartley Burr Alexander Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College. She is the author of What Storm\, What Thunder\, a novel on the 2010 Haiti earthquake (Harper Collins Canada/Tin House USA 2021)\, awarded a 2022 American Book Award (ABA) from the Before Columbus Foundation\, and named a “Best Book of 2021\,” by NPR\, Kirkus\, the Chicago Public Library\, the New York Public Library\, Library Journal\, the Boston Globe\, Amazon Books & Canada’s Globe & Mail. Her forthcoming books include Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters (University of Texas Press\, 2023)\, Spirit of Haiti (20th anniversary edition\, SUNY Press\, 2023) and Village Weavers: A Novel (Tin House 2024). Her recent writings have appeared in Whetstone.com Journal\, Electric Literature\, and Guernica. \n\nAbout the International Library series:  \nThis conversation is part of the International Library\, a new series launched in collaboration with the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn and the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco which will offer conversations across time\, place\, and language.  \nThe International Library celebrates the live diffusion of in-person conversations in the hope of connecting new audiences across land and sea for a collective\, intercultural experience. These conversations will broach deeper questions about writing and translation as we learn to think critically about how stories are told\, investigating the points of view\, the timing of the translations\, and the intended or assumed audiences as well as inspiration\, philosophy\, and craft.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While Octavia will appear in-person in the Reading Room\, other participants will appear over 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. \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][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”54509″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/elektrik23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230919T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230919T203000
DTSTAMP:20260611T175614
CREATED:20230828T094926Z
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SUMMARY:(Online) Henry Hoke and Melissa Broder on Animal Desire
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In Open Throat\, Henry Hoke’s “queer and dangerously hungry” protagonist confronts a central question: “Do they want to eat a person\, or become one?” Inspired by a real-life Hollywood Hills puma\, Hoke uses an animal perspective to break into human language\, highlighting cruelties and contradictions in the anthropocene world. Our protagonist is a naive and probing witness to all that L.A. has to offer: sex\, crime\, cars\, climate change\, economic disparity\, digital content creation\, New York transplants\, and more. A delicious contribution to contemporary fiction\, the book defamiliarizes the human world\, while simultaneously revealing hidden depths to hunger\, desire\, grief\, and care.  \nHoke will appear in conversation with celebrated author of Milk Fed and The Pisces\, Melissa Broder. \nAbout the speakers:  \nHenry Hoke is an editor at the Offing and the author of five books\, most recently the novel Open Throat and the memoir Sticker.   \nMelissa Broder is the author of the novels Milk Fed\, The Pisces\, and the forthcoming Death Valley\, the essay collection So Sad Today\, and five poetry collections\, including Superdoom. Her books are translated in ten languages. She has written for the New York Times\, Elle.com\, and New York magazine’s the Cut. She lives in Los Angeles.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more about Open Throat: \nEileen Myles writes of its protagonist that “the beauty and tragedy of all of nature is in this character”\, and that “Open Throat is a fierce writing act. Henry Hoke makes it true.” It has been praised by Chris Kraus as “completely awakening.” \nAuthor Marie-Helene Bertino described the book in the New York Times Book Review as “an act of ravishing and outlandish imagination\,” and concludes: “At its best\, fiction can make the familiar strange in order to bring readers and our world into scintillating focus. Open Throat is what fiction should be.” Read the review here.  \nHoke’s protagonist is inspired by real-life puma P-22. Learn about LA’s most iconic feline here.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important 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/hoke23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230920T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230920T203000
DTSTAMP:20260611T175614
CREATED:20230830T132323Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Emmanuel Dongala: Scribe of Social Reality
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Emmanuel Dongala\, “the most accomplished novelist from Africa since Chinua Achebe\,” will make a special appearance at the Library to discuss the new English edition of The Stone Breakers: A Classic Novel of Labor Resistance. The novel tells the story of a feminist uprising among a group of workers in a gravel pit: what begins as a village protest escalates to a state-wide rebellion that confronts the corrupt leadership and challenges the status quo set by the government and the mining corporations. It has been adapted to the stage in Africa\, Europe and South America\, and\, originally published by Actes Sud as Photo de groupe au bord du fleuve\, was named the best French novel of 2010 by Lire. Dongala will appear in conversation with Will Mountain Cox\, author of With Paris in Mind and the forthcoming debut novel\, Roundabout. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nThe 2023 winner of the Grand Prix Hervé Deluen from L’Académie française\, awarded for contributing to the promotion of French as an international language\, Dongala is described by Alain Mabanckou as “a key figure of French-language African literature… a scribe of social reality… his universe combines realism\, meeting African and African-American cultures… and features memorable characters in search of freedom\, equality and justice in the face of a decadent world.” \nDongala studied in the United States in 1961\, and later returned to the U.S. in 1997\, fleeing the Congolese Civil War\, with the assistance of Philip Roth and William Styron.  \nTerry Gross named Dongala “One of [Republic of the Congo’s] best known novelists\,” praising his bold ability to “criticize\, even mock\, the corruption in his country’s government.” Listen to his appearance on Fresh Air.  \nA film adaptation of Dongala’s celebrated book Johnny Mad Dog premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 2008. Read about it in the New York Times.  \nAbout the speakers: \nBorn in the Republic of Congo in 1941\, Emmanuel Dongala is a scientist and author who came to the United States in 1997 during the civil war in his native country and was offered a professorship at Bard College. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction in 1999. Dongala is the author most recently of the acclaimed novel The Bridgetower Sonata\, as well as Johnny Mad Dog\, Little Boys Come from the Stars\, and The Fire of Origins. He is the recipient of the 2011 Prix Ahmadou Kourouma Award and his most recent novel The Bridgetower Sonata was shortlisted for the Prix Albertine in 2022. This novel is currently under option to French film director David Lanzmann for a limited series.  \nWill Mountain Cox is the author of With Paris in Mind. His writing has been published in Forever Magazine\, Hobart\, Spectra Poets\, The Drunken Canal and Vol.1 Brooklyn. In 2013\, Will co-founded the Belleville Park Pages. He holds degrees from Boston University and from Sciences Po in Paris\, where he was named Graduate of Honor.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Dongala and Cox 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_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/dongala23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Myth\, Power\, Genre with Scholar of Note Ladee Hubbard
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]While in residence\, Scholar of Note Ladee has been re-imagining society’s relationship to mythical women across literature\, from Eurydice to the femme fatale\, as a way of understanding our vision of Black women today. In conversation\, Ladee will consider: what is our relationship to myth? What makes it eternally fascinating\, relevant\, and open to new interpretations? How does it reveal and conceal power\, gender\, and race? Moreover\, who is the femme fatale\, and what is her role in the noir genre? How can we explain current interest in noir\, and what might this interest explain to us about ourselves? Join us to learn how Ladee works within literary history\, adopting genres of mythology and crime\, in order to reinvent the narratives marginalized women are forced into.  \nThis event will be followed by a cocktail reception.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nLadee’s most recent short story collection imagines life in a Black neighborhood from the 1980’s through Obama’s election. Listen to what she said about it on NPR.  \nThe Rib King is a domestic tale turned revenge saga following the servants of an aristocratic family in decline in early-twentieth-century Chicago. Read a review in the Washington Post.  \nLadee’s debut novel\, The Talented Ribkins\, was inspired by a famous essay by philosopher and activist W.E.B. Du Bois entitled “The Talented Tenth”. Read what she has to say about Du Bois in the Guardian.  \nAbout the speaker:  \nLadee Hubbard is the author of the novels The Last Suspicious Holdout\, The Talented Ribkins\, which received the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction\, and The Rib King. Her writing has appeared in Oxford American\, Guernica\, Virginia Quarterly and Callaloo among other venues. She is a recipient of a Berlin Prize\, a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award.  \nThe American Library in Paris Scholar of Note program is generously sponsored by the de Groot Foundation.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Hubbard 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_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Copies of The Last Suspicious Holdout will be available for purchase at the Library in the week leading up to this event and while the event takes place\, generously provided by Smith&Son. All sales support this local independent bookstore. \nAttendees will have the opportunity to have their copy signed following the conversation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”54548″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][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/hubbard23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Paris Beyond the Postcard with Cole Stangler
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Where is the ‘real’ Paris? In popular imagination\, Paris has streets lined with stylish cafés and fashion boutiques. In new book Paris is Not Dead: Surviving Hypergentrification in the City of Light\, Cole Stangler combines street reportage with recent history and political analysis to paint a true-to-life portrait of a vibrant city. As urban centers evolve\, Stangler shows\, our collective responsibility to honor and sustain the cultural identities woven within their fabric becomes paramount. In a call to action for lovers of Paris and urban-dwellers everywhere\, Stangler\, a French-American journalist\, and Erin Ogunkeye\, a journalist with France 24\, will locate the heart of the city of lights in its working class history\, and reveal the mechanisms at work pricing residents out of their homes. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Praise for Paris is Not Dead: \n“Cole Stangler succeeds wonderfully in capturing the contradictions of the most visited city in the world. Paris is finally introduced as it is: the heart of the conflicting transformation of Europe’s identity\, and the place of a fascinating reinvention inspired by its margins.” —Rokhaya Diallo\, writer\, filmmaker\, and activist \n“Paris Is Not Dead reveals that the causes of so much social unrest are the harsh living conditions and the punishing wage-rent ratio. . . . [Stangler] looks back to the historic roots of social conflict and is witness to the creative vitality of the oppressed.” —Edmund White\, author of The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris \nLearn more:  \nRead articles by Cole in the New York Times\, the Atlantic\, and the Nation\,  \nWatch Cole’s appearances on Democracy Now! and France24.  \nAbout the speakers: \nCole Stangler is a journalist based in Marseille\, France. A contributor to The Nation\, Jacobin\, and the international news network France 24\, he has also published work in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, The Guardian\, Foreign Policy\, and other outlets. He is the author of Paris Is Not Dead. \nErin Ogunkeye grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia\, but has spent more time living in Paris than any other city. She studied French law before realizing she wanted to feel a closer connection to the rest of the world by following\, relaying and breaking down current events; perhaps not too differently from the way a lawyer connects with a jury. She is an anchor at France 24 and presents Live From Paris in the mornings.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Stangler and Ogunkeye 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_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Copies of Paris is Not Dead will be available for purchase at the Library in the week leading up to this event and while the event takes place\, generously provided by Smith&Son. All sales support this local independent bookstore. \nAttendees will have the opportunity to have their copy signed following the conversation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”54548″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][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/stangler23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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