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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Learning to Laugh with Nuar Alsadir
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Why do humans laugh? What effect does laughter have on the body? What is its role in a social setting? What does it communicate\, and why does it matter? Poet and psychoanalyst Nuar Alsadir uses psychology\, philosophy\, history\, personal experience\, and more to answer these questions in new book Animal Joy. A whimsical\, wide-reaching meditation upon the power of laughter\, populated by figures ranging from Donald Trump to Alsadir’s classmates at clown school\, the book reveals hidden dimensions to humor\, while highlighting the challenges of defining what humor is. More than an expression of amusement\, it can be wielded as a political tool\, poetic instrument\, and therapeutic mechanism.  \nLearn More: \nFor a sample of Alsadir’s poetry\, check out her poem titled “Invertebrate.” \nFor a preview of Alsadir’s meditations on laughter and its various forms\, check out her essay “Corpsing: On Sex\, Death\, and Inappropriate Laughter” in The Paris Review. \nAbout the speaker: \nNuar Alsadir‘s most recent book\, Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation was a TIME Magazine must-read of 2022 and a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of 2022. She is also the author of two poetry collections: Fourth Person Singular\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Forward Prize for Best Collection\, and More Shadow Than Bird. She is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and a member of the curatorial board of The Racial Imaginary Institute. She works as a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Alsadir 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/alsadir23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231220T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231220T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
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SUMMARY:(In-Person Only) Finding Form\, Family\, and Fatherhood with Kwame Alexander
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Library is delighted to welcome poet\, children’s author\, and memoirist Kwame Alexander.  \nAlexander’s 2021 book\, The Door of No Return\, an instant #1 New York Times Bestseller\, was first of a three-part series following a 19th-century Ghanaian boy as he encounters the transatlantic slave trade.  \nIn 2023\, Alexander released his first book for adults\, a memoir called Why Fathers Cry at Night. The memoir unfolds through a medley of poems\, recipes\, letters\, and other personal fragments\, kaleidoscopically detailing Alexander’s relationships with his daughters and with his own parents. \nOther works by Alexander include The Crossover\, a novel told entirely through verse\, which won the prestigious Newbery Medal\, and The Undefeated\, a picture book that commemorates the resilience of Black Americans throughout history. \nModerated by journalist Pamela Druckerman\, join us for a conversation on boundary-pushing poetry and literature. \nPlease note this event’s early start time. \n  \nAbout the speakers: \nKwame Alexander is a New York Times-bestselling author of 39 books. His work includes The Crossover (2014)\, for which he won the Newbery Medal; Becoming Muhammad Ali (2019\, co-authored with James Patterson); The Undefeated (2019\, nominated for the National Book Award); and Why Fathers Cry at Night (2023). He is also the Executive Producer\, Showrunner\, and Writer of a television adaptation of The Crossover\, which recently premiered on Disney+.  \nPamela Druckerman is a French-American journalist and documentary producer who focuses on France and family life. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times International Edition\, The Atlantic\, Le Monde\, Harper’s\, and more. She is also the author of five books\, including Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (2012) and There Are No Grown-Ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story (2018).[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nKwame Alexander recently appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross to discuss his memoir\, Why Fathers Cry at Night. Listen to the interview here. \nAlexander’s award-winning novel for young adults\, The Crossover\, is told through a series of about two hundred poems. Watch Alexander reflect upon his poetic process and read an excerpt from the novel here. \nA television adaptation of The Crossover premiered this year. You can watch the trailer here; the first season is available on Disney+.[/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 in person only. Alexander and Druckerman will appear in the Reading Room\, and the discussion will not be recorded. Please note this event’s early start time. \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_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Copies of Why Fathers Cry at Night 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][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/alexander23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231213T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231213T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Shakespeare in Palestine with Isabella Hammad
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join us for an illuminating conversation on Isabella Hammad‘s second novel\, Enter Ghost\, a story of family\, remembrance\, and shared resistance. \nReeling from a failed marriage\, Sonia\, a British-Palestinian actor\, returns to Haifa\, Israel\, to visit her estranged sister. When Sonia meets a local director\, Miriam\, she is roped into the staging of Hamlet in the historic city of Ramallah\, in the West Bank. While initially resistant\, Sonia begins to feel a sense of belonging and a respect for her fellow Palestinian actors\, who want Hamlet to speak to Palestine’s history. Enter Ghost expertly dives into Sonia’s past\, tracing where her relationship with her family\, and Palestine\, diverged. As Hamlet’s opening night draws closer\, Sonia realizes how many obstacles the production and its actors face. Amidst it all\, the life Sonia once knew starts to give way to the daunting\, exhilarating possibility of finding a new self in her ancestral home. \nHammad’s debut novel\, The Parisian\, illuminates a pivotal period of 20th-century Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man\, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence. \nPlease note\, this event will not be recorded. \n  \nAbout the speaker: \nIsabella Hammad was born in London. Her writing has appeared publications including Conjunctions\, The Paris Review\, The New York Times. She was awarded the 2018 Plimpton Prize for Fiction and a 2019 O. Henry Prize. Her first novel The Parisian (2019) won a Palestine Book Award\, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, a Betty Trask Award from the Society of Authors in the UK. She was a National Book Foundation ‘5 Under 35’ Honoree\, and has received literary fellowships from MacDowell\, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Lannan Foundation. She was selected as one of the Granta ‘Best of Young British Novelists’ in 2023. Her second novel\, Enter Ghost\, was published in 2023.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nHammad appeared on France24 to discuss Enter Ghost. Watch the interview. \nIn an interview with Feroz Rather\, Hammad detailed how fiction unbuttons the constraints of history. Read in BOMB Magazine.[/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 (Hammad 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 Enter Ghost 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][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/hammad23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231212T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231212T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20231102T191559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231114T165618Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Serving Stories with Edward Chisholm
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]After graduating from university in London in 2010\, Edward Chisholm moved to Paris\, where he hoped to kick off his career as a writer. To make ends meet\, he took up a stream of low-paying jobs\, including one as a waiter at a high-end restaurant. \nIn his memoir A Waiter in Paris (2022)\, Chisholm vividly captures the precarity of life as a service worker in the City of Light. The book has been characterized as “a Dickensian tale” (Publisher’s Weekly) and as a contemporary retelling of George Orwell’s 1933 travelogue Down and Out in Paris and London (The Wall Street Journal and The Daily Mail). Chisholm’s thoughtful critiques of contemporary Parisian society simmer beneath the surface of his whirlwind story\, which overflows with colorful characters and memorable scenes. This conversation will be moderated by writer\, editor\, and academic Russell Williams. \nJoin us at the Library to hear Chisholm’s reflections on the Parisian restaurant scene and his experience of writing a memoir. \n  \nAbout the speakers: \nEdward Chisholm was born in Dorset\, England. After graduating from university\, he moved to Paris\, where he lived and worked for seven years. His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Wall Street Journal\, and the Financial Times Magazine. His memoir\, A Waiter in Paris\, was published in 2022. Chisholm is also a screenwriter; he is currently working to develop a TV series. \nRussell Williams teaches in the Comparative Literature and English department at the American University of Paris. He is also French editor at the Times Literary Supplement and is currently writing a book called French Weird.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nYou can read an excerpt from A Waiter in Paris here\, on Salon.com. \nIn 2013 – early in his time as a waiter in Paris – Chisholm wrote an op-ed called “Notes from a Parisian Kitchen” for The New York Times. Read it here.[/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 (Chisholm 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 A Waiter in Paris 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][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/chisholm23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231207T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231207T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20231102T191340Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Future of Consent with Manon Garcia
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Manon Garcia is a leading voice in conversations about consent\, autonomy\, and feminist philosophy. In her latest book\, La Conversation des Sexes (translated to The Joy of Consent in its English edition)\, Garcia delves into the philosophical traditions that gave rise to “consent” as a legal framework. What does it mean to “consent” to sex? How can consent serve as a guiding principle for personal and intimate relations? Garcia offers a nuanced revision of consent-based ethics\, imagining new paths forward for feminism. As scholar Nancy Bauer writes: “This book is no less than a blueprint for a new feminist revolution.” \nAbout the speaker: \nManon Garcia is a feminist philosopher and a teacher at the Free University in Berlin. After completing her studies at the École Normale Supérieure and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne\, she took on roles as a Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago\, a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows\, and an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. She has written two books: We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives (Princeton University Press\, 2021) and The Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex (Harvard University Press\, 2023).  \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nGarcia’s first book\, We Are Not Born Submissive (2021)\, explores the complex history of female submission. Watch her discuss this book in an interview. \nLast April\, Garcia joined the philosopher Kate Kirkpatrick in another illuminating Evening with an Author program at the American Library in Paris. In case you missed it: you can watch a recording of that program here. [/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 (Garcia 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 Joy of Consent 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][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/garcia23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231206T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231206T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Slaves for Peanuts: An Evening with Jori Lewis and Robin Allison Davis
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In the preface of her book Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest\, Liberation\, and a Crop That Changed History (2022)\, Jori Lewis poses a question: “How do we tell the stories of people that history forgets and the present avoids?” Over the course of her book\, Lewis works to tell precisely such a story\, deftly sifting through archives to uncover the lives and experiences of people who have been systematically written out of the historical record. \nSlaves for Peanuts exposes the pernicious connections between the demand for peanut oil in Europe and the persistence of slavery in Africa. Lewis shows how France continued to rely on slave labor in West Africa for the production of peanuts\, even long after slavery had been officially abolished in French territories. Her work animates the complex lives of historical people\, weaving them together through studies of agriculture and trade. The result is\, in the words of renowned scholar Imani Perry\, “a revelation” that “promises to transform our understanding of slavery and colonialism.” \nThis event will be moderated by Robin Allison Davis. \n  \nAbout the speakers:  \nJori Lewis writes narrative nonfiction that explores how people interact with their environments. Her reports and essays have been published in The Atlantic Magazine\, Orion Magazine and Emergence Magazine\, among others\, and she is a senior editor of Adi Magazine\, a literary magazine of global politics. In 2022\, she published her first book\, Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest\, Liberation\, and a Crop That Changed History\, which was supported by the prestigious Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant\, a Silvers Grant for Work in Progress\, and it won a James Beard media award. \nRobin Allison Davis is an Emmy Award-winning television journalist with a passion for storytelling and the global perspective. Currently based in Paris\, she brings her passion to life within the realms of international development and freelance journalism. Beyond her work in journalism\, Robin is poised to release her memoir\, Surviving Paris\, in 2025 (Amistad/HarperCollins). This deeply personal account promises to take readers on a transformative journey through her experience with breast cancer and life lessons learned in the City of Light.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nLast year\, the Metcalf Institute hosted a webinar with Jori Lewis. Watch it here.  \nFor a sample of Lewis’s writing on people and plants\, check out her essay on the splendor of Senegal’s baobab trees in Emergence Magazine.[/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 (Lewis and Davis 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 Slaves for Peanuts:A Story of Conquest\, Liberation\, and a Crop That Changed History 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][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/lewis23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231205T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231205T203000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Middle East Crisis: Journalists Look at What's Ahead
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Oct 7th has marked a paradigm shift in the long-standing conflict between Israel and Palestine. After the start of these unprecedented events\, journalists have been on the ground reporting\, attempting to capture the realities\, complexities\, and human toll of this ongoing crisis. What has been the role of news organizations\, social media\, and the spread of information during the conflict? And what lies ahead for the Middle East?  \nFour long-time watchers of the region discuss how we reached this point of crisis\, and how peace can ever be achieved. \nThis event is presented in partnership with the Overseas Press Club.  \nAbout the speakers: \nVivienne Walt is a Paris correspondent for TIME Magazine and Fortune Magazine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Wall Street Journal\, National Geographic\, BusinessWeek\, and more. She is governor of the Overseas Press Club of America. \nDalia Hatuqa is a multimedia journalist specializing in Israeli/Palestinian affairs\, and regional Middle East issues as they pertain to business and economics\, culture\, art and U.S. foreign policy. She also writes about religion\, minorities and immigration in the U.S. She is based in Ramallah\, West Bank. Learn more about her work at www.daliahatuqa.com. \nPierre Haski is a France Inter correspondent and commentator\, former deputy editor of Libération\, and a long-time journalist covering Israel and the region. He appears daily on Radio France on the emission Géopolitique where he speaks on international geopolitics.  \nPeter van Agtmael is a photographer and member of Magnum Photos. He has published three books including\, most recently\, Sorry for the War\, which covers the vast dissonance between the United States at war. He is recently back from the Middle East\, having been on assignment for The New Yorker.  \nMyriam Benraad is a political scientist\, specialized in the Middle East\, and Professor of International Relations at Schiller International University in Paris\, where she also heads the Department for International Relations and Diplomacy. Interested in the role of revenge in contemporary conflicts\, she is the author\, among recent publications on this subject\, of L’État islamique est-il défait ? (CNRS Éditions\, 2023) ; « Terrorisme et vengeance »\, Esprit (September 2023) ; and Terrorisme : les affres de la vengeance. Aux sources liminaires de la violence (Le Cavalier Bleu\, 2021).[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nThe last time a team of journalists convened at the American Library with the Overseas Press Club\, it was to discuss the mass protests across France following the fatal police shooting of Nahel M.\, a 17-year-old boy from Nanterre. Rewatch the conversation.[/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 (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_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/coveringcrisis23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231130T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231130T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20231030T150527Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231130T103844Z
UID:57604-1701372600-1701376200@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Behind the Lens with Frederick Wiseman
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Frederick Wiseman has directed and produced more than 40 films over the course of his illustrious career. His films offer profound insights into American institutions\, reveling in the human stories that make up our social systems. The titles of his films introduce their subjects with deceptive simplicity: they include High School (1968)\, Welfare (1975)\, Public Housing (1997)\, and City Hall (2020). In his latest film\, Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (2023)\, Wiseman brings his penetrating gaze to a three-star Michelin restaurant in rural France. \nWiseman’s documentaries are known for their subtle\, observational style. He does not deploy expository techniques like voiceovers or interviews\, but instead immerses himself in the institutions that he studies\, letting poignant stories unfold before his camera and editing the footage into rhythmic vignettes. Moderated by the writer and critic Carlos Valladares\, join us at the Library to hear this cinematic giant reflect upon his work and method. \nThis event will be followed by a cocktail reception. \nAbout the speakers: \nFrederick Wiseman is a film and theater director of 47 films\, primarily focusing on American institutions. His most recent film MENUS-PLAISIRS Les Troisgros will be released in Fall 2023. In 2019\, he was the honoree of the Library Lions Award from the New York Public Library and received the Pennebaker Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards. In 2018\, he was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University. In 2016\, he received an Honorary Award for lifetime achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Directors. He is a MacArthur Fellow\, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has won numerous awards\, including four Emmys. In recent years\, he directed The Belle of Amherst\, Beckett’s Happy Days in Paris and Vasily Grossman’s The Last Letter at the Comédie-Française in Paris and Theatre for a New Audience in New York. A ballet inspired by his first film\, TITICUT FOLLIES (1967)\, premiered at the New York University Skirball Theater in 2017. \nCarlos Valladares is a writer\, critic\, and film programmer from Los Angeles. He studied film at Stanford University and is currently completing his doctorate in History of Art and Film & Media Studies at Yale University. He has written for the San Francisco Chronicle\, Gagosian Quarterly\, Film Comment\, n+1\, Frieze\, the Cleveland Review of Books\, and the Criterion Collection.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nWiseman’s latest film\, Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros\, has been described as “a food lover’s dream” (The Hollywood Reporter). Watch the trailer for the documentary here. \nA 2020 profile of Wiseman in The New York Times provides a rounded introduction to the filmmaker’s work\, style\, and personality. Read it here.[/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 (Wiseman 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/wiseman23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231129T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231129T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20231011T144553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231103T122054Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Entre Nous: Possible Lives with Maria Stepanova
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]With the death of her aunt\, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs\, old postcards\, letters\, diaries\, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm\, steady hands\, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. Dipping into various forms – essay\, fiction\, memoir\, travelogue and historical documents – Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory. In Memory of Memory will serve as the point of departure for a broader conversation about writing autobiographically\, drawing on the author’s readings of Charlotte Salomon\, Fleur Jaeggy\, Gertrude Stein\, and others. \nAbout the speakers: \nMaria Stepanova is a Russian poet\, essayist and journalist. The recipient of numerous awards\, including the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding and the Prix du Meilleur livre étranger\, Stepanova is currently a fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for Ideas and the Imagination. \nDaniel Medin is an editor and professor of comparative literature at the American University of Paris. \nThis event is a collaboration with AUP’s Center for Writers and Translators.  \nThe Entre Nous series is co-organized by Columbia Global Centers | Paris\, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, and the American Library in Paris. \nImportant 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. \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_1699014050889{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 width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Copies of In Memory of Memory 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]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/stepanova23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231128T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231128T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20231012T135352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231114T131639Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) An Evening with Binkady-Emmanuel Hié
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion (DEI) practices—or workplace policies aimed at creating a supportive work environment for people of all backgrounds—were embraced in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter movement. Are DEI initiatives still being adopted three years later\, and are they being implemented in all workplaces? Is DEI an American issue? How does DEI impact initiatives in France for a more equitable future? This discussion takes a look at the past\, present\, and future of an equitable future in the arts. Binkady-Emmanuel Hié\, a writer\, consultant\, and activist who has worked as a fundraiser for the Paris Opera\, will share his thoughts on diversity and equity at the opera and in the arts.  \nA graduate of La Sorbonne\, Hié worked for several years as a fundraiser at the Paris Opera before launching NORME\, an agency that provides consulting services on DEI and management services. \nIn 2020\, following the BLM movement and during the global pandemic\, Hié\, along with five dancers co-wrote a manifesto titled  “De la question raciale à l’Opéra de Paris\,” which called for effective anti-discrimination policies at the Opera.  The company responded with a 66-page report on diversity at the Paris Opera. Hié discusses what changes were made after the report\, and delves into the history of Black figures in the arts from France. \nHié is the author of the book\, VISIBLE! Figures noires de l’Histoire de France\, which highlights Black figures in French History. The book will be published in October 2023. In a conversation with Apres Josephine’s Lyneka Little\, Hié shares his thoughts on race\, diversity\, and equity at a time when diversity & inclusion initiatives are under fire. \nThis event is in partnership with Après Josephine. \nAbout the speakers:  \nAfter graduating from La Sorbonne\, Binkady-Emmanuel Hié left his law career to work as a fundraiser at the Paris Opera. Following the BLM movement\, he co-wrote a manifesto that tackled the racial issues inside this institution and echoed worldwide. In 2021\, he founded NORME\, an agency that provides consulting services on diversity & inclusion\, management services for artists such as ballet dancer Guillaume Diop\, and develops creative projects. His first book\, VISIBLE !\, that highlights Black figures in French History\, will be published in October 2023. \nLyneka Little is the founder of Après Josephine. She is also the Audience Engagement Editor for the Prison Journalism Project\, an award-winning nonprofit organization that trains incarcerated writers. Previously\, she worked at the Wall Street Journal\, ImpactAlpha and ABC News. She has bylines in YoungEntrepreneur.com\, Jet Magazine\, People Magazine and various other publications. She holds a journalism degree from Howard University.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Hié and Little 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/hie23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231127T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231127T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20231012T133738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231114T125514Z
UID:57012-1701113400-1701117000@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Writing Politics with Giuliano da Empoli
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]How can fiction operate as a tool for political analysis? What fresh insights might we unlock by understanding geopolitical actors as characters? \nGiuliano da Empoli is an accomplished political essayist and social commentator. His recent debut novel\, Le Mage du Kremlin (translated into English as The Wizard of the Kremlin) quickly garnered international attention\, becoming a popular hit in France\, Italy\, and beyond. The novel centers on a fictionalized version of a real person: Vladislav Surkov\, a former adviser to Vladimir Putin. \nSpeaking about his decision to tell this story through fiction\, rather than a political essay\, da Empoli stated: “[A]t the heart of power\, and Russian power in particular\, there are elements of paradox\, a permanent contradiction\, an irrationality that only literature could transcribe.” (“[A]u cœur du pouvoir\, et du pouvoir russe en particulier\, il y a des éléments de paradoxe\, une contradiction permanente\, une irrationalité que seule la littérature pouvait transcrire.”) Join us to learn more about da Empoli’s novel\, his political research\, and his thoughts on the relationship between fact and fiction. \nThis program has been produced in partnership with Le Conversazioni\, an international festival that hosts stimulating conversations with writers\, philosophers\, artists\, and other distinguished guests. The author will appear in conversation with Antonio Monda\, founder of the festival.  \nAbout the speakers:  \nGiuliano da Empoli is an Italian and Swiss political scientist and writer. He teaches at Sciences Po Paris and has published fourteen books on subjects ranging from information overload (Overdose\, 2002) to national-populist spin doctors (Les ingénieurs du chaos\, 2019). He was Deputy Mayor for Culture in Florence (2009-2012) and a Senior Advisor to the Italian Prime Minister (2014-2016). His first novel\, Le Mage du Kremlin (Gallimard\, 2022) was awarded the Grand Prix de l’Académie française and is currently being translated in over 30 languages. \nAntonio Monda is the founder and Artistic Director of Le Conversazioni and has directed the Rome Film Festival between 2015 and 2021. He has curated exhibitions for the MoMA\, the Guggenheim and the Lincoln Center and is currently consulting for the Louvre. He teaches at NYU and is a columnist for RAI and a regular contributor for La Repubblica. The ninth chapter of his ten-volume saga about New York was recently published. His books have been translated into eleven languages.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nListen to Italian journalist Alain Elkann’s interview with Giuliano da Empoli. \nRead the New York Times’ reporting on the political influence of da Empoli’s novel here. \nLe Conversazioni is an international festival founded in 2006 by Antonio Monda and Davide Azzolini. Initially dedicated exclusively to literature\, it’s field of interest and reflections has spread to other disciplines. Watch this video on some of their recent guests.[/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 (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_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/daempoli23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231122T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231122T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20231012T132500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231120T151311Z
UID:57006-1700681400-1700685000@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Scamming the American Dream with Kirstin Chen and Grace Ly
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Kirstin Chen’s Counterfeit is a sly novel that defies expectations\, twisting and turning in ways that produce a sharp inversion of Asian and Asian American stereotypes. The novel follows Ava Wong\, a Chinese American lawyer and mother whose life is upended when she is pulled into an international scam to sell counterfeit luxury purses. As the novel moves along\, Chen peels back layers of irony and deception\, revealing the ways in which Ava’s story plays with biases – in order to subvert them.  \nIn this exclusive event\, Chen will reflect upon some of the core themes of her work\, including Asian American identity\, cultural belonging\, and feminism. Along the way\, we’ll learn about how Chen uses plot twists\, humor\, and other narrative techniques to achieve her incisive cultural commentary. The conversation will be moderated by writer and podcaster Grace Ly.  \nAbout the speakers: \nKirstin Chen is the author of three novels: Counterfeit\, Bury What We Cannot Take\, and Soy Sauce for Beginners. Her forthcoming book\, Tech Wives\, unmasks the myth of tech founders as solitary geniuses by contemplating the women who enable their success. \nGrace Ly is a writer and podcaster based in Paris\, France. She is the author of « Est-ce que tu as faim ? (Are you hungry?) » (2023)\, a children’s book illustrated by Mélody Ung and a novel “Jeune fille modèle” (Model Teenager) (2018). The webseries “Ça reste entre nous” (« Just between us ») focuses on the plurality of paths and choices of French East and South-East Asians along 6 episodes. Since 2018\, she co-hosts the podcast “Kiffe ta race” with journalist and director Rokhaya Diallo and explores how race affects everyday life in France.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nThe New York Times describes Counterfeit as “an entertaining\, luxurious read — but beneath its glitz and flash\, it is also a shrewd deconstruction of the American dream and the myth of the model minority.” Read the rest of the review here. \nKirstin Chen joined Lit Hub columnist Jane Ciabattari for a conversation about Counterfeit and its deconstruction of the “myth of the model minority.” Read their conversation here.[/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 (Chen 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 Counterfeit 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][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/chen23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231121T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231121T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20231012T131545Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T131914Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Le Conversazioni: An Evening with Pascal Bruckner
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Delve into the worldview of Pascal Bruckner\, a luminary who defies categorization. Bruckner is a prolific philosopher\, a critic of contemporary French culture\, a political commentator\, and an accomplished novelist. For nearly half a century\, his polemical philosophies have generated conversation and sparked debate. Topics of his writing have ranged from critiques of Western “guilt” to a meditation on the failures of modern marriage. \nThis program has been produced in partnership with Le Conversazioni\, an international festival that hosts stimulating conversations with writers\, philosophers\, artists\, and other distinguished guests. Bruckner will appear in conversation with Antonio Monda\, founder of the festival.  \nAbout the speakers:  \nPascal Bruckner gained widespread prominence with his 1981 novel Lunes de fiel (Evil Angels)\, which was later adapted into the 1992 film Bitter Moon.  He has since written more than a dozen books\, including The Temptation of Innocence: Living in the Age of Entitlement\, The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism\, and Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy. \nAntonio Monda is the founder and Artistic Director of Le Conversazioni and has directed the Rome Film Festival between 2015 and 2021. He has curated exhibitions for the MoMA\, the Guggenheim and the Lincoln Center and is currently consulting for the Louvre. He teaches at NYU and is a columnist for RAI and a regular contributor for La Repubblica. The ninth chapter of his ten-volume saga about New York was recently published. His books have been translated into eleven languages.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nIn 2010\, upon the release of his book The Tyranny of Guilt\, Pascal Bruckner participated in an extensive interview with British journalist Nick Cohen. Watch the interview here. \nLe Conversazioni is an international festival founded in 2006 by Antonio Monda and Davide Azzolini. Initially dedicated exclusively to literature\, it’s field of interest and reflections has spread to other disciplines. Watch this video on some of their recent guests.[/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 (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_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/bruckner23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231116T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231116T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20231012T122614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T161859Z
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SUMMARY:(In Person at the Center for Fiction) Stitches\, Secrets\, Shame: Jazmina Barrera\, Christina MacSweeney\, and Leanne Shapton present Cross-Stitch
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In person at the Center for Fiction (Brooklyn\, NY) and over Zoom\, join Jazmina Barrera\, Christina MacSweeney\, and Leanne Shapton for a conversation about travel\, art\, identity\, and translation. \nStitches\, secrets\, shame: Mexican writer Jazmina Barrera’s first novel\, Cross-Stitch\, translated into English by Christina MacSweeney\, stitches together a coming-of-age story with a feminist history and theory of embroidery. Mila\, Citlali\, and Dalia\, childhood friends now college-aged\, leave Mexico City for the London of The Clash and the Paris of Gustave Courbet. They anticipate the bookstores\, cafés\, and crushes\, but not the realization that they are steadily\, inevitably growing apart. \nThat feels like forever ago. Mila\, now a writer and a new mother\, has just published a book on needlecraft\, an art form long dismissed as “women’s work.” After hearing that her old friend Citlali has drowned\, Mila begins to reminisce about their years together for the first time since becoming a wife and mother. What has come of all the nights the three friends spent embroidering together in silence?  \nThe discussion will take place at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn\, New York. The conversation will be streamed on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAccess to this event requires registration through the Center for Fiction. Click on the button below to RSVP.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_btn title=”Register” 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%2Fcenterforfiction.org%2Fevent%2Fthe-international-library-and-celebrate-mexico-now-stitches-secrets-shame-with-jazmina-barrera-and-christina-macsweeney%2F|target:_blank”][vc_column_text]About the speakers: \n\nJazmina Barrera’s books have been published in nine countries and translated to English\, Dutch\, Portuguese\, Italian\, and French. Her book Cuerpo extraño (Foreign Body) was awarded the Latin American Voices prize by Literal Publishing\, and On Lighthouses was chosen for the Indie Next list by IndieBound. Linea Nigra was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize\, the National Book Critics Circle Autobiography Prize\, CANIEM’s Book of the Year award\, and the Amazon Primera Novela (First Novel) Award. She is editor and co-founder of Ediciones Antílope. She lives in Mexico City. \nChristina MacSweeney’s work has been recognized in a number of important awards\, and her translation of Valeria Luiselli’s The Story of My Teeth was awarded the Valle Inclán Translation Prize and also shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. Her most recent translations include works by Daniel Saldaña París\, Elvira Navarro\, Verónica Gerber Bicecci\, Julián Herbert\, and Karla Suárez. \n\nLeanne Shapton is a Canadian author\, artist\, illustrator\, art director and editor based in New York City. She is the author of Swimming Studies\, which won the National Book Critic’s Circle Award Award for autobiography in 2012; The Native Trees of Canada; Was She Pretty; Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris\, Including Books\, Street Fashion\, and Jewelry; Sunday Night Movies;  Women in Clothes co-edited with Sheila Heti and Heidi Julavits; and most recently Guestbook: Ghost Stories. Leanne published a children’s book in 2018 called Toys Talking. She has taught creative writing in the graduate degree programs at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College. Leanne was the art director of the New York Times op ed page\, is co-founder of the non-profit art bio publisher J&L Books\, and since 2021 has worked as the art editor at The New York Review of Books. \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][/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/cross-stitch23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231115T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231115T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20231016T074032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231107T163047Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) How to Criticize with Lauren Oyler
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message]In-person registration for this event is now closed. Please fill out the form below to register to attend online.[/vc_message][vc_column_text]The first step to becoming a better writer is becoming a better reader. But what makes a piece of writing—whether a book or blog post\, essay or cover letter—”good”? Who determines that criteria\, and does it even matter?  \nJoin Scholar of Note Lauren Oyler for a special 90-minute session devoted to criticism. Hailed “the pre-eminent and most widely read critic of her generation” by the Times\, Lauren is celebrated for her irreverence\, wit\, and willingness to dissent from popular opinion. Blending personal narrative with cutting analysis\, her writing seizes upon micro- and macro-phenomena\, from semicolons to the moralization of art\, in order to capture the essence of life and culture in the twenty-first century.  \nAt the Library\, after a preliminary discussion of her work and an audience Q&A\, Lauren will engage participants in a criticism workshop. We’ll talk about our favorite books\, our least favorite books\, and why we love what we love and hate what we hate. Using texts from Renata Adler\, Patricia Lockwood\, Susan Sontag\, and others\, we’ll discuss how to respond critically and creatively to others’ work\, and learn reading techniques that will help you become a more attentive\, imaginative\, and occasionally even harsh reader and writer. Book recommendations are included. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more:  \nLauren’s forthcoming book No Judgment\, scheduled for release in March 2024\, presents a series of essays on “gossip\, Goodreads\, Berlin\, autofiction\, vulnerability\, anxiety\, spoilers\, and revenge.” Read about it here.  \nLauren is famous for her honest\, and intelligent essays on life and culture\, from astrology to the digital age. No topic is off limits for her. Read her take-down of celebrity worship\, cruise lines the wellness industry in a recent article. \nAbout the speaker: \nLauren Oyler is a critic and novelist based in Berlin. Her writing appears regularly in the New Yorker\, the New York Times\, Harper’s\, the London Review of Books\, and many other publications. Her first novel\, Fake Accounts\, was published in 2021 and shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction. A collection of her essays\, all previously unpublished\, will appear in 2024. She is a 2023—24 Scholar of Note at the American Library in Paris.  \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 (Oyler 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. Participation in the workshop will be limited to in-person attendees only. \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_message]In-person registration for this event is now closed. Please fill out the form below to register to attend online.[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/oyler23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231114T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231114T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20231006T120507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231020T145721Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) From Cliques to Politics with Simon Kuper and Ian Leslie
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]How did a tight-knit circle of Oxford-educated elites come to dominate the British political landscape? And what does Oxford’s outsized role in churning out Conservative leaders reveal about the health of the UK’s political system? \nIn his book Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the U.K.\, Simon Kuper traces some of the biggest names in the British Conservative Party – including Boris Johnson\, David Cameron\, Jacob Rees-Mogg\, and more – to their formative years at Oxford. Kuper pulls back the curtain on the debating tactics and cultivated affectations\, the friendships and the rivalries\, that swept through Oxford in the second half of the twentieth century\, and that continue to exert a powerful grip on British politics. Join us to hear Kuper engage in conversation with journalist and 2018—19 American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow Ian Leslie about the state of British politics today. \nAbout the Speakers: \nSimon Kuper has lived in several countries around the world\, including Uganda\, the Netherlands\, the UK\, the US\, and France. His journalistic specialisms are equally wide-ranging: he writes on topics from politics to urban policy to soccer. Kuper publishes a popular weekly column in FT Magazine. His latest book\, Chums\, was a Sunday Times bestseller\, and his 1994 book Soccer Against the Enemy won the William Hill prize for Sports Book of the Year. \nIan Leslie is a journalist\, writer\, and speaker who specializes in human behavior. He was a Visiting Fellow at the American Library in Paris in 2019. His books include Conflicted: Why Arguments Are Tearing Us Apart and How They Can Bring Us Together and Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian\, The Economist\, The New Statesman\, and the Financial Times. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nIn his book Soccernomics\, Simon Kuper draws from business and economic concepts to shed light on the world’s most popular sport. Watch him in an interview about the economics behind the 2022 World Cup. \nThe New York Times printed a profile of Simon Kuper and his latest book\, Chums\, in 2022. Read it here. \nIan Leslie co-hosted a podcast series called Polarised\, which explored the divisive nature of contemporary politics and culture. You can find all of the Polarised episodes here.[/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 (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_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Copies of Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the U.K 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][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/kuperleslie23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231108T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231108T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20231010T133851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231026T143404Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Translating Words and Worlds with Daniel Levin Becker
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We live in an age of machine-enabled translation\, with programs like Google Translate and ChatGPT always available at our fingertips. What does machine translation get right about language – and what does it miss? What makes for a good translation? How does the act of translating literature help us to think about the pleasures and the idiosyncrasies of words? \nIf anyone can help us to reach new depths of understanding about language and translation\, it’s Daniel Levin Becker. At the age of 24\, Levin Becker became the youngest member of Oulipo\, a group of writers and mathematicians who experiment with the mechanics of language. His recent translation of Laurent Mauvignier’s nail-biting thriller The Birthday Party has been met with widespread praise. As Anthony Cummins reported in The Guardian\, Levin Becker’s “endlessly segmented sentences\, which snap and crunch with his convincingly apt choices\, surely gave his ingenuity a workout.” \nJoin us at the Library to hear Levin Becker’s stimulating perspectives on wordplay\, style\, translation\, and more. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nDaniel Levin Becker is a writer\, translator\, and music critic. He is the author of Many Subtle Channels and What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language and the translator of several works\, including Laurent Mauvignier’s The Birthday Party. His forthcoming translations include Éric Chevillard’s Museum Visits and Jakuta Alikavazovic’s Like a Sky Inside. He has been a member of the Oulipo since 2009.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nDaniel Levin Becker wrote a three-part “translation diary” that details his process for translating The Birthday Party. He reflects on his role as translator: “I’m responsible not only for what the words mean but also for the spaces between them\, for the way they fit together or\, as the case may be\, don’t — and\, if not\, why not.” For more insights into Levin Becker’s process\, check out Part I\, Part II\, and Part III of his translation diary. \nThe American Library had the pleasure of hosting Daniel Levin Becker last year for a fascinating conversation about his book What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language. You can watch that program here.[/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 (Levin Becker 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 Birthday Party 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][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/levinbecker23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231107T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231107T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20231006T113457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231006T115842Z
UID:56709-1699385400-1699389000@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Fact and Fiction: A Journalism Masterclass with Madeleine Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Everyone reads the news\, but how do journalists actually determine what’s new and true? A piece of news can quickly feel like it’s always been circulating. But the gap between hearsay and truth requires more than a bit of digging. In this workshop\, we’ll be exploring how reporting happens\, focusing on demystifying the process from the question through publication. How do journalists follow their instincts? How do they weigh fact and fiction? How do they know when to publish? Ideal for aspiring journalists and avid news readers alike\, this masterclass will reveal the hidden secrets of the trade\, helping us all become better readers\, thinkers\, and citizens. \nIn partnership with the Dial. \nAbout the speaker:  \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]Learn more: \nMadeleine recently appeared in conversation with the editors-in-chief of Forbidden Stories\, an organization dedicated to publishing the stories journalists were silenced for writing. Rewatch the conversation.  \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 most recent issue\, whose theme is ‘weapons.’ [/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 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/schwartz23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231031T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231031T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20230919T175604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T085056Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Entre Nous: Reforming the Female Form with Lauren Elkin
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The female body\, taken art historically\, is an invention of the male gaze. Forged and fictionalized by male hands\, how can women offer a new vision of themselves? With author and critic Lauren Elkin\, learn how feminist artists have used art as a tool of resistance\, inserting themselves into the very artistic lineage responsible for their oppression. In new work Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art\, Elkin proposes an alternative narrative of art history\, painting a vivid portrait of art as a celebration of beauty\, excess\, sentimentality\, touch\, and the politics of the body. She will appear in conversation with art historian and visual culture expert Alice Blackhurst.  \nAbout the speakers: \nLauren Elkin is the author most recently of Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art\, which redefines monstrosity as a key element in feminist aesthetics; it’s “destined to become a new classic\,” according to Chris Kraus. Her essays on art\, literature\, and culture have appeared in the London Review of Books\, the New York Times\, Granta\, Harper’s\, Le Monde\, and Frieze\, among others. She is also an award-winning translator\, most recently of Simone de Beauvoir’s previously unpublished novel The Inseparables After twenty years in Paris\, she is now based in London. \nAlice Blackhurst is a writer\, academic\, and the author of Luxury\, Sensation and the Moving Image recently shortlisted for the 2023 R Gapper Best Book in French Studies Prize. Her writing has appeared more widely in The Observer New Review\, The Paris Review\, the TLS\, Jacobin and The New Left Review Sidecar.   \nLearn more: \nRead Lauren Elkin’s recent article in Art Review on her reflections on art\, writing\, and staging a protest at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. \nAlice Blackhurst interviewed Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux on her long career\, writing process\, and activism. Read in the Guardian.  \n  \nThe Entre Nous series is co-organized by Columbia Global Centers | Paris\, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, and the American Library in Paris. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Elkin and Blackhurst 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_1666352729001{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]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/elkin23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231025T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231025T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20230919T154831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231003T095319Z
UID:55970-1698262200-1698265800@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) A New History of American Literature in France with Laurence Cossu-Beaumont
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Paris at the start of the 20th century was the center of transatlantic literary exchange. From Hemingway\, to Stein\, to Baldwin\, the city represented a refuge for American voices seeking a welcoming home to literary exploration.  \nWho introduced the great American authors to French readers between the wars? Who worked to disseminate French literature in the United States? Essential brokers to this phenomenon were William and Jenny Bradley\, who founded the first literary agency in France and worked for Clemenceau\, Cendrars\, Colette\, Gide\, Malraux\, Sartre and Camus\, as well as Dreiser\, Hemingway\, Faulkner\, Stein\, Dos Passos\, Chandler\, and Baldwin. The Bradleys were treasured members of the American Library in Paris community: members\, donors\, and contributors to Ex-Libris. One hundred years later\, we are delighted to re-introduce the Bradleys to the American Library\, and celebrate their essential role in the construction of the  transatlantic Parisian literary landscape.  \nSpanning literary salons of the Île Saint-Louis and the holiday resorts of the Côte d’Azur\, and drawing on previously unpublished archives\, Laurence Cossu-Beaumont’s William et Jenny Bradley invites us to discover the untold story of this Franco-American couple\, and sheds new light on literary history from the 1920s to the immediate post-war period. \nAbout the speakers:  \nLaurence Cossu-Beaumont is Professor of American Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University. Her research focuses on African American Studies and Book History with a special interest for transatlantic cultural exchanges in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Her latest book\, Deux agents littéraires dans le siècle américain: William et Jenny Bradley\, passeurs culturels transatlantiques\, was published by ENS Editions in 2023.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nThe records of the William A. Bradley Literary Agency document a monumental period in modernist literature. Discover the agency records here.  \nWilliam and Jenny famously championed the publication of Gertude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Stein was a member and champion of the American Library in Paris. Learn more about the history of the American Library in Paris through our history tours.  \nSylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company introduced William and Jenny to an Irish author named James Joyce. Jenny became a friend of Joyce\, loaning him a bed and table–the table upon which he completed Ulysses. The American Library in Paris recently teamed up with Shakespeare and Company to create a podcast celebrating the centenary of Ulysses. Discover Bloomcast here.  [/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 (the author 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/cossubeaumont23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231024T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231024T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20230919T152807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231019T081136Z
UID:55948-1698175800-1698179400@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Diaspora Unfurled with Fiona Sze-Lorrain
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Following up on her many successes as a poet\, translator\, editor\, and musician\, Fiona Sze-Lorrain has released her debut novel\, Dear Chrysanthemums. The novel takes the form of subtly interconnected stories that span across decades and continents. Each story follows a different woman or group of women as they grapple with generational trauma and memory. Taken together\, these women’s stories converge to offer a mosaic of Chinese history and diasporic experience from the mid-twentieth-century through to the recent past. Join Sze-Lorrain as she takes us through the many eras and movements of modern Chinese history\, guiding us to a position of informed reflection upon the prismatic present. The conversation will be moderated by Biswamit Dwibedy.  \nAbout the speakers: \nFiona Sze-Lorrain writes and translates in English\, French\, and Chinese. She is the author of a new “novel in stories\,” Dear Chrysanthemums (Scribner\, 2023); five poetry collections\, most recently Rain in Plural (Princeton\, 2020) and The Ruined Elegance (Princeton\, 2016); and fifteen books of translation. A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Best Translated Book Award\, she was also a 2019–20 Abigail R. Cohen Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination and the inaugural writer-in-residence at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires. She lives in Paris and has performed worldwide as a zheng harpist. \nBiswamit Dwibedy was born in Odisha\, India\, and has an MFA from Bard College\, New York. He is currently an assistant professor at the American University of Paris. He is the author of six collections of poetry\, published in India and the United States. In 2012\, he edited a dossier of Indian poetry in translation from seven different regional languages for Aufgabe\, a literary journal published by Litmus Press\, New York\, and in 2015\, he was a judge for the Best Translated Book Award conferred by Open Letter Books at the University of Rochester. He is also the founder and editor of Anew Print\, a small press that publishes limited-edition chapbooks from writers in India and abroad. A memoir\, Hundred Greatest Love Songs\, is forthcoming from Penguin Random House in 2024.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nDear Chrysanthemums has been longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. \nRead a review of Dear Chrysanthemums in the Asian Review of Books. \nListen to Sze-Lorrain as she reads from her poetic collections and translations.  To hear her performance of a classical piece called “High Moon” (月儿高) on the guzheng harp\, go to 31:20.[/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 (the author 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 width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Copies of Dear Chrysanthemums 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][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/szelorrain23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231019T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231019T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20230914T145751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231019T084919Z
UID:55794-1697743800-1697747400@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Thursday 19: The Attention Economy with Graham Burnett and Justin Smith
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As the speed of the world increases\, technology develops\, and companies hone their abilities to steal our time and our gaze\, do we still own our attention? In In Search of the Third Bird\, scholars D. Graham Burnett and Justin Smith transform their attention anxiety into a historical study of literary\, psychological\, philosophical\, and artistic approaches to attention. From attention to the world\, each other\, and ourselves\, they imagine a new artistic order capable of re-awakening viewers to their own innate desire to look at length. Join them as they propose a strategy of resistance toward the commodification of our curiosity\, celebrating the miraculous possibility of awe. The conversation will be moderated by Russell Williams.  \nAbout the speakers: \nJustin Smith is a historian and philosopher of science. A professor at the University of Paris\, Smith is the author of Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason (2019)\, The Philosopher: A History in Six Types (2016)\, and Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life (2011). \nBorn in France\, based in New York City\, D. Graham Burnett trained in the History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University and teaches at Princeton. He works at the intersection of historical inquiry and artistic practice\, and his writing and collaborations focus on experimental/experiential approaches to textual material\, pedagogical modes\, and hermeneutic activities traditionally associated with the research humanities. Recent projects include THE THIRD\, MEANING at the Frye Art Museum (Seattle\, WA). \nRussell Williams teaches in the Comparative Literature and English department at the American University of Paris. He is also French editor at the Times Literary Supplement and is currently writing a book called French Weird.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nIn an interview with the Princeton Humanities Council about the book\, Burnett stated that the problem of attention is “an issue we saw as charged with immense contemporary importance in the context of the emerging ‘attention economy.’”  Read the full interview here.  \nBurnett worked with Yale art historians to develop an accompanying art installation\, THE THIRD\, MEANING at the Frye Art Museum. This exhibit “circles the power and complexity” of the human faculty of attention: “our ability to give attention\, and to receive what it gives; the power to land in front of anything\, and wait upon everything.” Learn more here. \nIn Search of the Third Bird has inspired attention activism. Learn about the Friends of Attention and read their Twelve Theses on Attention\, published in an effort to reclaim our own ability to notice the world around us. [/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 (the authors 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/burnett-smith23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231018T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231018T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20230917T203113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231003T152659Z
UID:55890-1697657400-1697661000@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The New French Wine with Jon Bonné and Lindsey Tramuta
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Over the past 20 years\, Jon Bonné has become one of the most influential and widely-read American voices on wine and food. Now\, after eight years of research\, eight hundred producers\, and seven thousand different wines\, Bonné’s The New French Wine is a comprehensive\, thorough\, and evocative exploration of the global center of wine production. As France faces social upheaval and economic transformation\, the wine industry is constantly subject to transformation\, from identity crisis across traditional appellations to the natural wine revolution. Contemporary French wine\, like contemporary French culture\, both remains in dialogue with history and constantly breaks with it. With expertise and skill\, Bonné traces these cultural shifts\, their political and economic causes\, and their consequences in the world of wine. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nIn the New York Times\, wine critic Eric Asimov praises Bonné for his use of “wine as a vehicle for cultural history.” Read the full review.  \nJon Bonné appeared on David Lebovitz’ podcast to discuss the wine of the 21st century. Listen here.  \nJon is a seasoned writer on wine and culture. He has also written on ‘wine rules\,’ from rosé year-round to food pairings\, and how to break them. Learn more here.  \nAbout the speakers:  \nJon Bonné is the author of The New California Wine\, which was honored as the Roederer International Wine Book of the Year\, and The New Wine Rules\, which has sold more than 50\,000 copies and is currently also published in several international editions. His latest book\, The New French Wine\, was released in March 2023.  He is Managing Editor of RESY\, coordinating its editorial coverage\, with staff\, editors\, and contributors in more than 20 cities worldwide.His overall journalism career spans three decades\, including pioneering work in digital journalism\, beginning in 1996\, for such organizations as NBC News\, Court TV and News Corporation. \nLindsey Tramuta is Paris-based journalist and author. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times\, Condé Nast Traveler\, Eater\, Bloomberg\, and many others. She has published two books: The New Paris: the People\, Places\, and Ideas Fueling a Movement (2017) and The New Parisienne: the Women and Ideas Shaping Paris (2020) and has hosted the popular The New Paris Podcast since 2017. Her work is focused on breaking down stereotypes\, documenting the evolution of Paris\, and introducing readers to the people and ideas shaping the capital’s future.[/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 (Bonné and Tramuta 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 New French Wine 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][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/bonne23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231017T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231017T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20230917T202120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T141148Z
UID:55886-1697571000-1697574600@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) John Ashbery: a Life of Poetry
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]John Ashbery\, one of the most renowned American poets of all time\, was celebrated for his avant-garde and often surrealistic approach to poetry. Who was the master behind the pen\, and how did his life influence his work? Through interviews with Ashbery\, study of his diaries\, and discovery of early\, unpublished poetry\, biographer Karin Roffman traces the development of the poet across inner turmoils\, from sexuality and family strife\, to triumphs such as a prize bestowed by W.H. Auden. How did the shy\, sensitive boy depicted in Roffman’s writing become a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet? If\, as Ashbery writes\, “Our question of a place of origin hangs / Like smoke”\, Roffman has given us the tools to ask the smoky question. She will speak at the Library about Ashbery’s remarkable and singular voice\, and the relationship between poetry and life. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nAshbery’s poem “Some Trees” was selected by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Award of 1956. Read it here.  \nMusic was central to Ashbery’s artistic vision: poetry\, for him\, must strive to reach “the condition of music.” Listen to a playlist crafted by Roffman showcasing selected pieces from his music library.  \nAbout the speaker: \nKarin Roffman\, author of The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2017) which was named one of the 100 notable books for 2017 by the New York Times\, is currently completing a full biography. In 2019\, in collaboration with the Yale University Digital Humanities Lab\, she released John Ashbery’s Nest\, a virtual tour and website on John Ashbery’s Hudson house. Her recent essay\, “John Ashbery’s Music Library: A Playlist”; appeared in Evergreen Review (March 2021). Her essays on 20 th and 21 st century writers and painters have appeared in Raritan\, Modern Fiction Studies\, Artforum\, Rain Taxi\, Yale Review\, Chicago Review\, Wallace Stevens Journal and others. Her first book\, From the Modernist Annex\, won the Elizabeth Agee American Literature prize. She is currently senior lecturer of Humanities and Associate Director of Public Humanities at Yale University.[/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 (Roffman 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/ashbery23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231011T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231011T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20230917T172507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231004T145226Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Voices of America: Emily Dickinson and Modernism
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In an evening celebrating American art and Franco-American relations\, we are delighted to present Poésies d’Emily Dickinson\, published by Éditions Diane de Selliers.  \nSince 1992\, Éditions Diane de Selliers has been committed to building bridges between words and images to produce books that stand the test of time.  \nOnce a year\, they publish a major literary or poetic text alongside monumental pieces of art history\, staging a conversation across the works and opening a dialogue between the written word and the visual world.  \nThis year\, they have elected to open their repertoire to American literature\, and share with their readers the captivating American modernist paintings of the early 20th century. Touched by the  sensitivity\, spirituality\, modernity and universality that run through her work\, this esteemed publishing house has chosen Emily Dickinson as its first American voice.  \nAccompanied by Anna Hiddleston\, curator at the Centre Pompidou and a specialist in American painting\, Diane de Selliers and her team have combined a selection of Emily Dickinson’s poems with paintings by Edward Hopper\, Georgia O’Keeffe\, Charles Sheeler\, Arthur Dove\, Agnes Pelton\, Marguerite Zorach\, Helen Torr and some sixty other artists from the first half of the twentieth century. New depths to Emily Dickinson’s work is unveiled in a selection of 160 poems\, presented in their original version and translated into French by Françoise Delphy. Her powerful\, incisive and resolutely modern language\, at odds with the literature of her time\, resonates perfectly with American modernism. In sum\, the book is a voyage to the heart of the American continent. \nFrançoise Delphy\, Anna Hiddleston and Diane de Selliers will speak at the Library\, offering their insight into American art and poetry.  \nCopies of Poésies d’Emily Dickinson will be available for purchase.  \nThis conversation will be followed by a champagne reception. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more about Éditions Diane de Selliers:  \nIn the words of founder Diane de Selliers\, their mission is to “image bridges between word and image.” Read about their history.  \nFlip through a sneak peak of Poesies d’Emily Dickinson.  \nPrevious titles from Editions Diane de Selliers include the Epic of Gilgamesh\, illustrated by Mesopatamian art\, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses\, illustrated by Baroque painting. Discover their collection. [/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 (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. \nThis event is made possible through the generous support of the support of The Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture.[/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/emilydickinson23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231005T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231005T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20230914T163152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231003T165746Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) W. David Marx and B.J. Novak: Decoding Culture
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message]In-person registration for this event is now closed. Please fill out the form below to register to attend online.[/vc_message][vc_column_text]Evenings with an Author at the American Library in Paris is thrilled to announce our marquee series spotlighting exceptional thinkers of our age. Join inaugural speakers W. David Marx and B.J. Novak as they confront the mystery of culture.  \nSince the dawn of human society\, writers have argued about what culture is. Where does it come from\, and who makes it? Is it dictated by behaviors\, or does it determine them?  \nWe are delighted to host culture expert and author of Status and Culture and Ametora W. David Marx\, in conversation with author and actor B.J. Novak\, as they offer a fresh perspective on these questions. All social animals use hierarchy to relate to one another\, yet humans have developed a particularly complex system for signaling their rank: appearance\, possessions\, and behaviors\, both conscious and ingrained\, from the price of your shoes to the way you hold your fork\, reveal your position and background to those around you. Marx and Novak will explore how these everyday choices are informed by hidden economic\, social\, and educational influences\, considering the different ways that demand and distinction emerge. Join them as they break down fashion\, fads\, fame\, and the enduring mystery of taste\, revealing to us why we behave the way we do\, and how we learn to want what we want. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more:  \nAmetora is a Japanese term meaning “American Traditional.” Learn more about the fascinating overlap between American and Japanese fashion and read an excerpt of Ametora in the New Yorker. \nListen to Marx discuss Status and Culture on NPR. \nBJ Novak\, well known for his work on NBC’s Emmy Award-winning comedy series The Office\, is the author of two books. Discover his writing.  \nAbout the speakers:  \nDavid Marx is the author of two books: a cultural history of Japanese menswear\, Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style\, and a general theory of cultural change\, Status and Culture. His writing has also appeared in VOX\, Popeye\, and the New Republic as well as on NewYorker.com. He works as an Outside Director for Otsumo Co.\, Ltd\, the company behind the brand Human Made. He was born in the United States but has lived in Tokyo\, Japan for the last twenty years. Wdavidmarx.com \nB.J. Novak is a writer and actor known for his work on the Emmy Award-winning comedy The Office\, as well as films including Inglorious Basterds and Vengeance. He is the best selling author of One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories and The Book With No Pictures.[/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 (Marx and Novak 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 fill out the form below to register to attend online.[/vc_message][vc_custom_heading text=”Register for this event” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Copies of Status and Culture 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_1694620167317{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/marx-novak23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231003T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231003T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) After the Protests: Talking about Race in France
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]This past summer\, France saw mass protests following the fatal police shooting of Nahel M.\, a 17-year-old boy from Nanterre. This movement voiced an untreated wound at the heart of French society: the question of race.  \nIn partnership with the Overseas Press Club\, this panel brings together a diverse\, international group of journalists to explore the complex landscape of race in France\, the US\, and UK. From the very foundation of language to the bureaucratic systems in place\, these experts will examine how race is both acknowledged and erased in France\, dissecting the clash between the values of republicanism and identity-based politics. We will ask: how does France’s historical commitment to universalism intersect with the complexities of addressing racial disparities? What is the status of racial justice in France\, the US\, and the UK? Each country bears a different social and historical relationship to racialization. How does this translate to the current political reality? Transcending borders\, this conversation will foster a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities in discussing race in a country which\, deeply committed to equality\, often downplays or denies its existence. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nRoger Cohen\, Paris Bureau Chief for the New York Times\, covered the funeral for Nahel M. He writes: “There was consensus in the crowd: If Nahel M.\, a French citizen of Algerian and Moroccan descent\, had been white rather than an Arab\, he would not have been killed.” Read the full article.  \nIn Washington Post op-ed “Police brutality isn’t just an American problem. It’s France’s\, too”\, Rokhaya Diallo remembers other victims of police violence\, arguing that “institutional violence against minorities has been a hallmark of French life ever since the colonial era.”  \nAngelique Chrisafis spoke on the Guardian’s podcast about a summer of “grief and fury” in France. Listen here.  \nThe last time a team of journalists convened at the American Library with the Overseas Press Club\, it was to discuss Macron’s controversial pension reform and the social unrest that followed. Rewatch the conversation.  \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. \nAngelique Chrisafis is the Guardian’s Paris correspondent. She has reported from France since 2006. She reported in-depth on the terrorist attacks that struck France from 2015 and has also written about social issues and politics\, including the rise of the far-right vote. She has reported across Europe including in Ireland\, Spain\, Greece and Cyprus. \nGuillaume Debré is Deputy head of news for TF1 Television\, overseeing coverage in the evening newscast at France’s biggest private network\, and author of several books on U.S. politics and France. See his LinkedIn profile. \nVivienne Walt is a Paris correspondent for TIME Magazine and Fortune Magazine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Wall Street Journal\, National Geographic\, BusinessWeek\, and more. She is governor of the Overseas Press Club of America. \nMame-Fatou Niang\, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies Carnegie Mellon University\, author of “Universalisme” said on France 24: “Anybody who wants to critique\, to highlight the weaknesses of the system\, is now accused of being separatist. Because we’re in a country that doesn’t talk about race\, about color\, we’re in this weird rhetorical void.” Watch the interview. \nRokhaya Diallo is a French journalist\, author\, and filmmaker known for her activism in the fields of racial and sexual equality. Her work has appeared in the Guardian\, Al Jazeera\, the Washington Post\, Slate\, Libération\, and ELLE Magazine among others. She has published 10 acclaimed books\, including a graphic novel\, and has produced five activist documentaries.[/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 (Diallo\, Cohen\, Chrisafis\, and Walt 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_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/protests23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230927T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230927T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20230828T105725Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230926T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230926T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
CREATED:20230828T103420Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230920T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230920T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T153551
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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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