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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
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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
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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:20260502T171441
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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:20260502T171441
CREATED:20231010T133851Z
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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:20260502T171441
CREATED:20231006T113457Z
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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:20260502T171441
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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:20260502T171441
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:20260502T171441
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:20260502T171441
CREATED:20230914T145751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231019T084919Z
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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:20260502T171441
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:20260502T171441
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:20260502T171441
CREATED:20230917T172507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231004T145226Z
UID:55877-1697052600-1697058000@americanlibraryinparis.org
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:20260502T171441
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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:20260502T171441
CREATED:20230906T160217Z
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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:20260502T171441
CREATED:20230828T105725Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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:20260502T171441
CREATED:20230828T103420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230828T112042Z
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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:20260502T171441
CREATED:20230830T132323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230830T133112Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230919T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230919T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T171441
CREATED:20230828T094926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230828T115709Z
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SUMMARY:(Online) Henry Hoke and Melissa Broder on Animal Desire
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In Open Throat\, Henry Hoke’s “queer and dangerously hungry” protagonist confronts a central question: “Do they want to eat a person\, or become one?” Inspired by a real-life Hollywood Hills puma\, Hoke uses an animal perspective to break into human language\, highlighting cruelties and contradictions in the anthropocene world. Our protagonist is a naive and probing witness to all that L.A. has to offer: sex\, crime\, cars\, climate change\, economic disparity\, digital content creation\, New York transplants\, and more. A delicious contribution to contemporary fiction\, the book defamiliarizes the human world\, while simultaneously revealing hidden depths to hunger\, desire\, grief\, and care.  \nHoke will appear in conversation with celebrated author of Milk Fed and The Pisces\, Melissa Broder. \nAbout the speakers:  \nHenry Hoke is an editor at the Offing and the author of five books\, most recently the novel Open Throat and the memoir Sticker.   \nMelissa Broder is the author of the novels Milk Fed\, The Pisces\, and the forthcoming Death Valley\, the essay collection So Sad Today\, and five poetry collections\, including Superdoom. Her books are translated in ten languages. She has written for the New York Times\, Elle.com\, and New York magazine’s the Cut. She lives in Los Angeles.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more about Open Throat: \nEileen Myles writes of its protagonist that “the beauty and tragedy of all of nature is in this character”\, and that “Open Throat is a fierce writing act. Henry Hoke makes it true.” It has been praised by Chris Kraus as “completely awakening.” \nAuthor Marie-Helene Bertino described the book in the New York Times Book Review as “an act of ravishing and outlandish imagination\,” and concludes: “At its best\, fiction can make the familiar strange in order to bring readers and our world into scintillating focus. Open Throat is what fiction should be.” Read the review here.  \nHoke’s protagonist is inspired by real-life puma P-22. Learn about LA’s most iconic feline here.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: This event is online. Attendees will receive a Zoom link upon registration. Participants will be able to pose questions through the Zoom chat function. \nThis event requires advance registration.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/hoke23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230914T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230914T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T171441
CREATED:20230828T093738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230912T134345Z
UID:54506-1694719800-1694723400@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) “a place that lives in me”: Writing Caribbean Identity
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What does it mean to be Caribbean in the 21st century? Is it imprinted in the landscape\, the language\, or is it perhaps\, in the words of Mireille Jean-Gilles (tr. Eric Fishman)\, “a place that lives in me\, and that I unfurl\, like a nomad his tent\, in each place where I live”? In Elektrik: Caribbean Writing\, eight female writers from Haiti\, Martinique\, and Guadeloupe explore the beauty\, pain\, and complexity wrapped up in their identity. Writers Marie-Célie Agnant and Gaël Octavia join poet and translator Danielle Legros Georges to read from the collection and discuss language as defiance.  \nThis event will be hybrid. While Gaël Octavia will appear in-person at the Library\, Marie-Célie Agnant and Danielle Legros Georges will remotely join from Quebec and Boston\, respectively. A live remote viewing will be held at the Brooklyn Center for Fiction and the San Francisco Center for the Art of Translation. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]About the speakers: \nGaël Octavia writes novels\, poetry\, theater\, and short stories. She also paints and makes short films. Inspired by Martinican society\, her texts explore themes of family\, identity\, and the female condition. Her plays have been read and performed in France\, the United States\, the Caribbean\, Reunion Island\, and Africa. Her first novel\, La fin de Mame Baby\, received the Wepler Jury Special Mention Award in 2017. \nDanielle Legros Georges is the author of The Dear Remote Nearness of You and translator of Island Heart\, a collection of poems written by Haitian-French writer Ida Faubert\, among other titles. Her poems have been widely published\, anthologized\, and included in international artistic commissions and collaborations. In 2014\, Legros Georges was named Boston’s poet laureate. She is a professor of creative writing at Lesley University. \nMarie-Célie Agnant was born in 1953 in Port-au-Prince\, Haiti\, and has lived in Canada since 1970. Her writings include four novels\, two short story collections\, and three volumes of poetry. She has also worked as a storyteller\, an interpreter\, a teacher\, and an environmental activist. She received the Prix Alain- Grandbois of the Academie des Lettres du Quebec in 2017 for her most recent collection of poetry\, Femmes de terres brûlées (2016). In 2023\, she was appointed Canada’s 10th Parliamentary Poet Laureate. \n\nMyriam J. A. Chancy\, Ph.D. is a Guggenheim Fellow and Hartley Burr Alexander Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College. She is the author of What Storm\, What Thunder\, a novel on the 2010 Haiti earthquake (Harper Collins Canada/Tin House USA 2021)\, awarded a 2022 American Book Award (ABA) from the Before Columbus Foundation\, and named a “Best Book of 2021\,” by NPR\, Kirkus\, the Chicago Public Library\, the New York Public Library\, Library Journal\, the Boston Globe\, Amazon Books & Canada’s Globe & Mail. Her forthcoming books include Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters (University of Texas Press\, 2023)\, Spirit of Haiti (20th anniversary edition\, SUNY Press\, 2023) and Village Weavers: A Novel (Tin House 2024). Her recent writings have appeared in Whetstone.com Journal\, Electric Literature\, and Guernica. \n\nAbout the International Library series:  \nThis conversation is part of the International Library\, a new series launched in collaboration with the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn and the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco which will offer conversations across time\, place\, and language.  \nThe International Library celebrates the live diffusion of in-person conversations in the hope of connecting new audiences across land and sea for a collective\, intercultural experience. These conversations will broach deeper questions about writing and translation as we learn to think critically about how stories are told\, investigating the points of view\, the timing of the translations\, and the intended or assumed audiences as well as inspiration\, philosophy\, and craft.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While Octavia will appear in-person in the Reading Room\, other participants will appear over Zoom. The Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”54509″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/elektrik23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230913T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230913T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T171441
CREATED:20230828T091610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230908T142047Z
UID:54502-1694633400-1694637000@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Picking Evil Flowers with Gunnhild Øyehaug and Daniel Medin
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In partnership with the Center for Writers and Translators\, Shakespeare and Company\, and NORLA\, we are delighted to present Norway’s most celebrated contemporary writer\, Gunnhild Øyehaug\, in conversation on her latest collection of short fiction Evil Flowers.  \nAcross its 25 stories\, Øyehaug renovates the form again and again\, confirming Lydia Davis’s observation that each of her fictions is “a formal surprise\, smart and droll.” Inspired by Charles Baudelaire\, the groundbreaking book features an ornithologist whose brain slips into the toilet bowl\, medicinal leeches that ingest information from fiberoptic cables\, and an elderly woman who is trapped with a ravenous lion. Join us as we step inside Øyehaug’s wonderfully imaginative mind and explore the marvelous new directions she has paved for short fiction.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more:  \nGunnhild Øyehaug was described in a 2017 New Yorker review as a “master of the short story.” Find out why.  \nWant to discover her innovative style first-hand? Read an excerpt from Evil Flowers. \nAbout the speakers: \nGunnhild Øyehaug is an award-winning Norwegian poet\, essayist\, and fiction writer whose work has been translated into many languages. She teaches creative writing in Bergen.  \nDaniel Medin is an editor and professor of comparative literature at the American University of Paris.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Øyehaug and Medin will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Copies of Evil Flowers will be available for purchase at the Library in the week leading up to this event and while the event takes place\, generously provided by Smith&Son. All sales support this local independent bookstore. \nAttendees will have the opportunity to have their copy signed following the conversation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”54548″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1694182826903{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”]  \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/oyehaug23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230912T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230912T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T171441
CREATED:20230828T090454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230828T113551Z
UID:54499-1694547000-1694550600@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Journalism under Siege with The Dial and Forbidden Stories
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We live in a dangerous time for journalists. Killings of reporters are on the rise\, while countless journalists have been forced to work in exile. Why are journalists such targets? How does this affect how they report? What can readers do to support the free press? Faced with danger\, what can journalism do? We are delighted to welcome Madeleine Schwartz\, editor-in-chief of global magazine of culture and politics the Dial\, in conversation with Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud of Forbidden Stories\, an organization whose mission is to protect\, pursue and publish the work of other journalists facing threats\, prison\, or murder. They will discuss their work bringing the work of endangered journalists to readers\, share recent projects\, and consider why journalism matters. \nThis event is organized in partnership with the Dial. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nForbidden Stories enables journalists under threat to share dangerous information through secure channels\, and carry on the work of reporters imprisoned or murdered for their work.  \nIn their words: “We send a powerful signal to enemies of the free press: even if you succeed in stopping a single messenger\, you will not stop the message. What is the point of killing a journalist if 10\, 20 or 30 others are waiting in the wings to carry on their work? Collaboration is the best form of protection.” Learn more about the history of Forbidden Stories and discover the reporting they have brought to light.  \n“The world’s little magazine\,” The Dial is a new online magazine of culture\, politics\, and ideas with a focus on locally sourced writing from around the world. A space where daring writers stage global conversations unconstrained by geography\, the publication spotlights writers who write the world as they see it—from wherever they might be. Check out their recent issue\, with contributors from Sudan\, Ukraine\, Sweden\, Chile\, South Korea\, and more.  \nAbout the speakers: \nLaurent Richard is a journalist\, executive producer of investigative documentaries\, founder and executive director of Forbidden Stories. A French award-winning investigative reporter for Premieres Lignes Television and 2017 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan\, he was named “European Journalist of the Year” at the Prix Europa in Berlin in 2018.  \nSandrine Rigaud is a French investigative journalist. As editor of Forbidden Stories since 2019\, she coordinated the “Pegasus Project” published in July 2021 and the “Cartel Project\,” a massive cross-border collaboration to finish the investigations of a murdered Mexican journalist that won a George Polk Award and the Maria Moors Cabot Prize. \nMadeleine Schwartz lives in Paris\, where she writes about the rise of the far right\, urban politics and art fraud. Her work appears in the London Review of Books\, the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books\, where she previously worked as an editor. In 2019\, her article “The End of Atlanticism: Has Trump killed the ideology that won the cold war?” won the European Press Prize. She teaches journalism at Sciences Po.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Schwartz\, Richard\, and Rigaud will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/forbidden-stories23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230906T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230906T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T171441
CREATED:20230827T143453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230904T102316Z
UID:54479-1694028600-1694032200@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Meditations on Life\, Politics\, and Journalism with Roger Cohen
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message]In-person registration for this event is now closed. Please register to attend online using the link above.[/vc_message][vc_column_text]From China and Kyiv\, to Afghanistan and Israel\, to elections in Iran and the debacle of Brexit\, for over forty years New York Times Paris bureau chief Roger Cohen has journeyed to all corners of the world to cover everything from truth and dissent\, to dictatorship\, revolution\, and displacement.  \nNow\, in An Affirming Flame: Meditations on Life and Politics\, Cohen’s finest columns\, dispatched from Tehran\, China\, Cairo\, Libya\, Vietnam\, Gaza\, Ukraine\, Munich\, Hungary\, and Poland\, and more\, have been compiled together for the first time\, accompanied by a never-before-seen essay on the state of the world. In these writings\, offering an assessment of politics and journalism in the twenty-first century\, Cohen traces out a path for the future of democracy. He will appear in conversation with European history expert Jacques Rupnik.  \nThis event will be followed by a cocktail reception.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nRoger Cohen was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the invasion of Ukraine. Reporting for the New York Times\, he recently traveled from Moscow to Siberia to the Ukrainian border\, seeking to understand the “nationalist lurch into an unprovoked war and its mood more than 17 months into a conflict conceived as a lightning strike\, only to become a lingering nightmare.” Discover what he found. \nWatch Cohen’s appearance on CNN to discuss An Affirming Flame. When asked why he describes himself as a “stubborn optimist\,” Cohen responded: “We have to believe in our capacity to improve the world.”  \nThe title of Cohen’s book\, An Affirming Flame\, is the last line of a poem written by W.H. Auden on the eve of World War II. In the poem\, Auden writes\, “We must love one another or die.” Read it here.  \nAbout the speakers: \nIn 2023\, Roger Cohen and a team of New York Times reporters were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and a George Polk Award in Foreign Reporting for their coverage of the war in Ukraine. Cohen is the Paris bureau chief for the New York Times\, where he began working in 1990. He has also worked for the Times as bureau chief in Berlin and in the Balkans\, where he covered the Bosnian war and received the Eric and Amy Burger Award from the Overseas Press Club of America. In 2021\, he received the Légion d’Honneur from the French Republic for his work over four decades.  \nJacques Rupnik was educated at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and at Harvard\, is currently Research Professor at CERI-Sciences Po in Paris as well as visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. Executive director of the International Commission for the Balkans  he was previously advisor to president Vaclav Havel.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Cohen and Rupnik will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_message]In-person registration for this event is now closed. Please register to attend online using the link above.[/vc_message][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Copies of An Affirming Flame will be available for purchase at the Library in the week leading up to this event and while the event takes place\, generously provided by Smith&Son. All sales support this local independent bookstore. \nAttendees will have the opportunity to have their copy signed following the conversation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”54548″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/cohen23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230905T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230905T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T171441
CREATED:20230827T221210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230828T113111Z
UID:54486-1693942200-1693945800@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Poetic Confluence: Marilyn Hacker and Karthika Naïr in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join Marilyn Hacker\, one of the most celebrated figures in American poetry\, and Karthika Naïr\, known for her dynamic work at the borders of dance\, poetry\, and the visual arts\, as they discuss the many migrations of the poetic voice. When confinement forced artists into their homes\, Hacker and Naïr adopted an ancient poetic technique\, the renga\, in order to co-author A Different Distance: a poetic exploration of distance\, written at a distance\, as a way of understanding and overcoming it. Hacker\, an award-winning translator of French into English\, and Nair\, known for adapting narrative into dance performance\, are masters of movement. They will consider the poetic act as that of bridging distance between disparate and linked images\, sounds\, languages\, cultures\, and forms. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nA renga is a special kind of poem that’s created by multiple poets working together. It’s like a poetic conversation where each poet adds lines to build a poem that flows from one part to another. Read excerpts of Hacker and Naïr’s renga\, A Different Distance.  \nMarilyn Hacker won the National Book Award for her first book\, Presentation Piece. She is known for writing about identity\, womanhood\, sexuality\, illness\, power\, and social issues such as the AIDS crisis. A.M Juster has claimed that “there is no poet writing in English with a better claim for the Nobel Prize in Literature than Marilyn Hacker. Discover her incredible career.  \nNaïr works with choreographers to script dances\, taking into consideration the different ways environment\, soundscape\, and movement can combine to tell a story. See examples of this: a performance of her book Until the Lions\, and a queer reimagining of Madame Butterfly.  \nAbout the speakers:  \nMarilyn Hacker is the author of nineteen books of poems\, most recently\, Calligraphies (2023)\, and translator of twenty-three books of poetry and essays. She has received the Lenore Marshall Prize and the Voelcker Award from the Poetry Society of America\, the PEN Award in Translation\, the Audre Lorde Prize and the National Book Award. She was editor of the Kenyon Review for five years\, and on the editorial collective of the French journal Siècle 21 for eight. \nPoet\, librettist\, and fabulist\, Karthika Naïr is the coauthor of A Different Distance\, renga written with Marilyn Hacker. Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata\, her reimagining of the foundational South Asian epic in multiple voices\, won the 2015 Tata Literature Live Award for Book of the Year\, and was highly commended in the 2016 Forward Prizes. The dance performances Naïr has scripted and co-scripted have been staged at venues across the world. These include Akram Khan’s multiple-award-winning DESH and Until the Lions\, and Carlos Pons Guerra’s Mariposa\, a queer reimagining of Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Hacker and Naïr will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/hacker-nair23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230711T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230711T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T171441
CREATED:20230511T183948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230516T142645Z
UID:52455-1689103800-1689107400@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:Finding the Raga with Amit Chaudhuri
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The raga\, or melody form of classical Indian music\, evokes profound emotion and evades tidy resolution. Singers of khayal follow a scale entirely different to Western musical styles\, innovating and inventing as they perform. In Finding the Raga\, Novelist\, critic\, and essayist Amit Chaudhuri reflects upon a life devoted to this slippery\, surprising art form\, as well as its interactions with his other artistic practices\, from writing to American folk music. A celebration of the poetry of sound and the power of listening\, Finding the Raga is both artistic manifesto and cosmology\, a meditation upon music’s capacity to sing to the world\, about the world\, and from the world. At the Library\, he will meditate upon the fusions of these different worlds\, as well as the rich and unique history of Indian music\, largely unknown to Western audiences. \nAbout the speaker: \nAmit Chaudhuri is the author of eight novels\, the latest of which is Sojourn. He is also a poet\, essayist\, short story writer\, and musician. His New and Selected Poems is scheduled to published later this year in the NYRB Poets series. His works of non-fiction include\, most recently\, Finding the Raga\, which received the James Tait Black Prize in 2022. Other awards his work has received include the Commonwealth Writers Prize\, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction\, the Sahitya Akademi Award\, the Rabindra Puraskar\, and the inaugural Infosys Prize in Literary Studies in the Humanities. He is Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Centre for the Creative and Critical at Ashoka University. He was Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia from 2006-2021. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Chaudhuri 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/chaudhuri23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230705T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230705T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T171441
CREATED:20230508T090548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230615T154457Z
UID:52204-1688585400-1688589000@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Problem of Parking with Henry Grabar
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]An invisible evil holds American cities and suburbs in a deathgrip. Tying bureaucrats in administrative knots\, grinding development projects\, green initiatives\, and housing plans to a halt\, regularly ruining the average commuter’s morning\, no problem is more American than the problem of parking. In Paved Paradise\, journalist Henry Grabar provides an astonishing\, fascinating ride through the history of parking across the American landscape\, from New York to Disney World. As the U.S. faces a worsening housing crisis\, and as green space disappears from urban centers\, he asks: how has storing cars taken priority over human life? Join him in conversation with journalist Simon Kuper to learn how the vast American expanse has been taken captive by concrete.  \nAbout the speaker: \nHenry Grabar is a staff writer at Slate who writes about housing\, transportation\, and urban policy. He has contributed to The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Guardian\, and other publications\, and was the editor of the book The Future of Transportation. He received the Richard Rogers Fellowship from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and was a finalist for the Livingston Award for excellence in national reporting by journalists under thirty-five. \nSimon Kuper was educated at Oxford University and Harvard. He has been working for the Financial Times since 1994\, and now writes a general column for the newspaper. His recent books include The Happy Traitor\, his biography of the double agent George Blake (2021) and Barça: The Rise and Fall of the Club that Invented Modern Football (2021)\, which won the Sunday Times award for Football Book of the Year. His Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK\, appeared in 2022 and became a Sunday Times bestseller. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Grabar 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/grabar23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230629T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230629T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T171441
CREATED:20221128T155111Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Tim Crosland\, Irmak Kanyılmaz\, and Linda Sheehan on Legislating for the Future
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\nHow can we expand our sense of time to confront the long-term (and increasingly short-term) devastation of the climate crisis? How to\, moreover\, legislate against this devastation? And to legislate on behalf of who exactly? The rivers and the trees? The children of the future? \nThis event is organized n partnership with News Decoder and the Climate Academy at the European School of Brussels. \nThe Library’s contribution to this joint program is supported by the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Arts and Culture. \nPlease note the special start time of this event. \nAbout the speakers: \nTim Crosland\, a former barrister\, is the Director of Plan B\, a foundation supporting strategic legal action to prevent catastrophic climate change. \nIrmak Kanyılmaz is a student at the European School of Belgium II. She enjoys doing research and learning about new concepts\, especially in the sciences and mathematics. \nExecutive Director to Environment Now\, Linda Sheehan guides Environment Now’s work to protect and restore California’s coastal\, freshwater and forest ecosystems\, for the benefit of all Californians. \nImportant information: This conversation will be hybrid\, taking place both in person at the American Library in Paris and online. \nThis event requires advance registration. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/ecologues6/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230628T203000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Crafting a Project with Adrienne Raphel
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Adrienne Raphel is an expert in locating the invisible yet ubiquitous and rendering it worthy of investigation–even uncanny. From uncovering hidden histories of crossword puzzle mania to deforming Internet jargon past any point of possible meaning\, Raphel’s work reveals the extraordinary lurking beneath the surface of the ordinary. Over the month of June\, Raphel will continue to nurture this critical approach toward the everyday as a Visiting Fellow while researching Parisian urban imagination. What are the different stages of crafting a project? What phases does it go through? When\, if ever\, is it complete? Join Raphel in discussing the evolutions this project has undergone and the research process itself\, from initial ideas to drafting to the always nebulous notion of a finished product.  \nAbout the speaker: \nAdrienne Raphel is a 2022-23 American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow. She is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them\, named an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review; What Was It For\, winner of the Rescue Press Black Box Poetry Prize; and Our Dark Academia\, forthcoming this fall. Her writing appears in the New York Times\, the New Yorker\, the Paris Review\, and many other publications. She has been a featured speaker at events such as the National Book Festival at the Library of Congress\, and she serves as a mentor with the Periplus collective. Raphel holds a PhD from Harvard\, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and a BA from Princeton.  \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Raphel 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/raphel23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230627T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230627T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T171441
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Women who Refused with Jennifer Tamas
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Nothing seems more counterintuitive than to turn to the society of the Ancien Régime in order to to understand female resistance. Called upon by civility treatises to demonstrate reserve\, or to feign resistance by codes of seduction\, one might conclude that the heroines of classical literature have nothing to teach us\, and certainly not the capacity to say ‘no’. Jennifer Tamas proposes otherwise. In Au NON des femmes\, she demonstrates how the women of the Grand Siècle resisted\, disobeyed\, and left traces of combat against a patriarchal society. From the Princesse de Clèves to Bérénice\, Tamas uncovers a lineage of powerful\, subversive refusals on the part of heroines\, obfuscated by centuries of patriarchal interpretations. Offering a new way of reading classical texts\, Tamas liberates the women of literature from the masculine gaze which has falsely rendered them submissive.  \nAbout the speaker: \nJennifer Tamas is Associate Professor of French at Rutgers University (New Jersey\, USA). Her teaching interests range from the Old Regime to the French Revolution and explore the boundaries between passions and politics. She received her Agrégation de Lettres in 2006 and her PhD from Stanford University in 2013. She holds a further PhD in Literature and Stylistics from Paris IV Sorbonne\, which she received in 2012.  \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Tamas 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/tamas23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230621T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230621T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T171441
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Natasha Lance Rogoff on Post-Soviet Sesame Street
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Early 1990s Russia: the wall has fallen\, the Soviet Empire has collapsed\, and a new social order is being built from the ground up. Faced with corrupt government officials\, bumbling diplomats\, traumatized citizens\, and rapidly globalizing capitalism\, a fractured nation holds onto a last hope for the salvation of their children: puppets. Join Natasha Lance Rogoff to discuss Muppets in Moscow\, the “unexpected crazy true story” of her time as lead producer on Russia’s Sesame Street. As the West dismantled the iron curtain\, Rogoff was responsible for teaching the first post-soviet generation how to communicate their feelings\, contribute to society\, and show kindness to one another. From government raids to assassinations to clashes over puppet design\, step into the world of Ulitsa Sezam.  \nAbout the speakers: \nNatasha Lance Rogoff is an award-winning television director\, producer and writer of more than 25 years. Her previous credits include executive producer of Ulitsa Sezam (Sesame Street in Russia) and producer of Plaza Sesamo (Sesame Street in Mexico.) After studying at the Leningrad State University\, she wrote about Soviet underground culture\, as well as one of the earliest exposé of Soviet government persecution of the Russian LGBTQ community in the San Francisco Chronicle. She is now an Associate in the Art\, Film and Visual Studies Department at Harvard University and lives between Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and New York City. \nEdward Charlton-Jones studied History and Russian at Oxford and Harvard. He has written and lectured on the Russian emigration to Constantinople in 1918-1923\, as well as on aspects of Russian literature and art. He has practiced law in Paris and Istanbul\, with a focus on international energy projects. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Rogoff 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/rogoff23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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