(Offsite) Festival America: Women's Bodies
2024-09-26 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris) | CŒUR DE VILLE, AUDITORIUM, 98 rue de Fontenay, Vincennes, 94300, France
It took centuries of struggle for women to be able to express themselves without restriction. But, let’s face it, this freedom is not accepted everywhere, especially when it comes to writing about the body. With the #MeToo movement, women’s bodies have been invited into the literary space, challenging a dominant male vision. How are women writers writing about the body today?
With Isabela Figueiredo, Lauren Groff and Szilvia Molnar.
This event will be moderated by Curator of Cultural Programs at the American Library in Paris, Rachel Donadio.
About Festival America:
The 11th edition of AMERICA will take place in Vincennes from 26-29 September 2024, and will for the first time be the venue for exchanges and debates between American and European writers.
Every two years since 2002, the AMERICA festival has brought together writers from North America. Over seven hundred authors from Canada, Quebec, the USA, Mexico, Cuba and Haiti have come to meet their French readers. For 4 days and 3 evenings, the Vincennes event offers a rich program of meetings – booksellers’ café, major interviews, thematic debates – screenings of adaptations of novels or documentaries, a children’s festival, concerts and events combining books and street culture.
AMERICA’s strength lies in the fact that it brings American voices and texts to Vincennes, shedding light on the universality of each artist’s work. Important information: This event will take place in person at CŒUR DE VILLE, AUDITORIUM 98 rue de Fontenay 94300 Vincennes.
Access to this event requires purchase of a ticket through Festival America. Click on the button below to purchase your ticket.

History Tour at the Library
2024-09-27 11:00 | The American Library in Paris
The American Library in Paris invites you to register for a History Tour. Come visit us in person at 10 rue du Général Camou and discover:

Our origin story, when our Library warehoused a collection of books donated to the Doughboys fighting alongside Allied troupes in WWI
The establishment of the American Library in Paris as a private library
The famous writers of the Lost Generation (Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, and more) who explored our stacks during their time in Paris
Our Paris Library School, which brought American innovations to French libraries in the 1920s
The true stories of the brave Librarians who kept the Library open during the Occupation of WWII
How the Library has evolved over its 103-year history into the largest English-language lending library on the European continent

All tours are on Fridays at 11h00, last one hour, and take place in person at the American Library in Paris.
Tours are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. Please email us if you wish to reserve for 5 or more people. (Do not reserve through the site.)
Please email tours@americanlibraryinparis.org with any questions.
This initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture.
Attendance 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.

(Hybrid) Does Grief Ever End? With Cody Delistraty and Lindsey Tramuta
2024-10-01 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
Cody Delistraty lost his mother to cancer when he was in his early 20s. As he explored ways to mediate his grief, the American Psychological Association and World Health Organization announced a diagnosis: Prolonged Grief Disorder. While this diagnosis allowed for novel treatment, Delistraty was left with a question: Should we treat grief medically?
Delistraty appears in conversation with Paris-based writer and travel journalist Lindsey Tramuta.
About the speakers:
Cody Delistraty is a writer and speechwriter, most recently working as the culture editor at the Wall Street Journal Magazine. He has written for the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and was the European arts columnist for the Paris Review. He has degrees in politics from New York University and in history from the University of Oxford. British Vogue named him a best young writer of the year, and he has frequently given talks about art, creativity, and loss. He lives in New York City.
Lindsey Tramuta has been based in Paris since 2006. She is a bilingual French-English culture and travel journalist, bestselling author, podcaster, and editorial consultant. Since 2012, her work has appeared in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, the New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, Fortune Magazine, Afar Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Eater, Bloomberg, Elle, and Vogue, among other international publications. 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.
Attendance 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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

(Hybrid) Illustrating Exile with Edel Rodriguez and Maria Krasinski
2024-10-02 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of Time and dubbed “America’s illustrator in chief” (Fast Company), Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. When Rodriguez was nine, Fidel Castro announced his surprising decision to let 125,000 traitors of the revolution, or “worms,” leave Cuba. Before they could leave, his family was imprisoned and then marched to a flotilla that miraculously deposited them, overnight, in Florida. Worm recounts the coming-of-age of an artist and activist, who, witnessing America’s turn from democracy to extremism, struggles to differentiate his adoptive country from the dictatorship he fled.
This conversation will be moderated by artist, designer, and educator, Maria Krasinski.
About the speakers:
Edel Rodriguez is a Cuban American artist who has exhibited internationally with shows in New York, Los Angeles, Havana, Berlin, La Paz, Cape Town, Prague, and London. A regular contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times, and Time magazine, he has created more than two hundred magazine and book covers and illustrated several children’s books, including Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx, and is the author of Sergio Jumps and Sergio Saves the Game. Rodriguez’s artwork is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, among others, and he has received numerous awards from the Art Directors Club and the Society of Illustrators. Worm is his first graphic novel. He lives in New Jersey.
Maria Krasinski is an artist, designer, and multimedia educator. She is managing director of News Decoder, a Paris-based educational news platform that partners with schools around the world to build global citizenship through journalism. She is the illustrator of the books Art Hiding in New York and Art Hiding in Paris, and the forthcoming title, I’m Not Your Muse: Uncovering the Overshadowed Brilliance of Women Artists & Visionaries. 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.
Attendance 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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

History Tour at the Library
2024-10-04 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-10-18 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-11-08 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-11-15 11:00 - 12:00 | The American Library in Paris
The American Library in Paris invites you to register for a History Tour. Come visit us in person at 10 rue du Général Camou and discover:

Our origin story, when our Library warehoused a collection of books donated to the Doughboys fighting alongside Allied troops in WWI
The establishment of the American Library in Paris as a private library
The famous writers of the Lost Generation (Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, and more) who explored our stacks during their time in Paris
Our Paris Library School, which brought American innovations to French libraries in the 1920s
The true stories of the brave Librarians who kept the Library open during the Occupation of WWII
How the Library has evolved over its 104-year history into the largest English-language lending library on the European continent

All tours are on Fridays at 11h00, last one hour, and take place in person at the American Library in Paris.
Tours are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. Please contact us if you wish to reserve for 5 or more people (do not reserve through the site).
For school or group reservations, or for other questions, please email tours@americanlibraryinparis.org.
This initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture.
Attendance 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.

(Hybrid) The Ethics of Blame with Miranda Fricker and Amanda Dennis
2024-10-08 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
What are we doing when we blame and forgive? What is ‘epistemic injustice’ and how does it affect these practices? How is it being used in processes of truth and reconciliation in South America and in supporting women survivors to come forward and tell their stories? How can the techniques of fiction deepen our insights into philosophical questions? How does unequal access to conceptual language enable some people to tell their stories, while others suffer without knowing how to put names to their experiences? Miranda Fricker, a professor of philosophy at New York University, will discuss these questions with novelist Amanda Dennis. Fricker coined the term ‘epistemic injustice’ in her 2007 book Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing.
This event is produced in collaboration with the American University of Paris.
About the speakers:
Miranda Fricker is Julius Silver Professor of Philosophy at NYU, and Co-Director of the New York Institute for Philosophy. She is the author of Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing, and her recent research is mainly in moral philosophy. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her forthcoming book, Blaming and Forgiving: The Work of Morality, explores the interpersonal moral psychological responses of blaming, apologizing, and forgiving.
Amanda Dennis is the author of the novel Her Here, and a book about Samuel Beckett and French philosophy: Beckett and Embodiment: Body, Space, Agency. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and Guernica. She teaches creative writing and comparative literature at the American University of Paris. 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.
Attendance 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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

(Hybrid) How Hitler Came To Power, with Timothy Ryback and Jim Bittermann
2024-10-09 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
The year 1932 would shape decades to come. Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power is a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin. Timothy W. Ryback details the remarkable story of Hitler’s dismantling of democracy through democratic process and shares insights into Hitler’s personal and professional lives, recounting backroom deals, unlikely alliances, stunning betrayals, an ill-timed tax audit, as well as a fateful weekend that changed our world forever.
This conversation will be moderated by Jim Bittermann.
About the speakers:
Timothy W. Ryback has written for the Atlantic, the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times, among others. His books have appeared in more than forty editions around the world. As a former lecturer at Harvard University, Ryback explores the intersection of history, politics, and culture, with a focus on the legacies of National Socialism and authoritarianism. His books include The Last Survivor, a New York Times and Washington Post notable book; Hitler’s Private Library, which served as the basis for a feature-length documentary, The Books He Didn’t Burn; and Hitler’s First Victims, currently being adapted for cinematic release. He divides his time between Europe and the United States.
Jim Bittermann is CNN’s Senior International Correspondent based in Paris. Since joining CNN in 1996, he has covered the death of Princess Diana, NATO air strikes on Kosovo in 1998, the earthquake in Turkey in 1999 and the World Cup soccer championships, among other stories. His many honors include a CableACE Award for CNN’s coverage of the civil war in Zaire. He has been a panel moderator at the World Economic Forum and a member of the jury for the Overseas Press Club and Emmy Award competitions. He is an emeritus professor at the American University of Paris, where from 1998 to 2021 he was an assistant adjunct professor of communications, teaching courses in broadcast news and documentary film. 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.
Attendance 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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

Critical Conversations 2024–25: The Internet Is Not What You Think, Meeting One
2024-10-10 19:00 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
What is the internet? How far back in history can we find its precursors, in the form either of mechanical social, or perhaps even biological information networks? What are the political and philosophical ideas that drove early efforts to network human society? And is the internet a fulfilment of these ideas, or does the actually existing internet turn out to be in certain respects fundamentally different from the political and philosophical vision that guided its early development?
In this series of conversations, we will be taking a maximally wide-focused view of these questions, and we will be looking in particular at their importance for understanding the unprecedent technological revolution we are currently living through, as well as its economic, political, cultural, and psychological consequences. We will be focusing in particular on those thinkers who have articulated a theoretical account of the nature of information networks, the possibility of machine intelligence, or the utopian (or dystopian) prospects of a society reliant on machine-aided decision-making.
Registration Details:

The 2024–2025 series will unfold over eight sessions, on Thursdays from October 2024 to June 2024. Conversations will begin at 19h00 and run for ninety minutes, in person, at the Library.
By registering, participants commit to attending all sessions and completing the assigned readings. To maintain the continuity of the series, attendance to individual sessions is not permitted.

(Zoom Tickets Available) A Memoir of the Village Voice Bookshop with Odile Hellier and Alan Riding
2024-10-15 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
From 1982 to 2012, Paris’ Village Voice Bookshop was frequented by some of the greatest English-language authors of its time, such as David Sedaris, Amy Tan, and Don DeLillo. In her new memoir, Village Voices: A Memoir of the Village Voice Bookshop, Odile Hellier recounts her store’s forty years of cultivating literary excellence. This discussion will be moderated by long-time New York Times correspondent Alan Riding.
About the speakers:
Odile Hellier was born in the South of France during World War II and raised in Lorraine, near the German border, and Brittany, on the Atlantic Ocean. She is the founder and owner of the Village Voice Bookshop, a hub of Anglophone literary life and culture that operated in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris for more than thirty years.
Alan Riding is a former correspondent of the New York Times, having been variously based in Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris, most recently as the paper’s European arts correspondent. He is author of books on Mexico, Shakespeare, Opera and the cultural life of Paris during the Nazi occupation. He lives in Paris with his journalist wife, Marlise Simons. 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.
Attendance 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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

(Hybrid) The Ghosts of Paris with Lauren Elkin and Daniel Medin
2024-10-16 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
Lauren Elkin’s first novel, Scaffolding, is the story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apart. In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst, is processing a recent miscarriage. In 1972, Florence and Henry are renovating their kitchen. Both couples face the challenges of marriage, fidelity, and pregnancy, as their ghosts intersect, unaware they once all inhabited the same space.
This event will be moderated by Daniel Medin.
About the speakers:
Lauren Elkin is the author of several books, including Flâneuse: Women Walk the City, a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel award for the art of the essay. Her essays on art, literature, and culture have appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Times, Granta, Harper’s, Le Monde, Les Inrockuptibles, 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 now lives in London.
Daniel Medin is an editor and professor of comparative literature at the American University of Paris.
This event is produced in collaboration with the American University in Paris‘s Center for Writers and Translators.
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.
Attendance 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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

(In Person Only) Braver Angels: Depolarizing Within Workshop
2024-10-19 13:00 - 16:00 | The American Library in Paris
All too often, our ideological conflicts become personal and we stereotype, dismiss, or ridicule our fellow citizens who support other political parties, leaders, and policies. In this time of polarization, many of us avoid conversations with others, even in our own communities, whose perspectives and opinions differ from our own. We worry that any attempts at discussions will devolve into arguments and acrimony, and result in anger and further divisiveness.
In this workshop, you’ll learn skills for having respectful conversations when differences arise including how to:

Become aware of your own “inner polarizer”
Disagree with others without demonizing, dismissing, or stereotyping them
Speak in ways others will want to hear
Affirm the importance of building relationships
Feel safe practicing your new skills

Please arrive on time for this highly interactive workshop. Attendance is free.
Space is limited so if you need to change your RSVP for any reason please contact the BA Europe co-chair Laura Pascal at lpascal@braverangels.org
*Tickets are Free, Donations Help Use promo code BRAVER during registration to get a free ticket. Donations beyond the free ticket support Braver Angels, 501(c)3.
About Braver Angels:
Braver Angels is a non-profit non-partisan organization devoted to bridging the partisan divide and strengthening the democratic republic of the United States of America.

(Hybrid) Abraham Lincoln’s Great Chain-Reaction with Don Doyle and Denis Lacorne
2024-10-22 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World highlights the overlooked connection between the Reconstruction era in the United States and the radical transformations in Europe during the late nineteenth century. From the end of slavery in Spain’s Caribbean colonies to the end of Napoleon III’s reign in France, Don Doyle illuminates how American political changes have never occurred in a vacuum.
This event will be moderated by political scientist Denis Lacorne.
About the speakers:
Don H. Doyle is a retired professor of history who has taught at the University of South Carolina, Vanderbilt, and as a Fulbright professor in Rome, Genoa, and Rio de Janeiro. He has authored many books, among them The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War and The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World. He lives in Folly Beach, South Carolina.
Denis Lacorne is a French political scientist. He is Director of Research Emeritus at the Centre de recherches internationales (CERI, Sciences Po). A specialist in the United States, his research focuses on American elections, the construction of national identities, multiculturalism, and the politics of tolerance and secularism from a comparative perspective. 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.
Attendance 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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

History Tour: 1920s Edition
2024-10-25 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-11-22 11:00 - 12:00 | The American Library in Paris
Did you know that Gertrude Stein had a penchant for pulpy mystery novels? Or that Hemingway attempted to secure a job at the Library for his drinking buddy?
The American Library in Paris invites you to register for a 1920s-focused History Tour. Come visit us in person at 10 rue du Général Camou and discover:

Our origin story, when our Library warehoused a collection of books donated to the Doughboys fighting alongside Allied troops in WWI
The establishment of the American Library in Paris as a private library
The famous writers of the Lost Generation (Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, and more) who explored our stacks during their time in Paris
Our Paris Library School, which brought American innovations to French libraries in the 1920s

All tours are on Fridays at 11h00, last one hour, and take place in person at the American Library in Paris.
Tours are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. Please contact us if you wish to reserve for 5 or more people (do not reserve through the site).
For school or group reservations, or for other questions, please email tours@americanlibraryinparis.org.
This initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture.
Attendance 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.

Halloween Extravaganza: Library After Dark (ages 18+)(Ticketed event)
2024-10-26 21:00 - 2024-10-27 00:00 | The American Library in Paris

(Hybrid) Entre Nous: Can Libraries Control the World? With Seth Kimmel and Lauren Robertson
2024-10-29 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
In The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain, Seth Kimmel investigates how the model of the library became the basis for Spain’s organization of its growing empire. As Spain sought to expand its dominance in the Americas, the world became a reflection of Spanish and Moroccan library science. Seth Kimmel is a professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies at Columbia University who studies the medieval and early modern period of the Iberian peninsula.
This event will be moderated by Lauren Robertson, scholar and current fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris.
The Entre Nous series is co-organized by Columbia Global Paris Center, the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and the American Library in Paris.
About the speakers:
Seth Kimmel is Associate Professor in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University, where he teaches the literature and culture of early modern Spain. He is the author of two books, both published by the University of Chicago Press: The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain and Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain.
Lauren Robertson is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where she works on early modern literature and culture. She is the author of Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater: Stage Spectacle and Audience Response, and her recent essays appear in Shakespeare Quarterly, English Literary Renaissance, and Theatre Journal. She is currently a fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, where she is at work on her next book project, an account of the shared aesthetics of race-making and classical revival in the English Renaissance. 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.
Attendance 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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

Screening: State Legislature at the Cinémathèque du documentaire
2024-11-03 13:00 - 17:00 | Cinémathèque du documentaire, 25 Rue du Renard, Paris, 75004, France
As part of Frederick Wiseman, nos humanités • Chapitre 1, a retrospective with la Bibliothèque publique d’information du Centre Pompidou, screen the film State Legislature directed by Frederick Wiseman in the presence of the New Yorker journalist Lauren Collins and critic Jordan Mintzer.
About the Film:
The annual legislative session convenes in the capitol of Boise, Idaho, a small conservative state in the West. Representatives, citizens and lobbyists are hard at work; the making of politics has probably never before been portrayed in cinema with such generous acuity.
Runtime: 03h37min
About Frederick Wiseman, nos humanités, the retrospective:
La cinémathèque du documentaire à la Bpi presents a complete retrospective of Frederick Wiseman’s work, to coincide with the restoration of 33 of his films. This retrospective will take place in two phases: chapter 1 in autumn 2024, chapter 2 in winter 2025. Discover the full program.

How Ike Eisenhower Led America with Susan Eisenhower and Elaine Sciolino
2024-11-05 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
Few people have made such momentous decisions as Eisenhower, and rarely has one person had to make such a varied range of decisions. From D-Day to school integration in Little Rock, from the Korean War to Cold War crises, from the Red Scare to the Missile Gap controversies, Ike was able to give the United States eight years of peace and prosperity by relying on a core set of principles. Susan Eisenhower‘s latest book, How Ike Led, illustrates not only what Eisenhower did, but why―and what we can learn from him today.
Susan Eisenhower will appear in conversation with Elaine Sciolino, contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times.
About the speakers:
Susan Eisenhower is one of Ike Eisenhower’s four grandchildren, is a consultant, author, and a Washington, DC-based policy strategist with many decades of work on national security issues. She lectures widely on such topics, including strategic leadership.
Elaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times. Her forthcoming book, Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum, will be published in 2025. Decorated Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French state, she is the author of the national best-sellers The Seine and The Only Street in Paris. She has lived in Paris since 2002. 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.
Attendance 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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

Yotam Ottolenghi: Comfort, the tour
2024-11-08 20:00 - 21:00 | Casino de Paris, 16 Rue de Clichy, Paris, 75009, France
Live on stage, Yotam Ottolenghi will share his expert tips for infusing your kitchen with his inimitable touch, creating comforting meals that explode with color, flavor, generosity and sunshine.
This event will be moderated by Curator of Cultural Programs at the American Library in Paris, Rachel Donadio.
This live event offers a unique chance to hear Yotam share expert tips on creating vibrant, flavorful meals that reflect his signature style. Yotam will discuss the inspiration behind Comfort, recounting stories from his childhood, travels, and home life that shaped his approach to cooking. Audiences will explore how these personal experiences inspired his evocative comfort recipes, each celebrating the joy of cooking and tradition. With opportunities for audience Q&A, The Comfort Tour offers an intimate and inspiring experience beyond the pages of the cookbook.
Please use the code ALYOTAM24 for a discounted ticket. Important information: This event will take place in person at Casino de Paris at 16 Rue de Clichy, 75009 PARIS.
Access to this event requires purchase of a ticket through Casino de Paris. Click on the button below to purchase your ticket. Use the code ALYOTAM24 for a discounted ticket!

Giraffe Mania: Paris as City of Natural History with Scholar of Note A. Kendra Greene
2024-11-13 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
As we near the 200th anniversary of the journey to Paris from Africa of Zarafa, the first giraffe in Europe since the Medicis, join writer and illustrator A. Kendra Greene for an essayist’s illumination of curiosity and encounter, from medieval reports of the camelopard to the first photographic evidence of ghost giraffes.
About the speaker:
A. Kendra Greene is a writer and book artist based in Dallas. She is the author and illustrator of The Museum of Whales You Will Never See, first published by Penguin and Granta, and now translated into German and French. With publications from Atlas Obscura to Zyzzyva, her work has been presented at the Smithsonian, exhibited at The Reading Room, collected as far away as Qatar, and supported by fellowships from Fulbright, MacDowell, and the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard. Tin House will unleash a collection of her essays in curiosity, No Less Strange or Wonderful, in Winter 2025.
At the Library as a Scholar of Note, Greene is working on a nonfiction book-length project on Hell, or l’enfer. 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.
Attendance 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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

Critical Conversations 2024–25: The Internet Is Not What You Think, Meeting Two
2024-11-14 19:00 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris

(Online) The International Library: Queer Migrations
2024-11-14 20:30 - 21:30 | The Center for Fiction, 15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11217, United States
The London Library is delighted to welcome Gaar Adams and Sulaiman Addonia, two writers whose new works consider the complex intersections of queerness and migration.
Gaar Adams’s debut work of non-fiction, Guest Privileges, is a mix of memoir and reportage which explores what it means to be queer in the Gulf States and his own decade-long journey of dislocation. Asking why LGBTQ+ migrants might choose to live in a region where penalties for queer acts include torture and death, he riskily gathered interviews and stories from across the region. But as he began his own clandestine queer relationship, faultlines and deeper questions began to emerge, revealing his own disquieting assumptions about the motivations and identities of others.
Sulaiman Addonia’s third novel, The Seers, follows the first weeks of a homeless Eritrean refugee in London. Set around a foster home in Kilburn, in the squares of Bloomsbury where its protagonist sleeps, and against the backdrop of the labyrinthine bureaucracy of the UK asylum system, the novel considers intergenerational histories and colonial trauma alongside the psychological and sexual lives of refugees, insisting that the erotic and intimate side of life is as much a part of someone’s story as land and nations are.
In conversation with novelist Isabelle Dupuy, these extraordinary writers discuss migration, dislocation and queerness, what it takes to balance opportunity and risk, subversion and assimilation, how to build a life and a community and what constitutes home.
Sulaiman Addonia appears as part of Flip Through Flanders, presented by Flanders Literature.
About the Speakers
Gaar Adams is the author of Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East (Harvill Secker, 2024.) His reporting from the Middle East and South Asia has been featured in publications including The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Rolling Stone, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, Slate and VICE. He was on the 2020-21 London Library Emerging Writers Programme and received his Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Glasgow. He currently teaches on the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Hull and lives in London.
Sulaiman Addonia FRSL is an Eritrean-Ethiopian-British novelist who came to London as an underage unaccompanied refugee. His other novels include The Consequences of Love and Silence is My Mother Tongue, which have been shortlisted for awards including the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the African Literary Award from MoAD in San Francisco. His essays appear in Lit Hub, Granta, Freeman’s, The New York Times, De Standaard and Passa Porta. He lives in Brussels where he founded the Creative Writing Academy for Refugees & Asylum Seekers and the Asmara-Addis Literary Festival In Exile (AALFIE).
Isabelle Dupuy grew up in Haiti, has lived in America and came to the UK to work on a City trading floor before becoming an author. Her first novel Living the Dream was shortlisted for the Diverse Book Awards 2021. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Bad Form Review, Black Ballad, the Bookseller, the RLF’s Writer’s Mosaic and more. She is a trustee of The London Library.
About The International Library:
The International Library is a series launched in collaboration with the American Library in Paris, the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco, The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn and The London Library, which offers conversations across time, place, and language. The 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.

French Cooking with an American Touch with Rosa Jackson, Jane Bertch, and Alec Lobrano
2024-11-19 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
After working as a food journalist, Rosa Jackson moved to Paris in 1995 and began the city’s first company to offer tours of Parisian food markets. She has lived in Nice since 2004, choosing the city for its unique culinary culture. Her new cookbook, Niçoise, explores the beauty and bounty of food between the Alps and the Mediterranean.
Having spent more than a decade working in the financial services industry, including several years in the Paris office, Jane Bertch decided to pursue Entrepreneurial endeavors. In 2009 she founded one of the largest nonprofessional culinary schools in France, La Cuisine Paris. Her new memoir, The French Ingredient, documents her audacity, as an American, to begin a cooking school in Paris.
This conversation will be moderated by food and travel writer, Alec Lobrano.
About the speakers:
Rosa Jackson has run her cooking school Les Petits Farcis in Nice, France, for over twenty years. A former Paris restaurant critic, she has written about French food for international publications, including the Financial Times and Food & Wine, and also runs the Paris food tour company Edible Paris.
Jane Bertch has spent more than two decades living and working in Europe. In 2009, she started La Cuisine Paris, which has become the largest nonprofessional culinary school in France. She holds a BA in English, an MA in labor and industrial relations from the University of Illinois, and an executive MA from the French business school INSEAD. The French Ingredient is her first book.
Alexander Lobrano lived in Boston, New York and London before moving to Paris in 1986. As a food and travel writer, he has worked as Paris correspondent for Travel & Leisure, Departures Magazine and Gourmet Magazine, and he is the author of Hungry for Paris, Hungry for France and My Place at the Table: A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris. He is currently working on second volume of memoir tentatively entitled My Second French Life, and he contributes regularly to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, France Today and other publications and is a Contributing Writer at Airmail News. Important information: Attendance 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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

The Body is a Battleground with Fernanda Eberstadt and Benjamin Moser
2024-11-20 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
Part memoir, part history, Bite Your Friends: Stories of the Body Militant explores the lives of a handful of outrageously brave men and women—saints, philosophers, artists–who have used their own wounded or stigmatized bodies to challenge society.
From the time of the Ancient Greek thinkers, to anti-Putin demonstrators, and even in the life of the author’s mother, Fernanda Eberstadt investigates how advocates have literally put their bodies on the line to further their causes.
This event will be moderated by Benjamin Moser.
About the speakers:
Fernanda Eberstadt was born in New York City. She has published five novels and one work of nonfiction, a memoir about her friendship with a family of Rom musicians in Southern France. She has written for publications including the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, Vogue, and Granta, and is an editor at large for the European Review of Books.
Benjamin Moser is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book of 2009. For his work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence, including through publishing her complete works in English, he received Brazil’s first State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy. For Sontag: Her Life and Work, he won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book, The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters, was published in October 2023. He lives in the Netherlands and France. 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.
Attendance 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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

Screening: Fred Wiseman's Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
2024-11-26 18:00 - 21:30 | The American Library in Paris
As part of Frederick Wiseman, nos humanités • Chapitre 1, a retrospective with la Bibliothèque publique d’information du Centre Pompidou, join us for a screening of Ex Libris, Wiseman’s renowned film on the New York Public Library.
Behind the scenes of one of the greatest knowledge institutions in the world: the New York Public Library. The Library strives to inspire learning, advance knowledge and strengthen communities. It is one of the most democratic institutions in America – everyone is welcome.
Screen the film in the American Library’s famed Florence Gould Reading Room. Runtime: 03 hours 17 min. VO: English, Subtitles: French
About Frederick Wiseman, nos humanités, the retrospective:
La cinémathèque du documentaire à la Bpi presents a complete retrospective of Frederick Wiseman’s work, to coincide with the restoration of 33 of his films. This retrospective will take place in two phases: chapter 1 in autumn 2024, chapter 2 in winter 2025. Discover the full program. Important information: The screening will be in person only. Attendance 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.

The Real Fictional Housewives of Silicon Valley with novelists Kirstin Chen and Colombe Schneck
2024-11-27 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
Delve into the myth of genius perpetuated by the tech industry and its destructive consequences. This discussion will explore themes of sanctioned vs. unsanctioned criminality, the complicity of tech wives in their partners’ dominance, and our collective roles as consumers of technology, highlighting the urgent need to resist the unchecked power of Big Tech.
About the speakers:
Kirstin Chen is the author of three novels: Counterfeit, Bury What We Cannot Take, and Soy Sauce for Beginners. Her forthcoming book, Tech Wives, unmasks the myth of tech founders as solitary geniuses by contemplating the women who enable their success.
Kirstin Chen is also a 2024-25 American Library in Paris Scholar of Note.
Colombe Schneck is the author of eleven books of fiction and non-fiction. She has received prizes from the Académie Française, Madame Figaro and the Society of French Writers. The recipient of scholarships from the Villa Medicis in Rome and the Institut Français, as well as a Stendhal grant which allows French writers to do research and write abroad, she also spent fifteen years as a broadcaster for Canal Plus, France TV and Radio France. 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.
Attendance 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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

How Did Trump Win?
2024-12-03 19:00 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
Fresh from the campaign trail, four journalists unpack Trump’s victory. How did the Democrats lose so badly? What does this imply about America and what does it mean for the country’s future? What are the ramifications for the rest of the world? And how did pundits, media analysts, and pollsters make such incorrect assumptions about the political mood in the U.S. ? Join us to ask questions and discuss the year’s seismic events in the U.S.
This event is in partnership with the Overseas Press Club.
This event is currently sold out. Zoom tickets are still available.
About the Panelists:
Richard Fausset, The New York Times. Based in Atlanta, Fausset writes about conservative politics, and covered Trump’s campaign. He has focused on the politics of the South, gun ownership, race, and poverty.
Vivian Salama, The Wall Street Journal. (Joining on Zoom from Washington.) Salama has been on the campaign trail all year, and covered Trump’s first term. She has reported from about 85 countries, including as AP’s Baghdad bureau chief, and been based in the UAE, Pakistan, Egypt, and Israel/Palestine. She is also an attorney and member of the District of Columbia bar.
Sylvie Kauffmann, Le Monde. Columnist for Le Monde and the paper’s former Editor-in-Chief, Kauffmann was previously a longtime foreign correspondent, with postings in the U.S., London, Moscow, and Singapore.
Ben Barnier, France Info TV. Senior correspondent for France Televisions news channel, Barnier co-anchored a nightly program on air during the campaign’s final weeks, and covered the Trump campaign. Barnier previously worked for ABC News, and is a graduate of Columbia University School of Journalism.
Moderator: Vivienne Walt, Paris Correspondent for TIME & Fortune Magazines. Walt has reported from dozens of countries across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, for TIME and Fortune Magazines. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Geographic, and other publications. She is a governor of the Overseas Press Club of America, the U.S.’s oldest organization for foreign correspondents.
About the Overseas Press Club:
The Overseas Press Club of America is the nation’s oldest and largest association of journalists engaged in international news. Every year, it awards the most prestigious prizes devoted exclusively to international news coverage. It was founded in 1939 by nine foreign correspondents in New York City, and has grown to nearly 400 members worldwide. The club’s mission is to uphold the highest standards in news reporting, advance press freedom and promote good fellowship among colleagues while educating a new generation of journalists. 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.
Attendance 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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.
