In-person at the Brooklyn Center for Fiction, Dorothee Elmiger and Kate Zambreno discuss translation: how to translate, who gets to translate, for whom to translate, and how stories are told.
Three translators reflect upon their movements between different languages and times in a discussion of Cecile Wajsbrot’s new, Virginia Woolf-inspired work, Nevermore.
Two experts in menopause discuss the science behind it, the reality of experiencing it, and the importance of broaching the subject.
How is the environmental crisis an economic problem? What solutions are available? Three climate experts discuss the relationship between climate justice and capital.
Take a dive into the Library's archives and discover our rich 103-year history during this expert-led presentation.
What is to be done about African art in European museums? How can restitution happen? What museums and nations are responsible for acting? In conversation with Rachel Donadio, two experts on the subject discuss.
Take a dive into the Library's archives and discover our rich 103-year history during this expert-led presentation.
How can speaking about the villains of LGBTQ past build a more just LGBTQ future? Ben Miller reveals an alternative queer history.
Novelist Kate Briggs and translator Yasmine Seale discuss motherhood, fiction, and time: making it, measuring it, filling it, and writing it.
Meeting one of our two-part Summer 2023 Workshop: Form & Craft with American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow Adrienne Raphel and Andrew Altschul.
Take a dive into the Library's archives and discover our rich 103-year history during this expert-led presentation.
2022-23 American Library Visiting Fellow Adrienne Raphel and poet Megan Fernandes read and discuss a selection of recent works. An evening dedicated to the practice of poetry in the modern world.
Friends of the Library (50€ – 249€) will receive invitations to unique, donor-only programs.
Folio Society (250€ – 1 999€) supporters will be invited to the annual Book Award ceremony, as well as donor-only programs.
Gutenberg Society (2 000€ – 9 999€) patrons will have the opportunity to host a dinner with an Evenings with an Author sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg speaker, as well as all the benefits listed above.
Ex Libris Lux Society (10 000€ and above) sponsors will be invited to an annual dinner with Ex Libris Lux donors and Library leadership, as well as all the benefits listed above. They will also be invited to an exclusive cocktail dînatoire with our Gala speaker.
A charitable gift from your estate is simple to implement and is easy to change if you should need to access the assets during your lifetime. If you would like to include a gift to the Library in your will, ask your estate planning attorney to add this suggested wording to your will or living trust. Please make sure to use the Library’s correct legal name appears in all final documents as: The American Library in Paris Inc.
Unrestricted Gift: I give, devise, and bequeath to the American Library in Paris Inc, (insert dollar amount) Dollars* to be used for its general purposes.
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