Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss Where Dogs Bark with Their Tails with author Estelle-Sarah Bulle Click here to RSVP Join the American […]
Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss East by West with author and chef Jasmine Hemsley Click here to RSVP Following her immensely successful pop-up café East […]
Join Evenings with an Author (in-person and online*) to discuss Reality+ with philosopher David Chalmers Click here to RSVP Is virtual reality separate from reality? Are our experiences in […]
Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss Portes d'Afrique with architect and author Rahim Danto Barry Click here to RSVP Architect Rahim Danto Barry […]
Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss Love in a Time of War: My Years with Robert Fisk with American author and journalist Lara […]
The Library's Master Shot Film Club runs from September through June, and members meet once a month at The American Library in Paris. Meetings are facilitated […]
Writer, translator, and Oulipo member Daniel Levin Becker has turned his explorations of words and sound toward a new field: rap music. Join him for a discussion on art, lyricism, and language.
The Odyssey meets On the Road meets Huckleberry Finn: Amor Towles presents his newest release, The Lincoln Highway. A whirlwind railway ride through 1950’s Americana, the work is an exhilarating ode to storytelling.
Anne Weber has uncovered a forgotten heroine of the twentieth century, whose commitment to a political cause led to personal devastation. Join her with translator Tess Lewis as they discuss the riveting epic of Annette Beaumanoir.
What aspects of the climate crisis are happening gradually and invisibly all around us, and how can we fight this? Join Princeton professor Rob Nixon to learn about 'slow violence' and gain a new understanding of environmental justice.
Celebrated artist and poet Eileen Myles speaks with journalist Elisabeth Philippe on Chelsea Girls at the mk2 Bibliothèque. The American Library in Paris is co-sponsoring this event.
The birth of scientific racism has been increasingly associated with the Enlightenment era. If this is true, how did the Enlightenment era invent race? Andrew S. Curran speaks about this as well as his new book (co-edited with Henry Louis Gates Jr.), Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter in the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race.
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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