Story Hour: The Moon and Stars (ages 3–5)
2023-11-15 14:30 - 15:30 (Europe/Paris) | The American Library in Paris
For this Story Hour, we’ll read stories all about the planets, the stars, and space exploration! Each Story Hour program features short picture books such as A Bed of Stars by Jessica Love, as well as songs and rhymes.
This Story Hour will be hosted by Children and Teens Services Manager Celeste Rhoads and Children and Teens Services Intern Amber Auer. They will read books and lead you and your little one in songs and hand-rhymes during a live, interactive session. This participatory program is intended to encourage children to actively engage with stories. Plan to join in, sing along, and move around, and model movement and listening for your little one. We ask that all caregivers put away their phones and other electronic devices for the duration of this program. This activity is entirely in English, and no translation will be provided. Important information:
Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children and Teens Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

(Hybrid) How to Criticize with Lauren Oyler
2023-11-15 19:00 - 20:30
In-person registration for this event is now closed. Please fill out the form below to register to attend online. 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?
Join 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.
At 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. Learn more:
Lauren’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.
Lauren 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.
About the speaker:
Lauren 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.
The American Library in Paris Scholar of Note program is generously sponsored by the de Groot Foundation. 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.
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 registration for this event is now closed. Please fill out the form below to register to attend online.

Toddler Time: Thanksgiving (ages 1–3)
2023-11-16 11:00 - 11:30
Stories featured during our Toddler Time programs include short picture books and board books, such as Good Morning World, I Love You So by Olivia Herrick, which will be included in this 16 November event, along with other stories about gratitude.
Our Toddler Time is for children ages 1–3 and their caregivers, and lasts 30 minutes. The program is entirely in English, as are all of our events for children and teens. No translation will be provided. This session will be hosted by Children and Teens Services Manager Celeste Rhoads, and Assistant Children and Teens Services Librarian Jason Hazard. Each child must be accompanied by an adult chaperone, and chaperones are required to remain with their children for the duration of the program. Parents and caregivers are expected to sit with their children beside them, or in their laps, and participate in the program. Important information:
Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children and Teens Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

Critical Conversations Meeting One: Collective Intelligence, the Human Superpower
2023-11-16 19:00 - 20:30
Human beings are not the largest, fastest, or strongest species on the planet. Our superpower is collaboration— at a scale and level of sophistication that make us unique among all living things. How did we evolve this special ability? Why does it so often seem to fail (groupthink, social media, etc.)? What is science telling us about how to design smarter teams and organizations, and what could this mean for democracy’s future?
Readings to prepare:

Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute), “Becoming Human – A Theory of Ontogeny” (video)
Emile Servan-Schreiber (UM6P School of Collective Intelligence), “Collective Intelligence – How Diversity Makes Us Smarter” (video)

If you are interested in participating in Critical Conversations 2023–24: Redesigning Democracy, sign up here with our registration form at the bottom of the page.
Some details: Whether in France or America, debate is central to healthy democracy. Critical Conversations encourages both disagreement and agreement through thinking, talking, reading, and actively participating in community. Since the series’ inception in 2020, we have tackled race in America, the climate crisis, migration, and technology. Across seasons, participants have challenged themselves, their peers, and the world in which we live.
Please write to programs@americanlibraryinparis.org with any questions or thoughts.
About Critical Conversations: Whether in France or America, debate is central to healthy democracy. Critical Conversations encourages both disagreement and agreement through thinking, talking, reading, and actively participating in community. Since the series’ inception in 2020, we have tackled race in America, the climate crisis, and migration. Across seasons, participants have challenged themselves, their peers, and the world in which we live.
About the Critical Conversations 2023-24 leaders:
Prof. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the UM6P School of Collective Intelligence (Morocco) and lectures in advocacy at Sciences Po-Paris. Trained in classics and community organizing, he served as mobilization strategist for the campaigns of Barack Obama in 2008 and Emmanuel Macron in 2017. He served as legislative counsel in the 111th U.S. Congress (2009-2011), organized on six U.S. presidential campaigns, and has worked to advance democratic innovation at the European Commission and in India, Tunisia, Egypt, Uganda, Senegal, Czech Republic and Ukraine. He is author of Cicero and the People’s Will: Philosophy and Power at the End of the Roman Republic, from Cambridge University Press, and is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance.
Prof. Mark Klein is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, serves as a professor and Senior Scientific Advisor at the UM6P School of Collective Intelligence, and Chief Scientist at HiveWise Inc, a startup in the collective intelligence space. His research draws from such fields as artificial intelligence, social computing, economics, operations research, and complexity science to develop and evaluate computer technologies that enable greater ‘collective intelligence’ in large groups faced with complex decisions. He has over 180 publications in these areas, and has served on the editorial boards of many prominent journals and conferences related to AI and social computing.
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.

(In Person at the Center for Fiction) Stitches, Secrets, Shame: Jazmina Barrera, Christina MacSweeney, and Leanne Shapton present Cross-Stitch
2023-11-16 19:30 - 20:30
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.
Stitches, 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.
That 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?
The 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.
Access to this event requires registration through the Center for Fiction. Click on the button below to RSVP. About the speakers:

Jazmina 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.
Christina 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.

Leanne 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.
About the International Library series:
This 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.
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. 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.

History Tour at the Library
2023-11-17 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-12-01 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-12-08 11:00 - 12:00
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 are reserving for 4 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.

Thanksgiving Pie-Tasting (all ages)
2023-11-18 14:00 - 15:30
Library members are invited to join Children and Teens Services staff for a pie-tasting, Thanksgiving trivia, and games!
This event will be hosted by Children and Teens Services Manager Celeste Rhoads, Children and Teens Services Intern Kelly Cummings with the help of Library volunteers. Important information: This event is for Library members only, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

Setting Yourself Up for Success: An Overview of the U.S. College Admissions Process with Richard Montauk (ages 14–Adult)
2023-11-19 14:00 - 15:30
We’ll explore what it takes to get into a top college (in the U.S. and abroad) and how best to prepare—over time—to do so. This presentation will include how different colleges evaluate applicants (in light of their offerings and missions, as well as the composition of their applicant pools) and how you can maximize your students’ chances by helping them:

Acquire strong academic credentials and demonstrate intellectual curiosity
Select and ace the right standardized exams
Shape their non-academic profile
Make the most of summers and vacations
Combat a privileged image
Distinguish themselves in a crowded applicant pool

Although the focus of this presentation is strategic in nature, it will be filled with examples illustrating how to achieve each of the above efficiently and effectively.
(Note: this is targeted to 9th , 10th , and 11th grade students and their parents, not 12th graders.) Substantial time will be available at the end of the presentation for questions.

About Richard Montauk: Richard Montauk is the author of a series of best-selling guides, all published by Prentice Hall, including How to Get Into the Top Colleges and How to Get Into the Top MBA Programs. His most recent books include College Interviews: The Definitive Guide and Getting into Brown: Successful Applicants’ Essays, Resumes, and Interviews. He received a BA in literature from Brown University, an MA in government from Harvard, an MS in finance, and a JD from Stanford Law School. Pursuant to a graduate fellowship, he also studied at the London School of Economics and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (University of London). After graduating from Stanford, Richard worked as a corporate lawyer for Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles, then as a corporate strategy consultant for Bain & Co. in London, before devoting himself full-time to admissions consulting. Since 1991, he has consulted to candidates for the world’s top universities, for both undergraduate and graduate programs. He can be reached through his website: www.richardmontauk.com. Important information:
This event is free for Library members, and 15€ per person for non-members, and advance registration is required. All Library users are expected to familiarize themselves with the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

(Hybrid) Le Conversazioni: An Evening with Pascal Bruckner
2023-11-21 19:30 - 20:30
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.
This 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.
About the speakers:
Pascal 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.
Antonio 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. Learn more:
In 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.
Le 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. 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.

Story Hour: Thanksgiving (ages 3–5)
2023-11-22 14:30 - 15:30
For this Story Hour, we’ll read stories all about the changing of the seasons, gratitude, and Thanksgiving (celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November)! Each Story Hour program features short picture books such as We Are Grateful: Ostalihelig by Traci Sorell, illustrated by Frané Lessac, as well as songs and rhymes.
This Story Hour will be hosted by Children and Teens Services Manager Celeste Rhoads and Children and Teens Services Intern Amber Auer. They will read books and lead you and your little one in songs and hand-rhymes during a live, interactive session. This participatory program is intended to encourage children to actively engage with stories. Plan to join in, sing along, and move around, and model movement and listening for your little one. We ask that all caregivers put away their phones and other electronic devices for the duration of this program. This activity is entirely in English, and no translation will be provided. Important information:
Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children and Teens Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

(Hybrid) Scamming the American Dream with Kirstin Chen and Grace Ly
2023-11-22 19:30 - 20:30
Kirstin Chen’s Counterfeit is a sly novel that defies expectations, twisting and turning in ways that produce a sharp inversion of Asian and Asian American stereotypes. The novel follows Ava Wong, a Chinese American lawyer and mother whose life is upended when she is pulled into an international scam to sell counterfeit luxury purses. As the novel moves along, Chen peels back layers of irony and deception, revealing the ways in which Ava’s story plays with biases – in order to subvert them.
In this exclusive event, Chen will reflect upon some of the core themes of her work, including Asian American identity, cultural belonging, and feminism. Along the way, we’ll learn about how Chen uses plot twists, humor, and other narrative techniques to achieve her incisive cultural commentary. The conversation will be moderated by writer and podcaster Grace Ly.
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.
Grace Ly is a writer and podcaster based in Paris, France. She is the author of « Est-ce que tu as faim ? (Are you hungry?) » (2023), a children’s book illustrated by Mélody Ung and a novel “Jeune fille modèle” (Model Teenager) (2018). The webseries “Ça reste entre nous” (« Just between us ») focuses on the plurality of paths and choices of French East and South-East Asians along 6 episodes. Since 2018, she co-hosts the podcast “Kiffe ta race” with journalist and director Rokhaya Diallo and explores how race affects everyday life in France. Learn more:
The New York Times describes Counterfeit as “an entertaining, luxurious read — but beneath its glitz and flash, it is also a shrewd deconstruction of the American dream and the myth of the model minority.” Read the rest of the review here.
Kirstin Chen joined Lit Hub columnist Jane Ciabattari for a conversation about Counterfeit and its deconstruction of the “myth of the model minority.” Read their conversation here. Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Chen will appear in the Reading Room), the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions.
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. Copies of Counterfeit will be available for purchase at the Library in the week leading up to this event and while the event takes place, generously provided by Smith&Son. All sales support this local independent bookstore.
Attendees will have the opportunity to have their copy signed following the conversation.
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.

Teen Night: Story Sprints with Noah Weisz (ages 12–18)
2023-11-24 19:00 - 21:30
Get ready to race against the clock in this wildly creative team writing challenge! Your mission: in a single evening, work together to brainstorm, plan out, and write a full-length short story, complete with compelling characters, an exciting plot, and maybe even a few surprise twists! While each writer will contribute their own scenes and their own voice, the story has to fit together into a coherent and satisfying whole. Through this madcap, fast-paced workshop, you’ll experience a snapshot of the full writing process—and witness firsthand the ways that collaboration and fearless speed-writing can fuel creativity and make writing more fun than ever.
Pizza and drinks will be provided by the Library. Please note the late end time for this event.

About Noah Weisz: Noah Weisz is a fiction writer and dedicated educator with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and over nine years’ experience helping students of all ages unleash the stories they have inside. Noah’s own writing for children and young adults has been widely published in literary magazines and has won the Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award, the Katherine Paterson Prize for middle-grade fiction, the SCBWI Magazine Merit Award, and the F(r)iction Short Story Contest. He is also a three-time finalist for the Bath Children’s Novel Award. Originally from Washington, DC and a recent arrival in Paris, he currently teaches creative writing workshops and courses at several venues including the International School of Paris and Collège Sévigné. You can find out more about him here. Important information:
This event is free for Library members, and 15€ per teen for non-members. Advance registration is required. All visitors are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. After-hours events for teens, such as Teen Nights, require a signed permission slip, which can be downloaded here. One permission slip is needed per academic year (September–July).
Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children and Teens Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

Board Game Bonanza (ages 3–12)
2023-11-25 11:00 - 12:00
Try out a few classic American board games, and meet new friends during this morning event. Children and Teens Services staff members and Library volunteers will be on hand to teach you the rules of the games available. Board games will be provided, and participants may bring along their own from home too!
This activity is entirely in English, and no translation will be provided. All participants must be able to understand and speak English in order to participate in the program.

Children between the ages 6–12 may participate in Library programs on their own, while their chaperone remains inside the Library, children under the age of 6 must have a chaperone with them at all times. Caregivers are encouraged to participate in this event with their children.
Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children and Teens Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

Saturday Series: DIY Bracelets (ages 6–12)
2023-11-25 14:00 - 15:00
From a woven spiral, or a chevron friendship bracelet, to a simple beaded bracelet, there are plenty of options to try. Learn how to make a friendship bracelet to trade with a friend or bring to a concert. All supplies will be provided by the Library.
This event will be hosted by Children and Teens Services staff members with the help of Library volunteers. The activity is entirely in English, and no translation will be provided. All participants must be able to understand and speak English in order to participate in the program. Children between the ages 6–12 may participate in Library programs on their own, while their chaperone remains inside the Library.

Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children and Teens Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

Exploring Watercolor (ages 12–18)
2023-11-25 16:30 - 18:00
Join us for this creative workshop, and make your pieces of art, while exploring different watercolor techniques and meeting other English-speaking teens in the community. Children and Teens Services Manager Celeste Rhoads and Library volunteers will lead this workshop. All abilities are welcome!
All supplies will be provided by the Library. Important information:
This event is free for Library members, and 15€ per teen for non-members. Advance registration is required. All visitors are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons.
Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children and Teens Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

(Hybrid) Writing Politics with Giuliano da Empoli
2023-11-27 19:30 - 20:30
How can fiction operate as a tool for political analysis? What fresh insights might we unlock by understanding geopolitical actors as characters?
Giuliano da Empoli is an accomplished political essayist and social commentator. His recent debut novel, Le Mage du Kremlin (translated into English as The Wizard of the Kremlin) quickly garnered international attention, becoming a popular hit in France, Italy, and beyond. The novel centers on a fictionalized version of a real person: Vladislav Surkov, a former adviser to Vladimir Putin.
Speaking about his decision to tell this story through fiction, rather than a political essay, da Empoli stated: “[A]t the heart of power, and Russian power in particular, there are elements of paradox, a permanent contradiction, an irrationality that only literature could transcribe.” (“[A]u cœur du pouvoir, et du pouvoir russe en particulier, il y a des éléments de paradoxe, une contradiction permanente, une irrationalité que seule la littérature pouvait transcrire.”) Join us to learn more about da Empoli’s novel, his political research, and his thoughts on the relationship between fact and fiction.
This program has been produced in partnership with Le Conversazioni, an international festival that hosts stimulating conversations with writers, philosophers, artists, and other distinguished guests. The author will appear in conversation with Antonio Monda, founder of the festival.
About the speakers:
Giuliano da Empoli is an Italian and Swiss political scientist and writer. He teaches at Sciences Po Paris and has published fourteen books on subjects ranging from information overload (Overdose, 2002) to national-populist spin doctors (Les ingénieurs du chaos, 2019). He was Deputy Mayor for Culture in Florence (2009-2012) and a Senior Advisor to the Italian Prime Minister (2014-2016). His first novel, Le Mage du Kremlin (Gallimard, 2022) was awarded the Grand Prix de l’Académie française and is currently being translated in over 30 languages.
Antonio 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. Learn more:
Listen to Italian journalist Alain Elkann’s interview with Giuliano da Empoli.
Read the New York Times’ reporting on the political influence of da Empoli’s novel here.
Le 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. 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) An Evening with Binkady-Emmanuel Hié
2023-11-28 19:30 - 20:30
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices—or workplace policies aimed at creating a supportive work environment for people of all backgrounds—were embraced in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter movement. Are DEI initiatives still being adopted three years later, and are they being implemented in all workplaces? Is DEI an American issue? How does DEI impact initiatives in France for a more equitable future? This discussion takes a look at the past, present, and future of an equitable future in the arts. Binkady-Emmanuel Hié, a writer, consultant, and activist who has worked as a fundraiser for the Paris Opera, will share his thoughts on diversity and equity at the opera and in the arts.
A graduate of La Sorbonne, Hié worked for several years as a fundraiser at the Paris Opera before launching NORME, an agency that provides consulting services on DEI and management services.
In 2020, following the BLM movement and during the global pandemic, Hié, along with five dancers co-wrote a manifesto titled “De la question raciale à l’Opéra de Paris,” which called for effective anti-discrimination policies at the Opera. The company responded with a 66-page report on diversity at the Paris Opera. Hié discusses what changes were made after the report, and delves into the history of Black figures in the arts from France.
Hié is the author of the book, VISIBLE! Figures noires de l’Histoire de France, which highlights Black figures in French History. The book will be published in October 2023. In a conversation with Apres Josephine’s Lyneka Little, Hié shares his thoughts on race, diversity, and equity at a time when diversity & inclusion initiatives are under fire.
This event is in partnership with Après Josephine.
About the speakers:
After graduating from La Sorbonne, Binkady-Emmanuel Hié left his law career to work as a fundraiser at the Paris Opera. Following the BLM movement, he co-wrote a manifesto that tackled the racial issues inside this institution and echoed worldwide. In 2021, he founded NORME, an agency that provides consulting services on diversity & inclusion, management services for artists such as ballet dancer Guillaume Diop, and develops creative projects. His first book, VISIBLE !, that highlights Black figures in French History, will be published in October 2023.
Lyneka Little is the founder of Après Josephine. She is also the Audience Engagement Editor for the Prison Journalism Project, an award-winning nonprofit organization that trains incarcerated writers. Previously, she worked at the Wall Street Journal, ImpactAlpha and ABC News. She has bylines in YoungEntrepreneur.com, Jet Magazine, People Magazine and various other publications. She holds a journalism degree from Howard University. Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Hié and Little will appear in the Reading Room), the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions.
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.

Story Hour: Brave Women (ages 3–5)
2023-11-29 14:30 - 15:30
For this Story Hour, we’ll read stories both factual and fictional all about brave women! Each Story Hour program features short picture books such as Brave Irene by William Steig, as well as songs and rhymes.
This Story Hour will be hosted by Children and Teens Services Manager Celeste Rhoads and Children and Teens Services Intern Amber Auer. They will read books and lead you and your little one in songs and hand-rhymes during a live, interactive session. This participatory program is intended to encourage children to actively engage with stories. Plan to join in, sing along, and move around, and model movement and listening for your little one. We ask that all caregivers put away their phones and other electronic devices for the duration of this program. This activity is entirely in English, and no translation will be provided. Important information:
Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children and Teens Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

(Hybrid) Entre Nous: Possible Lives with Maria Stepanova
2023-11-29 19:30 - 20:30
With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. Dipping into various forms – essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue and historical documents – Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory. In Memory of Memory will serve as the point of departure for a broader conversation about writing autobiographically, drawing on the author’s readings of Charlotte Salomon, Fleur Jaeggy, Gertrude Stein, and others.
About the speakers:
Maria Stepanova is a Russian poet, essayist and journalist. The recipient of numerous awards, including the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding and the Prix du Meilleur livre étranger, Stepanova is currently a fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for Ideas and the Imagination.
Daniel Medin is an editor and professor of comparative literature at the American University of Paris.
This event is a collaboration with AUP’s Center for Writers and Translators.
The Entre Nous series is co-organized by Columbia Global Centers | Paris, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and the American Library in 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.
This event requires advance registration.
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. Copies of In Memory of Memory will be available for purchase at the Library in the week leading up to this event and while the event takes place, generously provided by Smith&Son. All sales support this local independent bookstore.
Attendees will have the opportunity to have their copy signed following the conversation.

(Hybrid) Behind the Lens with Frederick Wiseman
2023-11-30 19:30 - 20:30
Frederick Wiseman has directed and produced more than 40 films over the course of his illustrious career. His films offer profound insights into American institutions, reveling in the human stories that make up our social systems. The titles of his films introduce their subjects with deceptive simplicity: they include High School (1968), Welfare (1975), Public Housing (1997), and City Hall (2020). In his latest film, Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (2023), Wiseman brings his penetrating gaze to a three-star Michelin restaurant in rural France.
Wiseman’s documentaries are known for their subtle, observational style. He does not deploy expository techniques like voiceovers or interviews, but instead immerses himself in the institutions that he studies, letting poignant stories unfold before his camera and editing the footage into rhythmic vignettes. Moderated by the writer and critic Carlos Valladares, join us at the Library to hear this cinematic giant reflect upon his work and method.
This event will be followed by a cocktail reception.
About the speakers:
Frederick Wiseman is a film and theater director of 47 films, primarily focusing on American institutions. His most recent film MENUS-PLAISIRS Les Troisgros will be released in Fall 2023. In 2019, he was the honoree of the Library Lions Award from the New York Public Library and received the Pennebaker Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards. In 2018, he was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University. In 2016, he received an Honorary Award for lifetime achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Directors. He is a MacArthur Fellow, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has won numerous awards, including four Emmys. In recent years, he directed The Belle of Amherst, Beckett’s Happy Days in Paris and Vasily Grossman’s The Last Letter at the Comédie-Française in Paris and Theatre for a New Audience in New York. A ballet inspired by his first film, TITICUT FOLLIES (1967), premiered at the New York University Skirball Theater in 2017.
Carlos Valladares is a writer, critic, and film programmer from Los Angeles. He studied film at Stanford University and is currently completing his doctorate in History of Art and Film & Media Studies at Yale University. He has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, Gagosian Quarterly, Film Comment, n+1, Frieze, the Cleveland Review of Books, and the Criterion Collection. Learn more:
Wiseman’s latest film, Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros, has been described as “a food lover’s dream” (The Hollywood Reporter). Watch the trailer for the documentary here.
A 2020 profile of Wiseman in The New York Times provides a rounded introduction to the filmmaker’s work, style, and personality. Read it here. Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Wiseman will appear in the Reading Room), the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions.
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.

Teen Night: Music Trivia Madness with Rock U. (ages 12–18)
2023-12-01 19:00 - 21:00
Join Matt Black, creator of Rock U., for a series of musical quizzes and games to test your musical knowledge. No need to be an expert at rock music to play—all teens are welcome: diehard music fans and those just looking to discover great music and great people.

About Matt Black: Matt Black has worked as an educator for more than 30 years, and gets big thrills as a guitarist and vocalist with beloved Paris party band The Doodads. In 2012, he searched Paris for a rock band program for his daughter—and when he couldn’t find one, he created Rock U. instead! Matt works with Rock U. students on the techniques of playing together to craft a live band performance. Learn more about Matt Black and Rock U. here.

Important information:
This event is free for Library members, and 15€ per teen for non-members. Advance registration is required. All visitors are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. After-hours events for teens, such as Teen Nights, require a signed permission slip, which can be downloaded here. One permission slip is needed per academic year (September–July).
Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children and Teens Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

Saturday Series: Pop-Up Creations (ages 6–12)
2023-12-02 11:00 - 12:00
From classic tales in pop-up form, to fold-out castles, the Library’s collection of pop-up books includes pieces for everyone to enjoy. Take a look at examples of pop-up books as a group, and learn about the structure behind these creations, then make your own pop-up book or pop-up card to take home. All supplies will be provided by the Library.
This event will be hosted by Children and Teens Services Manager Celeste Rhoads with the help of Library volunteers. The activity is entirely in English, and no translation will be provided. All participants must be able to understand and speak English in order to participate in the program. Children between the ages 6–12 may participate in Library programs on their own, while their chaperone remains inside the Library.

Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children and Teens Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

(Hybrid) The Middle East Crisis: Journalists Look at What's Ahead
2023-12-05 19:30 - 20:30
Oct 7th has marked a paradigm shift in the long-standing conflict between Israel and Palestine. After the start of these unprecedented events, journalists have been on the ground reporting, attempting to capture the realities, complexities, and human toll of this ongoing crisis. What has been the role of news organizations, social media, and the spread of information during the conflict? And what lies ahead for the Middle East?
Four long-time watchers of the region discuss how we reached this point of crisis, and how peace can ever be achieved.
This event is presented in partnership with the Overseas Press Club.
About the speakers:
Vivienne 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.
Dalia Hatuqa is a multimedia journalist specializing in Israeli/Palestinian affairs, and regional Middle East issues as they pertain to business and economics, culture, art and U.S. foreign policy. She also writes about religion, minorities and immigration in the U.S. She is based in Ramallah, West Bank. Learn more about her work at www.daliahatuqa.com.
Pierre Haski is a France Inter correspondent and commentator, former deputy editor of Libération, and a long-time journalist covering Israel and the region. He appears daily on Radio France on the emission Géopolitique where he speaks on international geopolitics.
Peter van Agtmael is a photographer and member of Magnum Photos. He has published three books including, most recently, Sorry for the War, which covers the vast dissonance between the United States at war. He is recently back from the Middle East, having been on assignment for The New Yorker.
Myriam Benraad is a political scientist, specialized in the Middle East, and Professor of International Relations at Schiller International University in Paris, where she also heads the Department for International Relations and Diplomacy. Interested in the role of revenge in contemporary conflicts, she is the author, among recent publications on this subject, of L’État islamique est-il défait ? (CNRS Éditions, 2023) ; « Terrorisme et vengeance », Esprit (September 2023) ; and Terrorisme : les affres de la vengeance. Aux sources liminaires de la violence (Le Cavalier Bleu, 2021). Learn more:
The last time a team of journalists convened at the American Library with the Overseas Press Club, it was to discuss the mass protests across France following the fatal police shooting of Nahel M., a 17-year-old boy from Nanterre. Rewatch the conversation. 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.

Story Hour: How Rude! (ages 3–5)
2023-12-06 14:30 - 15:30
For this Story Hour, we’ll read stories all about manners—both good and bad. Each Story Hour program features short picture books such as Rude Cakes by Rowboat Watkins (pictured here), as well as songs and rhymes.
This Story Hour will be hosted by Children and Teens Services Manager Celeste Rhoads and Children and Teens Services Intern Amber Auer. They will read books and lead you and your little one in songs and hand-rhymes during a live, interactive session. This participatory program is intended to encourage children to actively engage with stories. Plan to join in, sing along, and move around, and model movement and listening for your little one. We ask that all caregivers put away their phones and other electronic devices for the duration of this program. This activity is entirely in English, and no translation will be provided. Important information:
Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children and Teens Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

(Hybrid) Slaves for Peanuts: An Evening with Jori Lewis and Robin Allison Davis
2023-12-06 19:30 - 20:30
In the preface of her book Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History (2022), Jori Lewis poses a question: “How do we tell the stories of people that history forgets and the present avoids?” Over the course of her book, Lewis works to tell precisely such a story, deftly sifting through archives to uncover the lives and experiences of people who have been systematically written out of the historical record.
Slaves for Peanuts exposes the pernicious connections between the demand for peanut oil in Europe and the persistence of slavery in Africa. Lewis shows how France continued to rely on slave labor in West Africa for the production of peanuts, even long after slavery had been officially abolished in French territories. Her work animates the complex lives of historical people, weaving them together through studies of agriculture and trade. The result is, in the words of renowned scholar Imani Perry, “a revelation” that “promises to transform our understanding of slavery and colonialism.”
This event will be moderated by Robin Allison Davis.

About the speakers:
Jori Lewis writes narrative nonfiction that explores how people interact with their environments. Her reports and essays have been published in The Atlantic Magazine, Orion Magazine and Emergence Magazine, among others, and she is a senior editor of Adi Magazine, a literary magazine of global politics. In 2022, she published her first book, Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History, which was supported by the prestigious Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Silvers Grant for Work in Progress, and it won a James Beard media award.
Robin Allison Davis is an Emmy Award-winning television journalist with a passion for storytelling and the global perspective. Currently based in Paris, she brings her passion to life within the realms of international development and freelance journalism. Beyond her work in journalism, Robin is poised to release her memoir, Surviving Paris, in 2025 (Amistad/HarperCollins). This deeply personal account promises to take readers on a transformative journey through her experience with breast cancer and life lessons learned in the City of Light. Learn more:
Last year, the Metcalf Institute hosted a webinar with Jori Lewis. Watch it here.
For a sample of Lewis’s writing on people and plants, check out her essay on the splendor of Senegal’s baobab trees in Emergence Magazine. Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Lewis and Davis will appear in the Reading Room), the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions.
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. Copies of Slaves for Peanuts:A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History will be available for purchase at the Library in the week leading up to this event and while the event takes place, generously provided by Smith&Son. All sales support this local independent bookstore.
Attendees will have the opportunity to have their copy signed following the conversation.
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.

Toddler Time (ages 1–3)
2023-12-07 11:00 - 11:30
Stories featured during our Toddler Time programs include short picture books and board books, such as The Very Lonely Firefly by Eric Carle, which will be included in this 7 December event.
Our Toddler Time is for children ages 1–3 and their caregivers, and lasts 30 minutes. The program is entirely in English, as are all of our events for children and teens. No translation will be provided. This session will be hosted by Children and Teens Services Manager Celeste Rhoads, and Assistant Children and Teens Services Librarian Jason Hazard. Each child must be accompanied by an adult chaperone, and chaperones are required to remain with their children for the duration of the program. Parents and caregivers are expected to sit with their children beside them, or in their laps, and participate in the program. Important information:
Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children and Teens Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

(Hybrid) The Future of Consent with Manon Garcia
2023-12-07 19:30 - 20:30
Manon Garcia is a leading voice in conversations about consent, autonomy, and feminist philosophy. In her latest book, La Conversation des Sexes (translated to The Joy of Consent in its English edition), Garcia delves into the philosophical traditions that gave rise to “consent” as a legal framework. What does it mean to “consent” to sex? How can consent serve as a guiding principle for personal and intimate relations? Garcia offers a nuanced revision of consent-based ethics, imagining new paths forward for feminism. As scholar Nancy Bauer writes: “This book is no less than a blueprint for a new feminist revolution.”
About the speaker:
Manon Garcia is a feminist philosopher and a teacher at the Free University in Berlin. After completing her studies at the École Normale Supérieure and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, she took on roles as a Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago, a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. She has written two books: We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives (Princeton University Press, 2021) and The Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex (Harvard University Press, 2023).
Learn more:
Garcia’s first book, We Are Not Born Submissive (2021), explores the complex history of female submission. Watch her discuss this book in an interview.
Last April, Garcia joined the philosopher Kate Kirkpatrick in another illuminating Evening with an Author program at the American Library in Paris. In case you missed it: you can watch a recording of that program here. Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Garcia will appear in the Reading Room), the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions.
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. Copies of The Joy of Consent will be available for purchase at the Library in the week leading up to this event and while the event takes place, generously provided by Smith&Son. All sales support this local independent bookstore.
Attendees will have the opportunity to have their copy signed following the conversation.
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.

Saturday Series: Flags, Countries, and Continents (ages 6–12)
2023-12-09 11:00 - 12:00
Join us for an exciting team event where participants will have the chance to work closely with other members. In this cooperative event, world knowledge will be tested with questions on topics such as geography, capital cities, colors, and more! There’s no need to be an expert on geography to participate—all are welcome to join!
This event will be hosted by Children and Teens Services Intern Amber Auer with the help of Library volunteers. The activity is entirely in English, and no translation will be provided. All participants must be able to understand and speak English in order to participate in the program. Children between the ages 6–12 may participate in Library programs on their own, while their chaperone remains inside the Library.

Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children and Teens Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.
