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SUMMARY:Viet Thanh Nguyen at the Library
DESCRIPTION:Viet Thanh Nguyen presents\nThe Committed\nRSVP HERE\n“We were the unwanted\, the unneeded\, and the unseen\, invisible to all but ourselves.”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nAnd with these words\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen‘s long-awaited new novel\, The Committed\, follows “the man of two faces and two minds\,” from The Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. Presenting his novel to a French audience for the first time at the American Library in Paris\, Nguyen will describe the work’s oft-forgotten historical backdrop: immigrant enclaves of drug lords\, communist spies\, and petty criminals in 1980s Paris. \nPraised by the Guardian as a dense novel of ideas wrapped in a spy thriller\, The Committed “invites the reader to think\, not just to feel: to think deeply about political systems and ideologies\, whose interests they serve and what\, if any\, answers they can provide.” Nguyen will be in conversation with author Grace Ly and journalist Pauline Lemasson about his writing process. The discussion will also touch on themes of identity\, revolution and intellectualism. \n\nRSVP HERE \n  \n\nOrganized in partnership with Columbia Global Centers in Paris and The Mechanics’ Institute in San Francisco.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/viet-thanh-nguyen-at-the-library/
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SUMMARY:My Place at the Table (Lobrano)
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nMy Place at the Table\nwith author Alec Lobrano \nClick here to RSVP \nA mouthwatering testament to the healing power of food\, My Place at the Table is a moving coming-of-age story of how a gay man emerges from a wounding childhood\, discovers himself\, and finds love. Published here for the first time is Lobrano’s “little black book\,” an insider’s guide to his thirty all-time-favorite Paris restaurants. \nClick here to RSVP \nAlec Lobrano \n  \nUntil Alec Lobrano landed a job in the glamorous Paris office of Women’s Wear Daily\, his main experience of French cuisine was the occasional supermarket éclair. An interview with the owner of a renowned cheese shop for his first article nearly proves a disaster because he speaks no French. As he goes on to cover celebrities and couturiers and improves his mastery of the language\, he gradually learns what it means to be truly French. He attends a cocktail party with Yves St. Laurent and has dinner with Giorgio Armani. Over a superb lunch\, it’s his landlady who ultimately provides him with a lasting touchstone for how to judge food: “you must understand the intentions of the cook.” At the city’s brasseries and bistros\, he discovers real French cooking. Through a series of vivid encounters with culinary figures from Paul Bocuse to Julia Child to Ruth Reichl\, Lobrano hones his palate and finds his voice. Soon the timid boy from Connecticut is at the epicenter of the Parisian dining revolution and the restaurant critic of one of the largest newspapers in the France. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/lobrano21/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210614T190000
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SUMMARY:To Write as If Already Dead (Briggs & Zambreno)
DESCRIPTION:Join Columbia Global Centers (online) to discuss \nTo Write as If Already Dead\nwith author Kate Zambreno and translator Kate Briggs \nRSVP HERE \nTo Write as if Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this diaristic\, transgressive work\, the first in a cycle written in the years preceding his death\, Guibert documents with speed and intensity his diagnosis and disintegration from AIDS and elegizes a character based on Michel Foucault. \nThe first half of To Write as if Already Dead is a novella in the mode of a detective story\, searching after the mysterious disappearance of an online friendship after an intense dialogue on anonymity\, names\, language\, and connection. The second half\, a notebook documenting the doubled history of two bodies amid another historical plague\, continues the meditation on friendship\, solitude\, time\, mortality\, precarity\, art\, and literature. \nThroughout this rigorous\, mischievous\, thrilling not-quite study\, Guibert lingers as a ghost companion. Zambreno\, who has been pushing the boundaries of literary form for a decade\, investigates his methods by adopting them\, offering a keen sense of the energy and confessional force of Guibert’s work\, an ode to his slippery\, scarcely classifiable genre. The book asks\, as Foucault once did\, “What is an author?” Zambreno infuses this question with new urgency\, exploring it through the anxieties of the internet age\, the ethics of friendship\, and “the facts of the body”: illness\, pregnancy\, and death. \nRSVP HERE \n Kate Zambreno is the author of many acclaimed books\, including Drifts (2020)\, Appendix Project (2019)\, Screen Tests (2019)\, Book of Mutter (2017)\, and Heroines (2012). Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College. She is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction. \n  \n  \n \n  \nKate Briggs is a writer and translator based in Rotterdam\, NL\, where she teaches on the Masters Fine Art at the Piet Zwart Institute. She is the translator of two lecture courses by Roland Barthes (How to Live Together and The Preparation of the Novel\, both published by Columbia UP) and the author of This Little Art (Fitzcarraldo Editions\, 2017) recently translated into Spanish by Rubén Martín Giráldez (Jekyll & Jill\, 2020) and forthcoming in German by Sabine Voss (Ink Press\, 2021). The Long Form\, a novel-essay\, is forthcoming with Fitzcarraldo Editions. She is the recipient of a Windham-Campbell Prize in Nonfiction. \nRSVP HERE \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/zambreno21/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210615T193000
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SUMMARY:Francis Bacon: Revelations
DESCRIPTION:From the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of De Kooning: An American Master\, Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan present \nFrancis Bacon: Revelations\nIn Conversation with bestselling author and journalist Elaine Sciolino \nRSVP HERE \nFrancis Bacon flung open the twentieth-century closet\, creating an indelible image of mankind in modern times. From his public emergence with his legendary Triptych 1944 (its images “so unrelievedly awful” that people fled the gallery)\, to his death in Madrid in 1992\, Bacon played an outsized role in both twentieth century art and life. By day he exposed the secrets of a dark century and by night\, unabashed by his homosexuality\, he swashbuckled through Soho. \nWritten with the full co-operation of the Bacon estate\, unrivalled access to the archives and based on hundreds of interviews and extensive new material from Ireland\, Tangier\, Spain\, England and France\, this definitive biography presents a startlingly original portrait – rich\, complex\, and subtle – of a commanding modern figure. \nStevens and SwanRSVP HERE \nAnnalyn Swan and Mark Stevens are authors of de Kooning: An American Master\, a biography of Dutch-American artist Willem de Kooning\, which was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Biography\, the National Book Critics Circle prize for biography and the Los Angeles Times biography award. It was named one of the 10 best books of 2005 by the New York Times. \nRSVP HERE \nSciolino \nElaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for The New York Times\, based in France since 2002. Her latest book\, The Seine: The River That Made Paris\, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a Barnes & Noble nonfiction book-of-the-month selection. Her previous book\, The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs\, published in 2015\, was a New York Times best seller. Sciolino was decorated chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 2010 for her “special contribution” to the friendship between France and the United States.  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nOrganized in partnership with Columbia Global Centers | Paris and The Mechanics’ Institute in San Francisco \n \n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/francis-bacon-revelations/
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SUMMARY:A Tribute to James Baldwin
DESCRIPTION:Join the Mechanics’ Institute (online) to reflect on the life and work of \nJames Baldwin\nwith authors James Campbell\, Clifford Thompson\, and Jewelle Gomez \nRSVP HERE \nJames Baldwin’s personal life and literary legacy are explored through his diverse life-long friendships and muses\, his front-line political activism\, and his cross-cultural connections and influences while living in Paris. This up close and intimate conversation includes British writer and former editor of the Times Literary Supplement James Campbell\, author of Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin who knew Baldwin in Paris\, Brooklyn based writer/essayist Clifford Thompson\, What It Is: Race\, Family and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues and host Bay Area writer/poet and playwright Jewelle Gomez\, Waiting for Giovanni.\nRSVP HERE \n\n\nJames Campbell is the author of This Is the Beat Generation: New York\, San Francisco\, Paris\, Exiled in Paris: Richard Wright\, James Baldwin\, Samuel Beckett and Others on the Left Bank\, and Invisible Country: A Journey through Scotland\, and was for many years an editor and columnist at the Times Literary Supplement in London.\n\n\nClifford Thompson’s work has appeared in publications including The Best American Essays 2018\, Washington Post\, Wall Street Journal\, Threepenny Review\, and Village Voice. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award for nonfiction and teaches at New York University\, Sarah Lawrence College\, and the Bennington Writing Seminars. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York.\n\n\n\n\nJewelle Gomez\, playwright\, novelist\, poet and cultural worker is the author of eight books including the first Black Lesbian vampyre novel\, The Gilda Stories. Her trilogy of plays about African American artists in the first half of the 20th century\, Waiting for Giovanni\, Leaving the Blues\, and Unpacking in P’Town was commissioned by New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco where she is playwright-in-residence. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @VampyreVamp.\n\nRSVP HERE
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/a-tribute-to-james-baldwin/
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Paula Deitz
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) for a discussion with \nPaula Deitz\nRSVP HERE \nPaula Deitz by Gaylen Morgan \nPaula Deitz is editor of The Hudson Review. She is also a cultural critic whose articles about art\, architecture and landscape design appear in newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and abroad. A graduate of Smith College\, she received her MA in French literature from Columbia University. In 2006\, she was awarded an LHD (Hon) from Smith College. Her book\, Of Gardens: Selected Essays (Penn Press)\, is now an audiobook. In addition\, she has edited two anthologies: Writes of Passage: Coming-of-Age Stories and Memoirs from The Hudson Review and Poets Translate Poets: A Hudson Review Anthology. \nFounded in 1948\, The Hudson Review is a quarterly magazine of literature and the arts published in New York City. Frederick Morgan\, one of its founding editors\, edited the magazine for its first fifty years. Paula Deitz has been the editor since 1998. It serves as a forum for new writers and the exploration of developments in literature and the arts. It is distinguished for publishing undiscovered writers from diverse backgrounds\, many of whom have become major literary figures. Each issue contains a wide range of material including: poetry\, fiction\, essays on literary and cultural topics\, book reviews\, reports from abroad\, and chronicles covering film\, theatre\, dance\, music and art. The Hudson Review is distributed in the U.S. and 25 countries. \nDeitz’s forthcoming book\, Thibaut’s Heart: A Journey Through France and Time\, follows Thibaut IV (1201–1253)\, Count of Champagne\, who was a famous chansonnier. Sixty-six of his songs have survived. He became King of Navarre through an uncle; and when Thibaut died in Pamplona\, his heart was allegedly returned to Champagne for burial in a convent in Provins. Curious as to whether his heart was still there\, she decided to travel the itinerary of his life to find what remained of what he saw in the thirteenth century. The book is a memoir of this experience. The Ensemble Alla Francesca performed ten of his songs in a concert at the Musée de Cluny\, and their recording will be distributed with the book. \nRSVP HERE
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/deitz21/
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SUMMARY:Privacy is Power (Véliz)
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nPrivacy is Power\nwith philosopher and professor Carissa Véliz \nClick here to RSVP \n\n\n\n\nAn urgent and hands-on guide for taking back our right to privacy\, Privacy is Power is full of simple and effective analogies that make it clear how companies are stealing our private data\, why this is harmful\, and what can be done about it\, while offering practical solutions for both policymakers and private citizens. \n\n\n\n\nClick here to RSVP \n\n\n\n\nCarissa Véliz \n  \n  \nCarissa Véliz is a philosopher\, an associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics in AI\, as well as a tutorial fellow at Hertford College\, at the University of Oxford. She came to Privacy is Power from a philosophical perspective: while researching her grandparents\, refugees from the Spanish Civil War\, she began to wonder if she had a right to the information she was discovering about them. Véliz’s journey to her treatise on privacy was personal and organic; the academics came later. \n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/veliz21/
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SUMMARY:History of Paris Scavenger Hunt (ages 6–12)
DESCRIPTION:For ages 6–12 \nCLICK HERE TO RSVP \nJoin us for a scavenger hunt full of facts and fun!\n \nThis event is planned to take place outdoors (so bring your rain boots and umbrellas if it looks cloudy!) and is intended for children and their caregivers. Stop by the Children’s and Teens’ Services Desk between 11h00–17h00 to pick up your scavenger hunt and find out the rules\, then set off in the Library and outdoors in the surrounding neighborhood to hunt down the answers to questions about the history of Paris’s 7th arrondissement. Masks are required for all participants over age 8. Please note: the majority of this activity will take place out of doors\, and all children must be accompanied by an adult chaperone! \n\nThis virtual event is free for Library members\, and registration is required. \n  \n\nIf you would like to support the Library and our services\, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service. \n CLICK HERE TO RSVP
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/history-of-paris-scavenger-hunt-ages-6-12/
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