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Fashion Week at the Library

On 21 January 2024, the Library hosted the Winnie New York Fall 2024 fashion show, inspired by American surrealist jazz poet Ted Joans.

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Minister of National Education and Youth Pap Ndiaye (Library Speaker in February 2022) featured in Foreign Policy.

"The Education of Pap Ndiaye: A quiet academic becomes a lightning rod in France’s culture wars."
Foreign Policy, 17 July 2022

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On the Road Program featured on France Today

"‘On the Road’ with the American Library in Paris." France Today, 4 July 2022

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On the Road Program featured on Rapporteuses

" On The Road : la tournée de bibliothèques pop-up inspirée du roman de Jack Kerouac " Rapporteuses, 30 June 2022

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On the Road Program featured on The Local

"The American Library in Paris Goes on the Road." The Local, 29 June 2022

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The Library Featured in the Financial Times

The World’s Most Wonderful Private Libraries." The Financial Times, 13 May 2022

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Director Audrey Chapuis profiled by Damien Aubel in Transfuge

"Texas, Paris." Transfuge, May 2022

On newstands in May 2022 and for purchase on the Transfuge website

Janet Hulstrand writes about Diane Johnson's Conversation with Alan Riding on 30 March

"Diane Johnson and Alan Riding at the American Library in Paris." Bonjour Paris, 25 April 2022

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Author Janet Skeslien Charles shares a mystery from the Library's archives

"The case of the missing Jewish librarian from Chicago: Did she fall prey to the Nazis in France?" Chicago Tribune, 18 February 2022

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Director Audrey Chapuis shares special items from our archives on Kirsten Dirksen's YouTube channel

"In search of lost books: an odyssey across Paris." 22 May 2021. The Library appears at 12:12.

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Director Audrey Chapuis shares the Library's founding history and how it is reflected in our present values. Available in French and English.

"IdeAs. Idées d’Amériques" from L’Institut des Amériques, 1 March 2021

Children's and Teens' Services Librarian Kirsty McCulloch Reid discusses the Young Authors Fiction Festival (YAFF)

Right to Write—Paris on World Radio Paris, March 2021

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Director Audrey Chapuis at the 2020 Miami Book Fair

C-SPAN, 18 November 2020

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Janet Skeslien Charles on her Research for "The Paris Library" in LitHub

LitHub, 19 February 2021

The 2020 Book Award Ceremony Featured in France Today

France Today, 26 January 2021

Library Director Audrey Chapuis on FrancoFiles, the podcast of the Embassy of France in the U.S.

FrancoFiles Podcast, 26 January 2021

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American Library in Paris 2020 Writer-in-Residence Amanda Gorman spoke at the presidential inauguration on 20 January 2021

20 January 2021

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"Heureux comme un intellectuel américain à Paris"

M Le Magazine du Monde, 21 December 2020

Audrey Chapuis : l'American library comme refuge

France Culture, Radio France, 30 October 2020

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American Library in Paris Centennial Gala

France Today, 12 October 2020

100 Years! The Iconic Rise, Survival and Influence of the American Library in Paris

Inspirelle, 24 June 2020

La resistenza della biblioteche

Corriere della Serra, 31 May 2020

We’ll Always Have the American Library in Paris: Europe’s largest English-language library celebrates 100 years of service

American Libraries, 1 May 2020

19 Most Anticipated Books Coming This Fall 2019

France Today, 18 June 2019

A Sparkling Gala for the American Library in Paris

Vulture, 5 September 2019

The Timeless Appeal of an American (Library) in Paris

LitHub, 15 April 2019

American Library: Creating Community in the Center of Paris

Bonjour Paris, 21 March 2019

The Masterclass Report: Viet Thanh Nguyen

Claire Polders, 9 July 2018

The Ins and Outs of Local Market Produce in Paris

Bonjour Paris, 10 March 2017

Her Highness the Сoincidence: How World War I and Marlene Dietrich Helped Create One of the Largest Libraries in Europe

Bird in Flight, 10 March 2017

Jeffrey Goldberg à propos de Donald Trump

Le Monde Magazine, 24 Februrary 2017