by The American Library in Paris
Recorded live at The American Library in Paris, the Evenings with an Author series features talks from authors, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, scholars, and other public figures. These talks happen over 60 times per year in the Library's Florence Gould Reading Room, and are supported by generous donations from GRoW @ Annenberg, library members, and those who attend programs. For more information about Evenings with an Author, visit americanlibraryinparis.org/evenings-at-the-library.
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November 14, 2021
<p>“What is it that a woman recognizes when she recognizes herself in another woman? This is the question that hovers in the margins of all three books in Léger’s exquisite trilogy,” Eula Biss wrote of Léger’s work in the <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/nathalie-legers-hall-of-mirrors" rel="noopener" target="_blank">New Yorker</a>. “The books are extraordinary in the way they are written,” Biss adds. “Léger’s sentences give the impression that they are doing exactly what they want to do. Her paragraphs are not dutiful, not in service to the previous or following paragraphs, but exhilaratingly independent…The essay, already a flexible genre, is at its most gymnastic here, as Léger passes through the many postures of a complex floor routine to produce one fluid, circuitous movement of thought. Her style, unconventional as it is, does not feel contrived. It feels inevitable—as if these books sprang from her mind fully formed, like Athena, born of a splitting headache.”</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Nathalie Léger</strong></p> <p>Nathalie Léger is the author of several short experimental novels based on her research work as a curator, as well as a volume of illustrated, aphoristic flash-fiction, published under a pseudonym. The director of the Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (IMEC), which gathers archives and studies related to the main French publishing houses, she lives and works in Paris and in Caen. She curated two Pompidou Centre exhibitions on Roland Barthes and on Samuel Beckett in 2002 and 2007.</p> <p><strong>Eula Biss</strong></p> <p>The author of four books, Eula Biss holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa and has been teaching at Northwestern University for fifteen years. Her work has been translated into over ten languages and has been recognized by a Guggenheim Fellowship, among many other prizes. Her essays and poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, Harper’s, and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. Biss was the Library’s Visiting Fellow from 2020-21. <strong>The Visiting Fellowship is generously supported by the The de Groot Foundation.</strong></p> <p>The discussion is co-sponsored by Dorothy, a publishing project, which is an award-winning feminist press dedicated to works of fiction or near fiction or about fiction, based in St. Louis, USA. North American readers can purchase the books discussed in this event through <a href="http://dorothyproject.com/">Dorothy’s website</a>. In the UK and Europe, these books are available through the UK publisher <a href="https://www.lesfugitives.com/">Les Fugitives</a>.</p>
October 18, 2021
<p>The American Library in Paris's Evenings with an Author podcast is back with a new season of author talks and panel discussions, recorded live in the heart of Paris.</p> <p>Does the retreat from Afghanistan mark the end of the American era, or else the start of a new one? This panel discussion focuses on President Biden’s attempt to reset America's place in a new decade of global collaboration, with a particular focus on Biden’s exit from Afghanistan and recent alliance with Great Britain and Australia.<strong> Robin Wright</strong> (the New Yorker), <strong>Steven Erlanger</strong> (the New York Times) and <strong>Serge Schmemann</strong> (the New York Times), drawing on their collective knowledge and long international careers, tuned in virtually for a moderated discussion. Hosted by Library Programs Director Alice McCrum.</p> <p>Evenings with an Author is sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg.</p> <p><br></p>
July 18, 2020
<p>American Library in Paris member, Dr. Robert L. Murphy has been at the forefront of every infectious disease global crisis since the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s. In this special Zoom session, Dr. Murphy will share with us the latest updates in the fight against COVID-19. He will also answer questions from the audience. He will join us from Chicago, where he is the Executive Director, Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Murphy is currently involved in cutting edge research in diagnostics and treatment of COVID-19.</p> <p>Recorded 15 July 2020</p>
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Recorded live at The American Library in Paris, the Evenings with an Author series features talks from authors, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, scholars, and other public figures. These talks happen over 60 times per year in the Library's Florence Gould Reading Room, and are supported by generous donations from GRoW @ Annenberg, library members, and those who attend programs.
For more information about Evenings with an Author, visit americanlibraryinparis.org/evenings-at-the-library.
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