Evenings with an Author
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Recognition and Womanhood with Nathalie Léger & Eula Biss
14 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“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...
A New Era of US Foreign Policy, with Robin Wright, Steven Erlanger, and Serge Schmemann
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ask the Doctor: COVID-19 update by Dr. Rob Murphy
18 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Cause of Death: COVID-19, Police Violence, or Racism?: A Conversation about Racial Inequalities in France and the United States with Dr. Jean Beaman and Inès Seddiki
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For this evening of conversation, Inès Seddiki interviewed Jean Beaman about her research, including her book, Citizen Outsider: Children of North Af...
Mark Mayer, Distance (and Social Distance) in the Literary Imagination
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An exploration of how distance and solitude can spur the literary imagination and how 2020-style social distance can kill it. Part craft talk, part Zo...
Anissa Bouziane, Dune Song
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Please join us for an informal conversation with author Anissa M. Bouziane. Anissa was born in Tennessee, daughter of a Moroccan father and ...
Whitney Scharer, The Life of Photographer Lee Miller and 'The Age of Light'
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Please join us as we check in with author Whitney Scharer, author of The Age of Light. This absorbing debut tells a fictionalized account of...
Susan Harlan, Tote Bags as Autobiography
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Please join us for a fun and informal talk by author and professor Susan Harlan, who has the rare gift of making the ordinary extraordinary for her re...
Elaine Sciolino, Life on the Rue des Martyrs during Quarantine
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Please join us for an informal and uplifting check-in with author and journalist Elaine Sciolino. Following country-wide quarantine measures put in pl...
Michael Webber, The Story of Energy and the Looming Energy Crisis
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A global tour of energy – the builder of human civilization and also its greatest threat. Energy is humanity’s single most important resource. In ...
Dana Thomas, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry – and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to refor...
Susan Harlan, “Souvenirs of Paris”
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What would Paris be without its souvenirs? Snow globes, keychains, and fridge magnets seem to be everywhere. We often think of souvenirs as worthless ...
George Packer in conversation with Thomas Chatterton Williams
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
George Packer is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a former staff writer for The New Yorker. He is the author, most recently, of Our Man: Richard Ho...
Emma Jacobs in conversation with Stephanie Nadalo, The Little(r) Museums of Paris
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Emma Jacobs discusses her book, The Little(r) Museums of Paris, part guide-part travelogue through Paris’ landscape of small museum...
Tony Perrottet, Secrets of the Cuban Revolution
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Most people are familiar with the basics of the Cuban Revolution of 1956 to 1959: It was led by two of the 20th century’s most charismatic figures, ...
Nicolas Le Goff, Another Paris: 10 Walks in the Districts that are Transforming the East of Paris
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Another Paris: 10 Walks in the Districts that are Transforming the East of Paris– Industrial Wastelands, Contemporary Architecture, Shared Gardens, ...
Tessa Hadley, Late in the Day
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tessa Hadley is the author of six highly praised novels, Accidents in the Home, which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Everything Wil...
Thomas Chatterton Williams in conversation with Lauren Collins
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics. A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves,&n...