American Library in Paris presents: Tilar Mazzeo and The Hotel on Place Vendome

This Wednesday's Evenings with an Author on June 25th, 2014 at 19:30, Tilar Mazzeo presents her book, The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris, "an extraordinary chronicle of life at the Ritz during wartime."  Set against the backdrop of war in Paris during the Nazi occupation, Mazzeo traces the history of  the icon's beginnings at the fin de siecle through its captivating story of opulence, glamour and espionage and the only luxury hotel allowed open while high-ranking Nazi officials made it their headquarters. 

Annie Bostrom of Booklist says: 

"...Amid chilling tales of the terrible ambiguities of war and the treatment and purging of enemies on all sides, Mazzeo offers lightness in her biography of an inarguably dark time through obvious care for her subjects. Friends and lovers abound, and all but the worst villains are showed multidimensionally,  as Mazzeo contemplates the Ritz, Paris and Europe in flux." 

Mazzeo is also the author of the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle Bestselling book,

The Widow Clicquot as well as  The Secret of Chanel No. 5.  She is an associate professor of English at Colby College and teaches nonfiction narrative workshops in British Columbia. 

The American Library in Paris  is located at:

10, rue du General Camou
(Just off the Champs de Mars and the Eiffel Tower)

75007 Paris, France

• Tel. +33 (0)1 53 59 12 60

http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/ 

The library will begin summer hours starting July 15:

Tues-Fri: 13h-19h, Sat: 10h-16h. Closed Sundays. 

Regular weekday hours will resume Aug. 19.

Sunday hours resume Sept. 7. 

ALP Presents: Evenings with an Author~ Amity Gaige

This Wednesday March 5th, 2014 at 19:30,

the American Library in Paris presents Amity Gaige, the author of three novels, 

O My Darling (2005), The Folded World (2007), and  Schroder,

named one of the best books of 2013 by The New York Times Book Review,  

The Huffington Post, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and many others. 

It's also been shortlisted for The Folio Prize. In 2006, Gaige was named one of the 

"5 under 35" outstanding emerging writers by the National Book Foundation. 

Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, says:

"In Schroder, Amity Gaige explores the rich, murky realm where parental devotion 

edges into mania, and logic crabwalks into crime. This offbeat, exquisitely written novel

showcases a fresh, forceful young voice in American letters." 

The Economist: 

"It is to the credit of Amity Gaige, an American writer, that her third novel, Schroder, 

transforms this thriller plot into a deeply moving tale...What distinguishes Schroder 

is its insight and language...Ms. Gaige excels at landscapes; her writing has the still, 

clear beauty of a mountain lake." 

 And Kathryn Schulz of New York Magazine:

"It's a mark of how good Schroder is that, upon finishing it, I immediately went out and

read the rest of her work." 

The tell-tale sign of a great writer! And I plan to go out and read all of them myself. 

Stop in if you're in Paris.
  

American Library in Paris  is located at:

10, rue du General Camou

(Just off the Champs de Mars and the Eiffel Tower)

75007 Paris, France

• Tel. +33 (0)1 53 59 12 60

http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/ 

Tues-Sat: 10h-19h, Sun: 13h-19h.

'Hamlet's Blackberry' author at the American Library in Paris

The American Library in Paris presents William Powers, author of Hamlet's Blackberry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age, Wednesday March 13, 2013 at 19:30 during the library's Evenings with an Author.

Powers, in his New York Times Bestselling book, goes beyond the current discussion and debate on whether new technology is harming our brains, our relationships and our lives but more to the point, how to deal with it and how we strike a balance.  Drawing on his own life and our technological advances, as well as including masterful thinkers like Shakespeare and Thoreau, Powers examines connectedness and its opposite and ways to balance to enrich our lives in the digital age.

Bob Woodward, (whom Powers once worked for) calls it "a brilliant and thoughtful handbook for the internet age." Laura Lippman, New York Times Bestselling novelist says it, "changed my life". Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman says Powers "offers in these pages an oasis of serenity and sanity."

You can read more about Powers' background at both linked sites above and buy his book here.
Another book I can't wait to read is one he mentions on his website in the News column called Race Against the Machine by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee on the economic damage being created by the rising competence of technology in the workplace. It's promised to be a quick read (only 59 pages) so I bought mine. You can buy yours here.


American Library in Paris  is located at:
10, rue du General Camou
(Just off the Champs de Mars and the Eiffel Tower)
75007 Paris, France
• Tel. +33 (0)1 53 59 12 60
http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/ 
Tues-Sat: 10h-19h, Sun: 13h-19h.