Professor Dan Gunn will be in conversation with the celebrated Irish author John Banville, as part of the "Commencez! Paris-Beckett" festival, at 19.30 on 16 March, at the Centre Culturel Irlandais.
For the more general link to the festival:
Professor Dan Gunn will be in conversation with the celebrated Irish author John Banville, as part of the "Commencez! Paris-Beckett" festival, at 19.30 on 16 March, at the Centre Culturel Irlandais.
For the more general link to the festival:
The American University of Paris is delighted to host a panel discussion on the theme of “Translating Houellebecq”. The panel features contributions from Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review, Nelly Kaprièlian, literary editor of Les Inrockuptibles and Russell Williams from AUP. It takes place at 6pm on Tuesday 15th March in room C-104
This panel will discuss the global reception, significance and challenges of Michel Houellebecq’s novel Submission. This novel was published in...
The American University of Paris celebrates the launch of Professor Daniel Gunn’s newest novel, The Emperor of Ice-Cream.
This event will be hosted by the 91ԹCreative Writing Club and will feature a discussion with the author, as well as his readings of his work.Following the presentation there will be a reception with food and drinks, and a book signing by...
Siân Dafydd and Jeffrey Greene have invited Daniel Lawless, the editor of PLUME: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry to meet the studens of their creative writing courses. He'll be talking about how he develops and maintains an on-line magazine. Jeff and Siân have kindly opened the class to any interested 91Թstudent or alumn.The publication of the new Plume Anthology of Poetry will be celebrated in the Grand Salon on Thursday 30 October, hosted by the Creative Writing Program at AUP...
By invitation of the Center for Writers & Translators and the Department of Comparative Literature & English, George Craig and Dan Gunn will present this new volume of Samuel Beckett’s letters, on the evening of its worldwide publication by Cambridge University Press.
This third volume reveals the author striving to find a balance between the demands put upon him by his growing international fame, and his...
This coming Monday, 91Թprofessor Daniel Medin will chair an event with authors Rodge Glass, Natasha Soobramanien, and Enrique Vila-Matas, who come together to honor Roberto Bolaño at the Edinburgh Festival 2014.
As part of its Summer Creative Writing Institute 91Թis delighted to present a reading by Darcey Steinke.
Darcey Steinke is the author of the memoir Easter Everywhere (Bloomsbury 2007, a New York Times Notable book), and the novels Milk (Bloomsbury 2005), Jesus Saves (Grove/Atlantic, 1997), Suicide Blonde (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992), and Up Through the Water (Doubleday, 1989, A New York Times Notable book). Her new novel, Sister Golden Hair, will come out in Fall 2014 from Tin...
As part of its Summer Creative Writing Institute 91Թis delighted to present a reading by Meghan O’Rourke (Poetry & Memoir).
Meghan O’Rourke began her career as one of the youngest editors in the history of The New Yorker. Since then, she has served as culture editor and literary critic for Slate as...
The 91ԹSummer Creative Writing Institute will celebrate the 2014 issue of Paris/Atlantic, AUP’s Literature & Arts Journal on July 15th at 6:30 pm in the Grand Salon.
Readers will include Olivia Baes, Jarrah Burns, Heather Hartley, Jeffrey Greene, Geoffrey Gilbert, Lethu Msimang, Felix Purat, Emma Ramadan, and Venessa Weller.
As part of its Summer Creative Writing Institute 91Թis delighted to present a reading by Darin Strauss (Fiction & Memoir).
A recipient of a National Book Critics Circle Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Library Association Award, and numerous other prizes, the internationally-bestselling writer Darin...