'The Paris Library: A Novel': An American Library in Paris Filled With Heroes
The novel gives us real people who recognized the connections between books, liberty, and truth, and did their best to see that those links remained unsevered.
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The novel gives us real people who recognized the connections between books, liberty, and truth, and did their best to see that those links remained unsevered.
A quartet of library novels celebrates discoveries among the stacks, as well as adventure, an antidote to loneliness, and finding one’s community.
Janet Skeslien Charles Finds Her Way to Her New Book February 19, 2021 The American Library in Paris sits in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. Its collection of 100,000 books is spread over three stories. Members from 60 countries can work at long tables or whisper at the coffee machine. As the programs manager, I oversaw the ALP’s weekly Evening with an Author series, hosting journalists, debut novelists, and National Book Award winners. At events, I stood in the back of the reading room, one eye on the crowd, the other on my journal as I jotted down the writers’ words. During the day, a...