Friends, come and meet Lina AlHathloul, co-author of Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers on Sunday, March 20 at our no 9 rue de Medicis location.
The event is free but please register here for the event so that we may know you are coming. As always, feel free to share this event to friends and family!
See you there!
Hello friends,
Come and join us at any or all of our wonderful events!
Mar 20 at 16H: Meet and Greet with Lina Alhathloul co-author of Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers
Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers is a children’s picture book based on the experiences of co-author Lina Alhathloul's sister, Nobel Peace Prize nominee Loujain AlHathloul, who led the successful campaign to lift Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving.
This event will be at our No. 9 rue de Medicis location.
Mar 22 at 19:30H : A conversation between authors Yasmine Seale and Aysegul Savas on writing, art and myth, points of convergence, correspondence, portraiture and desire. Yasmine Seale is a poet and translator of the highly acclaimed newly published Annotated Arabian Nights. Aysegul Savas is the author of Walking on Ceiling and White on White.
Event will be held at our No. 11 rue de Medicis location
Mar 23 at 18:30H: An evening of poetry with Marilyn Hacker and Samira Negrouche
Marilyn Hacker and Samira Negrouche will present their new book Olive Trees Jazz. This bilingual French-English collection by poet Negrouche and translated by Hacker explores questions of language and identity. The poems confront a war-torn Algeria, amidst the Arab Spring, cataloguing, in Negrouche's luminary genre-bending poetry, grief, exile, and revolution.
The event will be held at our No. 11 rue de Medicis location.
Mar 25 at 19:30H An evening with Charles Bernstein, and Bruce Andrews as they present their new book L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E: The Complete Facsimile
The event will be held at our No. 11 rue de Medicis location.
Hello friends!
As you know, we opened our lovely second shop last November 2021. Stepping inside is like stepping into a treasure trove of books. For sure, there is a book for every bookish taste. We take great pride in curating a wonderful selection of books and are committed to bringing you the best experience inside our doors! It is with this in mind that we have decided to embark on several special projects. While no 11 is undoubtedly lovely, we would like to refresh the facade by giving it a fresh coat of paint. Another project we’d like to embark on this year, is to revamp our website and make it more interactive. We’d love to have a website that carries our inventory so that you can shop our shelves from the site. Last but certainly, not the least, we would like to ensure that we can continue bringing you the best selection of books and unfortunately, this is a challenge task during these Covid times.
With all these projects in mind, we would like to reach out to you, our bookish community, to ask for your support! You can help us by buying special 200 Euro gift certificates to help raise the funds necessary for our special projects. For every 200 euro gift certificate purchased, we will offer an additional gift certificate of 22 Euros. To purchase these certificates, please click on the link below and you can pick up the certificates or we can mail them to you. They are also available for direct purchase in our stores. If you mail us a check, we will mail the certificates to you.
For those who wish to support us with a different amount, please feel free to send us an email at @parisredwheelbarrowbookstore@gmail.com.
Thank you friends for all your help!
Come join award-winning children’s book author Maxine Rose Schur and illustrator Jeanne B. de Sainte Marie for a lively reading of Marielle in Paris, a charming story about a dress- making mouse named Marielle and a pigeon who take a tour of many of the beloved landmarks of Paris from above and below in search of her missing party dresses.
The event is free but space is limited. Children must be accompanied by an adult. In compliance with French regulations; masks are required for guests ages 6+ for this event at #9 rue de Medicis.
Join us on December 3 Friday at 730 pm for the book launch of Aysegul Savas new book White on White. Hailed by Lauren Groff as marvelous, White on White is masterful portrayal of one woman’s unravelling. She will be in conversation with Amanda Dennis, author of Her Here. Copies of White on White will be available for sale at the bookstore.
Last Friday, November 19, we celebrated the opening of our second store on Rue de Medicis. It was wonderful to welcome friends and clients and to show off what we have been working on all these weeks. We are so pleased with our new space and we hope you stop by soon!
Friends, we are so excited to finally open our new store on Rue de Medicis. You can now find more of your favorite books on number 11! To celebrate, we will have some drinks and light refreshments on Friday, November 19 from 6-8. Of course, this is also the chance to get started with your Christmas gift shopping! We have so many lovely new books, including a beautiful new edition of the Arabian Nights, and there will be special book bundles available for sale on that day. So mark the date down on your calendars and see you then!!
Friends, come and join award-winning podcaster Oliver Gee and acclaimed illustrator Lin Nordin Gee at the bookstore at 11 am on November 6 as they present their charming second book Roger the Liger in Paris. Paris comes to life through the eyes of the shy Roger, a friendly liger who wants to dance his way through the city. And yes, ligers, ( a cross between a tiger and a lion), while rare, do exist. Along with Roger the Liger, copies of their first book Kylie the Crocodile will be available for purchase at the bookstore and you can get them signed by Oliver and Lina. As always, the event is free to attend but please do send us an email at parisredwheelbarrowbookstore@gmail.com to let us know that you are coming. Kids must be accompanied by an adult and masks are required in the store.
Friends, we are so happy to let you know that the Red Wheelbarrow will soon expand to a second location. Two doors down from no 9 rue Medicis, will soon be our second home! With a second location, we will be able to bring you more of your favorite fiction and non fiction titles. Our children’s section will be expanded to include French children’s books. Stay tuned for more details about our grand opening!!
Please come and join us on Oct. 23 at 10 am for an in-store event with Ms. Katelyn Aronson. She will be doing a short reading of her books Piglette and Piglette’s Perfect Surprise. Her books will be available for purchase and can be signed by her at the store. Please note that kids must be accompanied by a grown up and masks are required for visitors age 6 and above.
The event is free but space is limited so please sign up through the link below. You can also sends us an email at parisredwheelbarrowbookstore@gmail.com to reserve your spot. Please indicate in your email the number of kids and adults who will be joining us.
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Mark your calendars friends and save September 29 and 30 because we have some great authors lined up for everyone.
On September 29, Wednesday at 7 pm, Ms. Janet Skeslien Charles will be interviewing Ms. Cara Black about her best selling latest novel Three Hours in Paris. Three Hours in Paris is an electrifying spy novel set during the dark years of WWII. A must read for fans of historical fiction!
On September 30, Thursday at 7 pm, we are very pleased to have Mr. Alexander Lobrano for the launch of his latest book My Place at the Table: A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris. This charming and poignant memoir is sure to please foodies and lovers of Paris.
Copies of Three Hours in Paris, My Place at the Table and The Paris Library will be available for sale at the bookstore!
Friends, come and join us on September 17, 7 pm for the launch of Jamika Ajalon’s book Skye Papers. The book has been hailed by the New York Times Book reviews and by Kirkus reviews as deftly plotted and fludily written. See you all then
Hello friends, we are very excited to host Ms. Gwen Strauss this Sunday, June 6 for an exclusive book signing of her newest book The Nine. Come and purchase your copy and chat with her as she signs your book. Event starts at 5 pm and will take place at 9 rue Medicis, 75006.
As always we will be observing mask use and social distancing rules.
See you all soon!
You can order/reserve books and either come and pick them up between 2 and 6 pm everyday or have them delivered or posted to you! We are working on a more interactive website, but you can also email us on parisredwheelbarrowbookstore@gmail.com or send us a message on our FB page and on instagram! Looking forward to hearing from you and seeing you! Thank you for all your support as well!
Deborah Levy is the author of seven pioneering novels, including the Booker Prize nominated, Swimming Home, Hot Milk, The Man Who Saw Everything. Her “living autobiographies”, Things I don’t Want To Know and The Cost of Living will be published in France in 2020 (Sous-Sol) translated by Céline Leroy.
Ayşegül Savaş’s debut novel Walking on the Ceiling was published in Spring 2019 by Riverhead Books. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review, and The Guardian, among others. She lives in Paris.
Public · Organisé par American Library in Paris, 10 rue de General Camou, 75007 Paris
Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion – and the Future of Clothes presented by Dana Thomas
Fashionopolis is the definitive book on the cost of fast fashion, and a blueprint for how we get to a more sustainable future.
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Fashion has blighted our planet.
Today, one out of six people on earth work in fashion, churning out 100 billion garments a year. Yet 98 percent of them do not earn a living wage, and 2.1 billion tonnes of clothing is thrown away annually. The clothing industry's exploitation of fellow humans and the environment has reached epic levels. What should we do?
Bestselling author and veteran journalist Dana Thomas has travelled the globe to find the answers. In Fashionopolis, she details the damage wrought by fashion's behemoths, and celebrates the visionaries – including activists, artisans, designers, and tech entrepreneurs – fighting for change.
We all have been casual about our clothes. It's time to get dressed with intention. Fashionopolis is the first comprehensive look at how to start.
“Lillith. A Novel in Fragments. Etymology of ‘novel’—"fictitious narrative," 1560s, from Italian novella "short story," originally "new story," from Latin novella "new things"… If we are to have a feminist poetics, a feminist poetry, that will have to be a ‘new thing.’ And new things are notoriously difficult to recognize and interpret. Jennifer K. Dick’s newest (in every sense of the word) book challenges us on every level: within the first few pages, we are confronted with scattered words on the page, an overprinted graphic, a phrase printed upside down… This book is an enormous (perhaps endless) journey, and, like all great journeys, includes elements of circularity, of reimaging, reimagining. We wander in a labyrinth of mirrors, seeing ourselves in these repeated, fragmentary stories, and in the deep and complex eroticism of this text. This is a book that resists summary or description. Like all real novels, it wants to and succeeds in including everything, especially moments of astonishingly lyrical writing: As now, on the bed, a feather, pages. This book is an event. It isn’t about anything. It is something.” —Ed Smallfield (author, publisher of Apogee Press books, USA, & editor of Parentheses literary magazine, Barcelona)
We are all living under spells, cast by our cultures, our families, our traumas, our limited beliefs. As we grow and learn, explore and develop, sometimes our "dreaming hearts" push us through our limitations and we find ourselves breaking the spells, liberating ourselves and those around us.
This collection, a sequel to Spell Breaking: Remembered Ways of Being, also edited by IONE and published in 2013, brings us more beautiful women's writing, revealing and illuminating how spells can be broken, surprisingly and with new consciousness. The dreaming heart holds our memories and deep desires, the secret keys to healing and reclamation. IONE is a master of assisting women (and men) to access the dreaming heart and to write from that inner source. Here she has gathered a new volume of spell-breaking essays, poems and memoirs. Featuring writings by Lydia Afia, Ximena Alarcón, Anne Bourne, Donnaldson Brown, Marine Bourcelot, Penelope Cookson, Sylvie Decaux, Rebecca Dolinsky, Laura Donnelly, Alexandra Enders, Andrea Goodman, Sarah Heikkinen, Anne Hemenway, Donna Henes, IONE, Erika Kramer, Enid Langbert, Michele Lunt, Pauline Oliveros, Karen Power, Dorothy Randall Gray, Amy Reed, Jesse Scherer, Starr, Sharon Stewart, Suiren, Catherine Texier, Toni Thomas, Jacqueline W. Vogel, Holly Warburton.
As a River (Jaded Ibis Press 2019)
It’s 1977. Bannen, Georgia, nestled amid pine forests, is rife with contrasts: natural beauty and racial tension, small-town charm and long-term poverty. An unsettling place for a Black man who fled it years ago and has since traveled the world.
But Greer Michaels has to come home, to care for his dying mother. And that means he’ll have to reckon with the devastating secret that drove him out in the first place.
Greer’s story is intertwined with those of the people around him: His mother, Elizabeth, who once had a dazzling singing voice but fell silent years ago. Their neighbor Esse, who has turned to religion after her own traumatic past. Esse’s teenaged daughter, Ceiley, an insatiable reader with a burning curiosity about life beyond Bannen’s town limits.
Written in spare and lyrical prose, As a River moves back and forth across decades, evoking the mysterious play of memory as it touches upon shame and redemption, despair and connection. An exploration of family secrets rooted in the turbulent history of the segregated South, As a River is ultimately about our struggles to understand each other, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
“Sion Dayson has created characters like blown glass: beautifully fragile yet impossibly strong. An extraordinary debut, written with deep feeling yet elegant restraint, that makes us question our own assumptions about family, identity, and love.” – Julie Christine Johnson, author of The Crows of Beara and In Another Life, a Foreword Indies Book of the Year
Sion Dayson grew up in North Carolina and earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Utne Reader, and many other venues, and her writings often focus on travel, living abroad, and her literary hero, James Baldwin. Her popular blog paris (im)perfect explored the City of Light’s less glamorous side. After a decade in Paris, she now resides in Valencia, Spain.
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