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Office Hours: Monday - Thursday: 10:30am - 6:00pm
Friday & Saturday: 9:00am - 4:30pm
We are honored to have Mark Polizzotti back at the Alliance, this time to discuss his recently published translations, including The Drunken Boat: Selected Writings, of the most provocative work by France’s legendary rebel poet Arthur Rimbaud, Kibogo by French-Rwandan contemporary author Scholastique Mukasonga, and last but not least, Scene of the Crime by Patrick Modiano.
Mark Polizzotti will be in conversation with our Executive Director Sarah Diligenti in English at our building on 2142 Wyoming Avenue NW. Copies of the book will be available for signing and purchase.
Doors open at 6:30 PM. A glass of wine will be offered before the event.
What is it really like to be a waiter in Paris? Edward Chisholm's engrossing memoir of his time as a Parisian waiter takes you beneath the surface of one of the most iconic cities in the world—and tells you the ugly truth about dining in the City of Light.
A waiter's job is to deceive you. They want you to believe in a luxurious calm because on the other side of that door . . . is hell.
We will host the author online on Saturday, February 18 at 2pm EST / 8 pm CET. Join us to listen to the conversation and participate in the Q&A.
This event will be in English. The book is available at Politics & Prose and participants of this event can use promocode SPECIAL10 for a 10% discount on their order. The discount is for ordering online only. Click here to order your copy.
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