On Saturday, November 16, join French best-selling author Marc Levy, American academic and librarian Emily Drabinski, and moderator Maris Kreizman for a conversation on book bans and censorship. 

The conversation will take place in English and will be followed by a book signing. This event is free with RSVP. Click here for tickets. 

This event is co-organized with Villa Albertine, and is a part of Albertine’s 10th Anniversary Celebration. 

MARC LEVY’s novels have sold over thirty million copies and been translated into over 40 languages, making him today’s most widely read French author. His English language debut, If Only It Were True (trans. by Jeremy Leggatt, Atria Books), sold almost half a million copies and was made into a film starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo. Marc Lévy has written over twenty novels, translated into forty-nine languages. 

EMILY DRABINSKI is Associate Professor at the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She publishes and presents widely on topics related to knowledge organization, information literacy, and critical perspectives in librarianship. Emily Drabinski edits Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies, a book series from Library Juice Press/Litwin Books. She is a contributing writer at Truthout. She is immediate past-president of the American Library Association. 

 Photos credits: © DR / DR