Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A conversation about Odile Hellier's new memoir "Village Voices: A Memoir of the Village Voice Bookshop" moderated by long-time New York Times correspondent Alan Riding.
Filmed on 15/10/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.
From 1982 to 2012, Paris’ Village Voice Bookshop was frequented by some of the greatest English-language authors of its time, such as David Sedaris, Amy Tan, and Don DeLillo. In "Village Voices: A Memoir of the Village Voice Bookshop", Odile Hellier recounts her store’s forty years of cultivating literary excellence.
About the speakers:
Odile Hellier was born in the South of France during World War II and raised in Lorraine, near the German border, and Brittany, on the Atlantic Ocean. She is the founder and owner of the Village Voice Bookshop, a hub of Anglophone literary life and culture that operated in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris for more than thirty years.
Alan Riding is a former correspondent of the New York Times, having been variously based in Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris, most recently as the paper’s European arts correspondent. He is author of books on Mexico, Shakespeare, Opera and the cultural life of Paris during the Nazi occupation. He lives in Paris with his journalist wife, Marlise Simons.
Evenings with an Author is generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg.
A conversation about Odile Hellier's new memoir "Village Voices: A Memoir of the Village Voice Bookshop" moderated by long-time New York Times correspondent Alan Riding.
Filmed on 15/10/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.
From 1982 to 2012, Paris’ Village Voice Bookshop was frequented by some of the greatest English-language authors of its time, such as David Sedaris, Amy Tan, and Don DeLillo. In "Village Voices: A Memoir of the Village Voice Bookshop", Odile Hellier recounts her store’s forty years of cultivating literary excellence.
About the speakers:
Odile Hellier was born in the South of France during World War II and raised in Lorraine, near the German border, and Brittany, on the Atlantic Ocean. She is the founder and owner of the Village Voice Bookshop, a hub of Anglophone literary life and culture that operated in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris for more than thirty years.
Alan Riding is a former correspondent of the New York Times, having been variously based in Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris, most recently as the paper’s European arts correspondent. He is author of books on Mexico, Shakespeare, Opera and the cultural life of Paris during the Nazi occupation. He lives in Paris with his journalist wife, Marlise Simons.
Evenings with an Author is generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg.
