Friday September 12 - 8pm
Q&A and book signing in the evening at IFC Center.
Check www.ifccenter.com for details.

Saturday September 13 - 4:45pm
Q&A and book signing at the Paris Theater (following their last matinee).
Check The Paris Theater for details.

Sunday, September 14 - 11am
Reading at the Brooklyn Book Festival.
Past Forward. Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Beautiful Struggle) and French author Philippe Grimbert (Memory) read from their memoirs about the enduring, startling and resonant moments of family, political and social history. Followed by Q & A.
For more information: myspace.com/brooklynbookfestival
And please check out our page on the Brooklyn Book Festival

Tuesday, September 16 - 6pm
Debate at the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction
Inventing the Past: The Contemporary European Novel, with Philippe Grimbert, Jose Eduardo Agualusa and Jose Luis Pexioto, moderated by Ron Hogan.
For more information: www.mercantilelibrary.org

Novelist and essayist Philippe Grimbert was born in 1948 in Paris. He is a psychoanalyst, and lives in Paris. He is the author of several works of nonfiction: Psychanalyse de la chanson (Les Belles Lettres, 1996), Pas de fumée sans Freud (Armand Colin, 1999; Hachette Littérature, 2001) and Chantons sous la psy (Hachette Littérature, 2002). His first novel, La Petite Robe de Paul, was published by Grasset in 2001.

Memory is Philippe Grimbert’s first book to be translated into English. The book was originally published as Secret in the United Kingdom (Portobello Books, March 2007). It will be released by Simon and Schuster during the winter 2008. The book was adapted by the French filmmaker Claude Miller in a film titled Un Secret (2007) with Cécile de France and Patrick Bruel.