Imperfect Life in a Perfect City: The Paris of Today with Simon Kuper and Pamela Druckerman

A conversation between journalist Simon Kuper and fellow journalist Pamela Druckerman about Simon Kuper's new memoir "Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century".

Filmed on 25/09/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.

In more than twenty years living in Paris, Simon Kuper has experienced the city both as a human being and a journalist. He has enjoyed croissants, taken his children to youth soccer in the banlieues and has watched Paris — and himself — change through terrorist attacks, heatwaves, protests, the Covid pandemic and the Olympics. His memoir mixes personal observations with reportage on the evolution of one of the world’s great cities.

About the speakers:

Simon Kuper is a Financial Times journalist who has lived in Paris since 2002. He is now a British-French dual citizen. His books include Soccernomics (co-written with Stefan Szymanski), Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK and, published in 2024, Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century.

Pamela Druckerman is a journalist and the author of five books including Bringing Up Bébé, which has been translated into 31 languages. She won an Emmy for The Forger, a New York Times documentary about a French teenager in WWII. Her op-eds, essays, articles and reviews have been published in the New York Times, the Economist, the Atlantic, Le Monde and many other publications.

Evenings with an Author is generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg.