Event Recordings
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorSnyder recounts the dramatic story of the Ethiopian emperor’s 1868 clash with the British Army in the context of his own 1972 trip across the country, photographing a world then almost unchanged from the prior century but soon to vanish due to famine and civil war.Event Recording
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
The distinguished historian and author of The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers offers a "superbly revisionist" (the Wall Street Journal) perspective on the role of extremist insults and threats, from both Nor
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
From the acclaimed author of Stuffed: an intimate, richly illustrated memoir, written with charm and panache, that juxtaposes two fascinating lives—the iconoclastic designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the author’s own mother—to explore how a g
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
The Parisians author shares his revolutionary findings proving how the scientific and technological genius of the Druids created the earliest known accurate map of the world.
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Sunday, November 10, 2013 - 3:00 PM | Performance | Members' Room | Open to the PublicFlash back to a watershed year for the Gershwins, film music, folk, and blues with a lighthearted afternoon of songs and history anecdotes.Event Recording
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicThe biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, fortunes won and lost, and histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a New England slave plantation three and a half centuries ago.Event Recording
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicAn outrageously funny debut novel about the gossip and scheming among three super-rich Chinese families when one of their heirs brings home his American-born girlfriend.Event Recording
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Monday, September 30, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicEighty-three personal essays published in the Christian Science Monitor and elsewhere, on New York City life from Grand Central Terminal and Central Park to basketball and opera.Event Recording
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicCalled “the first artist of the West,” painter George Catlin documented the diminishing Plains tribes, but courted controversy when he put his subjects themselves on display.Event Recording
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Thursday, September 19, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
Brings back to life the extraordinary Victorian Janet Ross, traveler, journalist, and hostess in England, Egypt, and Florence.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicAndrea G. Stillman, who worked with Ansel Adams in the 1970s, explores his life as an artist by looking closely at the stories behind 20 of his most significant images.Event Recording
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Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicBestseller Meg Wolitzer discusses her new novel about what becomes of early talent and the roles of art, money, and envy in close friendships, with Delia Ephron, author most recently of The Lion is In.Event Recording
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Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicFrom the author of the number-one New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog, an equally smart, delightful, and startling exploration of how we perceive and discover our world.Event Recording
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicContributors to a new anthology of essays looking deeply at the relationships between mothers and daughters discuss gifts from their mothers that served as models, metaphors, or touchstones.Event Recording
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 6:30 PM | The Writing Life | Members' Room | Open to the PublicJoin us for wine and refreshments as we celebrate the Hudson Review’s 65th Anniversary Issue, “Literature and the Environment,” featuring writers exploring landscape, memory, culture, and place.Event Recording
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Friday, April 12, 2013 - 6:00 PM | Reception | Members' Room | Open to the PublicThe Library celebrates National Poetry Month with contrasting readings by three acclaimed contemporary poets. A casual reception will precede the presentation.Event Recording
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Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicThe author of The Peabody Sisters rediscovers the Transcendentalist author, editor, and activist for modern times.Event Recording
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicIn celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, acclaimed historian James Oakes presents a powerful history reshaping our understanding of Lincoln and the Civil War.Event Recording
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Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicEminent literary critic Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in recreating the dramatic backstory of James’s masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady.Event Recording
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Sunday, March 3, 2013 - 3:00 PM | Performance | Members' Room | Open to the Public
Author and radio host Michael Lasser celebrates E.Y.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
Beth Gutcheon is the author most recently of Gossip (William Morrow, March 2012), and Lauren Belfer’s most recent title is A Fierce Radiance (Harper, June 2010).
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicThe bestselling author of The Happiness Project dedicates a school year to making her home a place of greater simplicity, comfort, and love, using her signature blend of memoir, science, philosophy, and experimentation.Event Recording
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicThe noted biographer erases the myths surrounding America’s queen of finance, worth the equivalent of over two billion dollars at her death in 1916, and finds in her fascinating life valuable lessons for the present economic times.Event Recording
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Friday, February 8, 2013 - 4:00 PM | Children | Members' Room
Author Elizabeth Winthrop tells aspiring writers, "By the time you are twelve years old, you'll have all the memories you need to write a hundred books." She herself is the author of the classic The Castle in the Attic and more than sixty
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Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicThe award-winning author of Door Wide Open, about her relationship with Jack Kerouac, presents a groundbreaking portrait of him as a young artist.Event Recording