Past Events
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Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages!
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Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 11:00 AM | Whitridge Room Event | Whitridge Room | for members only | $60 for the four sessions | registration requiredSix devilish figures in literature from the 14th century to the 1970s - will they strike us as scary? Hilarious? Intriguing? All of the above?
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Monday, October 18, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | Livestreamed | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredA culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it.
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Thursday, October 14, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Members’ Room Event | Members’ Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredLibrary members read from their own short stories, novels, poetry, criticism, memoir, and plays.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2021 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online (Zoom) | Recommended for children in Kindergarten and Up
Let's meet on Zoom at the time above for a face-to-face storytime. Our 2021-22 elementary age program explores the rhymes, rhythms, and pizzazz of poetry.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2021 - 11:00 AM | Whitridge Room Event | Little Whitridge Room | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredThis 6-week workshop will explore new ways of connecting to storytelling and discovering how fulfilling writing one’s own story can be.
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Thursday, October 7, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Members’ Room Event | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredNew York’s terrifying, if liberating, state of nature in 1978 also made it the capital of American culture. Over the next thirty-plus years, though, it became a different place. Thomas Dyja’s critically acclaimed account shows how this metamorphosis was, in large part, the story of New Yorkers from the poorest outsiders to the Masters of the Universe.
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Thursday, October 7, 2021 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages!
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Thursday, October 7, 2021 - 2:00 PM | Online Event | on the Zoom Meetings platform | open to the public; free for members | separate sessions | registration requiredIn this free-form creative writing workshop, we will explore what we can say and ways we can say it, by writing and reading together.
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Wednesday, October 6, 2021 - 5:00 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration requiredIn this seminar, we will read selections from Stuart Dybek, Edward P. Jones, Toni Cade Bambara, Tommy Orange, and Grace Paley to understand how each author animates place to create deeper meaning.
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Thursday, September 30, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | Livestream open to the public (Members' Room by invitation only) | free of charge | registration requiredThe brilliant scholar who served as guest curator for the Library's Black Literature Matters exhibition imparts the lessons bequeathed by the Black community and its remarkable artists and thinkers.
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Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | Livestreamed | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredA one-of-a-kind conversation between rising star fiction writers Deesha Philyaw (2020 Pen/Faulkner Award winner) and Dantiel W. Moniz (“a gorgeous debut” - Lauren Groff).
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Thursday, September 23, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | Livestreamed | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredA remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray.
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Thursday, September 23, 2021 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages!
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Wednesday, September 22, 2021 - 11:00 AM | Online Event | On the Zoom Meetings platform | for members only | $60 for the four sessions | registration requiredThis seminar looks at two of the most renowned novelists in the Portuguese language, José Saramago and Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis.
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Monday, September 13, 2021 - 2:00 PM | Children | Online | Free of Charge | Presented by the Center for Fiction - KidsRead | Registration Required
In his new novel Ground Zero, bestselling author
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Thursday, September 9, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | Livestreamed | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredThe Boston Globe has called Hilma Wolitzer an "American literary treasure." Here she discusses her new volume of uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collected stories with beloved novelist Meg Wolitzer.
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Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online (Zoom) | Recommended for children in Kindergarten and Up
Let's meet on Zoom at the time above for a face-to-face storytime. Our 2021-22 elementary age program explores the rhymes, rhythms, and pizzazz of poetry.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2021 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages!
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online (Zoom) | Recommended for children in Kindergarten and Up
Let's meet on Zoom at the time above for a face-to-face storytime.
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Thursday, July 1, 2021 - 2:00 PM | The Writing Life | online | open to the public; free for members | separate sessions | registration requiredWe will write about love and write about living and everything in between in this summer writing workshop.
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Wednesday, June 30, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | online | open to the public | free of charge | presented by the Boston Athenaeum | registration requiredInterweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts the origins of Juneteenth and explores the legacies of the holiday that remain with us.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2021 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | on the Zoom Meetings platform | for members and guests | free of charge | registration requiredMembers and guests are cordially invited to a celebration of Library members who have published books January-June 2021.
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Thursday, June 24, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredA poignant coming-of-age memoir by the daughter of artistic, bohemian parents—set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, Cape Cod, and Mexico.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages!
