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TODAY AT THE LIBRARY
April 25, 2022At the intersection of this year's Women's History Month (March) and National Poetry Month (April), we asked readers about their favorite woman poet. A wonderful assortment of older and newer voices across styles came in. Here are a few. - My Tab
Online Event
The Writing Life: Prompt! Spring 2022 (Online)
Friday, February 18, 2022 - 11:00am
Friday, March 18, 2022 - 11:00am
Friday, April 22, 2022 - 11:00am
Friday, May 20, 2022 - 11:00am
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on the Zoom Meetings platform | for members only | free of charge | registration required
Join your fellow member writers for a fun and stimulating hour+ of prompts, writing, and sharing.
Online Event
Digital Teatime
Friday, May 6, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, May 13, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, May 20, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, May 27, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 3, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 10, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 17, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 24, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
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for members | donations encouraged | drop in
Grab your favorite cup and your current read and spend a little time in social sipping and book-friendly chat with your fellow members.
Online Event
Neruda: Love and Politics, with Indran Amirthanayagam
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 - 6:00pm
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 - 6:00pm
Tuesday, May 10, 2022 - 6:00pm
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 - 6:00pm
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On the Zoom Meetings platform | open to the public | $30 for the remaining two sessions | registration required
When Ricardo Reyes took the name of Pablo Neruda, he started the most brilliant career in modern world poetry. He lived for 69 years and left more than 3,000 pages of published poems. He wrote the Spanish language's most beautiful and successful book of love poems, and he covered ecology, politics, the surreal, and existence with his pen. He was a natural force, a river, an ocean, fire, and thunder and a man subject to human frailty.
Whitridge Room Event
FULLY REGISTERED: Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and Three Books Inspired By It (and Him), with Jane Mallison
Thursday, April 14, 2022 - 11:00am
Thursday, April 28, 2022 - 11:00am
Thursday, May 12, 2022 - 11:00am
Thursday, May 26, 2022 - 11:00am
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Whitridge Room | for members only | $60 for the four sessions | registration required
This novel about Isabel Archer, a young American woman visiting extended family in England, has had admirers ever since its publication in the late 19th century - and the start of the 21st century has accorded an extraordinary degree of attention to the book and to its Manhattan-born author. Within a period of thirteen years have come a biography of the novel, a sequel to the novel, and a novel about the life of the author! Let’s read them all.
Children
Storytime Online
Thursday, May 26, 2022 - 4:00pm
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Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages!
Missed the latest Storytime Online premiere? The video will be posted on our Storytime Playlist shortly after, so you can participate on your own schedule
Online Event
Digital Teatime
Friday, May 6, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, May 13, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, May 20, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, May 27, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 3, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 10, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 17, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 24, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
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for members | donations encouraged | drop in
Grab your favorite cup and your current read and spend a little time in social sipping and book-friendly chat with your fellow members.
Special Event
Closing: Memorial Day
Saturday, May 28, 2022 - 11:00am
Sunday, May 29, 2022 - 11:00am
Monday, May 30, 2022 - 11:00am
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holiday closing
The Library will be closed all day Saturday, May 28, Sunday, May 29, and Monday, May 30, for Memorial Day weekend. Otherwise we observe normal hours.
Special Event
Closing: Memorial Day
Saturday, May 28, 2022 - 11:00am
Sunday, May 29, 2022 - 11:00am
Monday, May 30, 2022 - 11:00am
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holiday closing
The Library will be closed all day Saturday, May 28, Sunday, May 29, and Monday, May 30, for Memorial Day weekend. Otherwise we observe normal hours.
Special Event
Closing: Memorial Day
Saturday, May 28, 2022 - 11:00am
Sunday, May 29, 2022 - 11:00am
Monday, May 30, 2022 - 11:00am
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holiday closing
The Library will be closed all day Saturday, May 28, Sunday, May 29, and Monday, May 30, for Memorial Day weekend. Otherwise we observe normal hours.
Online Event
Livestream: Sara Cedar Miller, Before Central Park
Thursday, June 2, 2022 - 6:00pm
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Livestream | open to the public | free of charge | registration required
With more than eight hundred sprawling green acres in the middle of one of the world’s densest cities, Central Park is an urban masterpiece. But before it became Central Park, the land was the site of farms, businesses, churches, wars, and burial grounds―and home to many different kinds of New Yorkers. The historian emerita of the Central Park Conservancy gives us the authoritative account of the place that would become Central Park.
Members’ Room Event
Sara Cedar Miller, Before Central Park
Thursday, June 2, 2022 - 6:00pm
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Members' Room | open to the public | free of charge | registration required
With more than eight hundred sprawling green acres in the middle of one of the world’s densest cities, Central Park is an urban masterpiece. But before it became Central Park, the land was the site of farms, businesses, churches, wars, and burial grounds―and home to many different kinds of New Yorkers. The historian emerita of the Central Park Conservancy gives us the authoritative account of the place that would become Central Park.
Online Event
Digital Teatime
Friday, May 6, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, May 13, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, May 20, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, May 27, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 3, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 10, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 17, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 24, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
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for members | donations encouraged | drop in
Grab your favorite cup and your current read and spend a little time in social sipping and book-friendly chat with your fellow members.
Members’ Room Event
Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive: Universal Access to All Knowledge
Saturday, June 4, 2022 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
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Members' Room | open to the public | free of charge | registration required
Join the Founder & Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive, one of the largest libraries in the world, for a special two-part presentation and discussion on using this massive resource and on the societal and policy issue affecting access to knowledge.
Online Event
LIVESTREAM: Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive: Universal Access to All Knowledge
Saturday, June 4, 2022 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
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Livestream | open to the public | free of charge | registration required
Join the Founder & Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive, one of the largest libraries in the world, for a special two-part presentation and discussion on using this massive resource and on the societal and policy issue affecting access to knowledge.
Online Event
Writing Life Poetry Workshop: Come Write Poems with Esther Cohen
Thursday, May 12, 2022 - 2:00pm
Thursday, June 9, 2022 - 2:00pm
Thursday, July 14, 2022 - 2:00pm
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on the Zoom Meetings platform | open to the public; free for members | separate sessions | registration required
Join poet and teacher Esther Cohen to write the poems we've always intended to write.
Members’ Room Event
Exhibition Opening Reception: Fabulous Fashion
Thursday, June 9, 2022 - 6:00pm
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Members' Room/Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery | for members and guests | free of charge | registration required
Join us for a reception celebrating the new exhibition Fabulous Fashion. In the Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery you will discover a world of transcending beauty created by designers, photographers, illustrators and editors during periods of war and peace. Here are ravishing images and books culled from the Library’s extensive collection.
Online Event
Digital Teatime
Friday, May 6, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, May 13, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, May 20, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, May 27, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 3, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 10, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 17, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 24, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
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for members | donations encouraged | drop in
Grab your favorite cup and your current read and spend a little time in social sipping and book-friendly chat with your fellow members.
Members’ Room Event
David Santos Donaldson, Greenland: A Novel, with Bill Goldstein
Tuesday, June 14, 2022 - 6:00pm
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Members' Room | open to the public | free of charge | registration required
A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel about a young author writing about the secret love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl—in which Mohammed’s story collides with his own, blending fact and fiction.
Online Event
LIVESTREAM: David Santos Donaldson, Greenland: A Novel, with Bill Goldstein
Tuesday, June 14, 2022 - 6:00pm
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Livestream | open to the public | free of charge | registration required
A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel about a young author writing about the secret love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl—in which Mohammed’s story collides with his own, blending fact and fiction.
Online Event
Digital Teatime
Friday, May 6, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, May 13, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, May 20, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, May 27, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 3, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 10, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 17, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 24, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
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for members | donations encouraged | drop in
Grab your favorite cup and your current read and spend a little time in social sipping and book-friendly chat with your fellow members.
Special Event
Closing: Juneteenth
Sunday, June 19, 2022 - 11:00am
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holiday closing
The Library will be closed all day Sunday, June 19, for Juneteenth. Otherwise we observe normal hours.
Online Event
Isn't It Romantic? Romance Novelists in Conversation
Wednesday, June 22, 2022 - 6:00pm
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Livestream | open to the public | free of charge | registration required
Seven top romance-fiction writers - Ruby Barrett, Kate Bromley, Adriana Herrera, Timothy Janovsky, Yamile Saied Méndez, Farrah Rochon, and Jamie Wesley - join host Marialuisa Monda to discuss their beloved genre: from their upcoming/newly published works and their favorite romantic tropes to their writing process and tips for future authors.
Online Event
Digital Teatime
Friday, May 6, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, May 13, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, May 20, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, May 27, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 3, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 10, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 17, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Friday, June 24, 2022 - 3:00pm to 3:30pm
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for members | donations encouraged | drop in
Grab your favorite cup and your current read and spend a little time in social sipping and book-friendly chat with your fellow members.
Online Event
Writing Life Workshop: The Editor Is In: An Interactive Seminar with Walter Bode (6/30/22 session)
Thursday, June 30, 2022 - 6:00pm
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On the Zoom Meetings platform | for members only | free of charge | registration required
Books Walter Bode edited have won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this seminar, he’ll help writers find the most effective words and make the best use of them – based on participants’ own writing samples.
Special Event
Closing: Independence Day
Monday, July 4, 2022 - 9:00am
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holiday closing
The Library will be closed all day Monday, July 4, for Independence Day. Otherwise we observe normal hours.
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Exhibitions
The Library showcases our historic collections and the literary culture of the city with themed public exhibitions on the second floor. Exhibitions are offered for six to twelve months, and both members and nonmembers are welcome to drop by any time the Library is open.
Current Exhibition:
The New York Society Library
53 East 79th Street
New York, NY 10075
212.288.6900
reference@nysoclib.org
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Monday / Friday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday
9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
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Saturday / Sunday
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Holiday Closing:
Memorial Day
The Library will be closed Saturday, May 28 - Monday, May 30, 2022, for Memorial Day.
Otherwise we observe normal hours.
Otherwise we observe normal hours.