Our Events

While film and television lingers on classics of the genre, there are new novels that have taken the speculative genre by storm. We'll talk about how books by authors like NK Jemisin, RF Kuang, and more, broke the mold; why they appeal to readers enough to be bestsellers and award winners; and, most interestingly, what conversations they're having with the old classics of the genres.

Homer's Iliad is being read and reread. This seminar reads Homer's Iliad to discover why today's writers and artists are fascinated with an epic composed about 2800 years ago.

Let's cozy up with tales to welcome the coming of winter.

In connection with our Fabulous Fashion exhibition (open through January 15, 2023), an evening with the author of the definitive classic Couture: The Great Designers.

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.

Members and guests are cordially invited to a celebration of Library members who have published books in 2022.

Join your fellow member writers for a fun and stimulating hour+ of prompts, writing, and sharing.

Join a curator for an intimate look at photographs, books, and historical materials celebrating the beauty created by designers, photographers, illustrators and editors over centuries.

The Library will be closed all day Sunday, December 25 and Monday, December 26, for Christmas. Otherwise we observe normal hours.

While film and television lingers on classics of the genre, there are new novels that have taken the speculative genre by storm. We'll talk about how books by authors like NK Jemisin, RF Kuang, and more, broke the mold; why they appeal to readers enough to be bestsellers and award winners; and, most interestingly, what conversations they're having with the old classics of the genres.