Online activities for our Thanksgiving closing.
Event Recordings
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Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredIn this original series of live online events, hear the voices of Black writers through history re-examined to inspire understanding of race in our country today. This debut presentation features works from the 1700s with dramatic readings, historical context, and images.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | online | free for members of the New York Society Library and membership library members | registration required through the Athenaeum of PhiladelphiaThe Princeton University professor and author of BEGIN AGAIN: JAMES BALDWIN'S AMERICA AND ITS URGENT LESSONS FOR OUR OWN addresses the questions raised by Baldwin's 1962 essay "As Much Truth as One Can Bear."
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Wednesday, November 4, 2020 - 2:00 PM | Special Event | YouTube | open to the public | free of charge | drop in2020 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of New York City diarist George Templeton Strong. Join Library staff Harriet Shapiro and Cathy McGowan for a visit to Strong's 19th-century world with historical narrative, images, dramatic readings, and music.
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Thursday, October 29, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | online | free for members of the New York Society Library and membership library members | registration required through the Athenaeum of PhiladelphiaThe acclaimed biographer recreates a celebrated eighteenth-century London club that included critic Samuel Johnson, biographer James Boswell, historian Edward Gibbon, political thinker Edmund Burke, economist Adam Smith, painter Joshua Reynolds, and actor David Garrick.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | for members of the New York Society Library and membership library members | free of charge | registration required through the Athenaeum of PhiladelphiaIn the decades before the Civil War, African Americans in the North lived in an tenuous freedom, denied political rights and threatened with kidnapping and enslavement. In this presentation, REMAKING THE REPUBLIC author Christopher Bonner explores individual and collective strategies African Americans used to defend their freedom and secure rights.
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Monday, July 20, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredAn African-American writer’s concise, heartfelt take on the state of his nation, exploring the war between the values he has always held and the reality with which he is confronted in twenty-first-century America.
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Thursday, July 16, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredJamaica Kincaid is a writer and professor whose works include the novels See Now Then, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and Mr. Potter; a classic history of Antigua, A Small Place; and a memoir, My Brother. In this special one-time-only event, Ms. Kincaid talks about her work and the past and present worlds in which it happens.
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Wednesday, July 8, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | by donation | registration requiredA special virtual tour of Margaret Armstrong's botanical watercolors from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Monday, June 29, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredA genteel summer visit to 1815 with writer/actress Laura Rocklyn as Jane Austen.
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Thursday, June 25, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | YouTube Premiere | open to the public | by donation | no registration requiredOur New York City Book Award-winning poet reads from and discusses his recent work - a new collection that chronicles a weekend in the life of a group of friends coming of age in East Harlem at the dawn of the hip-hop era.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | onlineTwo remarkable writers join Chicago Review of Books Editor-in-Chief Amy Brady for an interactive discussion about the worlds of their novels and our current nonfiction world of climate change.
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Friday, June 5, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredAn interactive chat with author Gretchen Rubin on living a happier, healthier, more productive life even during and while emerging from the season of quarantine.
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Monday, May 18, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Online Event | YouTube Live | open to the public | by donation | registration requiredAn interactive chat with author and journalist Maggie Jackson on how to tame distractions, keep screens from taking over, and push back on the blur that work and home have become during the lockdown.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Special Event | Online | open to the public | free of charge | no registration requiredOur author-judges offer writing advice and inspiration in honor of this year's winning young writers.
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Thursday, May 7, 2020 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Online | open to the public | by donation | no registration requiredA long-overdue biography of the head of Grand Central Terminal’s Red Caps, who flourished in the cultural nexus of Harlem and American railroads.
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Wednesday, May 6, 2020 - 2:00 PM | Special Event | Online | open to the public | free of charge | no registration requiredAn intimate look at the world, family, and gorgeous art of early-20th-century book designer Margaret Armstrong.
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Thursday, April 23, 2020 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Online | open to the public | by donation | no registration requiredAn illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop.
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Monday, April 20, 2020 - 6:30 PM | Special Event | Online | open to the public | by donation | no registration requiredDemo: Poems is a dazzling volume that gushes with the rhythms of life and language, from award-winning poet Charlie Smith. As part of our National Poetry Month celebration, Mr. Smith reads from his work.
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Monday, April 6, 2020 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Online | open to the public | by donation | no registration requiredAn award-winning journalist shows how workplace diversity initiatives have turned into a profoundly misguided industry - and have done little to bring equality to America's major industries and institutions.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 6:30 PM | Special Event | Members’ Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredEarly American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce - the book trade and the slave trade. In conversation with the New-York Historical Society’s Edward O’Reilly, Prof. Sean Moore discusses the Society Library’s place in those worlds and his use of our City Readers database in his research.
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Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members’ Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration required"If you could read one book to comprehend American's foreign policy and its quixotic forays into quicksands over the past 50 years, this would be it." -Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review
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Thursday, February 20, 2020 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members’ Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredThe meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world - for contemporary art - is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers, who can make and break careers and fortunes.
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Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members’ Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredIn this occasional series, writers and patrons interested in the publishing world are invited to an insightful discussion with one of its stars. Here, a widely acknowledged thought leader about digital change in the book publishing industry shares cutting-edge insights and answers questions from writers and anyone interested in publishing.
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members’ Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredA daughter’s tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - 6:30 PM | Special Event | The Liederkranz Foundation, 6 East 87th Street | open to the public | $15 per person | advance registration requiredFrom the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books. Mr. Caro appears in conversation with historian and biographer Brenda Wineapple.
