Food is an experience - identity - life - and a rich topic for fictional portrayals.
Event Recordings
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Thursday, December 9, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Members’ Room Event | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredRonald Koury and writers from The Hudson Review celebrate a treasury of unique and wide-ranging contributions, all establishing a sense of place, its history and significance. Light refreshments will be served.
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Wednesday, December 1, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Members’ Room Event | Members' Room and Livestreamed | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredIn this unique event, author and journalist Barbara Ascher and celebrated bandleader Peter Duchin share memoirs reflecting on love, family, grief, and what comes after the life one expected.
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Thursday, November 18, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Members’ Room Event | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredThe untold story of how America’s beloved first president, George Washington, borrowed, leveraged, and coerced his way into masterminding the key land purchase of the American era, which led to the creation of the nation’s capital city.
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Tuesday, November 9, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Members’ Room Event | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredIn this one-of-a-kind event, two scholars passionate about Woolf discuss her life and her place in literature.
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Thursday, November 4, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Members’ Room Event | Members' Room | open to the public | $20 per person | advance registration requiredUptown at Night returns to the Members’ Room with a vibrant lineup of humorous storytellers and comedians including Joan Juliet Buck, Sloane Crosley, Patty Kiernan, Tom Perrotta, and James Harvey on keyboard. Sydney LeBlanc hosts.
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Monday, October 25, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Members’ Room Event | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredA captivating study of Napoleon’s plundering of Europe’s art for the Louvre, told through the story of a Renaissance masterpiece seized from Venice. Author Cynthia Saltzman talks about the history and the art with Xavier F. Salomon, The Frick Collection Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator. A noted Veronese scholar, Salomon curated the 2014 exhibition on the artist at London's National Gallery.
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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 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, 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 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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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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Monday, June 14, 2021 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | online | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredAcclaimed mystery writers Jeffery Deaver, Laurie King, Charles Todd, and Caroline Todd discuss crafting mysteries and their ever-shifting publishing landscape. This panel celebrates the release of HOW TO WRITE A MYSTERY: A HANDBOOK FROM MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA.
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Wednesday, June 9, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Special Event | YouTube Live | open to the public | drop inThe New York City Book Awards, founded in 1996, honor each year’s best books about the city. This year's special ceremony honors the creators of great New York City books from 2019 and 2020.
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Thursday, June 3, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Special Event | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredFrom an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel about a New Mexican family’s extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. In this special event, Ms. Quade talks about THE FIVE WOUNDS and the art of fiction writing with award-winning novelist Meg Wolitzer.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Reception | YouTube Live | open to the public | drop inAward winners and participants are celebrated at a ceremony with writing advice and inspiration from the author judges.
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Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredIn this original series of live online events, Black writers from the 1700s to the present are re-examined to inspire understanding of race in our country today. Black Literature Matters celebrates Black writers in four extraordinary evenings. This final event of the series showcases brief excerpts from the work of writers from 1960 to the present.
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Tuesday, May 4, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredWhat would Willa Cather's widely read and cherished novels have looked like if she had never met magazine editor and copywriter Edith Lewis? A groundbreaking new look at the American novelist's creative process.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Special Event | online | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredEdward Hirsch's new book presents 100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of HOW TO READ A POEM. In this special event, Dr. Hirsch introduces the poems and their creators, with moving readings by actors R.J. Foster and Sarah Rose Kearns.
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Monday, April 19, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredIn this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan, Columbus, and Marco Polo brings alive the singular life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, the pirate/explorer/admiral whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history.
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Mary Schmidt Campbell, An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden, with special guests
Monday, April 12, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | onlineAN AMERICAN ODYSSEY illuminates the life and work of Romare Bearden, whose art celebrated the traditions and ceremonies of African American culture. In this special event, biographer Mary Schmidt Campbell discusses Bearden's life and art and talks with gallery owners Sherman Edmiston and June Kelly.
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Thursday, March 25, 2021 - 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 third presentation brings to life the first half of the 20th century with dramatic readings, historical context, and images.
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Monday, March 15, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredFrom the author of MIDNIGHT, a poignant tale about one woman’s quest to recover her family’s history, and a story of loss and survival during the Holocaust.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredThis richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. "Nimura casts a thoughtful and revelatory new light onto women’s and medical history." (Publishers Weekly)
