A preview of the most anticipated books for Fall 2020.
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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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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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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.
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | advance registration requiredA timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrants.Event Recording
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Thursday, November 14, 2019 - 5:00 PM | Children | Members’ Room | open to the public | for grades 3 and up | $10 per person | registration requiredFrom two extraordinary authors comes a laugh-out-loud novel about long-distance friendships and modern families.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - 6:00 PM | Special Event | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | advance registration requiredIn celebration of the bicentennial of our fellow historic institution All Souls Unitarian Church, scholar Linn Cary Mehta looks at the mission and history of the city's liberal institutions in the first half of the 19th century and their use by writers including Herman Melville and Catharine Sedgwick.
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Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | 6:00 PM refreshments, 6:30 PM lecture | for members and guests | free of charge | registration requiredSix gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine by any means.
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Thursday, November 7, 2019 - 6:30 PM | The Writing Life | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | advance registration requiredA gripping novel set during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King takes us back to the first real conflict of World War II, casting light on the women soldiers who were left out of the historical record.Event Recording
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Monday, October 28, 2019 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | advance registration requiredKatia Lysy, granddaughter of the writer Iris Origo, gives an intimate look at Origo’s life and memoirs, with images and information about the family estate of La Foce in Tuscany.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members’ Room open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredIn this one-of-a-kind event, two of today’s most original and acclaimed writers discuss their books, their craft, and their dogs.
