For National Poetry Month: How poems can help now.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 6:00 PM | Special Event | Members' Room | open to the public | $20 per person | advance registration requiredUptown at Night returns to the Members’ Room with a vibrant new lineup of humorous storytellers and comedians including Lisa Birnbach, Annabelle Gurwitch, Maeve Higgins, Chip Kidd, David Litt, and James Harvey on piano.
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredThe editor of the American Scholar brings us the first major biography of P.T. Barnum in a generation, a vivid account of the forefather of American entertainment.
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Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 6:00 PM | Special Event | Members' Room | open to the public | free of charge | advance registration requiredWhile our country continues to wrestle with the complex legacies of slavery, a look at the history of enslaved people’s clothing and sartorial agency as a form of resistance. This event is co-sponsored with More Speech.
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Tuesday, September 10, 2019 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | advance registration requiredA mind-bending exploration of gravity, a cold case that scientists are closer to cracking than ever - and whose very investigation has yielded untold truths about the cosmos and humanity itself.
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Thursday, May 16, 2019 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredRunning from her father’s brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin’s daughter defects to the United States during the turbulence of the 1960s. This sweeping historical novel and unexpected love story is inspired by the remarkable life of Svetlana Alliluyeva.
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Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 6:00 PM | Reception | For members and guests | Members' Room | reception at 6:00 PM, presentation at 6:30 PM | free of charge | advance registration requiredThe New York City Book Awards, founded in 1996, honor each year’s best books about the city. This annual ceremony honors the winning authors and publishers.
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | Members' Room | open to the public | $20 per person | registration requiredUptown at Night returns to the Members’ Room with a vibrant new lineup of humorous storytellers and comedians including Jim Shepard, Emmy Blotnick, James Harvey, Jocelyn Chia, and Dr. George Lombardi.
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Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredBestselling author Lessard takes a deep dive into our surroundings—cities, countryside, and sprawl—to explore change in the meaning of place and reimagine our American landscape. Ms. Lessard discusses The Absent Hand with the president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies, author Elizabeth Barlow Rogers.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019 - 6:00 PM | Special Event | Whitridge Room | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredIn honor of Einstein's 140th birthday, a lightheartedly scientific look at his life, legacy, and ongoing popularity with physicist and playwright Stephen Rosen.
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Monday, March 11, 2019 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredIn connection to the Library’s exhibition Women Get the Vote, the founding director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation tells the stories of those who made women’s suffrage happen, based on her new anthology.
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Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | advance registration requiredWhy is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? one of today’s most compelling thinkers on the subject looks to her own life to help address these questions.
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Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | advance registration requiredCirce, daughter of the mightiest Titan and possessor of the power of witchcraft, crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all mythology. When she finds herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians, she must summon all her strength to protect what she loves most.
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