Now open in the Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery: The Book Beautiful
Past Events
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Reception | Members' Room/Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery | for members and guests | free of charge | registration required
Library members and their guests are cordially invited to join exhibition curator Harriet Shapiro, Head of Special Collections Barbara Bieck, and special guests including members of the Armstrong family for the opening reception of our new 2020 ex
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Monday, December 16, 2019 - 6:00 PM | Reception | Members’ Room | for members and guests | free of charge | registration requiredMembers and guests are cordially invited to a celebration of Library members who have published books July-December 2019.
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Sunday, December 15, 2019 - 2:30 PM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | for members only | by donation | advance registration requiredEducator Blanche Siegal leads informal discussions of the beloved Victorian author Anthony Trollope and other master writers of the same century. This popular group is now in its ninth season.
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Friday, December 13, 2019 - 2:00 PM | Special Event | Whitridge Room | for members only | for adults and teens in grade 9 and older | free of charge | registration requiredIlluminated manuscripts are handwritten manuscripts decorated with brilliant colors and gold. In this workshop with Library Conservator Christina Amato, participants will decorate an initial or simple illustration with gouache paint and real gold leaf.
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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, December 10, 2019 - 11:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room | for members only | free of charge | advance registration requiredThe higher your search ranking, the more likely your website will be found. In this talk, Miral Sattar will show you best practices for optimizing your web pages and getting the best results from searches on Google and Amazon so writers can get found, read, and followed.
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Saturday, December 7, 2019 - 3:00 PM | Children | Members’ Room | open to the public | for ages 5 and older | $10 per personEnjoy an entertaining puppet show from the acclaimed author-illustrator.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2019 - 6:00 PM | Special Event | Whitridge Room | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredJoin us as we focus on the extraordinary leadership of women in the creation of today’s vibrant Off-Broadway.
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Tuesday, December 3, 2019 - 6:00 PM | Performance | Whitridge Room | Open to the public | $20 per person | advance registration requiredOne night in December 1802, Jane Austen must face a difficult choice around love, community, and art in this play-in-progress by Sarah Rose Kearns.
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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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Sunday, November 17, 2019 - 2:00 PM | Performance | Members' Room | open to the public | $20 per person | advance registration required
A group of talented Dramatists Guild playwrights have created original short plays inspired by episodes in the Library's own past.
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Saturday, November 16, 2019 - 3:00 PM | Children | Whitridge Room | for members and guests | ages 3 and older | $10 per child | registration requiredA captivating storyteller shares tales from around the world that families will treasure.
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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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Wednesday, November 6, 2019 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | Members’ Room open to the public | $15 per person | advance registration requiredLibrary members read from their own short stories, novels, poetry, criticism, memoir, and plays. Refreshments and wine will be served.
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019 - 2:00 PM | Special Event | Whitridge Room | for members only | free of charge | advance registration requiredJoin a Rosenbach Museum curator to learn more about the Library’s connection to one of America’s most important literary and historical figures.
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Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - 11:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room | for members only | free of charge | advance registration requiredThe higher your search ranking, the more likely your website will be found. In this talk, Miral Sattar will show you best practices for optimizing your web pages and getting the best results from searches on Google and Amazon so writers can get found, read, and followed.
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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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Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room | for members only | free of charge | advance registration requiredBooks 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.
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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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Tuesday, October 22, 2019 - 5:00 PM | Children | Whitridge Room | for members and guests | grades 3 and up | $15 per child | registration requiredShare poetry and snacks with a poet and novelist as you develop your poetic voice.
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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, October 2, 2019 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | advance registration requiredThis seminar looks at Whitman (born in May 1819) as poet, American, man.
