Online activities for our Thanksgiving closing.
Past Events
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Sunday, November 22, 2020 - 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM | Online Event | Zoom | open to the public | free of charge | drop inWecome to the book side of Instagram - where readers, writers, and librarians come together to celebrate books and encourage reading. Marialuisa Monda and other Library staff chat with four major Bookstagrammers about their reading passions, libraries, bookstores, social media, and more. Bring your questions!
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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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Thursday, September 10, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, September 24, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, November 5, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, December 17, 2020 - 3:00 PM | The Writing Life | online | open to the public | by donation | separate sessions | registration requiredIt's an unusual year. There are so many words to say how we feel. Let's try together.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | online | for members only | by donation | registration requiredFeeling stuck in your writing? Uninspired? Overwhelmed? Break out your tarot deck and use the 78 archetypes to shake out of your writing rut and surprise even yourself.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us for the premiere?
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Monday, November 16, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredFrom the best-selling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time.
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Thursday, November 12, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredEnter the mind of French literary giant Honoré de Balzac through a study of nine of his greatest characters and the novels they inhabit. Balzac's Lives illuminates the writer's life, era, and work in a completely original way.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | online | for members only | by donation | registration requiredFeeling stuck in your writing? Uninspired? Overwhelmed? Break out your tarot deck and use the 78 archetypes to shake out of your writing rut and surprise even yourself.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | online | for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration requiredGabriel García Márquez was the most influential writer in the Spanish language since Cervantes. This seminar takes a deep look at his three major works One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and Love in the Time of Cholera.
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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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Sunday, November 8, 2020 - 2:00 PM | Lecture | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredMary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. Prodigy, visionary, 'outlaw,' orator and explorer. As society's outsiders, the exceptional subjects of this study inspired a new breed of women―and one another.
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Thursday, September 10, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, September 24, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, November 5, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, December 17, 2020 - 3:00 PM | The Writing Life | online | open to the public | by donation | separate sessions | registration requiredIt's an unusual year. There are so many words to say how we feel. Let's try together.
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Thursday, September 24, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Thursday, November 5, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | online | for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration requiredWritten at the request of the Roman Emperor Augustus, this 1st century BCE epic is much more than a piece of propaganda. We’ll complete the story in Robert Fagles’ fine translation.
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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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Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us for the premiere?
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Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | online | for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration requiredGabriel García Márquez was the most influential writer in the Spanish language since Cervantes. This seminar takes a deep look at his three major works One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and Love in the Time of Cholera.
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Monday, October 26, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredThe iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon CRAZY RICH ASIANS returns with the glittering tale of a young woman who finds herself torn between two men.
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Sunday, October 25, 2020 - 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM | Online Event | Zoom | open to the public | free of charge | drop inJoin Library staff and friends from two of New York City's great independent bookstores for an informal chat in honor of National Book Month.
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Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredA singular, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir of a Filipino boy with albinism whose story travels from an immigrant childhood to Harvard to a gender transition and illuminates the illusions of race, disability, and gender.
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Thursday, September 10, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, September 24, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, November 5, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Thursday, December 17, 2020 - 3:00 PM | The Writing Life | online | open to the public | by donation | separate sessions | registration requiredIt's an unusual year. There are so many words to say how we feel. Let's try together.
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Thursday, September 24, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Thursday, November 5, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | online | for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration requiredWritten at the request of the Roman Emperor Augustus, this 1st century BCE epic is much more than a piece of propaganda. We’ll complete the story in Robert Fagles’ fine translation.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us for the premiere?
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Thursday, October 15, 2020 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | online | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredLibrary members read from their own short stories, novels, poetry, criticism, memoir, and plays.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online (Zoom) | Recommended for children in Kindergarten and Up
Let's meet on Zoom at the time above for a face-to-face storytime.
