Past Events
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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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Thursday, November 18, 2021 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages!
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Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - 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.
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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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Thursday, November 4, 2021 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages!
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Thursday, October 28, 2021 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online (Zoom) | For all ages
Let's meet on Zoom at the time above for a face-to-face storytime.
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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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Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages!
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Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 11:00 AM | Whitridge Room Event | Whitridge Room | for members only | $60 for the four sessions | registration requiredSix devilish figures in literature from the 14th century to the 1970s - will they strike us as scary? Hilarious? Intriguing? All of the above?
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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 14, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Members’ Room Event | Members’ Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredLibrary members read from their own short stories, novels, poetry, criticism, memoir, and plays.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2021 - 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. Our 2021-22 elementary age program explores the rhymes, rhythms, and pizzazz of poetry.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2021 - 11:00 AM | Whitridge Room Event | Little Whitridge Room | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredThis 6-week workshop will explore new ways of connecting to storytelling and discovering how fulfilling writing one’s own story can be.
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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, October 7, 2021 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages!
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Thursday, October 7, 2021 - 2:00 PM | Online Event | on the Zoom Meetings platform | open to the public; free for members | separate sessions | registration requiredIn this free-form creative writing workshop, we will explore what we can say and ways we can say it, by writing and reading together.
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Wednesday, October 6, 2021 - 5:00 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration requiredIn this seminar, we will read selections from Stuart Dybek, Edward P. Jones, Toni Cade Bambara, Tommy Orange, and Grace Paley to understand how each author animates place to create deeper meaning.
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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 23, 2021 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages!
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Wednesday, September 22, 2021 - 11:00 AM | Online Event | On the Zoom Meetings platform | for members only | $60 for the four sessions | registration requiredThis seminar looks at two of the most renowned novelists in the Portuguese language, José Saramago and Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis.
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Monday, September 13, 2021 - 2:00 PM | Children | Online | Free of Charge | Presented by the Center for Fiction - KidsRead | Registration Required
In his new novel Ground Zero, bestselling author
