Past Events
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Thursday, December 12, 2013 - 2:00 PM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room | For Members Only
Get the creative juices flowing in these fun and instructive sessions. Participants will receive a prompt and will have 20 minutes to write freely after which they are encouraged to share their writing with the group.
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
The distinguished historian and author of The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers offers a "superbly revisionist" (the Wall Street Journal) perspective on the role of extremist insults and threats, from both Nor
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room | For Members Only
For a novel to a page-turner, it doesn't have to feature a serial killer or ticking time bombs or car chases. It does need characters who the reader cares about and a story that unfolds and builds forward momentum.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
From the acclaimed author of Stuffed: an intimate, richly illustrated memoir, written with charm and panache, that juxtaposes two fascinating lives—the iconoclastic designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the author’s own mother—to explore how a g
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
The Parisians author shares his revolutionary findings proving how the scientific and technological genius of the Druids created the earliest known accurate map of the world.
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Friday, November 15, 2013 - 4:00 PM | Children | Members' Room | For Members and Their Guests Grades 4-8Young adult novelist Polly Shulman introduces the magical and mysterious New York Circulating Material Repository, home to items from fairy tales and science fiction.
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room | For Members Only
In this talk, literary agent and publishing attorney Jonathan Lyons will shine a light on the electronic publishing landscape today.
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Sunday, November 10, 2013 - 3:00 PM | Performance | Members' Room | Open to the PublicFlash back to a watershed year for the Gershwins, film music, folk, and blues with a lighthearted afternoon of songs and history anecdotes.Event Recording
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 5:30 PM | Lecture | Whitridge Room | For Members Only
Sherlock Holmes has inspired a remarkable cult of celebrity from his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet (1887) to his last case in “The Final Problem” (1917) and beyond into his “life after death.” This presentation by Hunter College'
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 11:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room | For Members Only
Get the creative juices flowing in these fun and instructive sessions. Participants will receive a prompt and will have 20 minutes to write freely after which they are encouraged to share their writing with the group.
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, 695 Park Avenue at 68th Street | For Members and Their GuestsThe National Book Award winner for Let the Great World Spin uses the tales of three travelers to Ireland to meditate on identity and history in a world that grows smaller with each passing year.
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Sunday, October 27, 2013 - 2:00 PM | Children | Presentation 2:00 PM, Members' Room | Reception 3:00 PM, Children's Library and Whitridge Room | For Members Only, Age 3 and Older
The Library celebrates the completion and opening of our renovated Children's Library with this special event featuring the current Babar creators, Laurent de Brunhoff and Phyllis Rose.
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicThe biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, fortunes won and lost, and histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a New England slave plantation three and a half centuries ago.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicAn outrageously funny debut novel about the gossip and scheming among three super-rich Chinese families when one of their heirs brings home his American-born girlfriend.
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room | For Members Only
You have a great idea for a new book. If you want to publish it, you must write a book proposal that will convince an agent (and then an editor) to take on your great idea.
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Monday, October 7, 2013 - 11:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room | For Members Only
This course will explore how words become the breath of life, creating in one dimension a multi-dimensional being. We will learn how writers allow us to see and know someone.
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Monday, September 30, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicEighty-three personal essays published in the Christian Science Monitor and elsewhere, on New York City life from Grand Central Terminal and Central Park to basketball and opera.
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicCalled “the first artist of the West,” painter George Catlin documented the diminishing Plains tribes, but courted controversy when he put his subjects themselves on display.
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Thursday, September 19, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
Brings back to life the extraordinary Victorian Janet Ross, traveler, journalist, and hostess in England, Egypt, and Florence.
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | For Members OnlyDr. Kraft leads an in-depth look at James’s masterpiece alongside Michael Gorra’s recent book about its creation.
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Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | For Members OnlyProfessor McDonough guides discussion of the major and minor writers, including Ovid and Cicero, read in Rome’s late Republic.
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Sunday, June 16, 2013 - 3:00 PM | Performance | Members' Room | Open to the PublicIn celebration of Bloomsday, the Library pays tribute to James Joyce’s legacy of provocative literature through an artful lens with a vivid rendering of Molly Bloom, performed by Getchie Argetsinger.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicAndrea G. Stillman, who worked with Ansel Adams in the 1970s, explores his life as an artist by looking closely at the stories behind 20 of his most significant images.Event Recording
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Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicBestseller Meg Wolitzer discusses her new novel about what becomes of early talent and the roles of art, money, and envy in close friendships, with Delia Ephron, author most recently of The Lion is In.
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Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicFrom the author of the number-one New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog, an equally smart, delightful, and startling exploration of how we perceive and discover our world.
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