Past Events
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022 - 4:00 PM | Children | Whitridge Room | For Members | Kindergarten and upLet's construct contraptions to help storm the castle!
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Monday, December 12, 2022 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredIn connection with our Fabulous Fashion exhibition (open through January 15, 2023), an evening with the author of the definitive classic Couture: The Great Designers.
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Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 4:00 PM | Children | Whitridge Room | For Members | Ages 3 and OlderLet's cozy up with tales to welcome the coming of winter.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2022 - 10:00 AM | Children | Whitridge Room | For Members | Ages 24 Months & YoungerJoin us for songs, stories, and movement for babies and toddlers.
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Monday, December 5, 2022 - 5:00 PM | Children | Members’ Room | open to the public | for grades K and up | $10 per person | registration requiredMeet James Howe, author of the perennially popular Bunnicula novels.
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Saturday, December 3, 2022 - 3:00 PM | Children | Members' Room | Recommended for Ages 3 and Older | Open to the public | $10 per child | Registration requiredFeaturing interactive stories that celebrate YOU with a touch of magic, a dash of mayhem, and a pinch of mischief!
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Friday, December 2, 2022 - 10:00 AM | Children | Whitridge Room | For Members | Ages 2 and OlderEnjoy favorite nursery rhymes, picture books, and songs.
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Thursday, December 1, 2022 - 6:00 PM | Special Event | Members' Room | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredRelive the Harlem Renaissance and Roaring Twenties at a festive tribute to Harlem literary artists and the work they created or inspired - hosted by the Library and the Harlem Writers Guild.
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Thursday, December 1, 2022 - 4:00 PM | Children | Whitridge Room | For Members | Ages 3 and OlderPounce into the Library for frisky feline stories.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2022 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredOn the 150th anniversary of his birth, a definitive new biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history.
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Monday, November 21, 2022 - 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM | Special Event | Members' Room | free of charge | for members and guests | drop in
It's World Cup week! Join us in the Members’ Room to watch the United States Men’s National Team play their first 2023 World Cup match against Wales.
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Saturday, November 19, 2022 - 3:00 PM | Special Event | Members' RoomFor over a century, Marcel Proust has shown us how time can be converted into meaning. This special three-hour event brings together experts who have devoted their lives to Proust’s In Search of Lost Time to discuss key moments in the text and reflect on the impact of Proust’s great work on the world, with dramatic readings.
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Thursday, November 17, 2022 - 6:00 PM | Special Event | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredShirley Hazzard's authorized biographer tells the extraordinary story of the singular woman who created some of the 20th century's most enduring fiction, alongside other authors whose lives and works have been inspired and influenced by Hazzard.
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Thursday, November 17, 2022 - 3:30 PM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room | for members only | free of charge | registration requiredThe former Vice President/Senior Director of Publicity at HarperCollins discusses the relationship of author and publicist from galleys to reviews and events.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | On the Zoom Meetings platform | for members only | free of charge | 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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Monday, November 14, 2022 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredThe daughter of a famous journalist and his young British bride looks backward at her parents’ storied love affair in London during World War II, discovering that their wartime secret-keeping became a habit that undermined the peacetime marriage. In this special event, Alsop converses with Tim Gunn who, as the son of an FBI agent and a CIA librarian, grew up in the same strangely muted and ominous world that was cold war Washington.
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Friday, November 11, 2022 - 11:00 AM | Special Event | Whitridge Room/Zoom | open to the public | free of charge (donations welcome) | registration recommendedNovember 11, 2022 marks the hundredth birthday of author Kurt Vonnegut. Join us to make a Democratic Centennial Vonne-zine with Ayun Halliday, creator of the long-running zine The East Village Inky!
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Thursday, November 10, 2022 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | for members only | $75 for the four sessions | registration requiredHomer's Iliad is being read and reread. This seminar reads Homer's Iliad to discover why today's writers and artists are fascinated with an epic composed about 2800 years ago.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | 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 Patricia Marx, Dwayne Perkins, Laurie Rosenwald, and Sybil Sage, with James Harvey on keyboard. Sydney LeBlanc hosts.
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Thursday, November 3, 2022 - 2:00 PM | The Writing Life | Whitridge | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredIn this special event, bestselling biographer/memoirist Sallie Bingham discusses techniques, blessings, and pitfalls of writing about loss and grief, with a focus on her recent book Little Brother.
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Thursday, October 27, 2022 - 7:00 PM | Special Event | Members' Room | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredIn this special event, internationally praised vocalist Zachary James presents highlights from Kristin Hevner's opera The Raven, adapted from the beloved poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Mr. James and Ms. Hevner will also say a few words together about their collaboration on the piece and take questions about their work and the contemporary opera world.
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Thursday, October 27, 2022 - 4:00 PM | Children | Members Room | Open to the Public | For All Ages | Registration RequiredCelebrate the spooky season with swinging sounds and silly fun!
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Livestream | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredDuring the first generations of European settlement in North America, a number of interconnected Northeastern families carved out private empires. In Bound by Bondage, Nicole Saffold Maskiell argues that slavery was a crucial component to the rise and enduring influence of this emergent aristocracy. Bound by Bondage is a new chapter in the history of early North America.
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Thursday, October 20, 2022 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Livestream | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredAs part of our Fabulous Fashion exhibition season, the editor of the 2021 book Black Designers in American Fashion will explore how a selection of these designers fashioned their personas in the press as adeptly as the clothing they produced, helping to lay the foundation of how American designers are perceived today.
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Thursday, October 20, 2022 - 3:30 PM | The Writing Life | Zoom | for members and guests | free of charge | registration requiredThe Writing Life Daytime Talk Series resumes with Molly Peacock and Phillis Levin presenting Two Poets at the Table: A Dialogue Between Friends Sharing Poems & Food.
