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Past Events
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Thursday, September 24, 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, September 23, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | online | for members only | by donation | registration requiredJoin master teacher Geraldine Woods to take apart classic sentences, see how they tick, and apply their secrets to your own writing.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us then?
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Tuesday, September 22, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | open to the public | by donation | registration requiredA husband, a father, a son, a business owner...And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi. Like Ocean's Eleven meets Drive with a Southern noir twist, S. A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland is a searing, operatic story of a man pushed to his limits by poverty, race, and his own former life of crime. Lee Child calls it "sensationally good - new, fresh, real, authentic, twisty, with characters and dilemmas that will break your heart. More than recommended."
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Thursday, September 17, 2020 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online (Zoom) | For all ages
Join us on Zoom for a virtual, face-to-face storytime.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredTwo acclaimed novelists discuss their research and writing about the experiences of women in the Second World War and its aftermath.
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Sunday, September 13, 2020 - 4:00 PM | Online Event | open to the public | free of charge | drop inStaffer and love-story reader Marialuisa Monda chats about guilty pleasures and pet peeves in classic romances and contemporary love stories.
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Thursday, September 10, 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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Tuesday, September 8, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | for members of the New York Society Library and membership library members | by donation | registration requiredIn Dawson’s Fall, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson’s great-grandparents, we see America at its most fragile, fraught, and malleable. Set in 1889, in Charleston, South Carolina, Robinson’s tale weaves her family’s journal entries and letters with a novelist’s narrative grace, and spans the life of her tragic hero, Frank Dawson, as he attempts to navigate the country’s new political, social, and moral landscape.
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Monday, August 31, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | YouTube | free of charge | drop inThe author of Free Food for Millionaires writes the sweeping saga of an exceptional Korean family through the generations.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Peanut butter and chocolate: what could be better?
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Wednesday, August 12, 2020 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online | Recommended for children grades K and up
Join us on Zoom for Globe Trekkers, a live, face-to-face storytime.
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Saturday, August 8, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us then?
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Saturday, August 1, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us then?
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Wednesday, July 29, 2020 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online | Recommended for children grades K and up
Join us on Zoom for Globe Trekkers, a live, face-to-face storytime. At event time, sign in to Zoom (
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Saturday, July 25, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us then?
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Wednesday, July 22, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us then?
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Monday, July 20, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredAn African-American writer’s concise, heartfelt take on the state of his nation, exploring the war between the values he has always held and the reality with which he is confronted in twenty-first-century America.
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Thursday, July 16, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredJamaica Kincaid is a writer and professor whose works include the novels See Now Then, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and Mr. Potter; a classic history of Antigua, A Small Place; and a memoir, My Brother. In this special one-time-only event, Ms. Kincaid talks about her work and the past and present worlds in which it happens.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2020 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online (Zoom)
Join us on Zoom for a virtual, face-to-face storytime.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2020 - 6:00 PM to 7:15 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | by donation | registration requiredLiberte! Egalite! Put on your thinking cap and join Library staff and friends for an informal hour of book-based trivia with a Francophone flair.
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Saturday, July 11, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us then?
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Thursday, July 9, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Online Event | 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 read these six books (of twelve) in Robert Fagles’ fine translation.
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Wednesday, July 8, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | by donation | registration requiredA special virtual tour of Margaret Armstrong's botanical watercolors from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Wednesday, July 8, 2020 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online | Recommended for children grades K and up
Join us on Zoom for Globe Trekkers, a live, face-to-face storytime.
