Our Events

Past Events

  • Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - 6:00 PM | Members’ Room Event | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration required
    A practical guide to "narrative thinking," and why it matters in a world defined by data. Building on insights from cognitive psychology and neuroscience, Frank Rose shows us how to see the world in narrative terms, not as a thesis to be argued or a pitch to be made but as a story to be told.
    Embedded thumbnail for Frank Rose, The Sea We Swim In: How Stories Work in a Data-Driven World
  • Thursday, February 3, 2022 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | Livestream | open to the public | $10 per person | registration required
    An exploration of NYC and America in the burgeoning moments before the start of the Civil War through the eyes of a young, biracial girl. In this one-time-only event, the winner of the Center for Fiction' First Novel Prize converses with beloved fiction writer Meg Wolitzer.
    Embedded thumbnail for Kia Corthron, Moon and the Mars, in conversation with with Meg Wolitzer
  • Friday, January 28, 2022 - 10:00 AM | Online Event | On the Zoom Meetings platform | open to the public | free of charge | drop in
    Libraries, Reading Communities and Cultural Formation in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic is a three-year project based in the History Department at the University of Liverpool, investigating the contribution of books to social, cultural, and political change in the eighteenth century. The project's online team, together with partner libraries, will be running a Book of the Month Club throughout 2022, drawing attention to books that appealed to eighteenth-century library goers. As our inaugural Book of the Month, the team has selected David Hume's History of England. Read an optional excerpt to discuss and learn about this book's popularity and impact.
  • Thursday, January 27, 2022 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | Livestream | open to the public | $10 per person | registration required
    From one of today’s most brilliant and beloved novelists, a dazzling, epic family saga set across a half-century spanning World War I, the rise of Hitler, World War II, and the Cold War - the story of novelist Thomas Mann.
    Embedded thumbnail for Colm Tóibín, The Magician: A Novel
  • Thursday, January 27, 2022 - 11:00 AM | Whitridge Room Event | Whitridge Room | for members only | $45 for the three sessions | registration required
    Aeschylus' three-play cycle, the Oresteia, presented his Athenian audience with murder within a royal family poisoned by previous crimes and wartime decisions. What is justice and where does it lie in these plays, the only single day's trilogy to survive from the classic period of Athens' festival of Dionysius?
  • Thursday, January 20, 2022 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | Livestreamed | open to the public | $10 per person | registration required
    A winner of the Lincoln Forum Book Prize, LINCOLN ON THE VERGE tells the dramatic story of America’s greatest president discovering his own strength to save the Republic.
    Embedded thumbnail for Ted Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington
  • Thursday, January 20, 2022 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages

    Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages!

  • Wednesday, January 12, 2022 - 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.

  • Thursday, December 16, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Members’ Room Event | Members’ Room | for members and guests | free of charge | registration required
    Members and guests are cordially invited to a celebration of Library members who have published books in 2021.
  • Thursday, December 16, 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.

  • Wednesday, December 15, 2021 - 11:00 AM | Online Event | On the Zoom Meetings platform | for members only | $60 for the four sessions | registration required
    How does the 20th-century British novelist's combination of the visionary, the robust, and the outlandish have new relevance for the 21st century?
  • Saturday, December 11, 2021 - 2:00 PM | Members’ Room Event | Members’ Room | open to the public | $20 per person | registration required
    Clover is a new full-length play by Laura Rocklyn and Ty Hallmark exploring the life of Gilded Age Washington socialite and pioneer female photographer Clover Adams. Upon arriving in D.C., Clover dives into the political and social scene - but then the death of her beloved father and possible philandering of her husband subject her to the darker forces that run in her family line.
  • Thursday, December 9, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Members’ Room Event | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration required
    Ronald Koury and writers from The Hudson Review celebrate a treasury of unique and wide-ranging contributions, all establishing a sense of place, its history and significance. Light refreshments will be served.
    Embedded thumbnail for Ronald Koury and special guests, Places Lost and Found: Travel Essays from the Hudson Review
  • Thursday, December 9, 2021 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages

    Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages!

  • Wednesday, December 8, 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.

  • Wednesday, December 1, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Members’ Room Event | Members' Room and Livestreamed | open to the public | $15 per person | registration required
    In 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.
    Embedded thumbnail for Barbara Ascher, Ghosting: A Widow's Voyage Out and Peter Duchin, Face the Music: A Memoir, moderated by Linda Donn
  • Thursday, November 18, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Members’ Room Event | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration required
    The 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.
    Embedded thumbnail for Susan Nagel, Patriotism and Profit: Washington, Hamilton, Schuyler & the Rivalry for America's Capital City
  • 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!

  • 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.

  • Tuesday, November 9, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Members’ Room Event | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration required
    In this one-of-a-kind event, two scholars passionate about Woolf discuss her life and her place in literature.
    Embedded thumbnail for Anne E. Fernald and Roxana Robinson, The World of Virginia Woolf
  • Thursday, November 4, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Members’ Room Event | Members' Room | open to the public | $20 per person | advance registration required
    Uptown 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.
    Embedded thumbnail for Uptown at Night: An Evening of Comedy and Humorous Storytelling
  • 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!

  • 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.

  • Monday, October 25, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Members’ Room Event | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration required
    A 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.
    Embedded thumbnail for Cynthia Saltzman, Plunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast, with Xavier F. Salomon
  • 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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