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    • Study Room Availability
      (policy updated 12/20/2022)

       

      Our COVID-19 response (latest update 10/7/2022)

       

      Black Literature Matters

      TODAY AT THE LIBRARY

      • Member Orientation (1/30/23 session)

      Upcoming Events

      • Livestream: Devoney Looser, Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës
      • Young Writers' Workshop: Poetry Café with Ellen Hagan
      • The Writing Life: Prompt! In Person with Carol Weston
      NEW BOOKS LIST
       

      Book Recommendations

      • Hop to It! Our Favorite Bunny Books
      • What We Read in 2022

      Library Blog

      Grace Notes: Thoughts on Thanks by Janice P. Nimura
      January 23, 2023
      Woman - Life - Freedom: Human Rights in Iran and Elsewhere
      January 19, 2023
      The first - not necessarily best - American novel
      January 18, 2023

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Past Exhibitions

  • Grace Notes: Writers Acknowledge the Library
  • Quack! Quack! The Wonderful World of Robert Quackenbush
  • Fabulous Fashion
  • Black Literature Matters
  • The Book Beautiful: Margaret Armstrong & Her Bindings
  • Wanderlust: Your Favorite Travel Books
  • Women Get the Vote: A Historic Look at the 19th Amendment
  • On the Town: Your Favorite New York City Reads
  • The New York World of Willa Cather
  • Broken Beauty: Ruins of the Ancient World
  • Pop-Up Exhibition: Herman Melville's New York, 1850
  • Sarah Parker Goodhue: A Hidden Collection Comes to Light
  • A Pop-Up Display: Alexander Hamilton
  • Readers Make Their Mark: Annotated Books at the New York Society Library
  • From the Western Front and Beyond: The Writings of World War One
  • Extraordinary Gifts: Rare Books Presented to The New York Society Library, 1754-2012
  • Edith Wharton's New York City: A Backward Glance
  • Writing the Garden: A Literary Conversation Across Two Centuries
  • Literary Lives: The World of Francis Steegmuller and Shirley Hazzard
  • The President's Wife and the Librarian: Letters at an Exhibition
  • Shelf Life: Works in Brass by Christopher Hewat
  • The Library Moves Uptown: 70 Years at 79th Street (1937-2007)
  • Bringing Home the Exotic: Europeans as Foreigners 1670-1840
  • The 250th Anniversary Exhibition

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