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TODAY AT THE LIBRARY
The Library is closed today for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
January 13, 2020See what Library members checked out most frequently in 2019.January 08, 2020We threw a reception for members with books published July-December, 2019. - My Tab
Special Event
Happy Hour, February 2020
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
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For members only | Whitridge Room | free of charge | drop in
Join your fellow members each third Wednesday of the month for an informal hour of wine and light refreshments.
Reading Group
Jane Mallison, Herman Melville: Mostly Moby-Dick
Repeats every month until Fri Apr 10 2020 except Sat Feb 01 2020, Sun Mar 01 2020, Wed Apr 01 2020. Also includes Thu Feb 20 2020, Thu Mar 19 2020, Thu Apr 09 2020.Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 11:00am
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Whitridge Room | for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration required
This challenging and rewarding novel deserves a fresh start or a revisit with educator and popular seminar leader Jane Mallison.
Lecture
Michael Shnayerson, Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
Thursday, February 20, 2020 - 6:30pm
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Members’ Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration required
The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world - for contemporary art - is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers, who can make and break careers and fortunes.
Reading Group
Erwin Flaxman, The World of Philip Roth, Part II
Repeats every month until Wed May 27 2020 except Sun Mar 01 2020, Wed Apr 01 2020, Fri May 01 2020. Also includes Tue Mar 24 2020, Tue Apr 28 2020, Tue May 26 2020.Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 11:00am
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Whitridge Room | for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration required
Early and middle novels including Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy’s Complaint show Roth at his entertaining best on himself, his world, and politics.
Special Event
Gallery Talk: The Book Beautiful: Margaret Armstrong & Her Bindings
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 11:00am
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Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery | open to the public | free of charge | drop in
Gallery talks are for anyone interested in learning more about artist Margaret Armstrong and her family. Talks last roughly 30 minutes.
Reading Group
Nicholas Birns, A Life in the Wide World: The Fiction of Joseph Conrad (11 AM section)
Repeats every month until Thu Apr 30 2020 except Sat Feb 01 2020, Sun Mar 01 2020, Wed Apr 01 2020. Also includes Wed Feb 26 2020, Wed Mar 25 2020, Wed Apr 29 2020.Wednesday, January 29, 2020 - 11:00am
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Whitridge Room | for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration required
Praised by midcentury critics, questioned by opponents of colonialism, Joseph Conrad’s fiction has entered a third phase of reappraisal. Join favorite seminar leader Prof. Birns in discussion.
Reading Group
Nicholas Birns, A Life in the Wide World: The Fiction of Joseph Conrad (2 PM section)
Repeats every month until Thu Apr 30 2020 except Sat Feb 01 2020, Sun Mar 01 2020, Wed Apr 01 2020. Also includes Wed Feb 26 2020, Wed Mar 25 2020, Wed Apr 29 2020.Wednesday, January 29, 2020 - 2:00pm
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Whitridge Room | for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration required
Praised by midcentury critics, questioned by opponents of colonialism, Joseph Conrad’s fiction has entered a third phase of reappraisal. Join favorite seminar leader Prof. Birns in discussion.
Lecture
Alexander Norman, The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life
Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 6:30pm
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Members’ Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration required
The first authoritative biography of the Dalai Lama—a story by turns inspiring and shocking—from an acclaimed Tibet scholar with exceptional access to his subject.
Special Event
Member Orientation (3/2/20 session)
Monday, March 2, 2020 - 10:00am
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Little Whitridge Room | for members only | free of charge | drop in
It's your Library. Learn about all the ways to make use of our collections, building, and services in a friendly presentation/Q&A with a staff member. Sessions last 45-60 minutes.
Lecture
George Packer, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - 6:30pm
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Members’ Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration required
"If you could read one book to comprehend American's foreign policy and its quixotic forays into quicksands over the past 50 years, this would be it." -Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review
The Writing Life
Workshop: C.S. Hanson, The Art and Craft of the Ten-Minute Play
Repeats every week every Thursday 6 times. Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 6:00pm
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Whitridge Room (April 2 date in Members’ Room) | for members only | $60 per person | registration required
There’s something magical about a ten-minute play. In six sessions, participants will work with award-winning playwright C.S. Hanson on structure, writing, rewriting and marketing – and hear their drafts read by actors.
Special Event
Sean D. Moore with Edward O’Reilly, Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 6:30pm
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Members’ Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration required
Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce - the book trade and the slave trade. In conversation with the New-York Historical Society’s Edward O’Reilly, Prof. Sean Moore discusses the Society Library’s place in those worlds and his use of our City Readers database in his research.
Special Event
Gallery Talk: The Book Beautiful: Margaret Armstrong & Her Bindings
Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 2:00pm
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Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery | open to the public | free of charge | drop in
Gallery talks are for anyone interested in learning more about artist Margaret Armstrong and her family. Talks last roughly 30 minutes.
The Writing Life
Workshop: C.S. Hanson, The Art and Craft of the Ten-Minute Play
Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 6:00pm
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Whitridge Room (April 2 date in Members’ Room) | for members only | $60 per person | registration required
There’s something magical about a ten-minute play. In six sessions, participants will work with award-winning playwright C.S. Hanson on structure, writing, rewriting and marketing – and hear their drafts read by actors.
The Writing Life
Prompt! with Carol Weston (3/13/20 session)
Friday, March 13, 2020 - 11:00am
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Whitridge Room | for members only | free of charge | drop in
Come write with us on second Fridays based on prompts from novelist and advice columnist Carol Weston.
Reading Group
Tea & Trollope Reading Group with Blanche Siegal, Fall 2019-Spring 2020
Repeats every month on the 1 of March, April until Tue Apr 21 2020 except Sun Mar 01 2020, Wed Apr 01 2020. Also includes Sun Mar 15 2020, Sun Apr 19 2020.Sunday, February 9, 2020 - 2:30pm
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Whitridge Room | for members only | by donation | advance registration required
Educator Blanche Siegal leads informal discussions of the beloved Victorian author Anthony Trollope and other master writers of the same century. This popular group is now in its ninth season.
The Writing Life
Live from the Library, Spring 2020
Tuesday, March 17, 2020 - 6:00pm
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Members’ Room | open to the public | $15 per person | advance registration required
Library members read from their own short stories, novels, poetry, criticism, memoir, and plays. Refreshments and wine will be served.
Special Event
Happy Hour, March 2020
Wednesday, March 18, 2020 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
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For members only | Whitridge Room | free of charge | drop in
Join your fellow members each third Wednesday of the month for an informal hour of wine and light refreshments.
Reading Group
Jane Mallison, Herman Melville: Mostly Moby-Dick
Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 11:00am
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Whitridge Room | for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration required
This challenging and rewarding novel deserves a fresh start or a revisit with educator and popular seminar leader Jane Mallison.
The Writing Life
Workshop: C.S. Hanson, The Art and Craft of the Ten-Minute Play
Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 6:00pm
|
Whitridge Room (April 2 date in Members’ Room) | for members only | $60 per person | registration required
There’s something magical about a ten-minute play. In six sessions, participants will work with award-winning playwright C.S. Hanson on structure, writing, rewriting and marketing – and hear their drafts read by actors.
Special Event
Gallery Talk: The Book Beautiful: Margaret Armstrong & Her Bindings
Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - 11:00am
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Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery | open to the public | free of charge | drop in
Gallery talks are for anyone interested in learning more about artist Margaret Armstrong and her family. Talks last roughly 30 minutes.
Reading Group
Erwin Flaxman, The World of Philip Roth, Part II
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 11:00am
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Whitridge Room | for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration required
Early and middle novels including Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy’s Complaint show Roth at his entertaining best on himself, his world, and politics.
Lecture
Pamela Newkirk, Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business
Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - 6:30pm
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Members’ Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration required
An award-winning journalist shows how workplace diversity initiatives have turned into a profoundly misguided industry - and have done little to bring equality to America's major industries and institutions.
Reading Group
Nicholas Birns, A Life in the Wide World: The Fiction of Joseph Conrad (11 AM section)
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 - 11:00am
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Whitridge Room | for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration required
Praised by midcentury critics, questioned by opponents of colonialism, Joseph Conrad’s fiction has entered a third phase of reappraisal. Join favorite seminar leader Prof. Birns in discussion.
Reading Group
Nicholas Birns, A Life in the Wide World: The Fiction of Joseph Conrad (2 PM section)
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 - 2:00pm
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Whitridge Room | for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration required
Praised by midcentury critics, questioned by opponents of colonialism, Joseph Conrad’s fiction has entered a third phase of reappraisal. Join favorite seminar leader Prof. Birns in discussion.
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Today's Events
Exhibitions
The Library showcases our historic collections and the literary culture of the city with themed public exhibitions on the second floor. Exhibitions are offered for six to twelve months, and both members and nonmembers are welcome to drop by any time the Library is open.
Current Exhibition:
The New York
Society Library
53 East 79th Street
New York, NY 10075
212.288.6900
reference@nysoclib.org
Hours of Operation
Monday / Friday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday
9:00 AM - 8:00 PM
9:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Saturday / Sunday
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Holiday Closings:
The Library will be closed for Martin Luther King Day on Monday, January 20th.
All areas except Circulation close 15 minutes prior to building closing time.
All areas except Circulation close 15 minutes prior to building closing time.