Our Events

Bestselling author Lessard takes a deep dive into our surroundings—cities, countryside, and sprawl—to explore change in the meaning of place and reimagine our American landscape. Ms. Lessard discusses The Absent Hand with the president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies, author Elizabeth Barlow Rogers.

The Library hosts monthly writing groups for fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and children’s/young adult writers.

The Library hosts monthly writing groups for fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and children’s/young adult writers.

For more than a century, the dark, gloomy vision of a “dystopia” has flourished. While such books can sound depressing, the ingenuity and wit of their authors makes them fascinating. Popular seminar leader Jane Mallison guides readers throught the wreckage of four modern-classic dystopias, from 1984 to Parable of the Sower.

Join the conversation with award-winning, bestselling author Renée Watson and writer/performer Ellen Hagan as they discuss their powerful new YA novel Watch Us Rise.

Erwin Flaxman, PhD, leads discussion of four seminal novels by the only author to be included in the Library of America during his lifetime.

Uptown at Night returns to the Members’ Room with a vibrant new lineup of humorous storytellers and comedians (to be announced). Please join us for a delightful evening that showcases the Library’s lighter side.

Join your fellow members every third Wednesday of the month for an informal drop-in hour of wine and light refreshments.

The Library hosts monthly writing groups for fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and children’s/young adult writers.

The Library hosts monthly writing groups for fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and children’s/young adult writers.

Whenever change happens, reading fiction and nonfiction in combination – “BookBundles” – can be a great way to gain understanding and participate in a new conversation. In connection with the new exhibition Women Get the Vote: A Historic Look at the 19th Amendment, this seminar offers three BookBundle-based discussions, exploring cultural questions raised by women’s suffrage and still debated today.