Get Lit May Book Club: Tom Perrotta with Musical Guests They Might Be Giants The New York Public Library 2026-09-19 | Get Lit May Book Club: Tom Perrotta with Musical Guests They Might Be Giants
Get Lit September Book Club: James McBride with musical guest Carla Cook. The New York Public Library 2023-09-27 | WNYC's Alison Stewart speaks with James McBride about his newest book, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, followed by a special musical performance from Carla Cook.
The Unlocked Leader: Hortense le Gentil with Heather Landy The New York Public Library 2023-09-27 | The world-renowned executive leadership coach explains how superhero leaders can become effective human leaders.GET THE BOOK- NYPL Catalog: legacycatalog.nypl.org/record=b23103440~S1- The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library: shop.nypl.org/products/creep-accusations-and-confessionsThe most effective leaders are “human leaders”: they lead with empathy, vulnerability, and authenticity. But many still adhere to the outdated myth that leaders must be superheroes: infallible, unflappable, and fearless. Superheroes’ ability to inspire remains locked within, blunting their impact. Human leaders make an impact and shine their light in the world by changing the way they connect with themselves and other people. In her new book, veteran executive leadership coach Hortense le Gentil combines real life stories, rigorous research, and practical tools to lead superhero leaders on the journey toward becoming human leaders.Hortense le Gentil speaks with Heather Landy, the editor of Quartz at Work, about how human leadership not only transforms the lives of leaders themselves but also makes a profound and lasting difference in the lives of people around them and the organizations they lead.Proceeds from The Unlocked Leader will be donated to the JED Foundation dedicated to young adult mental health, giving them the skills and support they need to thrive.The Thomas Yoseloff Business Center at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) is The New York Public Library’s premier business library, offering an array of free resources for those interested in personal finance and investing, small business, financial research, and career services.ABOUT THE SPEAKERSHortense le Gentil is a world-renowned executive leadership coach, speaker and author. She guides CEOs and senior executives on their journey from hero leaders to human leaders. Le Gentil is the author of the widely acclaimed book Aligned. Her new book, The Unlocked Leader, provides the keys to identifying and freeing ourselves from the mind-traps that hold us back. Le Gentil is a 2023 nominee for the Thinkers 50 Coaching and Mentoring Awards and is a contributor to Harvard Business Review and ThriveGlobal.com. Her thought-leadership has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and Business Insider.Heather Landy is an executive editor at Quartz. She formerly served as Quartz's global news editor and managing editor, and as the founding editor of Quartz at Work. She joined Quartz in 2014 from American Banker Magazine, where she was editor in chief. She previously wrote for Bloomberg News, The Washington Post, and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Heather has a BSJ and MSJ from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Her reporting in Texas earned her a Gerald Loeb award (the highest honor in business journalism) and frequently livened up her lectures as an adjunct instructor at TCU's Schieffer School of Journalism. The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
My Hijacking: Martha Hodes with Stacy Schiff | Conversations from the Cullman Center The New York Public Library 2023-09-26 | ...
Climate Grief in Fiction: Akil Kumarasamy, Sam J. Miller, Nathaniel Rich, Mary Annaïse Heglar | NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-09-22 | Writers whose novels and stories have crossed the intersection of climate change and mental health ask whether fiction can have a meaningful impact on how we handle the climate crisis. For event details and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/09/21/confronting-climate-anxietyLIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updatesDebates over what obligations fiction writers have to engage with contemporary issues in their work probably go back to the invention of fiction. In recent years that argument has taken on more eschatological tones when it comes to climate change, which has been called the “largest, most pervasive threat to the natural environment and societies the world has ever experienced.” The climate crisis and mental health have figured into the novels or stories of Akil Kumarasamy, Sam J. Miller, and Nathaniel Rich.Speaking with Mary Annaïse Heglar, they will discuss the responsibilities that storytellers do or don’t have to center our most dire global challenge, and how they respect both the big picture narratives of climate change and the individual stories of mental and physical health within them—and what kind of change can we reasonably expect their work to help induce.Presented as part of Mindscapes, Wellcome's international cultural program about mental health, in partnership with the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center.ABOUT THE SPEAKERSMary Annaïse Heglar is known for her essays that dissect and interrogate the climate crisis, drawing heavily on her personal experience as a Black woman with deep roots in the South. Her work has appeared in New York Magazine, The Nation, The Boston Globe, Vox, Rolling Stone, and other outlets. Her work has also been featured in collections like All We Can Save, The World As We Knew It, The Black Agenda, Letters to the Earth, and Not Too Late. With investigative journalist Amy Westervelt, she is also the co-creator of the now-retired Hot Take podcast and newsletter. In 2020, she was selected as the inaugural writer in residence at Columbia University’s Earth Institute and has gone on to teach at Columbia University in New York and Tulane University in New Orleans. In 2020, she received a SEAL Environmental Journalism award. She is based in New Orleans, but her heart is in Mississippi and her soul is in Birmingham.Akil Kumarasamy is the author of the novel, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea (FSG, 2022), and the linked story collection, Half Gods (FSG, 2018), which was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, was awarded the Bard Fiction Prize and the Story Prize Spotlight Award, and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, American Short Fiction, BOMB, among others. She has received fellowships from the University of East Anglia, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She is an assistant professor in the Rutgers University-Newark MFA program.Sam J. Miller's books have been called "must reads" and "bests of the year" by USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, and O: The Oprah Magazine, among others. His short fiction has been published in places like The Kenyon Review, Vogue Italia, Tor.com, and Asimov's, among many others. He's received the Nebula, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Awards, as well as the hopefully-soon-to-be-renamed John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He's also the last in a long line of butchers. Sam lives in New York City, and at samjmiller.comNathaniel Rich is the author of Losing Earth, a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Award and the winner of awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists and the American Institute of Physics. His most recent book, Second Nature, longlisted for the PEN/E.O Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, features the story “Dark Waters,” which was adapted into a film starring Mark Ruffalo. Rich is also the author of three novels, including Odds Against Tomorrow (2013), hailed by Rolling Stone as "the first great climate-change novel."The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
Building the World We Want: Artificial Intelligence and Global Governance The New York Public Library 2023-09-21 | Acclaimed scholar and writer Alondra Nelson leads a discussion on the transnational impacts of artificial intelligence and the need for global collaboration. For event details, speaker bios and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/09/20/artificial-intelligence-global-governanceLIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updatesFeaturing:Karen Kornbluh, Distinguished Fellow for Technology and Competitiveness, German Marshall Fund of the U.S. and former U.S. Ambassador to the OECDMaria Ressa, CEO and President of RapplerOlatunbosun Tijani, the Honorable Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy for the Republic of NigeriaTim Wu, Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology, Columbia UniversityAlondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and Distinguished Senior Fellow, Center for American ProgressArtificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to improve the lives of many people across the world. The breakneck pace of its development has also highlighted its potential for harm—and the urgent need for robust and innovative policy and governance. This panel of experts examines what forms of global collaboration are needed to address issues such as inequality and climate change, privacy protections, and human rights. From shared regulation and alignment of democratic laws, to equitable benefit distribution, to the prevention of dangerous AI proliferation, to the consolidation of power and more, the evolving nature of AI—combined with its global impact—requires the untangling of complex dynamics to provide a clear picture for effective future policymaking and to engender a more just and safer world.Presented in partnership with the Institute for Advanced Study and the AI Policy and Governance Working Group.The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
Dr. Jenni Haukio and Eliza Reid – the First Ladies of Finland and Iceland – with Neil Gaiman The New York Public Library 2023-09-21 | Join Dr. Jenni Haukio and Ms. Eliza Reid, the First Ladies of Finland and Iceland, in a lively conversation with bestselling author Neil Gaiman.In conjunction with the Consulates General of Finland and Iceland, the First Ladies engage in a talk exploring the globally captivating traditions and themes in Nordic literature, rooted in a rich cultural heritage. The Nordics rank among the most equal and literate countries in global surveys, and Nordic literature has been at the forefront of promoting gender equality and access to knowledge over the past decades.Notable authors in their own right, Dr. Jenni Haukio and Ms. Eliza Reid have published a number of titles in the past years on a variety of themes, including their multifaceted roles as First Ladies of their respective countries. In this conversation with fellow author and master storyteller Neil Gaiman, Dr. Haukio and Ms. Reid reflect on how literary storytelling has historically shaped the national identities of the two Nordic countries and continues to work as an essential tool in amplifying equality and democracy in contemporary societies.
Dead Man Walking: Sister Helen Prejean, Joyce DiDonato, Ryan McKinny, Shamil Idriss | LIVE from NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-09-20 | An evening of performance and conversation explores the Met Opera’s highly anticipated premiere of Dead Man Walking, as well as the memoir, and the woman, that inspired it. For event details, speaker bios and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/09/19/deadmanwalkingGET THE BOOK- NYPL Catalog: nypl.na2.iiivega.com/search/card?id=32bd0c72-ab3a-52ae-abca-668761b4d86c&entityType=FormatGroupLIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updatesIn September the Met Opera will premiere a haunting new Ivo van Hove production of Dead Man Walking, which is the most widely performed new opera of the past two decades. Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s groundbreaking memoir of the same name, it is the story of Prejean’s fight for the soul of a condemned murderer. At the Library, two of the show’s stars, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato (Sister Helen) and bass-baritone Ryan McKinny (Joseph de Rocher), will deliver a short performance from the opera and then join Sister Helen Prejean in conversation to discuss the new production and Prejean’s unswerving commitment to fighting the death penalty. They’ll speak with Shamil Idriss, the Chief Executive Officer of Search for Common Ground.Presented in partnership with the Metropolitan Opera and Search for Common Ground.The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
Creep: Myriam Gurba with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd | LIVE from NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-09-07 | Gurba shines a light on creepy cultures and the systems of oppression that shape women’s lives. For event details and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/09/06/myriamgurbaGET THE BOOK- NYPL Catalog: legacycatalog.nypl.org/record=b23105190~S1- The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library: shop.nypl.org/products/creep-accusations-and-confessionsLIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updatesA creep can be a singular figure, a villain who makes things go bump in the night. Myriam Gurba’s new essay collection, a mix of true crime, memoir, and history, is an informal sociology of creeps that surveys toxic traditions in the United States which help create the abusers who haunt our books, schools, and homes. She charts how oppression is collectively enacted, sustaining ecosystems that unfairly distribute suffering and premature death to society’s most vulnerable.Myriam Gurba speaks with journalist Julianne Escobedo Shepherd about liberating us from toxicity.ABOUT THE SPEAKERSMyriam Gurba is a writer and artist. She is the author of the true crime memoir Mean, a New York Times Editors’ Choice. O, The Oprah Magazine, ranked Mean as one of the best LGBTQ books of all time. Publishers Weekly describes Gurba as having a voice like no other. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Paris Review, Time, and 4Columns. She has shown art in galleries, museums, and community centers. She lives in Pasadena, California.Julianne Escobedo Shepherd has written for such publications as The Guardian, Vanity Fair, and Pitchfork, where she is a staff contributor. The former editor-in-chief of Jezebel, she is at work on her first book for Penguin, Vaquera, about growing up Mexican American in Wyoming and the myth of the American West. The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
SNFL Corner Space Live: Emily McNally The New York Public Library 2023-09-02 | This performance was recorded live on November 18, 2022.Brooklyn-based indie artist Emily McNally is creating the soundtrack for the lovelorn and anxious generation with their genre-fluid, DIY folk pop music. With vulnerable lyricism, Emily confronts their own naivete and yearning in layers of lush vocals. Learn more: https://linktr.ee/emilymcnallysingsSet List:Pretty girlCan we be friendsSafe with You - Catchphrase & dreamr feat. Emily McNallySafetyThe Fool Teenage dream / back of a carA Portrait Monet’s Garden I Was HereThe GardenerFollow SNFL: instagram.com/nyplsnflSNFL Tech Team:Producer: ShinVideo: Cynthia AlmanzarAudio: Shin Production Assistants: Chase Nenner, Simon SeleraThis program was made possible by Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
SNFL Corner Space Live: Sofie Zamchick The New York Public Library 2023-09-01 | This performance was recorded live on October 21, 2022.Sofie Zamchick writes songs that are dreamy, honest, and heartfelt. Named 1 of “10 NYC Artists to Watch” by WFUV, Zamchick performed in NPR’s 2019 Tiny Desk tour, participated in the 2022 Honeywell Arts Academy “Resonance” program and 2021 Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project, and frequently plays gigs around NYC. Her two EPs “So This is Goodbye” (2022) and “Until We Meet” (2020) are available on all streaming platforms. Learn more: sofiezamchick.comSet List:Electric PalmsAmsterdamAlone TogetherJust FriendsMemory JarAnxious RomanticDream About UsSlow DownEmpty PromisesWished for YouThank YouLittle White LieBucket ListSo this is GoodbyeWhen You Know, You KnowFollow SNFL: instagram.com/nyplsnflSNFL Tech Team:Producer: ShinVideo: Cynthia AlmanzarAudio: Shin Production Assistants: Chase Nenner, Simon SeleraThis program was made possible by Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
Hernan Diaz: Creating Fiction The New York Public Library 2023-07-05 | Former Cullman Fellow Hernan Diaz talks about writing his Pulitzer Prize winning novel 'Trust' at The New York Public Library, where he had unlimited access to our research collections during his 2020–2021 Fellowship.Learn more at nypl.org/digitalguide
Annette Gordon-Reed: Uncovering History The New York Public Library 2023-07-05 | Harvard professor, Library Trustee, and Former Cullman Fellow Annette Gordon-Reed shares the research she conducted at The New York Public Library for her multiple nonfiction books on Thomas Jefferson, his home at Monticello, and the people enslaved there.Learn more at nypl.org/digitalguide
Sally Wen Mao: Composing Poetry & Prose The New York Public Library 2023-06-30 | Former Cullman Fellow Sally Wen Mao talks about the experience of researching at The New York Public Library while she wrote her volumes of poetry, “Oculus” and “The Kingdom of Surfaces,” and her upcoming short story collection, “Ninetails."Learn more at nypl.org/digitalguide
Luis Alberto Urrea: Good Night, Irene | LIVE from NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-06-28 | The new novel by the award-winning author tells an overlooked story of women’s heroism in World War II, inspired by the experiences of his own mother. For event details and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/06/27/luisalbertourreaGET THE BOOK- NYPL Catalog: ilsstaff.nypl.org/search~S1/?searchtype=X&searcharg=good+night+irene- - The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library: shop.nypl.org/collections/events-books/products/good-night-irene-1LIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updatesWhen Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé to enlist with the Red Cross in 1943, she joins an elite group of women, nicknamed Donut Dollies, who command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at the front line, providing camaraderie and a taste of home that may be the only solace before troops head into battle. She forges a friendship with Dorothy Dunford, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit, and falls in love with a courageous American fighter pilot named Hans. Urrea’s “heart-wrenching wartime drama” follows Irene as she re-learns how to trust, all while hoping that she and those she loves survive the war intact.Luis Alberto Urrea speaks about his “moving and graceful tribute to heroic women” that asks whether a friendship forged on the front lines of war defines a life forever.ABOUT THE SPEAKERSA finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark work of nonfiction The Devil’s Highway, now in its thirty-fourth paperback printing, Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of numerous other works of nonfiction, poetry, and fiction, including the national bestsellers The Hummingbird’s Daughter and The House of Broken Angels, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, among many other honors, he lives outside Chicago and teaches at the University of Illinois Chicago.The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
Joel Meyerowitz with Lorenzo Braca: The Pleasure of Seeing | LIVE from NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-06-15 | The pioneering street photographer who reshaped the use of color recounts the story of his life and career. For event details and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/05/31/chaingangallstarsGET THE BOOK- NYPL Catalog: http://ilsstaff.nypl.org/search~S1?/tthe+pleasure+of+seeing/tpleasure+of+seeing/1%2C2%2C2%2CB/frameset&FF=tpleasure+of+seeing+conversations+with+joel+meyerowitz+on+sixty+years+in+the+life+of+photography&1%2C1%2C/indexsort=-LIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updatesJoel Meyerowitz began capturing life on the streets of New York in 1962, and since then his camera has taken him across America, Europe, and beyond. In his new book Meyerowitz goes behind the scenes of his storied life and career with historian and photographer Lorenzo Braca. The Pleasure of Seeing (Damiani, 2023) hops from stories behind many of Meyerowitz’s famous photographs to the value of the visual image down to technical details about lenses, printing, and film.Meyerowitz and Braca discuss The Pleasure of Seeing and Meyerowitz’s legendary career, and share some of the 100+ images from the book, everything from iconic photographs to previously unpublished material.This event is presented as the annual conversation on photography generously underwritten by Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos.ABOUT THE SPEAKERSJoel Meyerowitz is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. Celebrated as a pioneer of color photography beginning in 1962, he is a two-time Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities awards, and a recipient of The Royal Photographic Society’s Centenary Medal. He was the only photographer allowed inside Ground Zero where he worked for 9 months creating the history of the monumental recovery efforts. He has published 46 books. Joel Meyerowitz is represented by Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York, Polka Galerie in Paris and Huxley-Parlour Gallery in London. Meyerowitz lives and works in New York and London.Lorenzo Braca, Ph.D. is an Italian historian and photographer who has published widely on the literature, the mentality, and the imagination of the late Middle Ages. He is currently working for the Catholic University of Milan and for the University of Poznań. As a photographer, his work is oriented primarily towards the urban environment and its evolution. Braca’s photographs have been exhibited in various collective shows, and in 2021 he had his first solo exhibition.The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
Visual and Acoustic Landscapes in Virginia Woolf and José Donoso: Andrés Ferrada & Melanie Nicholson The New York Public Library 2023-06-13 | ...
Lesbian Love Story: Amelia Possanza with Casey McQuiston | LIVE from NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-06-07 | Uncover romances and role models written out of history and what their stories can teach us all about how to love. For event details and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/06/06/ameliapossanzaGET THE BOOK- NYPL Catalog: http://ilsstaff.nypl.org/search~S1/?searchtype=t&searcharg=Lesbian+Love+Story%3A+A+Memoir+in+Archives- The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library: shop.nypl.org/products/lesbian-love-story-a-memoir-in-archivesLIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updatesWhen Amelia Possanza moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded by queer stories: she read them on landmark placards, overheard them on the pool deck when she joined the world’s largest LGBTQ swim team, and even watched them on TV in her cockroach-infested apartment. They inspired her to seek out lesbians throughout history who could become her guides, in romance and in life. Possanza journeys into the archives to recover the personal histories of lesbians in the 20th century: who they were, how they loved, why their stories were destroyed, and where their memories echo and live on.Amelia Possanza speaks with author Casey McQuiston about how lesbian love could help us reimagine care and community.ABOUT THE SPEAKERSA full-time book publicist and part-time writer, Amelia Possanza currently lives in Brooklyn with her cat. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, Electric Literature, The Millions, and NPR’s Invisibilia. Lesbian Love Story is her first book.Casey McQuiston is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of romantic comedies, including One Last Stop, Red, White & Royal Blue, and I Kissed Shara Wheeler, whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Bon Appétit. Born and raised in southern Louisiana, Casey now lives in New York City with a poodle mix named Pepper.The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah with Tochi Onyebuchi: Chain-Gang All-Stars | LIVE from NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-06-01 | The bestselling author discusses his debut novel, an “alarmingly pertinent dystopian” vision of violence and criminal justice. For event details and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/05/31/chaingangallstarsGET THE BOOK- NYPL Catalog: http://ilsstaff.nypl.org/search~S1?/tChain-Gang+All-Stars%3A+A+Novel+/tchain+gang+all+stars+a+novel/-3%2C0%2C0%2CB/frameset&FF=tchain+gang+all+stars&1%2C1%2C/indexsort=-- The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library: shop.nypl.org/products/chain-gang-all-starsLIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updatesIn Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's new novel, Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly popular and controversial profit-raising program in America’s increasingly dominant private prison industry. Gladiators and prisoners compete in death-matches for packed arenas, vying for the ultimate prize: their freedom. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. In just a few matches, Thurwar will be free—but before she goes, can she help her fellow All-Stars preserve their humanity and defy these games? And what will CAPE’s corporate overlords do to stop her?Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah speaks with science-fiction writer Tochi Onyebuchi about his unflinching look at the American prison system’s unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration.ABOUT THE SPEAKERSNana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black. His work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. He was a National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honoree, the winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the Saroyan Prize, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for Best First Book, along with many other honors. Raised in Spring Valley, New York, he now lives in the Bronx.Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of Goliath and Riot Baby, a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and NAACP Image Awards and winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction and the World Fantasy Award. His short fiction has appeared in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, and elsewhere. His non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times and NPR, among other places. He has earned degrees from Yale University, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia Law School, and the Paris Institute of Political Studies.The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
Lilliana Mason with Nermeen Shaikh: Political Violence & Antidemocratic Extremism | LIVE from NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-05-31 | Discuss the ever-hardening fractures in politics, culture, and social life with a bestselling journalist and a political scientist who both focus on American polarization. For event details and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/05/30/sharletmasonGET THE BOOKSRadical American Partisanship- NYPL Catalog: http://ilsstaff.nypl.org/search~S1?/tRadical+American+Partisanship/tradical+american+partisanship/1%2C2%2C3%2CB/frameset&FF=tradical+american+partisanship+mapping+violent+hostility+its+causes+and+the+consequences+for+democracy&1%2C%2C2/indexsort=-- The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library: shop.nypl.org/products/radical-american-partisanshipThe Undertow- NYPL Catalog: nypl.na2.iiivega.com/search/card?id=e8b4d42b-fc18-5b73-86d0-b167831d521a&entityType=FormatGroup- The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library: shop.nypl.org/products/the-undertowLIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updatesIn their recent books, Jeff Sharlet and Lilliana Mason have both looked for answers to why American politics have become so deeply and seemingly irreparably divided. In The Undertow, Sharlet attempts to understand how, over the last decade, reaction has morphed into delusion, social division into distrust, distrust into paranoia, and hatred into fantasies—sometimes realities—of violence. In Radical American Partisanship, Mason and co-author Nathan Kalmoe examine the rise of radical partisanship among ordinary Americans and the risks that it poses for American democracy.Sharlet and Mason speak with Nermeen Shaikh, producer and co-host of Democracy Now!, about the fissures in American life and what they might signal for the days ahead.Presented in partnership with SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University.ABOUT THE SPEAKERSLilliana Mason is an SNF Agora Institute Associate Professor of Political Science. She is author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity and co-author, with Nathan P. Kalmoe, of Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy. She received her PhD in political psychology from Stony Brook University and her BA in politics from Princeton University. Her research on partisan identity, partisan bias, social sorting, and American social polarization has been published in journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Political Behavior, and featured in media outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and National Public Radio.Nermeen Shaikh is a co-host at Democracy Now! She is the author of The Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power published by Columbia University Press. Jeff Sharlet is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and best-selling author or editor of seven books, including The Family, adapted into a Netflix documentary series. He is the winner of the National Magazine Award for Reporting, the Molly Ivins Prize, and the Outspoken Award, among other honors. He is the Frederick Sessions Beebe ’35 Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College and lives in Vermont.The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
David Remnick with Kelefa Sanneh: Holding the Note | LIVE from NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-05-24 | The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker reflects on a half century of American music. For event details and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/05/23/davidremnickGET THE BOOK- NYPL Catalog: http://ilsstaff.nypl.org/record=b23017069- The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library: shop.nypl.org/products/holding-the-noteLIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updatesOver the past three decades, David Remnick has profiled some of the greatest creative minds of our time. In his new book, he gathers in one place intimate portraits of some of the most celebrated musicians, songwriters, and performers of the past fifty years including Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, and Patti Smith. Mixing interviews, biography, and analysis, Remnick carefully considers their life and work through the lens of time, memory, and place.Remnick speaks with New Yorker staff writer Kelefa Sanneh about these legendary figures, writing on music, and how the greatest popular songs have a way of embedding themselves in our memories.ABOUT THE SPEAKERSDavid Remnick has been the editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and before that was a staff writer for the magazine for six years. He was previously The Washington Post’s correspondent in the Soviet Union. He is the author of several books, including King of the World, a biography of Muhammad Ali, named the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine in 1998, and Lenin’s Tomb, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.Kelefa Sanneh is the author of Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008; he is also a contributor to “CBS Sunday Morning.” He came to The New Yorker from The New York Times, where he had been the pop-music critic since 2002. Previously, he was the deputy editor of Transition, a journal of race and culture based at the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University. He lives in New York City with his family.The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
Get Lit May Book Club: Victor LaValle with musical guest Kaia Kater. The New York Public Library 2023-05-23 | WNYC's Alison Stewart speaks with Victor LaValle about his newest book, Lone Women, followed by a special musical performance from Kaia Kater.
Mott Street: Ava Chin with Maya Jasanoff | Conversations from the Cullman Center The New York Public Library 2023-05-17 | ...
Sherrilyn Ifill: How America Ends and Begins Again | LIVE from NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-05-10 | The former head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund delivers the annual Robert B. Silvers Lecture. For event details and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/05/09/sherrilynifillREAD SHERRILYN INFILL- NYPL Catalog: browse.nypl.org/iii/encore/search/C__SIfill%2C%20Sherrilyn%20A.%2C__Oauthor__X0?lang=eng&suite=defLIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updatesOur country is experiencing a period of accelerated democratic unraveling. But within the danger of this moment, Sherrilyn Ifill argues that there is also a unique opportunity. Can we build at long last, a healthy, multiracial democracy anchored in the values of equality and justice?The Robert B. Silvers Lecture is an annual series created by Max Palevsky in recognition of the work of Robert B. Silvers, who was a co-founding editor of The New York Review of Books.ABOUT THE SPEAKERSSherrilyn Ifill served as the seventh President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) from 2013 to 2022, and currently serves as President and Director-Counsel Emeritus. Ifill began her career as a Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union, before joining the staff of the LDF as an Assistant Counsel in 1988, where she litigated voting rights cases for five years.Her 2007 book On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century, was highly acclaimed, and is credited with laying the foundation for contemporary conversations about lynching and reconciliation. A 10th-anniversary edition of the book was recently released with a foreword by Bryan Stevenson, the acclaimed lawyer and founder of the national lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama.In 2020, she was named "Attorney of the Year" by The American Lawyer. In 2021, Ifill was appointed to President Biden’s Commission on the Supreme Court. She serves on the boards of the Learning Policy Institute, the NYU Law School of Trustees, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Profiles in Courage Advisory Board. In 2022, Ifill received the prestigious Brandeis Medal, named for Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, and the American Bar Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award.The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
Matthew Desmond and Andrea Elliott: Poverty, by America | LIVE from NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-05-01 | The Pulitzer Prize–winning author reimagines the American debate on poverty, making an original and ambitious argument about why it persists here: because too many of us benefit from it. For event details and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/05/01/matthewdesmondGET THE BOOK- NYPL Catalog: browse.nypl.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb22965804__Spoverty%2C%20by%20america__Orightresult__U__X7?lang=eng&suite=def- The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library: shop.nypl.org/products/poverty-by-americaLIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updatesWhy does the United States, the richest country on earth, have more poverty than any other advanced democracy? How can one in eight children go without basic necessities, scores of citizens live and die on the streets, and corporations be authorized to pay poverty wages? In his new book, sociologist Matthew Desmond shows how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor, exploiting them and driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. It is, Desmond argues, a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least.Desmond speaks with journalist Andrea Elliott about his new ways of thinking around this morally urgent, uniquely American problem—and imagines practical, achievable solutions for making poverty disappear.ABOUT THE SPEAKERSMatthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and the founding director of the Eviction Lab. His last book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, among others. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Desmond is also a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine.Andrea Elliott is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who has documented the lives of poor Americans, Muslim immigrants, and other people on the margins of power. She is an investigative reporter for The New York Times and the author of Invisible Child, published by Random House, which won The New York Public Library's 2022 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, as well as the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. She is also the recipient of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, a George Polk award, an Overseas Press Club award, and was awarded a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
Get Lit April Book Club: Mona Simpson with musical guest Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen The New York Public Library 2023-04-27 | WNYC's Alison Stewart speaks with Mona Simpson about her newest book, Commitment followed by a special musical performance from Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen.
Geoff Dyer and Chloé Cooper Jones: Transatlantic Conversations | LIVE from NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-04-21 | Dyer and Jones discuss sporting matches and everyday battles; failure and triumph; what it means and what it takes to live life to the fullest, and when and how to bow out. For event details and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/04/20/dyerjonesGET THE BOOKSThe Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings:- NYPL Catalog: nypl.na2.iiivega.com/search/card?id=17189aa9-1d19-501c-9995-de76a47b3d88&entityType=FormatGroup- The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library: shop.nypl.org/products/the-last-days-of-roger-federer-and-other-endings?_pos=1&_sid=d87e4c6b6&_ss=rEasy Beauty- NYPL Catalog: nypl.na2.iiivega.com/search/card?id=cd2b8920-9ca4-5678-9fc5-171c91e6eff2&entityType=FormatGroup- The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library: shop.nypl.org/products/easy-beauty-a-memoir-1?_pos=1&_sid=36e728c00&_ss=rLIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updates“Even with no idea of where, when, or how things might end up,” Geoff Dyer wrote, “it was time to start work—on a book that ended up being written while life as we know it came to an end.” The result is his most recent book, The Last Days of Roger Federer, an examination of endings through the lenses of Bob Dylan, Beethoven, Burning Man, and much more. Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones blends journalism, philosophy, and memoir to examine disability, motherhood, and the search for a new way of seeing and being seen. Dyer just so happens to make a cameo appearance at a tennis tournament, too.Presented in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature.ABOUT THE SPEAKERSGeoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography’s 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ’s Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. In 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages.Chloé Cooper Jones is a philosophy professor, journalist, and the author of the memoir Easy Beauty, which was named a best book of 2022 by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, The New York Public Library, and others. She is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient and, in 2020, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
Morgenthau: Andrew Meier with Ginia Bellafante | Conversations from the Cullman Center The New York Public Library 2023-04-19 | ...
Sasha Velour and Joe E. Jeffreys: Drag Manifesto | LIVE from NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-04-18 | Velour spotlights the revolutionary art form of drag and its rich, often overlooked history. For event details and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/04/17/sashavelourGET THE BOOK- NYPL Catalog: browse.nypl.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb23011614__SThe%20big%20reveal%20%3A%20an%20illustrated%20manifesto%20of%20drag__Orightresult__U__X4?lang=eng&suite=def- The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library: shop.nypl.org/products/the-big-revealLIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updatesSasha Velour is an iconic queen. Turns out she’s also a historian! Her new book is a treasure trove of revelations about radical queer expressions throughout time. The revered entertainer weaves together gender theory, politics, and memoir to tell the story of drag. She recalls her own journey, from the women who inspired and raised her to how she learned the craft of an artist (creating and styling her costumes out of nothing). Velour redefines drag for a new generation while uncovering the history of queer life that made it all possible.Velour speaks with drag historian Joe E. Jeffreys about the infinite ways in which gender, good taste, and art can be lived and embodied through drag.ABOUT THE SPEAKERSJoe E. Jeffreys is a drag historian. He has published on the subject of male and female impersonation in encyclopedias, academic journals and essay anthologies. He has also video documented these communities for over a dozen years and this work has screened internationally at festivals, galleries and museums including the Tate Modern. Jeffreys teaches theatre and LGBTQ+ studies at New York University and The New School including a course, “RuPaul's Drag Race and Its Impact.” See some of his drag happy videos at vimeo.com/joejeffreysSasha Velour is a drag and performance artist, entrepreneur, visual artist and author. She has blazed a trail of unparalleled authenticity and impeccable stardom amongst the drag and LGBTQ+ community. As the winner of season nine of RuPaul’s Drag Race known for one of the greatest reveals of all time, Velour’s inventive and intriguing artistic endeavors have placed her in the upper echelon of today’s top drag performers with top media coverage in national publications such as VOGUE, Forbes, ELLE, The New York Times and Rolling Stone to name a few.The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
Rethinking Alzheimer’s and Caregiving: Dasha Kiper and David Hyde Pierce | LIVE from NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-04-13 | Kiper’s new book blends science and storytelling to illuminate the complex relationship between the mind of someone with dementia and the mind of the person caring for them. For event details and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/04/13/dashakiperGET THE BOOK- NYPL Catalog: browse.nypl.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb22996588__STravelers%20to%20unimaginable%20lands%3A%20Dementia%20and%20the%20hidden%20workings%20of%20the%20mind__Orightresult__U__X4?lang=eng&suite=def- The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library: shop.nypl.org/products/travelers-to-unimaginable-landsLIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updatesWhy is taking care of a family member with dementia so difficult? Why do caregivers succumb to behaviors—arguing, blaming, insisting, taking symptoms personally—they know are counterproductive? After working as a live-in caregiver for a person suffering from Alzheimer’s and spending a subsequent decade counseling caregivers, Dasha Kiper has landed on an entirely new way to understand the symbiotic relationship between patients and those tending to them. By recounting stories of existential dilemmas created by this disease, her book is the first to examine how the workings of the “healthy” brain prevent us from adapting to and truly understanding the cognitively impaired one.In conversation with actor David Hyde Pierce, Kiper explains the neurological obstacles to caregiving, and offers solace and perspective on the terrible pressures that dementia exerts on our closest relationships.ABOUT THE SPEAKERSDasha Kiper is the former consulting clinical director of support groups at CaringKind (formerly the Alzheimer’s Association) and holds an MA in clinical psychology from Columbia University. She works with dementia patients and caregivers.David Hyde Pierce is an Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor, director, and advocate. Having seen firsthand the effects of Alzheimer’s and dementia in his own family, he began working with the Alzheimer’s Association in 1994 and went on to serve as a board member and champion of the Association nationally and as an advocate and spokesperson for CaringKind here in NYC. Pierce has regularly participated in the Alzheimer's Action Summit in Washington, D.C., meeting with elected officials and testifying before Congress to raise funding for Alzheimer’s research. He was honored to represent caregivers on the first advisory council of the National Alzheimer’s Project Act, and to be the 2010 recipient of the Tony Awards® Isabelle Stevenson Award, recognizing an individual from the theater community who "has made a substantial contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of one or more humanitarian, social service or charitable organization..." Along with his appearances on and off Broadway and in films, he is best known for his 11 years on the iconic sitcom, Frasier, and will next be seen in season two of the HBO Max series, Julia, expected to premiere this coming fall.The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
Explore The Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Librarys Treasures The New York Public Library 2023-04-07 | The Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures is filled with objects from around the world dating as far back as 4,000 years. In this video series, curators, librarians, and NYPL President Tony Marx discuss some of the extraordinary items in the permanent exhibition and the collections that house them. Listen to the experts explain the significance of these pieces; what makes them treasures; why the Library collects, preserves and displays them; and what else is waiting to be discovered. Learn more: nypl.org/treasuresThese videos were made with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
The Bill of Rights with Julie Golia The New York Public Library 2023-04-07 | Listen to expert Library staff discuss some of the extraordinary items in the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures.Julie Golia, Associate Director of Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books and Charles J. Liebman Curator of Manuscripts, examines an early copy of the Bill of Rights and more items that document the progress and setbacks of the American experiment.Learn more: nypl.org/treasuresThis video was made with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
The Columbus Letter with NYPL President Tony Marx The New York Public Library 2023-04-07 | Listen to expert Library staff discuss some of the extraordinary items in the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures.NYPL President Tony Marx discusses the only surviving copy of Christopher Columbus‘s letter to Luis de Santángel in Spain following his first voyage to the Americas and the value of studying historical documents.Learn more: nypl.org/treasuresThis video was made with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
The Mapleson Cylinders with Bob Kosovsky The New York Public Library 2023-04-07 | Listen to expert Library staff discuss some of the extraordinary items in the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures.Bob Kosovsky, Librarian in the Music and Recorded Sound Division at the Library for the Performing Arts, shares the history behind Lionel Mapleson‘s early opera recordings on wax cylinders and more of the performance-related items in the Polonsky Exhibition.Learn more: nypl.org/treasuresThis video was made with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Political Prisoner with Dalila Scruggs The New York Public Library 2023-04-07 | Listen to expert Library staff discuss some of the extraordinary items in the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures.Dalila Scruggs, Curator of the Photographs and Prints Division at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, talks about Elizabeth Catlett's sculpture 'Political Prisoner', Catlett‘s life and work, and the Schomburg Center‘s history and holdings.Learn more: nypl.org/treasuresThis video was made with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Astronomicum Caesareum with Ian Fowler The New York Public Library 2023-04-07 | Listen to expert Library staff discuss some of the extraordinary items in the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures.Maps, History, and Government Information Curator Ian Fowler explores the lavishly designed 'Astronomicum Caesareum' and some of the other cartographical wonders in the exhibition.Learn more: nypl.org/treasuresThis video was made with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
The Birds of America with Meredith Mann The New York Public Library 2023-04-07 | Listen to expert Library staff discuss some of the extraordinary items in the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures.Librarian of Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Meredith Mann tells the story behind John James Audubon‘s massive tome 'The Birds of America' and other rare volumes on display.Learn more: nypl.org/treasuresThis video was made with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
The Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz with Paloma Celis Carbajal The New York Public Library 2023-04-07 | Listen to expert Library staff discuss some of the extraordinary items in the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures.Paloma Celis Carbajal, Curator of Latin America, Iberian, and U.S. Latino Collections, discusses Mexican writer Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, whose 'Segundo Volumen' is on view, and other women writers represented in the exhibit, such as African American poet Phillis Wheatley.Learn more: nypl.org/treasuresThis video was made with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Winnie-the-Pooh with Charles Cuykendall Carter The New York Public Library 2023-04-07 | Listen to expert Library staff discuss some of the extraordinary items in the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures.Charles Cuykendall Carter, assistant curator in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, shares how the original Winnie-the-Pooh toys ended up at the Library alongside other beloved pieces of children's literature.Learn more: nypl.org/treasuresThis video was made with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Get Lit March Book Club: Rebecca Makkai with musical guest Dar Williams The New York Public Library 2023-03-28 | WNYC's Alison Stewart speaks with Rebecca Makkai about her newest book, I Have Some Questions for You, followed by a special musical performance by Dar Williams.
Jane and Anna Maria Porter: the Most Famous Novelists You’ve Never Read | LIVE from NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-03-27 | They paved the way for Jane Austen and the Brontë Sisters. Why haven’t we ever heard of them? For event details and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/03/27/portersistersGET THE BOOK- NYPL Catalog: browse.nypl.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb22860628__Ssister%20novelists__Orightresult__U__X7?lang=eng&suite=def- The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library: shop.nypl.org/collections/events-books/products/sister-novelistsLIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updatesThis Women’s History Month, get to know the brilliant, self-made single women who were famous on both sides of the Atlantic and counted among their fans at least one queen and a president. Between them, Jane and Anna Maria Porter published 26 books, including a bestseller, and arguably invented the historical novel. Then history left them in the past. What happened and why is the subject of Devoney Looser’s new book, which recaptures the lost story of the pioneering Porter Sisters. Relying largely on their letters, which are collected at The New York Public Library, Looser’s literary detective work rescues the Porters from literary obscurity and pushes them back into prominence.Looser discusses her trailblazing biography with author and critic, Ruth Franklin. Beanie Feldstein reads a selection of the sisters' inimitable correspondence.ABOUT THE SPEAKERSBeanie Feldstein will next be seen in Ethan Coen's untitled upcoming film alongside Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan. Most recently, she portrayed the iconic role of Fanny Brice in the first-ever Broadway revival of the musical Funny Girl. She previously starred as Monica Lewinsky in Ryan Murphy’s installment of his critically acclaimed series, American Crime Story.In 2019, she was seen as the lead of Olivia Wilde’s critically acclaimed directorial debut Booksmart, which earned her a number of accolades, including a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Beanie recently starred in Film4’s How to Build a Girl, and can be seen across Amy Schumer, Richard Jenkins, and Steven Yeun in the Scott Rudin-produced film adaptation of the Tony-winning play The Humans by Stephen Karam. In 2017, Beanie starred in Greta Gerwig’s Oscar-nominated Ladybird alongside Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Lucas Hedges, and Timothée Chalamet. A true voice of her generation, Beanie is an outspoken activist for feminism, diversity, and family.Ruth Franklin is a book critic and former editor at The New Republic. Her first biography, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography about and was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2016, a Time magazine top nonfiction book of 2016, and a “best book of 2016” by The Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, and others. Franklin’s work appears in many publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, and Harper’s. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in biography, a Cullman Fellowship at The New York Public Library, a Leon Levy Fellowship in biography, and the Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism. Her first book, A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.Devoney Looser is Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University and the author or editor of nine books on literature by women, including The Making of Jane Austen. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Salon, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly, and she's had the pleasure of talking about Austen on CNN. Looser, who has played roller derby as Stone Cold Jane Austen, is a Guggenheim Fellow and a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with her husband and two sons.The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
Sostre at 100: A Legacy of Action The New York Public Library 2023-03-24 | This two-night event highlights Martin Sostre's lifetime commitment to revolutionary study and political education through a documentary film screening, panel discussions, and an exhibition.Wednesday, March 22, hosted at the Harry Belafonte Library, will include a screening of the short documentary film, Frame-Up! The Imprisonment of Martin Sostre (1974) followed by a panel discussion with Sostre's comrades Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, Antonio Rodriguez, Sylvia Rodriguez, Jerry Ross, and Sandy Shevack, moderated by William C. Anderson.Thursday, March 23, hosted at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, will feature a keynote conversation between abolitionist educator Mariame Kaba and imprisoned (dis)organizer Stevie Wilson. Following, will be a discussion about the Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition with Masia Mugmuk, Jose Saldana, and Laura Whitehorn, moderated by Orisanmi Burton.Martin Sostre (1923-2015) advocated for prisoners’ rights to religious freedom, political expression, and due process regarding prison censorship and solitary confinement. He was also a teacher and mentor, as the owner of the radical Afro-Asian Bookshop in Buffalo, New York, and a community organizer with the Juvenile Education and Awareness Project in New Jersey.This event is hosted by the New York Public Library's Jail & Prison Services team, in collaboration with the Harry Belafonte Library and the Martin Sostre Institute. Major support for this event is provided by the Mellon Foundation.
Emma Smith: Why Do We Still Burn Books? | LIVE from NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-03-23 | The Professor of Shakespeare Studies at University of Oxford lectures on the history of book-burning from the ancient Mediterranean to Margaret Atwood. For event details and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/03/22/emmasmithGET THE BOOK- NYPL Catalog: browse.nypl.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb22886441__Sportable%20magic__Orightresult__U__X7?lang=eng&suite=def- The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library: shop.nypl.org/products/portable-magic-a-history-of-books-and-their-readers?_pos=1&_sid=4c3f6516b&_ss=rLIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updates“Book burning for ideological reasons is almost as old as the book form itself,” writes Emma Smith in her new book, Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers. It “is a highly emotive trope and is…compelling for those who burn and those who deplore it. But, in itself, burning a book is irrelevant.” Debating the practical implications of burning books against their symbolic power, Smith lectures on items, including some in the Library’s Treasures exhibition, to examine this peculiar corner in the history of censorship and the talismanic power of books.VISIT TREASURESBe sure to visit Treasures, The New York Public Library’s first-ever permanent exhibition highlighting our world-renowned research collections. To register and learn more about the exhibition, which features rare and beautiful astronomical books, charts, and artwork, visit nypl.org/spotlight/treasuresABOUT THE SPEAKEREmma Smith teaches Shakespeare at the University of Oxford, England. She is the author of This Is Shakespeare (2019), a Times Book of the Year. She works with theatre companies including the Royal Shakespeare Company and is the Sam Wanamaker Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe, London, for 2023. Her interests–as well as books, of course–are silent films, birdwatching, and fast cars.The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
Sostre At 100: A Revolutionary Life The New York Public Library 2023-03-22 | This two-night event highlights Martin Sostre's lifetime commitment to revolutionary study and political education through a documentary film screening, panel discussions, and an exhibition.Wednesday, March 22, hosted at the Harry Belafonte Library, will include a screening of the short documentary film, Frame-Up! The Imprisonment of Martin Sostre (1974) followed by a panel discussion with Sostre's comrades Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, Antonio Rodriguez, Sylvia Rodriguez, Jerry Ross, and Sandy Shevack, moderated by William C. Anderson.Thursday, March 23, hosted at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, will feature a keynote conversation between abolitionist educator Mariame Kaba and imprisoned (dis)organizer Stevie Wilson. Following, will be a discussion about the Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition with Masia Mugmuk, Jose Saldana, and Laura Whitehorn, moderated by Orisanmi Burton.Martin Sostre (1923-2015) advocated for prisoners’ rights to religious freedom, political expression, and due process regarding prison censorship and solitary confinement. He was also a teacher and mentor, as the owner of the radical Afro-Asian Bookshop in Buffalo, New York, and a community organizer with the Juvenile Education and Awareness Project in New Jersey.This event is hosted by the New York Public Library's Jail & Prison Services team, in collaboration with the Harry Belafonte Library and the Martin Sostre Institute.Major support for this event is provided by the Mellon Foundation.
Meredith Broussard and Alondra Nelson: Bias Is More than a Glitch | LIVE from NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-03-20 | The data journalist and NYU professor discusses confronting race, gender, and ability biases in tech. For speaker bios, event details and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/03/20/meredithbroussardGET THE BOOK- NYPL Catalog: browse.nypl.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb22965681__SMore%20Than%20a%20Glitch%3A%20Confronting%20Race%2C%20Gender%2C%20and%20Ability%20Bias%20in%20Tech__Orightresult__U__X4?lang=eng&suite=def- The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library: shop.nypl.org/products/more-than-a-glitchLIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updatesThe word glitch implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren't just bugs in mostly functional machinery—what if they're coded into the system itself? In her new book, Meredith Broussard demonstrates how neutrality in tech is a myth and why algorithms need to be held accountable. A data scientist and one of the few Black female researchers in artificial intelligence, Broussard explores facial recognition technology that favors light skin, mortgage-approval algorithms that encourage discriminatory lending, and the dangers of medical diagnostic algorithms trained on insufficiently diverse data.In conversation with Alondra Nelson, Broussard discusses More than a Glitch and solutions that aren’t about making tech more inclusive, but rather rooting out the algorithms that target certain demographics as “other” to begin with.ABOUT THE SPEAKERSMeredith Broussard is Associate Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University and Research Director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology. She is the author of Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World (MIT Press). Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, BBC, Wired, The Economist, and more. She appears in the 2020 documentary Coded Bias and serves on the advisory board for the Center for Critical Race & Digital Studies. More information at @merbroussard or meredithbroussard.com.Alondra Nelson is the Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. A former deputy assistant to President Joe Biden, she served as acting director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Including her in the list of "Ten People Who Shaped Science in 2022," Nature said of Nelson's OSTP tenure, “this social scientist made strides for equity, integrity and open access.” An acclaimed researcher, Nelson is the author of several books, including The Social Life of DNA. Her essays, reviews, and commentary have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, Wired, and Science. Nelson is a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Council of Foreign Relations, and the National Academy of Medicine.The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
Patriarchy Smasher: Angela Saini and Nona Willis Aronowitz | LIVE from NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-03-20 | Saini’s groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression looks for truth behind distorted ideas about male supremacy. For speaker bios, event details and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/03/14/patriarchysainiGET THE BOOK- NYPL Catalog: browse.nypl.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb22939556__Sthe%20patriarchs__Orightresult__U__X7?lang=eng&suite=def- The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library: shop.nypl.org/products/the-patriarchs?_pos=1&_sid=3f971db21&_ss=rLIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updatesFor centuries, prominent thinkers have treated male domination among humans as natural or inevitable. But how would our understanding of gender inequality look if we didn’t assume that men have always ruled over women? Award-winning science journalist Angela Saini explores the roots of what we call patriarchy, uncovering a complex history of how it first became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from prehistory into the present. Relying on research that stretches from the earliest known human settlements to contemporary gender issues, Saini makes the case that there was never anything inevitable about male domination, and that our history of gender and power dynamics is far more diverse, and fluid, than many people believe.Saini speaks with journalist Nona Willis Aronowitz about why, how, and where patriarchy manifests and endures.ABOUT THE SPEAKERSAngela Saini is an award-winning science journalist whose print and broadcast work has appeared on the BBC and in the Guardian, New Scientist, Wired, The Economist, and Science. A former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, she won the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Kavli Science Journalism gold award in 2015. Saini has a master’s degree in engineering from Oxford University, and she is the author of Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story and Geek Nation: How Indian Science Is Taking Over the World.Nona Willis Aronowitz is a journalist, editor, and columnist for Teen Vogue. She is the author of Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution, a memoir-social history blend that examines the enduring barriers to true sexual freedom. She has written for publications like The New York Times, The Cut, Elle, VICE, and Playboy. She co-authored the road-trip book Girldrive: Criss-crossing America, Redefining Feminism with Emma Bee Bernstein, and she is the editor of two award-winning anthologies of her mother Ellen Willis’s work. She lives in upstate New York.The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
Pandemic Diaries: Julie Golia, Julia Kwon, Jeremiah Moss, and Camilo José Vergara | LIVE from NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-03-16 | Approaching the third anniversary of the city’s shutdown, new archival, photographic, and literary projects reflect back on New York’s early pandemic days. For speaker bios, event details and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/03/15/pandemicdiariesFeaturing:- Julie Golia, Curator of The Pandemic Diaries and Associate Director of Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books and Charles J. Liebman Curator of Manuscripts at The New York Public Library- Julia Kwon, interdisciplinary artist best known for her bojagi-inspired artwork- Jeremiah Moss, author of Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York- Camilo José Vergara, photographer and creator of the Pandemic DiaryLEARN MORE ABOUT THE PANDEMIC DIARIESnypl.org/pandemic-diariesLIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updatesIn 2020 The New York Public Library launched the Pandemic Diaries project, inviting people to submit audio recordings of themselves and their loved ones telling personal stories about life amid the pandemic. Collecting those stories for over a year, the project captures a moment in time, in the City and beyond, as told by the voices who lived through it. In honor of the collection becoming publicly accessible this year, join one of the project’s leaders alongside writers and artists whose own unique work grappled with similar experiences in the early days of the pandemic through different mediums.Presented as The Richard B. Salomon Distinguished Lecture.ABOUT THE SPEAKERSJulie Golia is a historian of media and gender, an acclaimed curator, and an award-winning educator. Currently, she is the Associate Director for Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books and the Charles J. Liebman Curator of Manuscripts at The New York Public Library. Julie has led important collecting and outreach initiatives at the Library, including History Now: the Pandemic Diaries Project, which collected almost 300 audio recordings of people’s experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic to become part of the Library’s research collections. She received her PhD in history from Columbia University, and she is the author of Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age (Oxford University Press, 2021).Julia Kwon is an interdisciplinary artist who sews interpretative traditional Korean patchwork that comment on Asiatic femininity and the complexities of constructing identities within the context of globalism, cultural hybridity, intersectionality, and the collective struggle for social justice. Her work argues for capacious possibilities for one’s identity and sense of community. Kwon has her work in various collections, including The New York Public Library. Her work is currently on view in the exhibition This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World at the Renwick Gallery of Smithsonian American Art Museum.Jeremiah Moss creator of the award-winning blog “Vanishing New York,” is the author of the books Feral City and Vanishing New York. His writing on the city has appeared in The New York Times, n+1, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications. Jeremiah is the pen name of Griffin Hansbury, a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.Camilo José Vergara has documented America’s disenfranchised and marginalized urban communities for over four decades. Vergara came to the US in the 1960s from Chile to study at Notre Dame University. During his graduate studies in sociology at Columbia University, Vergara developed his interest in the relationship between environment and society. He has published numerous books, including Silent Cities: The Evolution of the American Cemetery (1989), The New American Ghetto (1995), American Ruins (1999), Twin Towers Remembered (2001), Unexpected Chicagoland (2002), Subway Memories (2004), and How the Other Half Worships (2005). His photographs have been exhibited internationally at such institutions as the National Building Museum, the Getty Research Institute and J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. In 2002 he was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant. In 2013, Vergara became the first photographer to receive the National Humanities Medal, presented to him by President Barack Obama at the White House.The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
Laurie Anderson, Firelei Báez, Walter Hood, and Justin Garrett Moore: Ethics in Public Art | NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-03-13 | Artists and activists debate the intersections between public art and issues of equity, representation, social justice, and beyond. For speaker bios, event details and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/03/13/ethicspublicartFeaturing:- Laurie Anderson, visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, and musician- Firelei Báez, visual artist- Walter Hood, Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design, University of California, Berkeley- Justin Garrett Moore, inaugural program officer for the Humanities in Place program, Mellon FoundationPresented in partnership with the American Academy in Rome.LIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updatesWhat are the impacts, positive and negative, that public art can have on the built environment? Drawing on their personal experiences and work, Laurie Anderson, Firelei Báez, Walter Hood, and Justin Garrett Moore explore the thorny issues surrounding the decision-making process of civic projects and the motivations that lie behind public art and monuments. What happens when artistic and creative concerns clash with commercial and political ones? How should social justice and equity be addressed through aesthetics? And how can public art best be used to strengthen and uplift communities?The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
The Land We’re On: Living Lenapehoking | LIVE from NYPL The New York Public Library 2023-03-07 | Contributors to "A Lenapehoking Anthology" explore the personal journeys of people seeking welcome in their ancestral homeland while pushing back against their erasure. For speaker bios, event details and more, visit nypl.org/events/programs/2023/03/06/lenapeanthologyGET THE BOOK- NYPL Catalog: browse.nypl.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb22915168__Slenape%20anthology__Orightresult__U__X1?lang=eng&suite=def&ivts=kXu6bG9EdCmPH5%2F8a9flBQ%3D%3D&casts=zKJa4KqzJCX7dfqgV8aERw%3D%3DLIVE FROM NYPL- Upcoming Events: nypl.org/live- Sign up for our newsletters: pages.email.nypl.org/updatesBefore New York City, there was Lenapehoking, the ancestral land of the Lenape people. Forcibly displaced by European settlers, their land was stolen to create settler states. Now, in an act of reclamation, A Lenapehoking Anthology, recently published by the Lenape Center and the Brooklyn Public Library, contends with subjects ranging from the myth of the purchase of Manhattan to the self-curation of indigenous art and culture.Lenape Center co-founders and co-directors Joe Baker, Curtis Zunigha, and Hadrien Coumans join Cora Fisher, Curator of Visual Art Programming at Brooklyn Public Library, in conversation.LIVE from NYPL is made possible by the continuing generosity of Celeste Bartos, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos, the Margaret and Herman Sokol Public Education Endowment Fund, and the support of Library patrons and friends.This program is made possible by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms.To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
Homestead: Melinda Moustakis with Danielle Evans | Conversations from the Cullman Center The New York Public Library 2023-03-01 | ...
Get Lit February Book Club: Marlon James with musical guest TYGAPAW The New York Public Library 2023-02-25 | WNYC's Alison Stewart speaks with Marlon James about his book Black Leopard, Red Wolf, followed by a special musical performance by TYGAPAW.
