Past Events
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Wednesday, January 13, 2021 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online (Zoom) | Recommended for children in Kindergarten and Up
Let's meet on Zoom at the time above for a face-to-face storytime.
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Friday, January 8, 2021 - 6:00 PM | Special Event | online | open to the public | by donation | drop in
Ring in the New Year with our all-new trivia night with a literary bent. Test your knowledge on opening lines, banned books and more. Prizes! Surprises!
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Thursday, January 7, 2021 - 3:00 PM | The Writing Life | online | open to the public; free for members | separate sessions | registration requiredIt's an unusual season. There are so many words to say how we feel. Let's try together.
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Wednesday, January 6, 2021 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us for the premiere?
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online (Zoom) | All Ages
Join us on Zoom for a virtual, face-to-face storytime.
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Monday, December 14, 2020 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | on the Zoom Meetings platform | for members and guests | free of charge | registration requiredMembers and guests are cordially invited to a celebration of Library members who have published books during 2020.
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Sunday, December 13, 2020 - 2:00 PM | Special Event | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredIn this lecture with recorded music, American Songbook expert and radio host Michael Lasser takes us back to the year almost a century ago when one of America's most iconic songwriters came fully into his own voice.
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Wednesday, December 9, 2020 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online (Zoom) | Recommended for children in Kindergarten and up
Let's meet on Zoom at the time above for a face-to-face storytime.
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Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredIlluminating a culture that has long been romanticized by Westerners as deeply spiritual and peaceful, Demick reveals what it is really like to be a Tibetan in the twenty-first century, trying to preserve one’s culture, faith, and language against the depredations of a seemingly unstoppable, technologically all-seeing superpower.
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Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Reading Group | online | open to the public | $60 for the four sessions | registration requiredThe author of PEN/Faulkner finalist LOVE WAR STORIES explores memoirs, poetry, and fiction covering almost 100 years of Puerto Rican writing from the continental United States.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us for the premiere?
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Tuesday, December 1, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Special Event | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredIn this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, the essayist, journalist, and author investigates the struggle for Black voting rights from Reconstruction through the civil rights movement to 2020, in conversation with award-winning novelist, essayist, and playwright Caryl Phillips.
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Sunday, November 22, 2020 - 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM | Online Event | Zoom | open to the public | free of charge | drop inWecome to the book side of Instagram - where readers, writers, and librarians come together to celebrate books and encourage reading. Marialuisa Monda and other Library staff chat with four major Bookstagrammers about their reading passions, libraries, bookstores, social media, and more. Bring your questions!
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Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredIn this original series of live online events, hear the voices of Black writers through history re-examined to inspire understanding of race in our country today. This debut presentation features works from the 1700s with dramatic readings, historical context, and images.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us for the premiere?
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Monday, November 16, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredFrom the best-selling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time.
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Thursday, November 12, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredEnter the mind of French literary giant Honoré de Balzac through a study of nine of his greatest characters and the novels they inhabit. Balzac's Lives illuminates the writer's life, era, and work in a completely original way.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | online | for members only | by donation | registration requiredFeeling stuck in your writing? Uninspired? Overwhelmed? Break out your tarot deck and use the 78 archetypes to shake out of your writing rut and surprise even yourself.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | online | free for members of the New York Society Library and membership library members | registration required through the Athenaeum of PhiladelphiaThe Princeton University professor and author of BEGIN AGAIN: JAMES BALDWIN'S AMERICA AND ITS URGENT LESSONS FOR OUR OWN addresses the questions raised by Baldwin's 1962 essay "As Much Truth as One Can Bear."
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Sunday, November 8, 2020 - 2:00 PM | Lecture | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredMary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. Prodigy, visionary, 'outlaw,' orator and explorer. As society's outsiders, the exceptional subjects of this study inspired a new breed of women―and one another.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2020 - 2:00 PM | Special Event | YouTube | open to the public | free of charge | drop in2020 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of New York City diarist George Templeton Strong. Join Library staff Harriet Shapiro and Cathy McGowan for a visit to Strong's 19th-century world with historical narrative, images, dramatic readings, and music.
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Thursday, October 29, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | online | free for members of the New York Society Library and membership library members | registration required through the Athenaeum of PhiladelphiaThe acclaimed biographer recreates a celebrated eighteenth-century London club that included critic Samuel Johnson, biographer James Boswell, historian Edward Gibbon, political thinker Edmund Burke, economist Adam Smith, painter Joshua Reynolds, and actor David Garrick.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us for the premiere?
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Monday, October 26, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredThe iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon CRAZY RICH ASIANS returns with the glittering tale of a young woman who finds herself torn between two men.
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Sunday, October 25, 2020 - 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM | Online Event | Zoom | open to the public | free of charge | drop inJoin Library staff and friends from two of New York City's great independent bookstores for an informal chat in honor of National Book Month.
