Past Events
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Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredA singular, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir of a Filipino boy with albinism whose story travels from an immigrant childhood to Harvard to a gender transition and illuminates the illusions of race, disability, and gender.
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Wednesday, October 21, 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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Thursday, October 15, 2020 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | online | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredLibrary members read from their own short stories, novels, poetry, criticism, memoir, and plays.
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Wednesday, October 14, 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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Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online (Zoom) | For all ages
Join us on Zoom for a virtual, face-to-face storytime.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | online | for members only | by donation | registration requiredJoin master teacher Geraldine Woods to take apart classic sentences, see how they tick, and apply their secrets to your own writing.
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Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredThe foremost expert on the book art of Margaret Armstrong talks about her life and career, with stunning images from his own comprehensive collection of her bindings.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us then?
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Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | online | for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration requiredGabriel García Márquez was the most influential writer in the Spanish language since Cervantes. This seminar takes a deep look at his three major works One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and Love in the Time of Cholera.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | for members of the New York Society Library and membership library members | free of charge | registration required through the Athenaeum of PhiladelphiaIn the decades before the Civil War, African Americans in the North lived in an tenuous freedom, denied political rights and threatened with kidnapping and enslavement. In this presentation, REMAKING THE REPUBLIC author Christopher Bonner explores individual and collective strategies African Americans used to defend their freedom and secure rights.
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Thursday, September 24, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | online | for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration requiredWritten at the request of the Roman Emperor Augustus, this 1st century BCE epic is much more than a piece of propaganda. We’ll complete the story in Robert Fagles’ fine translation.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | online | for members only | by donation | registration requiredJoin master teacher Geraldine Woods to take apart classic sentences, see how they tick, and apply their secrets to your own writing.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us then?
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Tuesday, September 22, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | open to the public | by donation | registration requiredA husband, a father, a son, a business owner...And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi. Like Ocean's Eleven meets Drive with a Southern noir twist, S. A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland is a searing, operatic story of a man pushed to his limits by poverty, race, and his own former life of crime. Lee Child calls it "sensationally good - new, fresh, real, authentic, twisty, with characters and dilemmas that will break your heart. More than recommended."
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Thursday, September 17, 2020 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online (Zoom) | For all ages
Join us on Zoom for a virtual, face-to-face storytime.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredTwo acclaimed novelists discuss their research and writing about the experiences of women in the Second World War and its aftermath.
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Sunday, September 13, 2020 - 4:00 PM | Online Event | open to the public | free of charge | drop inStaffer and love-story reader Marialuisa Monda chats about guilty pleasures and pet peeves in classic romances and contemporary love stories.
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Thursday, September 10, 2020 - 3:00 PM | The Writing Life | online | open to the public | by donation | separate sessions | registration requiredIt's an unusual year. There are so many words to say how we feel. Let's try together.
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Tuesday, September 8, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | for members of the New York Society Library and membership library members | by donation | registration requiredIn Dawson’s Fall, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson’s great-grandparents, we see America at its most fragile, fraught, and malleable. Set in 1889, in Charleston, South Carolina, Robinson’s tale weaves her family’s journal entries and letters with a novelist’s narrative grace, and spans the life of her tragic hero, Frank Dawson, as he attempts to navigate the country’s new political, social, and moral landscape.
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Monday, August 31, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | YouTube | free of charge | drop inThe author of Free Food for Millionaires writes the sweeping saga of an exceptional Korean family through the generations.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Peanut butter and chocolate: what could be better?
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Wednesday, August 12, 2020 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online | Recommended for children grades K and up
Join us on Zoom for Globe Trekkers, a live, face-to-face storytime.
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Saturday, August 8, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us then?
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Saturday, August 1, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us then?
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Wednesday, July 29, 2020 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online | Recommended for children grades K and up
Join us on Zoom for Globe Trekkers, a live, face-to-face storytime. At event time, sign in to Zoom (
