Past Events
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Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 2:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
The first American writer to live by his pen and the first to gain an international reputation, Washington Irving gave his fledgling nation her own distinct literature with works such as A History of New York and "Rip van Winkle." Jones'
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 4:00 PM | Children | Members' Room
The Feiffers share their story and talk about how they worked together to create a tale of a "satisfying journey of self-discovery" that "becomes funnier with each reading," according to School Library Journal.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Author Jackson and two of the country's leading authorities on books and libraries discuss the role of books in the context of the Internet and changes to publishers and libraries.
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 4:00 PM | Children | Members' Room
Bruce Degen's love of art began in his childhood in Brooklyn.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
In 1940, a Jewish boy from Brussels whose visa was rejected writes desperately to his heroine Eleanor Roosevelt, asking her to save him and his fellow refugees from being returned to Nazi-occupied Europe.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
The Boston Athenaeum took the lead in publishing America's Membership Libraries, the first book to profile these historic libraries.
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
In 1919, at the age of thirty-one, Helen Clay Frick inherited $38 million, becoming the richest single woman in America. These riches, however, came at a price. Ms.
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Temple Israel
Marco Polo, the scion of a wealthy Venetian merchant family, was only seventeen when he set out in 1271 with his father and uncle on their journey to Asia.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
The Wayward Muse, Elizabeth Hickey's second novel, focuses on the complex relationships between Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, founder of the Arts & Crafts movement, and Jane Burden, a stableman's daugh
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Monday, November 12, 2007 - 6:30 PM | Performance | Members' Room
Peter Eyre's play based on the friendship and correspondence between the nineteenth-century authors is brought to life by two of the New York stage's most admired actors.
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Friday, November 9, 2007 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
One of the most respected authorities in the book-history field, Nicolas Barker is the founder and editor of The Book Collector.
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Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 4:00 PM | Children | Members' Room
Brett Helquist talks about how he became a children's author and illustrator, starting with a childhood love of comic books, and describe the process of creating the illustrations for A Series of Unfortunate Events and other books.
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Thursday, November 1, 2007 - 4:00 PM | Children | Members' Room
Daniel Kirk's new book, Library Mouse, tells the story of a mouse who lives in the reference section of a library and decides to become an author himself.
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Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
In the first half of the twentieth century, Washington Square North saw an influx of almost 200 artists, many of them recently trained in Europe, who converted unused stables and townhouses into a hotbed of new American art.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Temple Israel
The longtime New York Times food columnist surveys over 250 years of American culinary history, from Thoreau's rave about watermelon to Alice B. Toklas's creative recipe for lobster.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
The Law of Dreams tells the story of a young man's Homeric passage from innocence to experience during the Irish Famine of 1847.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Temple Israel
Almost every American knows the story of the small group of religious dissenters who left England for Holland destined for what would become Plymouth colony, and their varying relationship with the Wampanoag tribe who saved them from starvation.
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Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 3:00 PM | Performance | Members' Room
The Library observes the 90th anniversary of America's entry into the First World War with a look at the songs that raised spirits, evoked patriotism, and characterized the era.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
By age thirteen, Beah had become one of the world's 300,000 child soldiers, forced through drug addiction and threats to commit atrocities.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Marie Ponsot is the author of numerous poetry collections including True Minds (1957), Admit Impediment (1981), The Green Dark (1988), The Bird Catcher (1998), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Keene is considered one of the leading scholars of Japanese literature both in the United States and in Japan. Here, he discusses the first major Japanese intellectual to learn from the West as well as from his own tradition.
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Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 4:00 PM | Children | Members' Room
Chris Raschka won the 2006 Caldecott Medal for The Hello, Goodbye Window (written by Norton Juster).
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Monday, March 5, 2007 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Temple Israel
In the spring of 1994 in Rwanda, 800,000 people were slaughtered, most hacked to death by machete.
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Thursday, March 1, 2007 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote has been called the first modern novel and the greatest book of all time.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
George Sand was perhaps the first Frenchwoman celebrated throughout Europe who was neither a saint nor a king's mistress, and she was also the first female bestselling novelist.