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Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicThe award-winning author of Door Wide Open, about her relationship with Jack Kerouac, presents a groundbreaking portrait of him as a young artist.Event Recording
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
The National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon tells the stories of parents who find profound meaning in dealing with children challenged by disabilities, mental illness, gender difference, or genius, expanding our definition
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman tells the rich and fascinating story of skulls, both human and animal, from historical, biographical, cultural, and iconigraphic perspectives, with an array of stunning images from co
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, Black Gotham is Carla Peterson's riveting account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her nineteenth-century ancestors.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
This beautifully realized historical novel offers a fresh vision of the French Revolution and the French royal family as seen by Marie Antoinette and her Swedish aristocrat lover.
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Monday, November 12, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
A Hunter College professor and passionate theatergoer looks at why some dramatic creations, from Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach to Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, extend to five hours or more, and how their length lets t
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Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
In 2008, Charles Rowan Beye married his longtime partner Richard at a chapel on the edge of Harvard University campus, where he had received his PhD in classical philology nearly fifty years earlier.
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Monday, October 22, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
Hired by E.B. White, Janet Groth spent two tumultuous decades as The New Yorker’s receptionist. She discusses her funny, revelatory memoir with New Yorker writer Mark Singer.
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Sunday, October 21, 2012 - 3:00 PM | Children | Members' RoomOne of the New York City Ballet's most celebrated ballerinas, Ms. Kent reads from her first children's book, Ballerina Swan, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Emily Arnold McCully, and talks about her creative process.Event Recording
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Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
Economist correspondent Greene’s groundbreaking and controversial book examines the prejudices that cause governments, nationalists and experts to control people’s language, defining “us” and distancing “them.”
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
The author of The Good German spins a tale of intrigue in post-World War II Istanbul, a neutral magnet for refugees and spies.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, two stories of love—all are brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the first woman playwright to win a Tony Award, Wendy Wasserstein was a Broadway luminary, but a personal mystery.
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Friday, September 7, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
As part of the first international conference about National Book Award winner and Library trustee Shirley Hazzard, a distinguished panel discusses her life and works, including Transit of Venus and The Great Fire.
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Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Award-winning author Elizabeth Winthrop, the daughter and niece of Stewart Alsop and Joseph Alsop, discusses the portrayal of her uncle and father and their era in David Auburn's Broadway hit The Columnist.
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Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Uncle Tom's Cabin is likely the most influential novel ever written by an American. In a fitting tribute to the two hundredth anniversary of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s birth, Bancroft Prize-winning historian David S.
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Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
In Chasing Venus, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Andrea Wulf tells the extraordinary story of the first global scientific collaboration - set amid warring armies, savage weather, and bitter rivalries - motiva
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Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Acclaimed novelist Louis Begley continues the poignant, darkly funny, emotionally nuanced series that began with About Schmidt, adapted into the film directed by Alexander Payne.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Kurt Vonnegut influenced the visual and film arts, critical and political discourse, and, of course, generations of writers.
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Friday, April 20, 2012 - 6:00 PM | Reception | Members' Room
The Library celebrates National Poetry Month with contrasting readings by three acclaimed contemporary poets. This event is generously supported by the Ethelyn Chase Poetry Fund.
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Monday, April 16, 2012 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Later America's most popular and controversial playwright, whose works included The Glass Menagerie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams concentrated his youthful talent just as intently on poetry as on plays.
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Two of the city's leading critical thinkers discuss the legacy of Lionel Trilling and the impact of his era of thought on today's world of higher education.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Temple Israel
Hermione Lee won international acclaim and awards for her biographies of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, and her Edith Wharton (2007) is considered the definitive modern biography of one of America's most famous women of letters.
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Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
In this magisterial new biography, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith brings to life one of the world's most fascinating and enigmatic women, Queen Elizabeth II.
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Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 4:00 PM | Children | Members' Room
A child finally falls asleep with the rest of the world in this new picture book from Kate and Jules Feiffer. In this event the Feiffers talk about how they worked together to create the book and engage attendees in creating their own story.
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