Event Recordings
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
William Jay Smith has been one of the most respected figures on the literary scene for more than half a century. Two of his thirteen poetry collections were finalists for the National Book Award.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Merkin Concert Hall
An Imperfect Offering is a searing personal memoir that is also an urgent call to confront suffering in all its many forms, from one of the greatest living humanitarian activists. This event is co-sponsored by WNET/Thirteen New York.
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Alida Brill has suffered from a rare and chronic autoimmune illness since childhood. For more than twenty-five years, one spot of brightness in her situation has been her medical relationship with her doctor, Michael D. Lockshin.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
New Yorkers are constantly enriched by exemplary works of public art; Public Art New York gives the opportunity to become truly acquainted with it. In this event Ms.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room
Poet Brian Bartlett reads from his most recent collection, The Watchmaker's Table, and talks about his experiments blending his voice with those of others in glosas, haiku sequences, sonnets about teaching, and found poems.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
The author of Mrs. Roosevelt's definitive biography introduces the wider world of the First Lady's influential life and tumultuous era.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
As part of the National Endowment for the Arts' The Big Read, Professor Kraft shared context and critical thought and led discussion on Henry James's Washington Square.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 5:30 PM | Children | Members' Room
Born in southeast Poland in 1934, Lola Rein lost everything at the age of eight when her parents died in the Holocaust.
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
In Trying Leviathan, a 2007 New York City Book Award winner, D. Graham Burnett recovers the striking story of Maurice v.
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Writing Life Daytime Talk: Rob Casper, Karen Gisonny, and Ed Park, The Market for Literary Magazines
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge RoomA distinguished panel discusses the state of the literary magazine market and how the Internet is changing the landscape of independent press publishing.
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Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 7:00 PM | Lecture | Temple Israel
The former CEO of the Educational Broadcasting Corporation (Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21) discusses the new ideas of management and leadership that are replacing old-fashioned images of corporate callousness and greed, including how to define kindness
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Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Today's technological inventions offer rapid-fire virtual relations and instant access to reams of data. But the costs of such advances are mounting.
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Saturday, February 14, 2009 - 3:00 PM | Performance | Members' Room
This lecture-concert surveys timeless songs about the Big Apple from before 1900 to World War II, with insights from popular-music historian Michael Lasser.
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Monday, February 9, 2009 - 7:00 PM | | Whitridge Room
William Finkelstein is an Emmy Award-winning producer and screenwriter of the television dramas L.A. Law, Law and Order, Brooklyn South, Murder One, and NYPD Blue, and a former attorney.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
In his acclaimed book Cosmopolitanism, Kwame Anthony Appiah overcomes the divisive sectarian rhetoric of politicians and fundamentalists with a true ethic for the era of globalization, inspired by the ancient Greek ideal of cosmopolitanis
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Monday, December 15, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Originally composed for Lent and Easter 1742, Handel's most legendary work has become a staple of the Christmas season in both secular and sacred settings.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
The twentieth century's foremost name in classical choreography, George Balanchine has inspired a wide range of art, thought, and criticism.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
This definitive biography of New York society's grande dame reveals her fabulous life with the help of Astor's hard-to-find memoir, interviews with her friends, and first-hand experience.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 4:00 PM | Children | Members' Room
The bestselling author and Caldecott honoree shares her recent books and guides participants in creating their own die-cut storybooks.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
James Laughlin (1914-1997) - poet, ladies' man, heir to a steel fortune, and the founder of New Directions Publishing - left behind files crammed full of photos, letters, clippings, and notes.
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Monday, May 19, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Longtime New Yorker writers share their perspectives about the evolution of writing about the city in its essential magazine.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Children | Members' Room
The Newbery medalist talks about her love for writing and for sharing her favorite books.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Temple Israel
The first biography to make use of Einstein's massive personal correspondence, Isaacson's book shows how Einstein's scientific genius, his leaps of creative thought, was part and parcel with his public face as a rebel and innovator.
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Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Historical novelist Ellen Feldman illuminates the human dimensions of the infamous 1931 Alabama case.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Marie-Thèrése, the only surviving child of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escaped from Paris' notorious Temple Prison in 1795 at age seventeen and went on to become one of the defining figures of the early nineteenth century through her political
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