Past Events
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Sunday, March 13, 2016 - 3:00 PM | Performance | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $20 with advance registration; $25 at the doorIf three sisters lived together and told a story of a family through the eyes of iconic systers throughout history, what would that story be? Three explores sisterhood throughout history and pop culture, tearing down the boundaries that separate television and theater, Shakespeare and the Brady Bunch, Moscow and Los Angeles.
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Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
History comes alive in this textured account of the rivalry between Harry Houdini and the so-called Witch of Lime Street, whose iconic lives intersected at a time when science was on the verge of embracing the paranormal.
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | For Members Only | Whitridge Room | Free of charge; registration required
Writing the novel/short story/essay is the easy part. Knowing when to stop is where the trouble begins. End at a dramatic moment? A resolution moment? A foreshadowing-the-future moment? An everything’s-going-to-be-okay moment?
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Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration, $15 at the door
A provocative and penetrating investigation into the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, whose infamous duel left the Founding Father dead and turned a sitting Vice President into a fugitive.
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Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | For Members Only | Whitridge Room | Free of charge; registration required
There’s something magical about a ten-minute play. Its characters pull you in, surprise you, engage you in their dramatic struggle. In six sessions, we focus on problem, climax, and resolution.
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Saturday, February 27, 2016 - 11:30 AM | Children | Whitridge Room | For All Ages | For Members and Their Guests | $5 per Child
Come one and all to the Children’s Library
On the very last Saturday in February
For Seussical stories will be told
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Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 4:00 PM | Children | Whitridge Room | For Members and Their Guests | Grades 3 and Older | $10 Per Child
In this ongoing series, young writers are invited to join notable writers in exploring different genres.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | For Members Only | Whitridge Room | $50 for all four sessions (recommended); $15 per session
John Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga is perhaps most familiar as the source for two televised British miniseries, but in its own day it had high literary respect and indeed won Galsworthy the Nobel Prize in 1932 for what the Swedish Academy ter
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Sunday, February 21, 2016 - 3:00 PM | Performance | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $20 with advance registration, $25 at the door
In 1888, Willa Cather astounded her Nebraska neighbors with her brilliant mind and unconventional, cross-dressing ways.
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Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
A startling reevaluation of Lady Byron’s marriage and the untold story of her complex life as single mother and progressive force.
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Tuesday, February 9, 2016 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | For Members Only | Whitridge Room | Free of charge; registration required
Hoariest of all writerly topics perhaps, point of view is the air that a novel breathes, all too easily polluted.
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | For Members and Their Guests | Temple Israel, 112 East 75th Street | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania.
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Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | For Members Only | Whitridge Room | $40 for all three sessions (recommended); $15 per session
It’s conventionally understood that children of Holocaust refugees and survivors grew up in homes where the nightmarish past was not discussed—certainly not in depth.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 3:00 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Free of charge; registration required
During New York's Bibliography Week, the Library presents a two-part symposium devoted to the intersections of bibliographical,
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Friday, January 22, 2016 - 4:00 PM | Children | Open to the Public | Grades 3 and Older | $5 Per Person
Q: What's hiding under the egg?
A: A mystery for readers who loved Chasing Vermeer and From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
From Dick Cheney’s man-sized safe to the National Security Agency’s massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured the American government’s modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr.
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Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration, $15 at the door
Buried in the Egyptian desert some 4,000 years ago, the Pyramid Texts are among the world’s oldest poetry.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | For Members' Only | Whitridge Room | Free of charge; registration required
Humor is all around us, every minute—that wee annoyance, or strange interaction, or the person on line in front of you at the post office. The hard part, as with any writing, is finding the courage to do it.
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Tuesday, December 8, 2015 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | For members and their guests | Temple Israel, 112 East 75th Street | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.
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Tuesday, December 8, 2015 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | For Members Only | Whitridge Room | Free of charge; registration required
You are confident as a writer, but when someone asks you to read your work aloud your voice squeaks, you speed up, and your words lose all color. More and more authors are required to read from their work at book events and open mics.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
One of our most distinguished contributors to American literature discusses her new novel, an intimate and poignant coming-of-age portrait of a young woman writer, with film historian and memoirist Molly Haskell.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | For Members Only | Whitridge Room | Free of charge; registration required
Get the creative juices flowing in these fun and instructive sessions. Participants will receive a prompt and will have 20 minutes to write freely, after which they are encouraged to share their writing with the group.
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Sunday, November 22, 2015 - 3:00 PM | Children | For Members and Their Guests Age 3 and Older | Members' Room | $5 per person, payable at the door
Angelina Ballerina was an instant hit when author Katharine Holabird published it more than thirty years ago. There are now over forty books in print about the adventures of the ballet-mad mouse.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
The former President of the American Psychiatric Association tells the fascinating story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - 2:00 PM | The Writing Life | For Members Only | Whitridge Room | Free of charge; advance registration required
Get the creative juices flowing in these fun and instructive sessions.