Past Events
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | For Members Only | Whitridge Room | Free of Charge | Advance Registration Required
When we come into possession of family letters, we may initially not know what to do with them. Sallie Bingham will discuss using techniques of fiction and research to both use and transcend the purely personal.
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorA husband and wife are caught in the crosscurrents of the treacherous Cultural Cold War era.
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Sunday, October 5, 2014 - 3:00 PM | Performance | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $20 with advance registration/$25 at the doorThe America’s Songs author discusses the versatility and genius of iconic musical theater composer Richard Rodgers, with examples performed by soprano Sara Holliday and pianist Christopher Bradshaw.Event Recording
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Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorRubin undertakes a decade-long odyssey to recover the stories of the last survivors from the American Expeditionary Forces of World War One.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorBorn into one of the wealthiest families in New York, Huguette Clark spent much of her adulthood as a modern-day Miss Havisham. Gordon’s book solves the mysteries of what turned a vivacious young socialite into a recluse and what her life was like inside her gilded cage.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - 2:00 PM | Reading Group | For Members Only | Whitridge Room | See below for session information
Willa Cather (1876-1947) is one of America’s important and often controversial writers.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | For Members Only | Whitridge Room | See below for session informationPerennial popular seminar leader James Kraft engages participants on classic and lesser-known works of the iconic American author (and Library member) Willa Cather.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | For Members Only | Whitridge Room | See below for session informationThe CT State University professor emeritus leads discussion of works by Raleigh, Marvell, Donne, Shakespeare, and others.
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Monday, September 15, 2014 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | For Members Only | Whitridge Room | $100 for six sessions | Registration required | Limited to 10 members
Compelling memoirs share one virtue: Their authors tell the truth. That is what makes writing them so challenging and demanding of courage. In this workshop, you will be guided to finding that truth and giving it voice.
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Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorThe author of Reading the OED presents an eye-opening look at language “mistakes,” including “hopefully” and “literally” vs. “figuratively,” and how they came to be accepted as correct—or not. Whether you consider yourself a stickler, a nitpicker, or a rule-breaker in the know, Bad English is sure to enlighten, enrage, and perhaps even inspire.
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Sunday, June 8, 2014 - 3:00 PM | Performance | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $20 with advance registration; $25 at the door
The Library's Members' Room was originally built for chamber music.
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorHoping to explore “the real ground of literature,” Phyllis Rose reads a full shelf of fiction in the Society Library’s Stack 6, from LEQ to LES, and finds an extreme adventure along the way.
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Monday, May 19, 2014 - 10:00 AM | Technology | Taught by Syed Rasool
Buying a new laptop or desktop PC can be quite confusing. Many people find it difficult to compare prices, features, processor types, etc to find the right choice for their requirements.
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Friday, May 16, 2014 - 10:00 AM | Technology | Taught by Peri Pignetti and Matthew Bright
This is an advanced class for those who are active on multiple social media platforms.
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Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorSpring 2014 marks the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare. Using the Folger Library’s archives and previously unknown resources here and abroad, Grant recounts the American success story of the remarkable husband and wife who ensured that Shakespeare would have a beautiful home in America.
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Friday, May 9, 2014 - 4:00 PM | Children | Members' Room | Grades K-4 | For Members and Their Guests | $5 per person, payable at the door
Come celebrate inventive and inspired storytelling with award-winning author-illustrator Chris Raschka.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorThe author of The Forgotten Founding Father presents a fascinating look at the arc of American history through the lens of compulsive behavior, profiling seven iconic figures from Thomas Jefferson to Charles Lindberg. This event will highlight the accomplishments and eccentricities of licentious librarian Melvil Dewey, whose Dewey Decimal System revolutionized the book world.
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Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, 695 Park Avenue | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorThe long-awaited novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Evening is a literary tour-de-force set in war-torn Africa, where a struggling American journalist meets a Ugandan teenager who survived abduction by the Lord’s Resistance Army. The Author Series is co-sponsored by WNET/Thirteen New York.
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Monday, April 21, 2014 - 10:00 AM | Technology | Taught by Peri Pignetti and Matthew Bright
Get started tweeting with this beginner session on Twitter. Learn the basics about Twitter and its lingo. Find and follow others, see what’s trending, use mentions and hashtags in your tweets, and retweet the posts of others.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | For Members Only | $50 for all four sessions (recommended); $15 per session
The literature of Australia is passionately engaged with the land and its history, conveying an often outsized sense of the incomers and the dispossessed, the settlers and migrants, the rebels and the rulers.
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Friday, April 11, 2014 - 4:30 PM | Children | Whitridge Room | For Members and Their Guests in Grades 3-6 | $10 per child
In this ongoing series, young writers are invited to join notable writers in exploring different genres.
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Friday, April 11, 2014 - 10:00 AM | Technology | Taught by Brynn White
Feeling left out while others keep in touch, network, share pictures, follow headlines, play games, and get invited to events on Facebook? Over one billion people across the world now use the social media platform.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorIn this revolutionary book, classical archaeologist Connelly challenges basic assumptions about the Parthenon and the ancient Athenians, beggaring our popular notions of Athens as a city of staid philosophers, rationalists, and rhetoricians and reclaiming a world in which our modern secular conception of democracy would have been simply incomprehensible.
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Friday, April 4, 2014 - 4:00 PM | Children | For Members and Their Guests in Grades 2 and Up | Members' Room | $5 per person, payable at the door
Nine-year-old Anna and her sisters love to play with the dolls in their parents’ doll repair shop.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
From the acclaimed author of American Bloomsbury comes a major reassessment of the life and work of one of America’s preeminent twentieth-century poets, our generation’s beloved heretic.
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