Past Events
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Temple Israel
Kingmakers is the story of how the modern Middle East came to be, told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. This event is co-sponsored with WNET/Thirteen New York.
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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, September 29, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Performance | Members' Room
Thomas F. Flynn covered the events of September 11, 2001 in New York for CBS News after charging to the scene on his bicycle. Searching for an appropriate voice and medium to share his experiences, he found an unusual format: the epic poem.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Temple Israel
Moyers on Democracy collects Bill Moyers' most moving statements on the state of America, including insights on economic inequality, the assault on the Constitution, the undermining of the electoral process, and the despoiling of the envi
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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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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.