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Lyn Slater and Chloé Cooper Jones
Library Talks - March 19, 2024 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsThe Accidental Icon Lyn Slater, a fashion and culture influencer, talks about her new book, How to Be Old, and reflects on life in her 60s. She speaks with Chloé Cooper Jones, author of the bestselling memoir Easy Beauty.
Chasing Bruno Schulz: Benjamin Balint with Joshua Cohen
Library Talks - March 05, 2024 12:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsAuthor and journalist Benjamin Balint sits down with Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Joshua Cohen to discuss Balint’s latest book Bruno Schulz, a fresh portrait of the Polish-Jewish writer and artist that draws on extensive new reporting and archival research.
Álvaro Enrigue with Marie Arana: You Dreamed of Empires
Library Talks - February 21, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratingsThe author of Sudden Death returns with a new novel that reimagines the destinies of Tenochtitlan.
Heather Cox Richardson with Andrew Delbanco: Democracy Awakening
Library Talks - February 06, 2024 12:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsHistorian and author Heather Cox Richardson sits down with Andrew Delbanco to discuss her most recent book, Democracy Awakening.
Lesbian Poetic Traditions: Judy Grahn and Friends
Library Talks - January 23, 2024 12:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsThe iconic feminist poet Judy Grahn re-explores the traditions of lesbian poetry from Sappho to Pat Parker and beyond.
Vauhini Vara with Leslie Jamison: This Is Salvaged
Library Talks - January 09, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratingsPrize-winning author Vauhini Vara sits down with Leslie Jamison to discuss her first collection of short stories, This Is Salvaged.
Ayana Mathis and Justin Torres
Library Talks - December 26, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratingsAuthors Ayana Mathis, author of The Unsettled, and Justin Torres, author of Blackouts, speak about their award-winning novels.
Outrageous: Kliph Nesteroff with Marc Maron
Library Talks - December 12, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratingsIn this episode of Library Talks, author Kliph Nesteroff sits down with comedian Marc Maron to discuss his new book, Outrageous, which chronicles the controversies of American show business and the ongoing attempts to change what we watch, read, and hear.
Far from Over: The Fight for the Equal Rights Amendment
Library Talks - November 28, 2023 12:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsPoliticians and activists discuss the continuing push to revive the much-contested Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
Mary Beard with Tim Gunn: Emperor of Rome
Library Talks - November 14, 2023 12:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsMary Beard returns to the Library to talk with Tim Gunn about her new book, Emperor of Rome, her long-awaited follow up to the international bestseller SPQR.
C Pam Zhang with Padma Lakshmi: Land of Milk and Honey
Library Talks - October 31, 2023 11:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsIn this episode of Library Talks, C Pam Zhang sits down with Padma Lakshmi to discuss her latest novel Land of Milk and Honey, which tells the story of climate disaster and a young chef discovering pleasure at the end of the world. Zhang is the winner of the Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenth...
Matthew Desmond and Andrea Elliott: Poverty, by America
Library Talks - October 17, 2023 11:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsPulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond’s latest book, Poverty, by America, reimagines the American debate on poverty, making an original and ambitious argument about why it persists here: because too many of us benefit from it. In this episode of Library Talks, Desmond speaks with Pulit...
Building the World We Want: Artificial Intelligence and Global Governance
Library Talks - October 03, 2023 11:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsAcclaimed scholar and writer Alondra Nelson leads a discussion on the transnational impacts of artificial intelligence and the need for global collaboration. Speakers include Karen Kornbluh, Maria Ressa, Olatunbosun Tijani, Tim Wu
Luis Alberto Urrea: Good Night, Irene
Library Talks - September 19, 2023 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsThe new novel by award-winning author Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene, tells an overlooked story of women’s heroism in World War II, inspired by the experiences of his own mother. Urrea speaks about his “moving and graceful tribute to heroic women” that asks whether a friendship forged on ...
Sasha Velour and Joe E. Jeffreys: Drag Manifesto
Library Talks - September 05, 2023 11:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsSasha Velour is an iconic queen. Turns out she’s also a historian! In this episode of Library Talks, Velour sits down with drag historian Joe E. Jeffreys to discuss her new book, The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag, a treasure trove of revelations about radical queer expressions thr...
Sherrilyn Ifill: How America Ends and Begins Again
Library Talks - August 22, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratingsWelcome back! The Library presents conversations with an incredible array of authors, performers, activists, and thinkers, and our Library Talks podcast brings some of those conversations to you. Today we are relaunching the show with Sherrilyn Iffill delivering the annual Robert B. Silvers Le...
Stonewall 50: The Sound of Memory
Library Talks - June 23, 2019 10:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsThe Stonewall Riots were a flash point in LGBTQ history. After the riots that took place at the Stonewall Inn in June 1969, the LGBTQ civil rights movement went from handfuls of pioneering activists to a national movement mobilizing thousands. On this special episode we’ll hear what happened o...
Before Stonewall
Library Talks - June 16, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratingsAidan Flax-Clark welcomes co-host Jason Baumann, Assistant Director for Collection Development and Coordinator of Humanities and the Library’s LGBTQ Initiative, for a special episode about queer life before the Stonewall Riots. Frank Collerius, Manager of the Jefferson Market branch at NYPL, ...
Marlon James Gets Nerdy with Kevin Young
Library Talks - June 09, 2019 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsMarlon James is a Jamaican novelist and winner of the Man Booker Prize. His recent book Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the first in a epic trilogy that blends myth, fantasy, and history—what James has described as "African Game of Thrones." He spoke with fellow fantasy and comic book fan, Kevin Youn...
A History of the Queer Press
Library Talks - June 02, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratingsThe Gay Liberation Front was an organization recognized for publishing the first gay liberation newspaper in the world,"Come Out!". It provided openly queer media exposure for many activists, writers, and artists. In conjunction with the NYPL exhibition Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50, founding ...
Erin Lee Carr and Ta-Nehisi Coates Remember David Carr
Library Talks - May 26, 2019 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsDocumentary filmmaker Erin Lee Carr remembers her father, legendary journalist David Carr, in a moving new memoir, "All That You Leave Behind." Erin Lee Carr, went looking for support and comfort in the lifetime of correspondence that they had shared. She was also looking for clues—advice the fa...
How Robert Caro Writes About Power and the Powerless
Library Talks - May 19, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratingsAt age 83, Robert Caro pulls back the curtains on his process, in his new book "Working." He also answers the question he is asked most often: why does it take him so long to write his books? Caro is the author of the Robert Moses biography "The Power Broker" and "The Years of Lyndon Johnson," T...
Breaking New Ground with Dr. Carla Hayden and Tracy K. Smith
Library Talks - May 12, 2019 10:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsDr. Carla Hayden is the 14th Librarian of Congress, the first African American and the first woman to hold this position. Tracy K. Smith is the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States, and Director and Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University. In a conversation with Schomburg Direct...
Jill Abramson and Jane Mayer's Insider Take on the News
Library Talks - May 05, 2019 10:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsThe former executive editor of "The New York Times" tells the story of the news industry in her new book "Merchants of Truth." Jill Abramson traces the past ten years of four major news outlets and their prospective futures in the face of rapidly changing technologies, shifting business models...
Eliza Griswold Uncovers the Human Cost of Fracking
Library Talks - April 28, 2019 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsJournalist, Eliza Griswold just won a Pulitzer Prize and a Bernstein Award for her recent book,"Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America." Even at its most basic level, the book is a fascinating story about the energy boom's relationship to the natural land. But it's also a...
Shane Bauer's Undercover Reporting from Inside a Private Prison
Library Talks - April 21, 2019 10:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsGoing undercover as a prison guard in Winnifield, Louisiana, journalist Shane Bauer exposes the brutality of for-profit private prison systems, and this country's history of outsourcing criminal punishment in his book "American Prison." This stunning work recently won NYPL's 2019 Bernstein Award...
Emily Bazelon and Stacey Abrams talk Criminal Justice Reform
Library Talks - April 14, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratingsIn the search for meaningful criminal justice reform, are prosecutors one of the keys to change? In her new book, "Charged," journalist Emily Bazelon argues that prosecutors play an "outsize role" in mass incarceration -- from choosing the charge to setting bail to determining the plea bargain....
Bending Reality with G. Willow Wilson
Library Talks - April 07, 2019 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsG. Willow Wilson is a critically acclaimed novelist and co-creator of the first Muslim superhero with their own Marvel comic book series. Wilson's new book, The Bird King, is the story of a fantastical quest through the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition. She read from th...
Janet Napolitano Explains Homeland Security with Joe Biden
Library Talks - March 31, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratingsFew people understand the state of our national security as well as Janet Napolitano and Joe Biden. Napolitano, former Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary and the first appointed by President Obama, has written about the subject in her new book,"How Safe Are We?" She spoke with Vice President J...
Still Cringing After 'Cat Person'
Library Talks - March 24, 2019 10:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsWhen "Cat Person" appeared in "The New Yorker" in December 2017, it quickly became a viral hit, striking a chord with readers at the height of the #MeToo Movement. People seemed surprised by the Internet popularity of a long form fiction story—including its author, Kristen Roupenian. "You Know Y...
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