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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...
Paperback Crushin'
Library Talks - March 17, 2019 10:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsThe 1970s are sometimes hailed as the true dawn of young-adult literature, the decade when authors like Judy Blume and Lois Lowry showed that teen readers were worth taking seriously. Decades later, J.K. Rowling revolutionized YA, permanently broadening its appeal to adults. But teen fiction of ...
Frankenstein: Our Dark Mirror
Library Talks - March 10, 2019 11:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsOver 200 years ago, a teenage girl started a literary legacy that continues to haunt us today. Why do we still keep telling this story and how does it reflect our darkest fears? The New York Public Library's curators join monster theory scholars and best-selling authors to trace the history of M...
Marilynne Robinson: Liberalism and American Tradition Pt. II
Library Talks - March 03, 2019 11:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsThis week we're featuring part two of Marilynne Robinson's lecture on American society, government and economy titled "Liberalism and American Tradition." Robinson discusses our country's Puritan history and how society constructs value, referencing a number of political philosophers and social...
Marilynne Robinson: Liberalism and American Tradition Pt. I
Library Talks - February 24, 2019 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsMarilynne Robinson is one of the most celebrated American writers—she won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was awarded a National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama, to name just a few of her accolades. She recently delivered a lecture on American Civilization and Government titled "Li...
How to Make Black Lives Matter at School
Library Talks - February 17, 2019 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsDespite the fact that New York City is one of the most diverse places in the country our school system is among the most segregated. As part of the nationwide campaign, Black Lives Matter at School Week, Schomburg Center's Associate Director of Education, Brian Jones organized a panel about this...
Envisioning 'A People's Future of the United States'
Library Talks - February 10, 2019 11:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsHoward Zinn’s seminal 1980 work "A People’s History of the United States" challenged dominant narratives of our country’s past by uncovering its darker truths; nearly 40 years later, a new collection of speculative fiction, "A People’s Future of the United States" challenges our visions of tomor...
Jason Rezaian's 544 Days in an Iranian Prison
Library Talks - February 03, 2019 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsJason Rezaian is an American journalist and author of a new memoir. In 2014, while reporting in Tehran for the Washington Post , he was arrested and wrongfully convicted of espionage by Iranian authorities. Rezaian recounts his experience in "Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison—Solitary C...
The Banished Immortal
Library Talks - January 27, 2019 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsInternationally bestselling author Ha Jin discussed his latest book—a new biography about legendary eighth-century Chinese poet, Li Bai. Ha Jin read some of the poet's lesser known works, and described Li’s unconventional lifestyle which he researched for his book, "The Banished Immortal." From...
Seeing and Being Seen in Sally Wen Mao's 'Oculus'
Library Talks - January 20, 2019 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsSally Wen Mao is the author of "Oculus," a collection of poems that explores sight and being seen, futuristic worlds and historical figures. She completed this collection during her Cullman Center Fellowship at NYPL in 2016-2017. In conversation with fellow poet, Jenny Xie, Mao shared some of t...
Maria Popova's A Velocity of Being
Library Talks - January 13, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratingsMaria Popova & Claudia Bedrick curated an anthology of letters and original illustrations by 121 of the most interesting and inspiring culture-makers alive today. "A Velocity of Being," Popova's project that was eight years in the making, asked each contributor to write a letter to a young reade...
Satirizing America in 'Friday Black'
Library Talks - January 06, 2019 11:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsNana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah sheds light on a modern day America full of racial violence, greed, and heartbreak in his debut collection of short stories, "Friday Black." Focusing on the struggles of young black men and women, his characters fight to survive with their humanity intact. In conversatio...
The Librarian Is In with Eric Klinenberg
Library Talks - December 30, 2018 11:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsOur friends from NYPL's The Librarian Is In podcast recorded their first-ever live episode, featuring NYU sociologist and author Eric Klinenberg. His new book "Palaces for the People" looks at how shared public spaces like gardens, child-care centers, and—yep, you guessed it—libraries are essent...
Neil Gaiman Reads "A Christmas Carol" (Rebroadcast)
Library Talks - December 19, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratingsTo celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Dickens' classic, we're rebroadcasting this very special reading by writer and comic book author, Neil Gaiman. His live performance from 2013 uses a rare prompt copy that belonged to Charles Dickens himself and now resides in The New York Public Library....
A Reporting Life in Latin America
Library Talks - December 16, 2018 14:12 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsAward-winning journalist Alma Guillermoprieto delivered this year's annual Robert B. Silvers lecture, a series named in honor of the co-founding editor of The New York Review of Books. In her lecture titled “Among the Drug Dealers, Criminals, Rapists: A Reporting Life in Latin America,” Guiller...
Magical Realism with Wayétu Moore
Library Talks - December 09, 2018 11:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsWayétu Moore's debut novel explores African diasporic identity through historical fiction and magical realism. In a conversation with Buzzfeed writer, Isaac Fitzgerald, Moore talks about the stories behind her new book "She Would Be King": the history of her native Liberia and the childhood st...
John McPhee's Album Quilt
Library Talks - December 02, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratingsIn his seventh collection of essays, The Patch, master non-fiction writer John McPhee shares a montage of stories and reflections that range from a visit to the Hershey chocolate factory to encounters with Oscar Hammerstein, Joan Baez, and Mount Denali. Calling on his signature devotion to struc...
How Congress Really Works...Or Doesn't
Library Talks - November 25, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratingsWyatt Cenac moderates a panel of Washington insiders and journalists about the mechanics of Congress, the archetypes for today's lawmakers, and advice on how constituents can ensure their representatives take action. Featuring Washington Post senior congressional correspondent Paul Kane and Pro...
James Baldwin's Children's Book
Library Talks - November 18, 2018 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsDid you know that when James Baldwin was writing "If Beale Street Could Talk" he was also writing a children's book? "Little Man, Little Man" was inspired by his young nephew and was first published in 1976. At the time, it got mixed reviews, went out of print and was largely forgotten. But 40 y...
Susan Orlean's Ode to Libraries
Library Talks - November 11, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratingsMore than 30 years after a fire destroyed 400,000 books at the Los Angeles Public Library's Central Library, journalist Susan Orlean re-examines the tragedy in "The Library Book." Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992; her quest to piece together the events surrounding thi...
A History of Voter Suppression with Carol Anderson
Library Talks - November 04, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratingsCarol Anderson is an historian, educator, and author of "White Rage." Her latest book, "One Person, No Vote," is a timely survey of how voting rights have been rolled back in this country following the 2013 Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder. Dr. Anderson's work exposes racially b...
A Modern-day Gothic Horror Story
Library Talks - October 28, 2018 10:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsThe bestselling English novelist of "The Essex Serpent," Sarah Perry, stopped by the Library to talk about her newest novel,"Melmoth." The books origins lie in an obscure 19th-century Gothic novel of the same name and an illness that upended her life. She discussed how the earlier novel and her ...
Making Movements Intersectional
Library Talks - October 21, 2018 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsDarnell L. Moore and Charlene Carruthers are two dynamic leaders and organizers committed to intersectional liberation in movements for Black lives. They are also friends and writers. Moore and Carruthers recently spoke at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and read from each ot...
Why Men Fight with Thomas Page McBee
Library Talks - October 14, 2018 10:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsWhile training for a charity boxing match at Madison Square Garden, writer Thomas Page McBee gained insight into how masculinity operates in the ring and in society— McBee became the first known trans man to box in the historic venue. He stopped by the Library to talk about this experience, the ...
Righteous Rage with Rebecca Traister
Library Talks - October 07, 2018 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsIn her new book, "Good and Mad" Rebecca Traister uncovers the history of women's anger in American politics—from the suffragettes to #MeToo. She argues that this collective fury is often the hidden force that drives political change, but rarely has it ever been hailed as fundamentally transforma...
The Secret Memoir of Bill Cunningham
Library Talks - September 30, 2018 10:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsWhen famed fashion and society photographer Bill Cunningham died in 2016, he left behind not only an incredible archive of New York Times columns and photographs, but two identical copies of a secret memoir that he apparently hoped someone would find. His family discovered the book, which Cunnin...
The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Library Talks - September 23, 2018 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsThe world’s leading philanthropists are constantly working to “make the world a better place,” leading passionate campaigns against everything from climate change to poverty that had once been the province of governments. Journalist Anand Giridharadas asks whether those rich and powerful people ...
Looking for the Real Lolita
Library Talks - September 16, 2018 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsVladimin Nabokov's "Lolita" is one of the most widely-read classics of twentieth century; however, few are familiar with the true story of an eleven-year-old-girl named Sally Horner, whose story bears an eerie resemblance to that of Nabokov's Dolores Hayes. In "The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of...
Notes from the Reading Life: Tim Gunn and Min Jin Lee
Library Talks - September 09, 2018 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsTim Gunn is the Emmy Award-winning former producer of "Project Runway," where for 16 seasons he mentored contestants with charm and care. But when he isn’t busy making it work, chances are he has his nose in a book. In a live conversation series presented in collaboration with the National Boo...
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