Events - July, 10, 2012

Significant Objects: Well-Known Writers Write About Junk Store Finds and Suddenly They're Valuable

An object becomes valuable once it has a narrative attached. How to test that theory? Via E-bay! Each narrated object was sold on Ebay, and...

Performing Arts/Film, Art/Photo/Design

"Composing with Patterns": Music at Mid-Century

John Cage, Morton Feldman, György Ligeti, and Karlheinz Stockhausen created music in response to the changing world following World War II. Listen to their experimental...

Performing Arts/Film

Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World with John Szwed in conversation with Steve Zeitlin

Best remembered as the man who introduced folk music to the masses, Lomax was as influential as he was controversial and changed not only the...

Religion/Spirituality, History/NYC

Club 70: A Group for Seniors

Club 70 is an exciting and informative opportunity for all senior members of the Temple — men and women — to meet and discuss a...

Books

Linda Fairstein - Night Watch

Books

Semi-Charmed Life: A Novel by Nora Zelevansky

In Nora Zelevansky's debut novel, Beatrice Bernstein gets swept up in the seemingly magical life of Manhattan socialite Veruca Pfeffernoose, while ghostwriting her blog. This...

Performing Arts/Film, Books

Kurt Andersen and Angela McCluskey

Host Katherine Lanpher talks to Kurt Anderson about his novel True Believers. Angela McCluskey performs tracks from her album Things We Do.

Legal/Politics/Economics, Books, , History/NYC

My First Coup D'Etat by John Dramani Mahama

My First Coup D’Etat: And Other True Stories from the Lost Decades of Africa, by the Vice President of Ghana, is a fable-like memoir that offers...

Performing Arts/Film

Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie - Ed Cray

Ed Cray, who once met Woody Guthrie in the crowded kitchen of folklorist Bess Hawes’ Santa Monica home, paints a vivid portrait of a man...

Books

Colson Whitehead

The paperback release party for Whitehead's The Zone One.

Books

Tanner Colby & Jessica Moore

Tanner Colby, author of Some of My Best Friends are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America, talks with Jessica Moore of the Museum of...

Books, History/NYC

The Individual After Stalin: Writers, Diaries, and the Reform of Soviet Socialism

Anatoly Pinsky, a writer in residence in the Library's Wertheim Study and adjunct assistant professor at the City College of New York, will present an overview of...

Food & Drink, History/NYC

Beer Appreciation Night: The History and Renaissance of American Brewing

With Garrett Oliver, Steve Hindy, Debra Schmidt Bach, Nina Nazionale, Gabrielle Langholtz (moderator). A century ago, New York City was a major brewing center, home to more than one hundred...

Books

Reading and Booklaunch with Grant Cogswell

Grant Cogswell's poetic ode to progressive politics, The Dream of the Cold War, has its roots in the deep history of radical activism in Seattle and...