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October 2007 Programs

Monday, May 12 — 6:30 PM
Author @ the Library presents: "All Eyes On Her," with Poonam Sharma.

How primal are your instincts? In the context of her latest chick-lit novel, Poonam Sharma discusses the roots of envy, self-preservation, and personal and professional competition among women. This event will include a topical talk, a reading from the novel, a Q & A session and a book signing.

Tuesday, May 13 — 6:30 PM
Author @ the Library presents: "Heroes, Lovers & Others: The History of Latinos in Hollywood, with Clara Rodríguez.

See a slide lecture about the long and engrossing history of Latino film stars, and hear a series of stories about some of Hollywood's most famous and enduring stars - from Desi Arnaz to Ramon Novarro, and Dolores Del Rio to Rita Hayworth. The lives of these amazing people are full of triumph and pathos, determination and lucky breaks.

Wednesday, May 14 — 6:30 PM
Book Discussion

Group will discuss Aloft by Chang-Rae Lee.

Wednesday, May 14 — 6:30 PM
Carole Wilbourn --"The Cat Therapist."

What is my cat doing and why? Come listen to Carole Wilbourn, The Cat Therapist, and her co-speaker, Orion, a real live cat, as they help us to understand what our cats are trying so hard to say. Question and answer period to follow the lecture. Has your cat reached an advanced age? Bring a photograph of your older cat and you may win a prize to take home to your lucky cat companion. Prizes will be given for the oldest cats.

Saturday, May 17 — 2:30 PM
"Job Stories Workshop: Hone your message for Interviews and Networking," with Win Sheffield, a career counselor.

Most of us get our resume together, talk to recruiters, send out letters, practice interviewing and even network. Then we stop. Join a workshop that teaches how to impress your audience with your experience. Find out how to make a better impression on the people to whom you are talking? Interested participants will have the opportunity to have their stories critiqued.

Monday, May 19 — 6:30 PM
"Artist Dialogue with Judith Linhares."

Tom Huhn, art critic and Head of the Art History Department at the School of Visual Arts, will join artist, Judith Linhares for an "Artist Dialogue" to discuss her "Art Wall on Third" exhibition "Gouaches" and the evolution of her work as a painter.

Tuesday, May 20 — 6:30 PM
"Late Bloomers: Dream Big; Publishing Your First Mystery In Midlife, with Jane Cleland.

Join five talented authors, Elizabeth Zelvin (Moderator), Helen Barer, James R. Benn, Jane K. Cleland and Mitch Silver, who turned to crime in their 50s, 60s, and 70s, as they discuss how living and having lived helps you write your mystery and get it published.

Tuesday, May 20 — 6:30 PM
Book Discussion

Group will discuss Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee.

Wednesday, May 21 — 6:30 PM
"Bad News for Rats, Good News for South Carolina: Reducing New York's Garbage Footprint," with Benjamin Miller.

After the closure of the Fresh Kills Landfill, New York's garbage foot print, like the splayed toes of an insidious monster, stretches all the way to South Carolina and Eastern Ohio. Benjamin Miller provides two possibilities. One is modest - simply that New York stop dumping its garbage hundreds of miles away. The other is more ambitious, "rat free eco-zones." Mr. Miller will examine the current course of New York's garbage and what we stand to gain or lose by examining these possibilities.

Tuesday, May 27 — 6:30 PM
Photographer @ the Library presents: "The Black Panthers," with Stephen Shames.

From 1967 to 1973, during the height of the movement, photographer, Stephen Shameshad unprecedented access to the Black Panther organization. He captured not only its public face-street demonstrations, protests, and militant posturing-but also unscripted behind-the-scenes moments, from private meetings held in the Party headquarters, to Bobby Seale at work on his mayoral campaign in Oakland.

Wednesday, May 28 — 6:30 PM
"More Myths and Mysteries of English," with Patricia T. O'Conner.

The author of "Woe Is I," and other books about language, offers another exploration of the odd misconceptions and spurious etymologies that have plagued English over the centuries.

Monday, Jun 2 — 6:30 PM
Author @ the Library presents: "Trappings: Stories of Women, Power, and Clothing," with Tiffany Ludwig and Renee Piechocki.

The artists will discuss the process of creating the book and show short films of some of the 61 women featured in the book. Two Girls Working, the collaboration of the artists, produced "Trappings" a national, multi-media project incorporating public art and performance art that explores the complicated landscape of power and its relationship to personal identity.

Tuesday, Jun 3 — 6:30 PM
Author @ the Library presents: "Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect A City's Landmarks," with Anthony Wood.

For all who love New York, enjoy learning about the largely unknown inspiring story of the origins of New York City's nationally acclaimed landmarks law. Be informed and inspired by the story of how New York won the right to protect its treasured buildings, neighborhoods and special places. The decades of struggle behind the law, its intellectual origins, the men and women who fought for it, the forces that shaped it, and the buildings lost and saved on the way to its ultimate passage, span from 1913 to 1965.

Wednesday, Jun 4 — 6:30 PM
Author @ the Library presents: "A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life," with Alana Newhouse.

The premiere national Jewish newspaper, the Forward has opened up its never-before-seen archives, revealing a photographic landscape of Jews in the twentieth century and beyond. Ms Newhouse will present a slide lecture examining the images included in her book. From shtetl beauty contests and matchmakers caught mid-deal to the streets of the New World; from Diaspora communities and mandate Palestine to the Holocaust, the Soviet Jewry movement, and the emergence of Jewish suburbia; from Paul Muni and Barbra Streisand to Woody Allen and Madonna, view a kaleidoscopic array of modern Jewish life.

Monday, Jun 9 — 6:30 PM
Photographer @ the Library presents: "Fandomania: Characters & Cosplay," with Elena Dorfman.

Photographer Elena Dorfman examines the pop culture phenomenon of "cosplay" (the merging of "costume" and "play"), in which participants dress up in costumes-and live part of their lives-as characters from video games, animated films, and Japanese graphic novels. Her portraits of "cosplayers" put the spotlight on a subculture that is exploding internationally.

Tuesday, Jun 10 — 6:30 PM
Author @ the presents: "Beautiful Children," with Charles Bock.

Herald the arrival of a major new writer, who provides a glimpse into a microcosm of modern America. with an odyssey of heartache and redemption. This best seller is the story of a missing child and the tortured search the parents undertake to find their child. The author mixes incandescent prose with devious humor to capture Las Vegas with unprecedented scope and nuance.

Wednesday, Jun 11 — 6:30 PM
Author @ the Library presents: "The Yogurt Man Cometh: Tales of an American Teacher in Turkey," with Kevin Revolinski.

Travel writer Kevin Revolinski will present excerpts from his memoir about living in Ankara, Turkey and show photographs from various places in Turkey.

Wednesday, Jun 11 — 6:30 PM
Book Discussion

Group will discuss Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky.

Monday, Jun 16 — 6:30 PM
Author @ the Library presents: "New York Echoes: Short Stories," with Warren Adler.

Acclaimed author focuses his laser eye on New York City in these 22 deftly crafted and compelling short stories. New York, the frenetic, tough-minded, generous-hearted city, magnet for people’s™ hopes and aspirations, is as vividly and loving portrayed here as any of the characters.The event will include a topical talk, a reading from the short stories, a Q & A session and a book signing.

Tuesday, Jun 17 — 6:30 PM
"Murder and Mayhem at Work: Deadly Antiques, Cooks and Gardens."

Join Kevin Berean, a member of the Mystery Writers of America New York Chapter Board of Directors, as he moderates a discussion on murder and mayhem in a photographer’s™ studio, an antiques shop, a garden, a temple, and underwater. Among those scheduled to appear are Meredith Cole, Jane K. Cleland, and Rabbi Ilene Schneider.

Tuesday, Jun 17 — 6:30 PM
Book Discussion

Group will discuss The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer.

Wednesday, Jun 18 — 6:30 PM
Author @ the presents: "DIRT: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth," with William Bryant Logan.

The award winning nature writer will recognize the importance of the Earth's soil and water resources. Learn about more than the dirt itself, our planet's crust, that substance from which we all arise and to which we all must return, but also about associated critters like dung beetles, gophers, and earthworms.

Monday, Jun 23 — 6:30 PM
Author @ the Library presents: "The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life through the Pages of a Lost Journal," with Lily Koppel.

Learn about the diary of a fascinating woman who lead a creative life in the 1930s and who wrote about her experiences navigating New York. Amazingly, Lily Koppel found this diary in a dumpster of steamer trunks being thrown out in her old apartment building on the Upper West Side and returned this five-year chronicle filled with brief and breathless dispatches, to Florence Wolfson Howitt, its owner, at ninety.

Tuesday, Jun 24 — 6:30 PM
"The Meaningful Irregularity of Time: Trinidadian Music and Social Polyrhythms," with Kevin Birth.

Using ethnographic data on Trinidadian social rhythms (including a discussion of the Christian, Hindu, and Muslim calendars), Kevin Birth will describe how Trinidadian society is marked by polyrhythms of celebration and commemoration, and how Trinidadian musical genres both define and are defined by these social rhythms. Through a discussion of how calypso music represented the attempted coup of 1990, he will explore how music plays a role in extending social polyrhythms beyond the annual cycle to include ideas of national history.  

Wednesday, Jun 25 — 6:30 PM
"Your Rights as an Employee and an Immigrant in New York City."

David Lopez, Human Rights Specialist, from The New York City Human Rights Commission, will speak about the rights of immigrants in the workplace. Learn about what constitutes discrimination and what resources, at the various levels of government, are available to individuals in situations where the law is not followed.

Monday, Jun 30 — 6:30 PM
The Museum of Modern Art @ the Library presents: "Dali and Film," with Amir Parsa.

This exhibition brings together more than 100 works by Salvador Dalí (1904-89) including major paintings, photographs, drawings, and films to explore the central role of cinema in his work as both an inspiration and an outlet for experimentation. The exhibition will display collaborations between Dalí and legendary filmmakers including Luis Buñuel, Walt Disney, Alfred Hitchcock, and the Marx Brothers alongside his paintings to show the way ideas, iconography, and pictorial strategies are shared and transformed across mediums.

Tuesday, Jul 8 — 6:30 PM
"West Nile Virus: What You Need to Know."

First appearing in North American right here in New York City in 1999, West Nile Virus has spread rapidly through out the United States and continues to pose a serious health problem. Come listen to experts from the New York City Department of Health explain what West Nile Virus is and its symptoms, how you can protect yourself, its current status in New York City and much more on this timely topic.

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