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This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, Room 404. Evento presencial | Sala 404. Club de escucha+ La Gran Manzana Reuniones para escuchar el podcast pionero Radio Ambulante, emitido desde la Radio Nacional Pública de Estados Unidos (NPR por sus siglas en inglés). Después de escuchar fragmentos del episodio asignado, disfrutaremos de una interesante conversación sobre el episodio. ¿Qué es el podcast Radio Ambulante? Es un podcast que relata crónic…

This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), Floor 1M. Join fellow poetry enthusiasts in unpacking the layered meanings of poetry through an informal group discussion. Each session focuses around a theme that celebrates the diversity and range of the poetic form and contemporary poetry culture. Tease your mind with poems that make you laugh during April, aka National Poetry Month! This week's readings are: The Earthlings by Matthew Olzmann One Boy T…

Join us for a very special author talk with Roger Mello! In this program, we'll be discussing one of Roger's books Joao by a Thread. There will be a Q&A with the author and the audience, then we will learn to draw in Roger's special style! Register above to receive the Zoom link. All attending adults must be accompanied by a child. KidsLIVE programs are sponsored by the Andreas C. Dracopoulos Family Endowment for Young Audiences.

Evento híbrido - Sólo necesitas un correo electrónico para inscribirte y participar El círculo de lectura "La comunidad de las letras" te invita a leer: "La Tísica" de Javier de Vania Un médico visita una estancia gauchesca donde vive una niña a la que todos llaman “la tísica”. De aspecto débil y enfermizo, “la tísica” es totalmente marginada por la desconfianza de los peones, por miedo a ser contagiados. Las sesiones son moderadas por Leonor Taiano Campoverde de la universidad Carson…

This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, Room 303. Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library 图书馆的世界语言部门为鼓励大家借阅中文图书，每月举行一次中文书籍讨论会。请您在讨论会中介绍自己喜欢的书籍，与别人分享您阅读的快乐。书籍内容不拘一格，历史，传记，散文，财经，侦探，爱情小说等等，皆在欢迎之列。 討論會將以中文普通話進行，期盼您能登記參加共襄盛舉。若有問題，請跟張先生聯繫：hungyunchang@nypl.org. 我們聚會的地點在三樓的303號房間。 We are now presenting a monthly Chinese Book Discussion program, so we can meet each other to chat about books. All participants are welcome to share their reading experiences on eithe…

Author Yu Pei Yun and illustrator Zhou Jian Xin with translator Lin King will discuss their graphic novel 來自清水的孩子 |The Boy From Clearwater. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. 語言:以中文進行 | The program will be conducted in Mandarin with interpretation. The Boy from Clearwater - Taiwan, 1930s. Tsai Kun-lin, an ordinary boy, was born in Qingshui. He grew up happily sneaking into the sugar cane fields reciting nursery rhymes he could…

小说的艺术与自由表达：严歌苓与马凯琳对话 严歌苓，出生于上海，着有30多本书，荣获30多个文学和电影奖。 她的许多书籍都被改编成了电影或电视剧。 最近，她的作品受到了挑战，作者将与我们一起讨论她的新小说《Milati：米拉蒂》以及自由表达的重要性。 她与纽约当地小说家、作家和电影学者、同时也是当天的主持人马凯琳一起讨论他们的作品。 对话将探讨他们的写作、作品风格，以及是什么激励每位作者渡过写作旅程中的困难时刻。 本次访谈将以普通话进行。 该活动将现场和线上同步进行。 现场参加活动 | 请注册领取现场门票。 活动将在节目开始前 45 分钟开放。 对于现场活动，我们通常会超额预订以确保满座。 请尽早抵达，以免错过机会； 我们将尽力满足每个人的需求。 尚未认领的预订座位将在开始时前不久释放，届时可能会有空位。 节目开始前 30 分钟将排队等候。 线上参加活动 | 请线上注册门票。 本次活动将在 Zoom 上进行直播。 要接收 Zoom 链接，请务必注册！ 该连结将在开始时间前不久与注册者分享。 所有现场来宾将得以参加抽奖活动。十位幸运者将获赠一本由图书馆提供的严歌苓新著“米拉…

Презентация выпуска №121 независимого литературно-художественного журнала Слово\Word. This Russian-language event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, third floor, Room 304. Join us for the launch of new volume #121 of the independent literary journal Slovo/Word. The literary journal Slovo/Word is a bilingual (and occasionally trilingual, Russian-English-Ukrainian) publication that was initiated in 1980s by Dovlatov and Brodsky. It publishes multilingual works…

Evento presencial | Sala 404 - 4to piso. Biblioteca Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library 455 Quinta avenida, NYC 10016 Todos los lunes en el mes de abril Club de escucha+ La Gran Manzana Reuniones para escuchar el podcast pionero Radio Ambulante, emitido desde la Radio Nacional Pública de Estados Unidos (NPR por sus siglas en inglés). Después de escuchar fragmentos del episodio asignado, disfrutaremos de una interesante conversación sobre el episodio. ¿Qué es el podcast Radio Ambulante?…

Stephen Graham Jones comes to the Library for a live conversation about his book, My Heart is a Chainsaw, as part of the World Literature Festival. The conversation will followed by a special musical performance from Frank Waln. The New York Public Library and WNYC—two indispensable New York institutions—are partnering to host a book club that brings New Yorkers together and fosters community. The April title is Stephen Graham Jones' My Heart is a Chainsaw , an homage to slasher films that a…

This program will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), 3rd Floor, Room 304. Join staff at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library for an open discussion of our favorite Graphic Novels. Each month, we focus on a specific theme and related graphic novel. This month’s theme is DC's Vertigo Comics Imprint. About the Book Y: The Last Man Vol. One: Unmanned By Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra Y: The Last Man, one of the most critically acclaimed, best-selli…

Author and journalist Zahra Hankir joins us to discuss her new book, Eyeliner: A Cultural History. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. From the distant past to the present, with fingers and felt-tipped pens, metallic powders and gel pots, humans have been drawn to lining their eyes. The aesthetic trademark of figures ranging from Nefertiti to Amy Winehouse, eyeliner is one of our most enduring cosmetic tools; ancient royals and…

Author Caoilinn Hughes joins us to discuss her new novel, The Alternatives, with fellow author Brandon Taylor. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. The Flattery sisters were plunged prematurely into adulthood when their parents died in tragic circumstances. Now in their thirties—all single, all with PhDs—they are each attempting to do meaningful work in a rapidly foundering world. The four lead disparate, distanced lives, from cla…

Author Chris Payne joins us to discuss his book, Where Are Your Boys Tonight? The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008, with writer Leslie Simon. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. A “vivid and breathless” (Billboard) oral history of emo’s takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuring My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Panic! At the Disco, Taking Back Sunday, Jimmy Eat World, Dashboard Confessional. If Meet…

This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), Floor 1M. Join fellow poetry enthusiasts in unpacking the layered meanings of poetry through an informal group discussion. Each session focuses around a theme that celebrates the diversity and range of the poetic form and contemporary poetry culture. Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with a selection of poems that explore the experiences and histories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Readings…

Author Jasper Fforde joins us to discuss his new book Red Side Story. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 1st floor. Welcome to Chromatacia, where life is strictly regulated by one’s limited color perception. Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken “Something That Happened” five hundred years ago. Society is now color vision–segregated, everything dictated by an individual’s visual ability, and governed by the shadowy National Col…

Critically-acclaimed poet Ilya Kaminsky presents Ukrainian poetry featured in the collection In the Hour of War, joined by fellow poets and translators Yuliya Musakovska and Olena Jennings. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. At this event, award-winning poet and author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa Ilya Kaminsky will introduce New Yorkers to Ukrainian poetry. He will be joined by Yuliya Musakovska, a fellow award-winning U…

Join author Kamini Dandapani as she discusses her book Rajaraja Chola: King of Kings with Navina Haidar, art historian and curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. Rajaraja I, often described as Rajaraja the Great, was an emperor from the Chola dynasty who reigned the southern parts of India from 985 CE to 1014 CE. An iconic figure, often regarded as the King of Kings, he was the most powerfu…

This event is online only. Ramayana (Restless Books edition) Book can be borrowed at: NYPL - Jones Library bit.ly/readingwithilan Moderated by scholar Ilan Stavans Ilan Stavans Photo by Jessica Scranton, 2021 Award-winning, internationally-renowned teacher, essayist, translator, and cultural critic Ilan Stavans is the publisher of Restless Books, the Lewis-Sebring Profess…

This event will take place at Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), Third Floor, Room 304. SNFL invites patrons to bring any manga, light novels or graphic novels in need of a new home! Patrons are also encouraged to grab a few library books to borrow! Curious about what to bring and how it all works? See our rules below! May Manga Book Swap Rules: Items allowed: Manga, Manhwa, Light novels, and Danmei novels. New, gently used, or good condition books ONLY. Damaged or dirty books wil…

This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), Floor 1M. Join fellow poetry enthusiasts in unpacking the layered meanings of poetry through an informal group discussion. Each session focuses around a theme that celebrates the diversity and range of the poetic form and contemporary poetry culture. Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with a selection of poems that explore the experiences and histories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Readings…

This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, 3rd Floor, Room 303. Food for Thought Book Club meets to discuss books on food. These could explore food history, a particular cuisine, the relationship between food and culture, chef biographies, history of food festivals, novels, essay collections and more. Join us at this session for a discussion of Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir, by Curtis Chin. Reading the book prior to the…

This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), Floor 1M. Join fellow poetry enthusiasts in unpacking the layered meanings of poetry through an informal group discussion. Each session focuses around a theme that celebrates the diversity and range of the poetic form and contemporary poetry culture. Join us during Pride Month to read poems reflecting a joyful variety of LGBTQ+ experiences and stories. Readings are selected from Poetry Magazine, P…

Curator and author Laura Raicovich joins us to discuss her book, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest, with co-founder of Hyperallergic Hrag Vartanian. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. In an age of protest, cultural institutions have come under fire. Protestors have mobilized against sources of museum funding, as happened at the Metropolitan Museum, and against board appointments, forcing tear gas manufacture…

Author Vanessa Chan will discuss her new book "The Storm We Made" with fellow author Qian Julie Wang. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. In this spellbinding novel, an ordinary housewife becomes an unlikely spy—and her dark secrets will test even the most unbreakable ties. Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is con…

This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), Floor 1M. Join fellow poetry enthusiasts in unpacking the layered meanings of poetry through an informal group discussion. Each session focuses around a theme that celebrates the diversity and range of the poetic form and contemporary poetry culture. Join us during Pride Month to read poems reflecting a joyful variety of LGBTQ+ experiences and stories. Readings are selected from Poetry Magazine, P…

Scholar and author Lynne B. Sagalyn will discuss her book Times Square Remade with journalist Charles Bagli. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. What is it about Times Square that has inspired such attention for well over a century? And how is it that, despite its many changes of character, the place has maintained a unique hold on our collective imagination? In this book, which comes twenty years after her widely acclaimed Tim…

This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, 3rd Floor, Room 303. Food for Thought Book Club meets to discuss books on food. These could explore food history, a particular cuisine, the relationship between food and culture, chef biographies, history of food festivals, novels, essay collections and more. Join us at this session for a discussion of The Nutmeg Trail: Recipes and Stories Along the Ancient Spice Routes, by Eleanor Ford. Reading the book prior to…

This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), Floor 1M. Join fellow poetry enthusiasts in unpacking the layered meanings of poetry through an informal group discussion. Each session focuses around a theme that celebrates the diversity and range of the poetic form and contemporary poetry culture. For Disability Pride Month we will explore poetry that celebrates the cultures, communities and unique experiences of people with disabilities living at…

Join Karen Berger, Amy Chu, and Soo Lee as they discuss their Bram Stoker Award nominated graphic novel series Carmilla. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 1st floor. Before Dracula, before Nosferatu, there was . . . CARMILLA. At the height of the Lunar New Year, an idealistic social worker turns detective when she discovers young, homeless LGBTQ+ women are being murdered and no one, especially the police, seems to care. A series of cl…

Sociologist and author Terry Willians joins us to discuss his new book, Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York, with economist Natalia Filippova Williams. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. Aboveground, Manhattan’s Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years unhoused people have…

This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), Floor 1M. Join fellow poetry enthusiasts in unpacking the layered meanings of poetry through an informal group discussion. Each session focuses around a theme that celebrates the diversity and range of the poetic form and contemporary poetry culture. For Disability Pride Month we will explore poetry that celebrates the cultures, communities and unique experiences of people with disabilities living at…

This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), Floor 1M. Join fellow poetry enthusiasts in unpacking the layered meanings of poetry through an informal group discussion. Each session focuses around a theme that celebrates the diversity and range of the poetic form and contemporary poetry culture. The relationship between humans and animals has been a feature of verse from epic poetry to haiku. This August, channel the outdoors an…

Join acclaimed poets Emily Lee Luan and Jimin Seo for a poetry reading and conversation. In 回 / Return, Luan "is engaged in the act of looking back... The poems ask: What is feeling? What is melancholy? Can language translate either?" In his forthcoming collection OSSIA, Seo crafts poems written "across English and Korean" that are "rich with grief and radiant with the vivid charisma of specific people, specific love." Seo and Luan will read from their work and discuss themes of translation, me…

This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), Floor 1M. Join fellow poetry enthusiasts in unpacking the layered meanings of poetry through an informal group discussion. Each session focuses around a theme that celebrates the diversity and range of the poetic form and contemporary poetry culture. The relationship between humans and animals has been a feature of verse from epic poetry to haiku. This August, channel the outdoors and discuss rece…