September 11 Remembrance Opens Fall 2006 Season from LIVE from the NYPL

Highlights from Fall Season at The New York Public Library Include E.O. Wilson, Frank Rich, Jan Morris, and The Atlantic Monthly Anniversary Celebration

A special remembrance marking the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, a symposium on the relationship between art and politics, and an anniversary celebration for the 150th birthday of The Atlantic Monthly are just a few of the many highlights of the Fall 2006 season of LIVE from the NYPL, The New York Public Library's series of public programs. An evening of remembrance with acclaimed photographer Joel Meyerowitz, whose forthcoming book, Aftermath, documents personal stories from the months of disaster clean-up, will begin the season on September 11, 2006. For more information, visit www.nypl.org/live.

Fall 2006 Season of Public Programs

Joel Meyerowitz
Monday, September 11, 7:00 p.m., Rose Main Reading Room
An engaging account in Joel Meyerowitz's own words and images, speaking as the only photographer granted unimpeded right of entry into the monumental recovery efforts at Ground Zero.

A Conversation with E. O. Wilson
Thursday, September 14, 7:00 p.m., South Court Auditorium
In his new book, The Creation: A Meeting of Science and Religion, Professor Wilson makes a passionate plea for an alliance between science and religion to save Earth's vanishing biodiversity.

Celebrate Mexico Now
Friday, September 15, 7:00 p.m., South Court Auditorium
A roundtable of journalists discuss representations of Mexico in Mexican and American media.

Invisible Symposium
Tuesday, September 19, 7:00 p.m., Celeste Bartos Forum
European and American intellectuals converse about the relationship of art and politics as they relate to the present dilemmas facing the European Union.

Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr, with John Hockenberry
Wednesday, September 20, 7:00 p.m., Celeste Bartos Forum
An architect and a journalist, co-authors of Design Like You Give A Damn, discuss the greatest humanitarian challenge: providing basic shelter, access to clean water, and adequate sanitation for more than three billion people. Hockenberry is an NBC correspondent and former NPR commentator.

Chris Anderson in Conversation with Lawrence Lessig
Thursday, September 28, 7:00 p.m., Celeste Bartos Forum
Wired editor-in-chief's The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More encourages diversity, expands choice, and predicts the future of entertainment is not a few megahits but millions of niche markets. Lessig, law professor at Stanford University and author of Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, has joined two LIVE conversations in the past with Jeff Tweedy and the Google print library project.

A Conversation with Frank Rich
Friday, September 29, 8:00 p.m., Celeste Bartos Forum
The culture and news columnist for The New York Times discusses his new book, The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina, and how skillfully the White House built its house of cards and why the mainstream news media did not expose these fictions.

The Moth, Yaddo & LIVE from the NYPL: Stories About Yaddo
Saturday, September 30, 7:00 p.m., Celeste Bartos Forum
Yaddo, an artists' community whose archives reside with The New York Public Library, is as committed to aesthetic daring, social egalitarianism, internationalism, and artists who take political risks as The Moth is to storytelling around the City.

Adam Gopnik in Coversation
Wednesday, October 11, 7:00 p.m., Celeste Bartos Forum
With his signature mix of mind and heart, Gopnik's Through the Children's Gate wanders through the civilization of childhood and a fragile post 9/11 NYC, reviving itself with Jewish jokes mingled with the price of real estate and the meaning of modern art.

A Conversation with Jan Morris at 80
Monday, October 23, 7:00 p.m., Celeste Bartos Forum
Welshwoman Jan Morris, one of the world's preeminent travel writers and the only reporter to accompany Edmund Hilary on the first ascent of Mount Everest, talks about being an outsider and loner who observes the effect of looking on her own sensibility.

Andy Borowitz
Thursday, October 26, 7:00 p.m., South Court Auditorium
Join comedian and satirist Andy Borowitz of The Borowitz Report, who is winner of the National Press Club's first-ever award for humor, for an interactive evening with the audience.

Alberto Manguel in Conversation
Monday, October 30, 6:30 p.m., South Court Auditorium
Argentine writer Alberto Manguel is the author of A History of Reading and The Dictionary of Imaginary Places.

The Atlantic Monthly: 150th Anniversary
Friday, November 17, 7:00 p.m., Celeste Bartos Forum & South Court Auditorium
The Atlantic Monthly's town hall on the future of politics, women's rights, art and literature, and global leadership.

Daniel Mendelsohn -
From Roman Games to Reality TV: Some Thoughts on Mass Entertainment and Imperial Politics
The Robert B. Silvers Lecture
Tuesday, December 5, 6:30 p.m., Celeste Bartos Forum
Mendelsohn, a classicist and critic, weaves together observations about "spectacles of humiliation" - from public games in ancient Rome to reality TV in America - and republics with imperial aspirations.

Tickets and Information
All programs are presented at the Library's Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Tickets are $15 for the general public and $10 for Library members, seniors, and students with valid ID. Tickets are available through Smarttix. To order tickets by phone, call the Smarttix hotline (212) 868-4444, 9:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Monday through Friday; 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Saturday; and 10:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m. Sunday. To order online, visit www.Smarttix.com. For more information about each event, visit www.nypl.org/live, or call the 24-hour LIVE from the NYPL phone line, (212) 930-0571.

Programs made possible with generous support from Celeste Bartos and the Margaret and Herman Sokol Public Education Endowment Fund.

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