Angela Davis & Toni Morrison, Antonia Fraser, Keith Richards, Jay-Z, W.S. Merwin, Zadie Smith, Slavoj Žižek, and many more at the NYPL this Fall!

The New York Public Library is one happening place this fall! LIVE from the NYPL’s public programs for the upcoming season features an array of incredible personalities. Below is the full schedule. Program details are forthcoming on http://www.nypl.org/LIVE.

Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Jeffrey Rosen

Making Our Democracy Work

in conversation with Jeffrey Rosen and Paul Holdengräber

Monday, September 20 at 7:00PM

Celeste Bartos Forum

Jonathan Lethem

Chronic City

Wednesday, September 22 at 7:00PM

Celeste Bartos Forum

David Chang, René Redzepi and Ruth Reichl

NOMA: Time & Place in Nordic Cuisine

Tuesday, October 6 at 7:00PM

Celeste Bartos Forum

David Grossman and Nicole Krauss

To the End of the Land and Great House

Wednesday, October 13 at 7:00PM

Celeste Bartos Forum

co-presented with the NYPL’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers

Steven Johnson and Kevin Kelly

Where Good Ideas Come From and What Technology Wants

Monday, October 18 at 8:00PM

Celeste Bartos Forum

The Moth

OMG: Stories of the Sacred

Thursday, October 21 at 8:00PM

Celeste Bartos Forum

W.S. Merwin

Friday, October 22 at 7:00PM

Celeste Bartos Forum

Angela Davis and Toni Morrison

Frederick Douglass: Literacy, Libraries and Liberation

Wednesday, October 27 at 7:00PM

Celeste Bartos Forum

Keith Richards

Life

Friday, October 29 at 7:00PM

Celeste Bartos Forum

Susan McKeown and guests

Singing in the Dark

Saturday, October 30 at 7:00PM

Symphony Space (2537 Broadway, Manhattan)

Lady Antonia Fraser

Must You Go?

Thursday, November 4 at 7:00PM

South Court Auditorium

Slavoj Žižek

Tuesday, November 9 at 7:00PM

Celeste Bartos Forum

Edwidge Danticat

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

Wednesday, November 10 at 7:00PM

Celeste Bartos Forum

Antonio Damasio and Marina Abramović

Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

Friday, November 12 at 7:00PM

Celeste Bartos Forum

Jay-Z

Decoded

Monday, November 15 at 7:00PM

Celeste Bartos Forum

Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Emperor of all Maladies

Thursday, November 18 at 7:00PM

South Court Auditorium

Zadie Smith in conversation with Paul Holdengräber

Changing my Mind: Occasional Essays

Monday, November 22 at 7:00PM

South Court Auditorium

Derek Walcott

The Robert B. Silvers Lecture

Friday, December 3 at 7:00PM

Celeste Bartos Forum

National Lampoon Revisited

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made The National Lampoon Insanely Great

Saturday, December 4 at 7:00PM

Celeste Bartos Forum

Tickets are on sale beginning September 13, with a pre-sale for Friends of the NYPL on September 10-12. Tickets for Keith Richards and Jay-Z will be announced via email. Sign up at http://www.nypl.org/LIVE for these announcements.

Tickets are $25 general admission and $15 Library donors, seniors, and students with valid identification, and are available through by calling 1.888.71.TICKETS (1.888.718.4253) or on the ShowClix website http://www.showclix.com. Please note all tickets are non-refundable and non-exchangeable.

Unless otherwise indicated, all programs begin at 7:00PM in the Celeste Bartos Forum or South Court Auditorium, both located inside the Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd street.

About LIVE from the NYPL

LIVE from the NYPL is a series of vigorous and provocative conversations, debates, and performances at The New York Public Library curated by Paul Holdengräber, Director of LIVE from the NYPL.

Recent participants have included William Kentridge, Patti Smith, John Waters, The Velvet Underground, Wes Anderson, Werner Herzog, Christopher Hitchens debating Al Sharpton, an opera based on The Elements of Style by Maira Kalman and Nico Muhly, Gunter Grass in conversation with Norman Mailer, Miranda July with David Byrne and Becky Stark, Aline and R. Crumb, Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain, Harold Bloom, Nicholas Kristof, and Orhan Pamuk. For more information, please visit www.nypl.org/live or email live@nypl.org.

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Contact:  Jennifer_Lam(at)nypl(dot)org