Events

​This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), Room 303. Registration is required. The Hours (2002) The story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives. Directed by Stephen Daldry. 2002 | PG-13 | 114 minutes About Reel to Read The page meets the screen at Reel to Read, a curated series of independent and classic cinema. These free screenings…

Presented by the American Tap Dance Foundation. We will share the picture book "Rap a Tap Tap", written and illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon, about the famous tap dancer Bill "Bogangles" Robinson. We will explore how this legendary dancer "talked with his feet" and learn about his incredible contribution to tap dance history. A member of the Tap Youth City Ensemble will tap along to the story and demonstrate some of Bogangles' signature dance steps. For children ages 5-12. Space is limi…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Join us to celebrate Tartu, Estonia as a 2024 European Capital of Culture, including luminaries of worldwide interest like Juri Lotman. This program will celebrate Tartu, Estonia as a 2024 European Capital of Culture, including luminaries of worldwide interest like Juri Lotman. The celebration will take us to memorable places in Tartu that are connected to the cultural heritage and legacy of this unique man and his city. Juri Lotman (1922-1993) was an internationally renowned intellectual and…

​This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), Room 303. Registration is required. Milk (2008) The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official. Directed by Gus Van Sant. 2008 | R | 128 minutes About Reel to Read The page meets the screen at Reel to Read, a curated series of independent and classic cinema. These free screenings, hand-picked by li…

​This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), Room 303. Registration is required. Milk (2008) The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official. Directed by Gus Van Sant. 2008 | R | 128 minutes About Reel to Read The page meets the screen at Reel to Read, a curated series of independent and classic cinema. These free screenings, hand-picked by li…

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…

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…