Events

“Unofficial talent scout of NYC,” filmmaker, and social media icon New York Nico sits down to discuss his new guidebook, featuring his top 100 New York institutions, shops, and eateries and the characters who shape them, with writer and social media creator Noah Rinsky. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. What makes New York City the greatest city in the world? As one of the foremost chroniclers of New York’s local legends and ur…

Join WNYC’s Alison Stewart and Richard Price for a live conversation about his newest book Lazarus Man. 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 January title is Richard Price's Lazarus Man, a bravura portrait of a community on the edge of disintegration. Rich with indelible characters and high drama, Lazarus Man is a riveting work of suspense and social vision b…

Bram Stoker Award finalist and Splatterpunk Award winner Eric LaRocca discusses their new book At Dark, I Become Loathsome with fellow author Chuck Wendig. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. From Eric LaRocca—Bram Stoker Award–nominated and Splatterpunk Award–winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke—comes At Dark, I Become Loathsome, a grim yet gentle, horrifying yet hopeful, intense tale of death, trauma…

Unsettling, revelatory, and laced with her signature dark humor, Eliza Clark’s debut short story collection She’s Always Hungry plumbs the depths of that most basic human feeling: hunger. Join us as Clark discusses her new book with NYPL Librarian Allison Nellis. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, comes…

Author and professor Ana Lucia Araujo joins us to discuss her new book, Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery, with fellow scholar Herman L. Bennett. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, more than twelve million enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas in cramped, inhumane conditions. Many of them died on the way, and those who survived had to endure furt…

Join us for a concert with Concordian Dawn, an ensemble for medieval music specializing in 12th- through 14th-century vocal repertoire. Concordian Dawn draws on primary source material and focusing on socio-philosophical similarities between texts from centuries ago and the mindset of modern society. In doing so, the ensemble produces a musical experience accessible to contemporary audiences, relating the human condition of the past to the familiar experiences of the present. This event will t…

Author and Lego Expert Daniel Konstanski will discuss his new book The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks: The Inside Story of a Design Icon with NYPL Librarian Allison Nellis. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. From the first hollow bricks to the complex shapes and building techniques of today, this visually stunning book is a LEGO® history like no other―and the first official book for Adult Fans of LEGO bricks. LEGO® bricks are de…

Book critic and essayist Sarah Chihaya joins us to discuss her new book Bibliophobia with fellow writer Merve Emre . This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. Books can seduce you. They can annihilate, reveal, and provoke you. And anyone incurably obsessed with books, Sarah Chihaya thinks, has had this kind of unsettling literary encounter. She calls books that have this effect “Life Ruiners.” Chihaya’s Life Ruiner, Toni Morrison’s…

Film director and author John Sayles joins us to discuss his new novel To Save the Man with historian Jerry W. Carlson. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. In the vein of Never Let Me Go and Killers of the Flower Moon, one of America’s greatest storytellers sheds light on an American tragedy: the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the ‘cultural genocide’ experienced by the Native American children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial Scho…

Activist Tamika D. Mallory joins us to discuss her new book I Lived to Tell the Story: A Memoir of Love, Legacy, and Resilience. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. A powerful and heartfelt memoir of perseverance and triumph over tragedy from Tamika D. Mallory, trailblazing social justice leader and cofounder of the Women’s March. In this candid and defiant memoir, a follow-up to her “masterful” (Marc Lamont Hill, New York Tim…

How can a Taiwanese novel incorporate historical materials from its decades under Japanese colonial rule? How does two women’s travelogue become a work of fiction? This talk will examine Taiwan Travelogue’s use of a “Shōwa Taiwan Railway Gourmet Tour” as its storytelling framework, covering the novel’s early inspirations, conceptual development, research, fieldwork, archives-building, story conception, and writing process. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation…

Come and share your work with the world at SNFL’s Poetry Open Mic. Participants can share their original work for up to five minutes. Space is limited to 15 readers; show up on time to get a slot! This program is in-person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. This session will feature a special performance by Gibney Dance’s Hands are for Holding® program. Registration saves you a seat; it does not guarantee mic time. About the Performance Experience a live…

130 years since the birth of film, the moving image—from movies to TV to Tiktok—is today's most popular information medium. Join Peter B. Kaufman, Senior Program Officer at MIT Learning, for a conversation about the ascendance of video as explored in his new book The Moving Image: A User's Manual, with audio archivist Marcos Sueiro Bal. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. Video (television, film, the moving image generally) is to…

Historian and writer Edna Bonhomme joins us to discuss her new book "A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19" with fellow writer Linda Villarosa. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. Epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design. With clear-eyed research and lush prose, A History of the World in Six Plagues shows th…