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Frankenstein and the Afterlife of Shelley’s Circle, the second edition of NYPL's collections-based app Biblion, shows how the questions we ask ourselves everyday — about technology, prejudice, gender — are all contained in a classic work of literature: Mary Shelley's 200 year old novel Frankenstein.
In Biblion, you'll how the same ideas get remixed over time, and how the classics continue to inspire and inform the world around us. Articles from experts and inspiring thinkers are paired with more than 550 photographs, prints, and maps from the unparalleled collections of The New York Public Library.
Plus, each article is linked to one of more than 750 pages of original source documents including the entire original handwritten draft of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, begun in 1816. We've paired this manuscript with a transcript of the novel's 1831 edition so you can toggle the published transcript over the original draft to see how Shelley changed and developed this classic work over time.
Biblion: Frankenstein also includes new social reading features that allow you to participate in conversations about big ideas, vote on polls, and create new questions for other readers.
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Backstage at LIVE from the NYPL, with The Daily Beast
Go Backstage at LIVE from the NYPL... with The Daily Beast!
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Wole Soyinka
5/1/2011
Harold Bloom
5/1/2011
A.B. Yehoshua
3/28/2011
Mark Salzman
2/18/2011
Backstage with COLM TOIBIN
2/3/2011
Backstage with Karen Armstrong
1/11/2011
Derek Walcott
12/3/2010
Zadie Smith
11/22/2010
Siddhartha Mukherjee
11/18/2010
Jay-Z
11/15/2010
Backstage with Edwidge Danticat
11/10/2010
Backstage with SLAVOJ ZIZEK
11/9/2010
Backstage with Keith Richards
10/29/2010
Patti Smith Performs "Grateful"
4/29/2010
LIVE Shorts
LIVE from the NYPL programs are long on intellectual content, but these “LIVE Shorts” videos provide short bites suggesting a flavor of the full program.
LIVE Conversation Portraits
Flash Rosenberg is a freelance photographer and artist-in-residence for LIVE from the NYPL. She draws discussions in front of live audiences to create real time “Conversation Portraits.” These drawings are an amorphous portrait of what it feels like to translate complex ideas into simple lines. She squeezes 90-minute blabs into five- to eight-minute animations, edited by Sarah Lohman.
LIVE from the NYPL
Flash Rosenberg is a freelance photographer and artist-in-residence for LIVE from the NYPL. She draws discussions in front of live audiences to create real time “Conversation Portraits.” These drawings are an amorphous portrait of what it feels like to translate complex ideas into simple lines. She squeezes 90-minute blabs into five- to eight-minute animations, edited by Sarah Lohman.
Jay-Z: Decoded
11/15/2010
KEITH RICHARDS: Life
10/29/2010
JOHN WATERS: Role Models
6/7/2010
A Tribute to GEORGE CARLIN
3/24/2010
How to Live Dada / Who Is Mark Twain?
4/13/2009
The Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
10/27/2008
FERRAN ADRIA: A Day at el Bulli
10/10/2008
Paintings: Remarkable Women by Carmen Einfinger
Currently on view on the first floor, Paintings: Remarkable Women by Carmen Einfinger. This exhibition includes 10 painings, acrylic on canvas, of iconic women writers and intellectuals.
Carmen Einfinger is a New York City-based artist with works in museums and galleries all over the world, including China, Czechoslovakia, Ireland, Italy and many more locations. Her works can be found across the United States from Los Angeles to New York.
"Remarkable Women" features portraits of Joan Didion, Simone de Beauvoir, Rachel Carson and many other creative women. Einfinger wanted to explore their relationship to the creative mind and life.
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