Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Events
Martha McPhee Launches An Elegant Woman in Conversation with Julia Phillips
Tuesday, 7:30 pm EDT June 2, 2020
“…[a] wonderfully imagined novel, wherein the American art of self-invention is explored with a clear eye to the price it exacts.”
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Events
Online Event: Mahogany L. Browne and Jason Reynolds on Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice
Thursday, 4:00 pm EDT May 21, 2020
Woke is a collection of poems that reflects the joy and passion in the fight for social justice.
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VideosStory Time
Lili Taylor Reads The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld
Actress Lili Taylor joins us again to share The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfield. With its spare, poignant text and irresistibly sweet...
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Events
Online Event: Culture and Conflict—Exploration and Finding ‘Home’ in the Americas
Thursday, 7:30 pm EDT May 14, 2020
Presented in collaboration with the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival.
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Groups+Workshops
Sold Out — Online Workshop: Experimental Writing for Non-Experimental Writers led by Porochista Khakpour
Saturday & Sunday 2:00 pm EDT - 5:00 pm EDT June 20 to June 21, 2020
What does it mean for writing to be experimental? The great writer Margaret Atwood defines it as writing “that sets up certain rules for itself
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Groups+Workshops
Tough Women in Hard Times: An Online Reading Group led by Anne E. Fernald
6/8, 7/6, 8/3, 8/31 Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT June 8 to August 31, 2020
In this reading group, we read four early 20th century novels, written by women with strong female characters.
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Videos
NYC Love: The Golden Flea with Michael Rips and Ethan Hawke
A conversation about the treasures, oddities, and characters at the old Chelsea Flea Market, as well as art, New York City, and living in the iconic Chelsea Hotel
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Groups+Workshops
The Queer Interior from Baldwin to Vuong: An Online Reading Group led by Thomas Dooley
6/9, 6/30, 7/21, 8/11 Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT June 9 to August 11, 2020
In his revolutionary novel Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin introduces David, a young man in flight from the desires of his heart...
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VideosStory Time
André Holland Reads Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
Based on the Oscar-Winning short film, Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry tells the story of Zuri, a young girl with beautiful hair, who...
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Groups+Workshops
Online Workshop: The Art of Metafiction led by Simeon Marsalis
Once a week Thursdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT June 11 to July 30, 2020
Is metafiction a literary genre? Does the subject of that sentence, let alone the question it proposes, matter?
