November Author @ the Library Programs at Mid-Manhattan

Come  join us for an Author @ the Library talk this November at Mid-Manhattan Library to hear distinguished non-fiction authors discuss their work and answer your questions. Author talks take place at 6:30 p.m. on the 6th floor of the Library, unless otherwise noted. You can also request the authors' books by clicking on the book cover images below.

Catskill Resorts

Monday
November 3, 2014
6:30 p.m.

Catskill Resorts: Lost Architecture of Paradise, with Ross Padluck, an architect based in Manhattan and a photographer, whose interests include old buildings and mid-century design.

The Book of Eggs

Thursday
November 4, 2014
6:30 p.m.

The Book of Eggs: A Life-Size Guide to the Eggs of Six Hundred of the World’s Bird Species, with Mark E. Hauber, professor in the Animal Behavior and Conservation Program at Hunter College, City University of New York.

Jim Henson

Wednesday
November 5, 2014
6:30 p.m.

Jim Henson: The Biography with award-winning writer and biographer Brian Jay Jones.

 A History

Thursday
November 6, 2014
6:30 p.m.

Brunch: A History, with Farha  Ternikar, an associate professor of Sociology at Le Moyne College where she  teaches Food and Culture, Gender and Society and the Sociology of Food.

Fighting Westway

Monday
November 10, 2014
6:30 p.m.

Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War That Transformed New York City, with William W. Buzbee, a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and coauthor of "Environmental Protection: Law and Policy."

Lethal But Legal

Wednesday
November 12, 2014
6:30 p.m.

Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health, with Nicholas Freudenberg, DrPH, Distinguished Professor of Public Health at Hunter College and at City University of New York School of Public Health.

New York Bike Style

Thursday
November 13, 2014
6:30 p.m.

New York Bike Style, with Sam Polcer, the communications manager for Bike New York after more than seven years as an editor for Ink, the world's largest publisher of inflight travel magazines.

Someday You Will Understand

Monday
November 17, 2014
6:30 p.m.

Someday You Will Understand: My Father's Private World War II, with Nina Wolff Feld, an author, artist and speaker, who is a knowledgeable historian of World War II and several generations of her family.

God Laughed

Thursday
November 20, 2014
6:30 p.m.

Laughing with God: How Old is Jewish Humor Really? with Hershey H. Friedman and Linda Weiser Friedman, authors of God Laughed: Sources of Jewish Humor.

Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

Monday
November 24, 2014
6:30 p.m.

Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, with David Harvey, a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), and the author of numerous books.

Urban Appetites

Tuesday
November 25, 2014
6:30 p.m.

Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York, with Cindy R. Lobel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History at Lehman College.

If you'd like to read any of the books presented at our past author talks, you can find book lists from our January 2013 - November 2014 Author @ the Library programs in the BiblioCommons catalog.

The Author @ the Library posts include authors discussing their recent non-fiction works at the Mid-Manhattan Library. Don't miss the many other interesting classesfilms, readings and talks on our program calendar. Enjoy art lectures and artist conversationsmusical tributesvirtual tours of the city, and short story readings at Story Time for Grown-ups.

Download Mid-Manhattan Library's November 2014 Author Talks & More flyer, here.

And don't forget that all of our programs are free of charge!