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January Author @ the Library Programs at Mid-Manhattan
Last year, the Mid-Manhattan Library hosted distinguished scholars and authors at the Author @ The Library series. Some of the topics presented included photography, education, science and technology, New York City, performing and visual arts, politics and government, religion and sports. Find our earlier posts from Author @ The Library.
We hope that you will join us in the new year at Author @ The Library talks which take place at 6:30 PM on the 6th floor of the Library, unless otherwise noted. No reservations are required. Seating is first come, first served. You can also request the author's books using the links to the catalog included below.
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Monday, January 4, 2016 The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice and Money in the Twenty-First Century David Rieff, a political analyst, journalist, and cultural reviewer, explores whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is within our reach in the 21st century. |
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Tuesday, January 5, 2016 Journalist and cultural critic, Kate Bolick, gives a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single.
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Wednesday, January 6, 2016 Michael Riedel, a theater columnist for the New York Post and the co-host of Theater Talk with PBS, showcases the people, the money, and the power that helped to reinvent an iconic quarter of New York City. This is the story of how the gritty back alleys and sex-shops of Broadway were transformed into the glitzy, dazzling Great White Way—and of how a crippled New York was saved from the brink of bankruptcy to its current glory.
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Thursday, January 7, 2016 Mary E. Buser, who has worked in the Mental Health Department on Rikers Island and co-founded the Samaritans of New York suicide prevention hotline, chronicles her five-year stint in the Rikers Island Mental Health Department She shines a light into the deepest and most horrific recesses of the criminal justice system, and shows how far it has really drifted from the principles we espouse. |
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Monday, January 11, 2016
Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, Christopher Beauchamp, discusses the unprecedented legal battles that followed the invention of the telephone. |
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Cara Nicoletti, a butcher, former pastry chef, and author of the literary recipe blog Yummy Books, explores the intersection of great books and great food. She serves up stories and recipes inspired by beloved books and the food that gives their characters depth and personality.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016 New York Times #1 bestselling author of Bonhoeffer, Miracles, Seven Men, and Amazing Grace, Eric Metaxas tells the captivating stories of seven women who changed the course of history.Joan of Arc, Susanna Wesley, Hannah More, Maria Skobtsova, Corrie ten Boom, Rosa Parks, and Mother Teresa: each of these world-changing figures followed a call to action with remarkable feminine dignity. |
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Thursday, January 14, 2016 Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age Edward T. O'Donnell, Associate Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and author of Ship Ablaze, presents a social biography of Henry George. George, a Brooklyn resident and great reformer, inspired a vibrant working class movement in the 1880s that helped to shape twentieth-century progressive thinking. |
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016 John Kelly, the author of the acclaimed bestsellers The Great Mortality and Three on the Edge, spotlights the critical six months in 1940 when Winston Churchill debated whether the British would fight Hitler. |
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016 Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields and the New Politics of Latin America Ioan Grillo, a journalist, writer and TV producer based in Mexico City, in conversation with Bernardo Ruiz, a Mexican and American documentary filmmaker, cover the history of drug trafficking throughout Latin America. They discuss the incredibly shocking story of the men at the heads of cartels and the crime wars now wracking Central and South America and the Caribbean, regions largely abandoned by the U.S. after the Cold War.
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Thursday, January 21, 2016 Last Night’s Reading: Illustrated Encounters with Extraordinary Authors Brooklyn-based writer and illustrator, Kate Gavino, showcases irresistible illustrations of authors accompanied by the charming, wise and hilarious things they say at their readings. At every book reading the author attends, she hand-letters the event's most memorable quote alongside a charming portrait of the author, and takes us on an entertaining journey through New York’s literary world. |
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Monday, January 25, 2016 City on a Grid: How New York Became New York Gerard Koeppel, the author of Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire and Water for Gotham: A History, tells the story of New York’s famous grid: What prompted it? How did the commissioners and their surveyors develop the plans? How has the lengthening life of the city been shaped by it? These, among other questions are explored. |
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016 American Book Award winner and the author of The Family, Fug You, Tales of Beatnik Glory, and numerous volumes of poetry, Ed Sanders, takes a close look at Tate's life. From her itinerant childhood and early career in fashion, to her passionate marriage to the brilliant and troubled Roman Polanski and violent murder at the hands of the Manson family cult, Sanders offers new insights into what happened on the night of her death and explores new motives for the targeting of the Polanski household. |
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016 The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945-1975 Michael Schudson, sociologist and historian of the news media and Professor at the prestigious Columbia School of Journalism, discusses the relative infancy of the right to know. From the Freedom of Information Act to fuller disclosure on product labels and environmental-impact statements, Schudson sheds light on American consumers’ rights in the information age. |
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Thursday, January 28, 2016 Street photographer, Robert Herman, features photographs taken entirely on an iPhone, with the Hipstamatic app. and chronicles the photographer's international travels between 2010 and 2015, capturing the illuminating colors of the streets and landscapes of the cities he visited and the colorful people that live in these locales. |
Author @ the Library! is a series of monthly events where accomplished non-fiction authors discuss their work. You may meet the Author of interesting and engaging non-fiction reads, participate in a lively discussion and access books and materials on topics of interest. Come checkout a book, DVD or e-book on the topic.
Don’t miss the many interesting films, book discussions, writing workshops as well as computer and technology classes, on our program calendar. Sit back at Story Time for Grown-ups featuring readings from the works of Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, Edith Wharton. If you enjoy talking about books, join us on Friday, January 8 at Open Book Night where our book theme is In with the New! This month the Contemporary Classic Book Discussion on Monday, January 4 will feature Aravind Adiga's Booker Prize winning novel, The White Tiger.
All of our programs and classes are free, so why not come and check one out! Hope to see you soon at the library!
Download the Mid-Manhattan Library's January 2016 Author Talks & More flyer.
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