Through the years the St. Agnes Library has featured many local artist’s exhibitions. It has become something our patrons look forward to seeing with each visit. With our temporary closure due to COVID-19, we want to share artists' work so that everyone can experience some beauty in their life.

Peter Salwen is a long-time Upper West Sider, author of Upper West Side Story: A History and Guide, and a friend of the library. He enjoys painting the streets of our neighborhood, and gets a special kick out of finding some kind of beauty in the ordinary spaces and places we pass by every day, usually without giving them a second glance.

Suggested Reading:

• Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin
• Bossypants by Tina Fey
• The Dakota by Andrew Alpern
• Family Man by Elinor Lipman
• Imagine John Yoko by John Lennon and Yoko Ono
• Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld (October 2020)
• Misty Copeland by Gregg Delman
• The New Yorkers by Cathleen Schine
• Open City by Teju Cole
• The Panic in Needle Park by James Mills
• Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth
• Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
• Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
• Starting Out in the Evening by Brian Morton
• The Tale of the Allergist's Wife by Charles Busch
• They Told Me Not to Take that Job: Tumult, Betrayal, Heroics, and the Transformation of Lincoln Center by Reynold Levy
• When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead