Posts by Tracy O'Neill

During the week, it can be tough to stay on top of everything. On Fridays, though, we suggest kicking back to catch up on all the delightful literary reading the internet has to offer. Don’t have the time to hunt for good reads? Never fear. We’ve rounded up the best bookish reading of the week for you.

Alan Cumming is one of the great character actors alive today. He is also the author of Tommy's Tale: A Novel and Not my Father's Son: A Memoir. His newest book is called You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams, a collection of photographs and essays.

On September 16, 2016, the playwright Edward Albee died in Montauk, New York. He will be remembered for his contributions to American drama, particularly Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf which was, in 1963 recommended to the Pulitzer Prize committee and rejected on the grounds of vulgarity.

During the week, it can be tough to stay on top of everything. On Fridays, though, we suggest kicking back to catch up on all the delightful literary reading the internet has to offer. Don’t have the time to hunt for good reads? Never fear. We’ve rounded up the best bookish reading of the week for you.

Edwidge Danticat is a MacArthur Fellow "Genius Grant" recipient and author, best known for her book Brother, I'm Dying. In 2010, she visited the Library to talk about her essay collection Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work.

Don’t have the time to hunt for good reads? Never fear. We’ve rounded up the best bookish reading of the week for you.

Werner Herzog has reached cult status as a filmmaker, earning critical praise and ardent fans for films like Grizzly Man and Cave of Forgotten Dreams. A frequent and favorite guest, he joined LIVE from the NYPL to discuss his documentary film Into the Abyss in 2012.

During the week, it can be tough to stay on top of everything. On Fridays, though, we suggest kicking back to catch up on all the delightful literary reading the internet has to offer. Don’t have the time to hunt for good reads? Never fear. We’ve rounded up the best bookish reading of the week for you.

Do you know why we get a Monday vacation day? Find out just how well you know this American holiday with our Labor Day quiz.

Six-time NBA champ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar may be best known as the leading scorer in professional basketball of all time. Yet Abdul-Jabbar is also a major editorialist and an author books such as Mycroft and Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White. Recently, he joined the prolific novelist Walter Mosley at LIVE from the NYPL.

During the week, it can be tough to stay on top of everything. On Fridays, though, we suggest kicking back to catch up on all the delightful literary reading the internet has to offer. Don’t have the time to hunt for good reads? Never fear. We’ve rounded up the best bookish reading of the week for you.

Women in the United States were granted the right to vote on August 26, 1920, when the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was certified as law. It was not an easy fight. In celebration of equal voting rights, show off how well you know your history of suffrage.

Maggie Nelson is a writer of poetry and auto-theory, including Bluets, The Art of Cruelty, and, most recently, The Argonauts. Recently she joined Wayne Koestenbaum, a prolific writer, visual artist, and musician, at the New York Public Library.

Dorothy Parker and Ogden Nash were two of the great wits of twentieth century letters. The two are often compared for their terse quips and rhyming verse. Sometimes one's poems are even falsely attributed to the other. And so we offer a challenge: Identify who wrote each of the following droll one-liners.

Don’t have the time to hunt for good reads? Never fear. We’ve rounded up the best bookish reading of the week for you.

In this conversation, Colson Whitehead discusses what he learned about the human condition in Las Vegas—and discusses the early stages of writing one of the most exciting books of the year, The Underground Railroad.

Don’t have the time to hunt for good reads? Never fear. We’ve rounded up the best bookish reading of the week for you.

Their work has frequently been compared, each writing realist novels of great psychological acuity fraught with social drama. Can you tell the two writers's work apart?

If, when you hear the word "jacket," you think of the covering on a book, not a garment; if you say "TGIF" because it means it's time for #FridayReads; and if #ireadeverywhere feels practically like an understatement, then #NationalBookLoversDay is your holiday.