Posts by Tracy O'Neill

For this week's episode of the New York Public Library Podcast, we're proud to present Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren discussing getting better roles, seeing summer movies, and breathing through Shakespeare.

In Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel, Dan Ephron tells the stories of Rabin and his stalker Yigal Amir. Ephron, a longtime writer for Newsweek, is a finalist for NYPL’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Four-time Grammy winner Rosanne Cash is something of a music legend. She's also an author, of the recent memoir Composed.

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Can Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg reform ailing public school systems across the country? In Dale Russakoff's book The Prize: Who’s In Charge of America’s 

Robert A. Caro is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for his books The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate and The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, the latter of which was written at the New York Public Library's Allen Room.

Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, and scholar perhaps best known for reading her poem "Praise Song for the Day" at the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Her latest work is a memoir, The Light of the World. Hilton Als, theater critic of the New Yorker and author of White Girls, joined Alexander at LIVE from the NYPL.

For this week's New York Public Library Podcast, we're proud to present Nathaniel Kahn discussing powerful telescopes, weird science, and the innocence of scientists portrayed in his latest film.

Wise, funny, sad, and hopeful, here are some of our favorite Flannery O'Connor quotes.

Dana Spiotta is the acclaimed author of novels including Eat the Document, Stone Arabia, Lightning Field, and most recently, Innocents and Others.

Darryl Pinckney is a Whiting Award winner, a former Cullman Fellow, and a longtime contributor to the New York Review of Books. He visited the New York Public Library for a Conversation at the Cullman Center co-sponsored by the NYRB to discuss his book Black Deutschland with Zadie Smith.

For this week's episode of the New York Public Library Podcast, we're pleased to present Jhumpa Lahiri discussing finding home in language, an unlikely relationship, and the inspiration of disorder.

If you like a contest of words, these literary arguments will suit your fancy. From arguments over the pronunciation of Russian vowels to televised winner-take-alls, here are a few famous author feuds for the ages.

Debbie Harry is best known as the iconic singer of Blondie, which recorded hit albums such as Parallel Lines and Eat to the Beat. She has recorded albums as a solo artist and appeared in many films and television shows.

On March 1, 1914 Ralph Ellison was born. Today, we celebrate the author by reading his masterpiece Invisible Man. Here is why you should too.

For our one hundredth episode we are celebrating Black History Month with the men and women making black history today, from music moguls to authors, chefs to television stars—all recent guests of The New York Public Library.

In 1983, Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin co-founded Def Jam, one of the most prominent hip-hop labels in the American music industry today.

In 1994, Yusef Komunyakaa won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. An author of poetry, prose, and drama, his most recent work is The Emperor of Water Clocks.

Toni Morrison and Angela Davis are two of the most necessary and brilliant intellectuals of our time. Morrison, a Nobel Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize winner, has written several novels, plays, works of children's literature, and nonfiction. Scholar, activist, and author Angela Davis is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a group working to end the prison industrial complex.

To read James Joyce is to encounter a radical idiom in service of indiscriminate observation.