April 2012
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Help our friends at Jefferson Market Library get... →
The Jefferson Market Branch of The New York Public Library is participating in an exciting grant program with American Express, in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Forty sites throughout New York are competing online to gather the most votes to receive up to $250,000.
Vote today… and everyday!
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“I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said — “two vast and...”
– More P. B. Shelley for you poetry lovers. “Ozymandias,” first published January 11, 1918, is here in its entirety. See our exhibition Shelley’s Ghost for more, including an original manuscript of this poem, which has never been exhibited in the United States before.
What’s...
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“Eventually, Nell Freudenberger will have written so many wonderful books that...”
– Ron Charles, Washington Post in his review of Nell Freudenberger’s new book, The Newlyweds
Want to learn how success “fell into the young woman’s lap at age 26”? Join us May 8, for what is sure to be a FASCINATING discussion with the author and journalist, poet Eliza...
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Writing your memoir? We can help. →
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“Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from Heaven, or near...”
– The first two stanzas of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “To a Skylark,” 1820. Learn more about Shelley and his work at our exhibition Shelley’s Ghost: The Afterlife of a Poet, on view at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building through June.
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“When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most...”
– Keith Richards
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"Transmissions from The Timothy Leary Papers":... →
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The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B.... →
We can’t wait to welcome them all this Fall! Congratulations to the class of ‘13.
(in alphabetical order)
Elizabeth Blackmar,
Shimon Dotan,
Ruth Franklin,
Anthony Gottlieb,
Philip Gourevitch,
Greg Grandin,
Valentina Izmirlieva,
Dániel Margócsy,
C.E. Morgan,
Mae Ngai,
Gary Panter,
James Ryerson,
Luc Sante,
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh,
and John Wray
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“Rise, like lions after slumber,
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to...”
– From “The Masque of Anarchy” by Percy Bysshe Shelley. First published in 1832, three years after Shelley’s death, the poem seems newly relevant in the Occupy Wall Street / Arab Spring era. You can read the full poem here to see what we mean.
Learn more about Shelley by visiting...
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Find 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners at NYPL →
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A selection of fiction about the immigrant... →
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Talks at the Schomburg: Alexander McCall Smith
Join us this Sunday!
schomburgcenter:
Join Alexander McCall Smith at the Schomburg Center on April 15, 2012—for his ONLY Manhattan appearance—to discuss his new book, The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection.
Tickets are still available: http://www.showclix.com/event/223525
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WatchOur fab exhibition at Library for the Performing Arts!
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NYC-ARTS Curator’s Choice: Star Quality: The World of Noel Coward
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts presents a look at the exhibition “Star Quality: The World of Noel Coward.” The exhibition is part of a city-wide festival celebrating Coward’s life and career. It draws upon the Coward Archives as well as public...
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