Library Talks

By The New York Public Library

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florencia
 Jun 12, 2019
absolutely wonderful. great to get to know the authors and titles of current books

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 Jul 7, 2018

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Join The New York Public Library and your favorite writers, artists, and thinkers for smart talks and provocative conversations from the nation’s cultural capital.

Episode Date
Hillary Rodham Clinton with Jennifer Weiner
Apr 16, 2024
Sasha Issenberg with Maggie Haberman: The Lie Detectives
Apr 02, 2024
Lyn Slater and Chloé Cooper Jones
Mar 19, 2024
Chasing Bruno Schulz: Benjamin Balint with Joshua Cohen
Mar 05, 2024
Álvaro Enrigue with Marie Arana: You Dreamed of Empires
Feb 21, 2024
Heather Cox Richardson with Andrew Delbanco: Democracy Awakening
Feb 06, 2024
Lesbian Poetic Traditions: Judy Grahn and Friends
Jan 23, 2024
Vauhini Vara with Leslie Jamison: This Is Salvaged
Jan 09, 2024
Ayana Mathis and Justin Torres
Dec 26, 2023
Outrageous: Kliph Nesteroff with Marc Maron
Dec 12, 2023
Far from Over: The Fight for the Equal Rights Amendment
Nov 28, 2023
Mary Beard with Tim Gunn: Emperor of Rome
Nov 14, 2023
C Pam Zhang with Padma Lakshmi: Land of Milk and Honey
Oct 31, 2023
Matthew Desmond and Andrea Elliott: Poverty, by America
Oct 17, 2023
Building the World We Want: Artificial Intelligence and Global Governance
Oct 03, 2023
Luis Alberto Urrea: Good Night, Irene
Sep 19, 2023
Sasha Velour and Joe E. Jeffreys: Drag Manifesto
Sep 05, 2023
Sherrilyn Ifill: How America Ends and Begins Again
Aug 22, 2023
Stonewall 50: The Sound of Memory
Jun 23, 2019
Before Stonewall
Jun 16, 2019
Marlon James Gets Nerdy with Kevin Young
Jun 09, 2019
A History of the Queer Press
Jun 02, 2019
Erin Lee Carr and Ta-Nehisi Coates Remember David Carr
May 26, 2019
How Robert Caro Writes About Power and the Powerless
May 19, 2019
Breaking New Ground with Dr. Carla Hayden and Tracy K. Smith
May 12, 2019
Jill Abramson and Jane Mayer's Insider Take on the News
May 05, 2019
Eliza Griswold Uncovers the Human Cost of Fracking
Apr 28, 2019
Shane Bauer's Undercover Reporting from Inside a Private Prison
Apr 21, 2019
Emily Bazelon and Stacey Abrams talk Criminal Justice Reform
Apr 14, 2019
Bending Reality with G. Willow Wilson
Apr 07, 2019
Janet Napolitano Explains Homeland Security with Joe Biden
Mar 31, 2019
Still Cringing After 'Cat Person'
Mar 24, 2019
Paperback Crushin'
Mar 17, 2019
Frankenstein: Our Dark Mirror
Mar 10, 2019
Marilynne Robinson: Liberalism and American Tradition Pt. II
Mar 03, 2019
Marilynne Robinson: Liberalism and American Tradition Pt. I
Feb 24, 2019
How to Make Black Lives Matter at School
Feb 17, 2019
Envisioning 'A People's Future of the United States'
Feb 10, 2019
Jason Rezaian's 544 Days in an Iranian Prison
Feb 03, 2019
The Banished Immortal
Jan 27, 2019
Seeing and Being Seen in Sally Wen Mao's 'Oculus'
Jan 20, 2019
Maria Popova's A Velocity of Being
Jan 13, 2019
Satirizing America in 'Friday Black'
Jan 06, 2019
The Librarian Is In with Eric Klinenberg
Dec 30, 2018
Neil Gaiman Reads "A Christmas Carol" (Rebroadcast)
Dec 19, 2018
A Reporting Life in Latin America
Dec 16, 2018
Magical Realism with Wayétu Moore
Dec 09, 2018
John McPhee's Album Quilt
Dec 02, 2018
How Congress Really Works...Or Doesn't
Nov 25, 2018
James Baldwin's Children's Book
Nov 18, 2018
Susan Orlean's Ode to Libraries
Nov 11, 2018
A History of Voter Suppression with Carol Anderson
Nov 04, 2018
A Modern-day Gothic Horror Story
Oct 28, 2018
Making Movements Intersectional
Oct 21, 2018
Why Men Fight with Thomas Page McBee
Oct 14, 2018
Righteous Rage with Rebecca Traister
Oct 07, 2018
The Secret Memoir of Bill Cunningham
Sep 30, 2018
The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Sep 23, 2018
Looking for the Real Lolita
Sep 16, 2018
Notes from the Reading Life: Tim Gunn and Min Jin Lee
Sep 09, 2018
The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire
Sep 02, 2018
There's No Such Thing As Now
Aug 21, 2018
Two Sisters' Path Toward Radical Islam
Aug 14, 2018
Chronicling Illness with Porochista Khakpour and Eileen Myles
Aug 07, 2018
Love and Lanyards with Billy Collins
Jul 31, 2018
Literacy is a Human Right with The World in Words Podcast
Jul 24, 2018
Roxane Gay and Aja Monet Tell Their Truth
Jul 17, 2018
Remembering to Listen with Arundhati Roy & Viet Thanh Nguyen
Jul 10, 2018
A Future for Democracy?
Jul 03, 2018
Finding Hope on the Road in "Nomadland"
Jun 26, 2018
Tarrell Alvin McCraney & Donja R. Love Lift Up Black Queer Narratives
Jun 19, 2018
Sliding Off the Couch with George Saunders
Jun 12, 2018
The Harrowing History of Roosevelt Island
Jun 05, 2018
Kevin Young & Claudia Rankine Discuss "Brown"
May 29, 2018
Remembering Tom Wolfe and the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
May 24, 2018
Masha Gessen Explains Horror, Humor and Hope for the Future
May 22, 2018
Zora Neale Hurston's Story of the Last Slave Ship Survivor
May 15, 2018
A Goddess Reimagined
May 08, 2018
Trump's Doghouse has a Revolving Door
May 01, 2018
Why Net Neutrality Matters
Apr 24, 2018
Sheelah Kolhatkar has Inside Information
Apr 17, 2018
Isabella Rossellini Shares Her Eggs
Apr 10, 2018
Building Movements with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Shaun King
Apr 03, 2018
Reforming America's Prisons
Mar 27, 2018
Dr. John Carlos Has No Regrets
Mar 20, 2018
Debut Novelist Akwaeke Emezi Recenters Reality
Mar 13, 2018
Michelle McNamara and Patton Oswalt's search for the Golden State Killer
Mar 06, 2018
Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Feb 27, 2018
Neel Mukherjee Tells Ghost Stories
Feb 20, 2018
Tayari Jones Redefines American Marriage
Feb 13, 2018
Black Lives Matter Co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Feb 06, 2018
Networking with Niall Ferguson and Gillian Tett
Jan 30, 2018
The Hunt for Timothy Leary
Jan 22, 2018
Jessica B. Harris and Carla Hall
Jan 16, 2018
Naomi Klein & Martin Breum: Climate Change and the Arctic Imagination
Jan 09, 2018
Masha Gessen—The Stories of a Life
Jan 02, 2018
Neil Gaiman Reads "A Christmas Carol" (Rebroadcast)
Dec 19, 2017
Muhammad Yunus & Jeffrey Sachs
Dec 12, 2017
Nikki Giovani & Joy-Ann Reid
Dec 05, 2017
Stephen Greenblatt & Tony Kushner: Adam and Eve in the Teeth of Time
Nov 28, 2017
Kevin Young & Bunk—Hoaxes, Hooey, Hocum; Cons, Plagiarists, and Forgers
Nov 21, 2017
Anne Applebaum: Fighting Against the Great Forgetting
Nov 14, 2017
Theaster Gates: "I'm Trying to Create an Intimate Moment with Our Most Treasured Assets."
Nov 07, 2017
Van Jones: "You have to keep open the possibility for redemption."
Oct 31, 2017
Ron Chernow: Grant
Oct 24, 2017
Nasty Women
Oct 18, 2017
Mike Wallace, Greater Gotham
Oct 10, 2017
Salman Rushdie, The Golden House
Oct 03, 2017
Jesmyn Ward on 'Sing, Unburied, Sing'
Sep 26, 2017
Atul Gawande & Elizabeth Alexander
Sep 19, 2017
Kurt Andersen, Fantasyland
Sep 12, 2017
Raoul Peck, "I Am Not Your Negro"
Sep 05, 2017
Ayobami Adebayo on her debut novel "Stay With Me"
Aug 29, 2017
Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning
Aug 22, 2017
Noam Chomsky and Wallace Shawn: Rigorous Rationality
Aug 15, 2017
How Judy Collins Conquered Her Cravings
Aug 08, 2017
Lynn Nottage & Sweat
Aug 01, 2017
Immigrant Stories—Min Jin Lee with Simon Winchester
Jul 25, 2017
Phillip Glass, Words Without Music
Jul 18, 2017
Janet Mock, Surpassing Certainty
Jul 11, 2017
Inside the Work and Mind of Nick Cave
Jul 04, 2017
David Grann
Jun 27, 2017
Tracy K. Smith, New U.S. Poet Laureate
Jun 20, 2017
Jelani Cobb, The Half-Life of Freedom (Part 2: Demagogues of American History)
Jun 15, 2017
Jelani Cobb, The Half-Life of Freedom (Part 1: The Media and Alternative Facts)
Jun 13, 2017
Alec Baldwin
Jun 06, 2017
Journalism in the Age of Trump, part 2
May 30, 2017
Jane Mayer, Winner of the Bernstein Award
May 23, 2017
George Packer and Reihan Salam with Tony Marx
May 15, 2017
Syria's Human Side, with Janine di Giovanni
May 09, 2017
Charlotte McDonald-Gibson, Bernstein Award Finalist
May 02, 2017
The Librarian Is In: American Passions
Apr 27, 2017
Lawrence Krauss w/ Alan Alda. Reality, the Real Story
Apr 25, 2017
Gary Younge, Bernstein Award Finalist
Apr 18, 2017
Like Passover, But Funnier
Apr 11, 2017
Sonia Shah & Pandemic, Bernstein Award Finalist
Apr 04, 2017
Women's and Girls' Lives Matter
Mar 28, 2017
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear with Dr. Ofri and Mary Harris
Mar 21, 2017
Etgar Keret, the Rock and the Hard Place
Mar 16, 2017
Journalism in the Age of Trump
Mar 08, 2017
Civil Rights Journeys Across Generations
Feb 28, 2017
Casanova: Seduction and Genius in Venice
Feb 21, 2017
Hugh Ryan on the Queer Histories of Brooklyn's Waterfront
Feb 14, 2017
Emmett Till: True Stories of An American Tragedy
Feb 07, 2017
George Washington and the Hyper-Partisan Now
Jan 31, 2017
New York Never Built
Jan 24, 2017
Art Spiegelman on How He Sees Himself, Becoming a Devotee to Another Artist, and the Artist After Art
Jan 17, 2017
Our Compelling Interests: A Panel on Diversity and Democracy
Jan 10, 2017
Rebecca Solnit, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Garnette Cadogan, Suketu Mehta, and Luc Sante on Phone Maps, Libraries, and Walking
Jan 03, 2017
Michael Chabon and Richard Price on Plot, Secular Judaism, and Remembering to Make Stuff Up
Dec 27, 2016
Neil Gaiman Reads "A Christmas Carol" (Rebroadcast)
Dec 20, 2016
Paul Krugman on Fake News, Lying Candidates, and What Public Intellectuals Need to Do
Dec 13, 2016
James McBride on James Brown and NYC
Dec 06, 2016
Sarah Sze on Scale, Gravity, and Value
Nov 29, 2016
Robbie Robertson on Six Nations Inspiration, Bob Dylan, and Goals of the Soul
Nov 22, 2016
Wole Soyinka on Hollywood, Reparations, and Morgan Freeman
Nov 15, 2016
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Margo Jefferson on Understanding Uncle Tom's Cabin
Nov 08, 2016
Marina Abramović and Debbie Harry on Doubt and Diaries
Nov 01, 2016
Tim Wu on How the Internet Is Not Really Free
Oct 25, 2016
Margaret Atwood on Shakespeare in the 21st Century and on YouTube
Oct 18, 2016
Mona Eltahawy and Yasmine El Rashidi on White Feminism and the Privilege to Protest
Oct 11, 2016
Sally Mann on Cy Twombly and the Babushkas Who Saved Russian Art
Oct 04, 2016
Yanis Varoufakis and Noam Chomsky on Money and The Sickest Joke in the History of Humankind
Sep 27, 2016
Alan Cumming on Memory, Gore Vidal, and Monica Lewinsky
Sep 20, 2016
Edwidge Danticat on Silence, Bridging Audiences, and Participating in Stories
Sep 13, 2016
Werner Herzog on Death, Executioners, and Advice for Filmmakers
Sep 06, 2016
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Walter Mosley on Empire, English, and Beethoven
Aug 30, 2016
Maggie Nelson & Wayne Koestenbaum on Clarity & Cruelty
Aug 23, 2016
Colson Whitehead on "The Underground Railroad" & Poker
Aug 16, 2016
Kevin Young & Gabrielle Hamilton on Food & Poetry
Aug 09, 2016
Siddhartha Mukherjee on Genetics & Storytelling
Aug 02, 2016
Laurie Anderson on Melville, Opera, and Mystery
Jul 26, 2016
Derek Walcott on Hemingway, the Caribbean, & First Love
Jul 19, 2016
John Lithgow & James Shapiro on Guy Fawkes & Falling for Shakespeare
Jul 12, 2016
The World in Words Presents: From Ainu to Zaza
Jul 05, 2016
Geoff Dyer on Class in America
Jun 28, 2016
Bruce Davidson & Matt Dillon on Lasting Impressions
Jun 21, 2016
Padma Lakshmi on NYC & the Greatest Gift
Jun 14, 2016
Jill Leovy on Murder in America
Jun 07, 2016
Maya Lin on Memorializing What Is Missing
May 31, 2016
Åsne Seierstad on the Deadliest Attack on Norway Since WWII
May 24, 2016
The Bad Rap of Do-Gooders: Larissa MacFarquhar
May 17, 2016
Helen Mirren on Women's Roles & Taking on Shakespeare
May 10, 2016
Dan Ephron: When The Man Who Almost Changed Israel Met Bill Clinton
May 03, 2016
Rosanne Cash on Shakespeare, Performing, & Poetry
Apr 26, 2016
Dale Russakoff: When Facebook Tried to Save Newark
Apr 19, 2016
Robert A. Caro & Frank Rich on Power & Corruption
Apr 12, 2016
Elizabeth Alexander & Hilton Als on Dreams & Obsession
Apr 05, 2016
Nathaniel Kahn & Matt Mountain on Outer Space & Weird Science
Mar 29, 2016
Dana Spiotta on Good People, Heroes, & Writing
Mar 22, 2016
Darryl Pinckney & Zadie Smith on Achievement & Beyoncé
Mar 15, 2016
Jhumpa Lahiri on Language & Disorder
Mar 08, 2016
Debbie Harry with Chris Stein on Beatniks, the Stillettoes, & Style
Mar 01, 2016
The Future of Black History
Feb 23, 2016
Russell Simmons & Rick Rubin on Music & Meditation
Feb 16, 2016
Yusef Komunyakaa on Politics, Imagery, & Memorizing Poetry
Feb 09, 2016
Toni Morrison and Angela Davis on Connecting for Progress
Feb 02, 2016
Francine Prose on YouTube, Sentences, & War
Jan 26, 2016
Junot Díaz on Intimacy & the Game of Fiction
Jan 19, 2016
Sharon Olds & Cynthia Nixon on Dickinson, First Drafts, & Selfhood
Jan 12, 2016
David Hare on Theater, Anticipation, & Hitchcock
Jan 05, 2016
Nico Muhly & Ira Glass on Composers & the Internet
Dec 29, 2015
Neil Gaiman Reads "A Christmas Carol" (Rebroadcast)
Dec 22, 2015
Timbaland on Mantronix, Reinvention, & Kids
Dec 15, 2015
Edmund de Waal on Porcelain, Time Travel, & Sound
Dec 08, 2015
Gloria Steinem on Sex, Justice, & Magazines
Dec 01, 2015
Mary-Louise Parker on Relationships, Motherhood, & Religion
Nov 24, 2015
Elvis Costello on the Internet, Records, & Imitation
Nov 17, 2015
Sloane Crosley on College, Jewelry, & Publicity
Nov 10, 2015
The 2015 Library Lions on Truth & Inspiration
Nov 03, 2015
Shaquille O'Neal on Germany, Rap, & Slam Dunks
Oct 27, 2015
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Theft, Atheism, & History
Oct 20, 2015
Patti Smith on Authors She Loves
Oct 13, 2015
Erica Jong on Becoming a Poet & Favorite Authors
Oct 06, 2015
Ron Rash on Writer Survival & Place
Sep 29, 2015
Alice Waters on the Pleasures of the Palate
Sep 22, 2015
John Lithgow on Shakespeare & Bedtime Stories
Sep 15, 2015
Jack White on Music & Freedom
Sep 08, 2015
In Memoriam: Oliver Sacks on Hallucinations
Aug 31, 2015
Chimamanda Adichie & Zadie Smith on Race, Writing, & Relationships
Aug 25, 2015
Colson Whitehead on Poker
Aug 18, 2015
The Moth on the Power of Storytelling
Aug 11, 2015
Lou Reed on Playing Outside the Box
Aug 04, 2015
Vivian Gornick on Voice in Memoir
Jul 28, 2015
Alan Rusbridger on Whistleblowers & Wikileaks
Jul 21, 2015
Patti Smith on Youth & Friendship
Jul 14, 2015
Sally Mann on Ethical Photography & Stories
Jul 07, 2015
Werner Herzog on Greece & Wrestlemania
Jun 30, 2015
Dan Savage on Monogamy
Jun 23, 2015
Suzanne Farrell on George Balanchine
Jun 16, 2015
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Bitcoin
Jun 09, 2015
Damien Echols on Hope & Death Row
Jun 02, 2015
Matthew Weiner on the End of "Mad Men"
May 26, 2015
Alan Cumming on NYC & Acting
May 19, 2015
Diane von Furstenberg on Confident Women
May 12, 2015
Sonia Sotomayor on Education & Color Blindness
May 05, 2015
Frank Bruni on College Admissions Mania
Apr 28, 2015
T.C. Boyle on Finding Stories and Themes
Apr 22, 2015
Tavis Smiley on Maya Angelou
Apr 14, 2015
Azar Nafisi on the Freedom to Read
Apr 07, 2015
Jeffrey Deitch on Art & Spectacle
Mar 31, 2015
RuPaul on Fantasy & Identity
Mar 24, 2015
Stay Tuned
Mar 19, 2015
Sarah Lewis & Anna Deavere Smith on Inspiring Failures
Mar 12, 2015
Ann Patchett & Elizabeth Gilbert on Writing
Mar 05, 2015
Jay-Z on Hustling & Forgiveness
Feb 26, 2015
Charles Blow on His Unexpected Childhood Hero
Feb 20, 2015
Tom Wolfe on Handwriting & Humility
Feb 12, 2015
Ntozake Shange on Inspiration & Harlem
Feb 06, 2015
Joan Didion on Writing & Revising
Jan 29, 2015
Cheryl Strayed on Wild Success
Jan 23, 2015
Joyce Carol Oates on Inspiration and Obsession
Jan 16, 2015
Marlon James & Salman Rushdie on Storytelling
Jan 09, 2015
Thomas Struth on Collective Memory and Family Photos
Dec 30, 2014
Neil Gaiman Reads "A Christmas Carol"
Dec 19, 2014
Maira Kalman on Her Favorite Things
Dec 11, 2014
Mark Strand on Artistic Imagination
Dec 02, 2014
Marcus Samuelsson on Food, Love, & Gratitude
Nov 24, 2014
Richard Ford on Becoming a Reader and Finding a Voice
Nov 20, 2014
George Clinton on the Future of Funk
Nov 13, 2014
Neil Gaiman on Fairy Tales Revisited
Nov 06, 2014
Sam Roberts on New York City
Oct 31, 2014
Marjane Satrapi - Narratives of Social Protest.
Oct 24, 2014
Jane Smiley - The Last Hundred Years
Oct 17, 2014
Philip K. Howard - The Rule of Nobody
Oct 10, 2014
Tom Perotta - Nine Inches
Oct 03, 2014
Ben Lerner - 10:04
Sep 26, 2014
Ayana Mathis - The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Sep 22, 2014
Losing Parents to AIDS: The Personal and the Political
Sep 05, 2014
Robert Morris: "Object Sculpture, 1960-1965"
Aug 22, 2014
CUT – The Songs That Didn't Make It
Aug 07, 2014
The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Jul 24, 2014
George Prochnik - "The Impossible Exile"
Jul 10, 2014
Amazon: Business As Usual?
Jul 03, 2014
A. E. Hotchner - Stories and Biographies
Jun 26, 2014
Karl Ove Knausgaard and Jeffrey Eugenides – "My Struggle"
Jun 23, 2014
John Waters - "Car Sick"
Jun 05, 2014
Colm Tóibín - The Testament of Mary
May 30, 2014
Kara Walker and Jad Abumrad - "A Subtlety"
May 23, 2014
Chuck Palahniuk and Douglas Coupland: "Balls in the Air"
May 16, 2014
Eve Ensler: "In the Body of the World"
May 09, 2014
The Craft Beer Revolution
Apr 29, 2014
Joyce Carol Oates: "The Landscape of My Spiritual Self"
Apr 18, 2014
"Books are Conversations": Katherine Boo & Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Apr 11, 2014
"Get to the point" | Malcolm Gladwell LIVE from the NYPL
Apr 03, 2014
The Snow Queen: Michael Cunningham on "Books at Noon"
Mar 26, 2014
Report from the Interior | Paul Auster on "Books at Noon"
Mar 20, 2014
The Fun Parts | Sam Lipsyte on 'Books at Noon'
Mar 13, 2014
The Baby Boom | PJ O’Rourke on Books at Noon
Mar 06, 2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel: Wes Anderson LIVE from the NYPL
Mar 03, 2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson LIVE from the NYPL
Mar 03, 2014
You Don't Know Nothing: Toni Morrison and Junot Díaz LIVE from the NYPL
Feb 06, 2014
My Life In Middlemarch: Rebecca Mead LIVE from the NYPL
Jan 30, 2014
The Good Lord Bird Band: James McBride LIVE from the NYPL
Jan 27, 2014
40 Chances: The Buffetts with Tom Brokaw LIVE from the NYPL
Jan 24, 2014
Undisputed Truth: Mike Tyson LIVE From the NYPL
Jan 22, 2014