Library Talks
Summary: 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.
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How did a former Harvard professor turned counterculture icon become an international fugitive? Authors Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis explain the larger-than-life story of Timothy Leary, the middle-aged acid enthusiast of the early 1970s. The PEN award-winning writers talk about their research at NYPL and remarkable true story at the heart of their newest book, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon & the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD.
The James Beard Award–winning food historian and cookbook writer was at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture this past fall to talk about her memoir, My Soul Looks Back, with chef and co-host of ABC's The Chew, Carla Hall.
Naomi Klein & Martin Breum: Climate Change and the Arctic Imagination
Masha Gessen—The Stories of a Life
Neil Gaiman Reads "A Christmas Carol" (Rebroadcast)
Muhammad Yunus & Jeffrey Sachs
Nikki Giovani & Joy-Ann Reid
Stephen Greenblatt & Tony Kushner: Adam and Eve in the Teeth of Time
Kevin Young & Bunk—Hoaxes, Hooey, Hocum; Cons, Plagiarists, and Forgers
Anne Applebaum: Fighting Against the Great Forgetting
Theaster Gates: "I'm Trying to Create an Intimate Moment with Our Most Treasured Assets."
Van Jones: "You have to keep open the possibility for redemption."
Ron Chernow: Grant
Nasty Women
Mike Wallace, Greater Gotham
