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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Podcasts:
Salman Rushdie, The Golden House
Jesmyn Ward on 'Sing, Unburied, Sing'
Atul Gawande & Elizabeth Alexander
Kurt Andersen, Fantasyland
Raoul Peck, "I Am Not Your Negro"
Ayobami Adebayo on her debut novel "Stay With Me"
Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning
Noam Chomsky and Wallace Shawn: Rigorous Rationality
Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, and best-selling author Judy Collins came to the Library back in February, to celebrate the publication of her most recent book, Cravings. “As an active, working alcoholic with an eating disorder,” she writes, “I yearned for serenity and was tormented for much of my life by longings, addictions, and painful crises over food: bingeing, bulimia, weight loss and gain.”
The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright was joined in May by members of the Broadway cast of Sweat to talk about the play and the issues behind it at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Best-selling novelist Min Jin Lee on her latest book, the ups and downs of her career, the history of Koreans in Japan, and the treatment of Asians in America.
Phillip Glass, Words Without Music
Janet Mock, Surpassing Certainty
Inside the Work and Mind of Nick Cave
David Grann