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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 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:17:59

Salman Rushdie, The Golden House

 Jesmyn Ward on 'Sing, Unburied, Sing' | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 55:18

Jesmyn Ward on 'Sing, Unburied, Sing'

 Atul Gawande & Elizabeth Alexander | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:11:39

Atul Gawande & Elizabeth Alexander

 Kurt Andersen, Fantasyland | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:23

Kurt Andersen, Fantasyland

 Raoul Peck, "I Am Not Your Negro" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:10:22

Raoul Peck, "I Am Not Your Negro"

 Ayobami Adebayo on her debut novel "Stay With Me" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 46:15

Ayobami Adebayo on her debut novel "Stay With Me"

 Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:18:33

Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning

 Noam Chomsky and Wallace Shawn: Rigorous Rationality | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:20:20

Noam Chomsky and Wallace Shawn: Rigorous Rationality

 How Judy Collins Conquered Her Cravings | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:01:07

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.”

 Lynn Nottage & Sweat | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:06:43

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.

 Immigrant Stories—Min Jin Lee with Simon Winchester | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:01:20

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 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:22:01

Phillip Glass, Words Without Music

 Janet Mock, Surpassing Certainty | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:32

Janet Mock, Surpassing Certainty

 Inside the Work and Mind of Nick Cave | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 50:31

Inside the Work and Mind of Nick Cave

 David Grann | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 49:22

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