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Are you finding our current open hours sufficient for your needs? LET US KNOW. TEATIME RETURNS in the Reference Room Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 3:00 - 3:30 PM, beginning August 3. Free, public, drop in. (Digital Teatime continues for members on Zoom, Fridays at 3:00 PM.) Are you (or do you know) an interior designer? We’re looking for some expert advice on new furniture for our third-floor reading rooms. If you’d like to help us out, please drop us a line. The New York Post calls us "the city's best-kept secret" in this new article...and the Library also gets a shout-out from member writer Helen Ellis in Entertainment Weekly! Away from home? Take the Library with you with our electronic resources - e-books, downloadable audiobooks, thousands and thousands of digital magazines, and much more. E-memberships also available - all you can read (or hear) for just $100 annually.

WRITING LIFE EVENT - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Let's Write Our Summer Down with Esther Cohen Thursdays July 22, August 12, 2:00 PM online | open to the public; free for members | separate sessions | registration required   We will write about love and write about living and everything in between in this summer writing workshop. Interested in this event, but not ready to register? Get a reminder closer to the next date.

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ONLINE PREMIERES - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Summer Watch Parties 2021 online | free of charge | drop in   It's the streaming premiere of our winter/spring events! Just drop in to our YouTube channel on any of these dates at noon Eastern time and look for the premiere. Each video will be available for free streaming anytime after that date. Monday, July 19 - Russell Shorto, Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob (originally February 18) Friday, July 23 - Salamishah Tillet, In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece, in conversation with Marsha Norman (originally February 24) Friday, July 30 - Ian W. Toll, Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (originally March 4) Monday, August 2 - Janice P. Nimura, The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine (originally March 10) (shown here) Friday, August 6 - Victoria Shorr, The Plum Trees (originally March 15) Monday, August 9 - Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire (originally April 19) Friday, August 13 - Edward Hirsch, 100 Poems to Break Your Heart, with dramatic readers (originally April 21) Friday, August 20 - Melissa J. Homestead, The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis (originally May 4) Monday, August 23 - Kirstin Valdez Quade, The Five Wounds: A Novel, in conversation with Meg Wolitzer (originally June 3) Friday, August 27 - Hayden Herrera, Upper Bohemia: A Memoir (originally June 24)

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Exhibition: Black Literature Matters (open to the public in the Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery through May 1, 2022) Seminar: What's Up with This Trojan War, Anyway? with Jane Mallison (Thursdays June 17, July 1, July 15, July 29) Request a Book Bundle from our Children's & YA librarians! Here's a quick list of all currently scheduled events. Here's a quick list of upcoming Children's Library events. More events are added throughout the season. If you were forwarded this message, sign up here to get our newsletter in your inbox.

The Black Literature Matters exhibition is presented with generous support from The Florence Gould Foundation. The Writing Life events in 2021 are generously underwritten by Jenny Lawrence.

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