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Wes Anderson & Noah Baumbach on "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" - Backstage at LIVE from the NYPL, with The Daily Beast
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Wes Anderson & Noah Baumbach
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Ira Glass Interviews Etgar Keret: Was He an Adult Film Star?
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Candide at 250: Scandal and Success
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Ira Glass and Etgar Keret: Is Reality Overrated?
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Laurie Sheck: Home Movies of Frankenstein’s Monster
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Periodically Speaking - October 13, 2009
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William Forsythe and Alva Noë on Consciousness
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William Forsythe & Alva Noë
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Peter Gelb and Luc Bondy on the Met's Controversial Tosca
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Cognitive Theater: An Evening with Peter Gelb, Bartlett Sher & Patrice Chéreau
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LIVE Shorts: Ryan Adams and Mary-Louise Parker
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Ryan Adams Reading His Poem "White Diamond"
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Ryan Adams & Mary-Louise Parker
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Rebecca Solnit & Peter Coyote—Backstage at LIVE from the NYPL
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LIVE Shorts: Rebecca Solnit in Conversation with Peter Coyote
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Behind the Scenes in NYPL's Conservation Lab
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Rebecca Solnit & Peter Coyote
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Democracy in Africa: What Africa Expects from the Obama Administration,
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Oliver Sacks in Conversation with Paul Holdengräber—Backstage at LIVE from the NYPL
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LIVE Shorts: Oliver Sacks, "Hallucinations"
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Oliver Sacks — Hallucinations
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali in Conversation with lawrence Wright
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NYPL's Conservation Lab in Action
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Anti-Prom 2009: Episode 3
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Meet John Edward Peters, Supervising Librarian of the Children’s Center at 42nd Street
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Expanding Access to Books: Implications of the Google Books Settlement Agreement
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Speak UP, Act OUT: Conversations on Activism
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Anti-Prom 2009: Episode 2
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ISLAM IN EUROPE
Insult: Fractured States?
Part IV
Media: A Catalyst for Change
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ISLAM IN EUROPE
Insult: Fractured States?
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Conclusions: Where Do We Go From Here?
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ISLAM IN EUROPE
Insult: Fractured States?
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Migration Policy, Response and Reaction: The Status Quo
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ISLAM IN EUROPE
Insult: Fractured States?
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Youth: The Future
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Insult: Fractured States? Part 1: How Did We Get Here?
David BRANCACCIO, Benjamin BARBER, Tahar BEN JELLOUN
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Anti-Prom 2009: Episode 1
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ALAIN DE BOTTON in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
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Summer Reading 2009: Be Creative @ Your Library
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Shout It Out for Your Library!
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Meet Project Runway's Tim Gunn
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Paul LeClerc Testifies at the N.Y.C. Council to Keep Libraries Open
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NEW EYES ON THE ARAB WORLD:
Breaking Down Barriers of Fear and Prejudice
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Danzy Senna and Rebecca Walker: Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History
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One Planet, Many People
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How Far Can Darwin Take Us? Adam Gopnik with Steven Pinker
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Periodically Speaking: Ken Calhoun, Ian Brand, April Deller
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China Revealed: Simon Winchester (Friends Evening Lecture)
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FRANK GEHRY in conversation with Barbara Isenberg & Alex Ross
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Jane Mayer: Winner of the 2009 Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism
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What Green Means... at the Bronx Library Center
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Meet Michael Alvarez
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T.J. Stiles and Kevin Baker: The First Tycoon
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How To Win A Cosmic War meets Waltz With Bashir:
REZA ASLAN
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"Not For Children Only": Mary Ann Hoberman, Salman Rushdie, Chris Van Allsburg
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City Hall Rally during National Library Week, 2009
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The Death of Boom Culture?
WALTER BENN MICHAELS with DAVID SIMON, SUSAN STRAIGHT & DALE PECK
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How to Live Dada: ANDREI CODRESCU,
HENRY ALFORD
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The Death of Black Nationalist Culture?
TA-NEHISI COATES, BAZ DREISINGER, PENIEL E. JOSEPH & VICTOR LAVALLE
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Mumbai, Terror, and Islam
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NYPL President Paul LeClerc Testifies at City Hall
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Meet Ann Thornton, NYPL’s Director for Reference and Research Services
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How Can
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The New Evangelicals: Frances Fitzgerald
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Video Interview with Noël Coward Scholar Barry Day
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THOMAS FRIEDMAN in conversation with NANDAN NILEKANI
Imagining India
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Jubilations: Spirituals and Songs That Led a Nation, featuring James Martin, baritone (Abraham Lincoln and the Performing Arts)
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A Tribute to John Updike
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Lincoln's Favorite Shakespeare Speeches (Abraham Lincoln and the Performing Arts)
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The Religious Right and Why It Grew: Frances Fitzgerald
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Who Are the Evangelicals? Frances Fitzgerald
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Holocaust by Bullets: LIVE Conversation Portrait
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FATHER PATRICK DESBOIS in Conversation with Paul LeClerc: Holocaust by Bullets
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Malcolm Gladwell at the Spring 2009 President's Council Dinner
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LAWRENCE LESSIG, SHEPARD FAIREY, STEVEN JOHNSON Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
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Dance Theatre of Harlem: 40 Years of Firsts
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Design by the Book - Episode 4
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Barry Denenberg on Abraham Lincoln's Life and Career (Happy Birthday Mr. Lincoln)
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Candace Fleming, Author of The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary (Happy Birthday Mr. Lincoln)
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Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Day Celebration (Abraham Lincoln and the Performing Arts)
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A Concert Re-created: March 24, 1864 (Abraham Lincoln and the Performing Arts)
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Gary Snyder in Conversation with Eliot Weinberger
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A House Divided: The Lincoln Douglas Debates
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Design by the Book - Episode 3
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Meg Cabot Talks about her Princess Diaries Series
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Design by the Book - Episode 2
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Teatro Olimpico: A Palladian Entertainment
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Design by the Book - Episode 1
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TONI MORRISON
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The Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers & LIVE present: "What Happens Now?" A Conversation on the 2008 Election
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Book Fest 2008 Part I: Keynote Address by Brian Jacques
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Book Fest 2008 Part II: Walter Dean Myers, Ibtisam Barakat, and Jeanette Winter Discuss War and Peace in Books for Young People
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Book Fest 2008 Part III: Q&A with Walter Dean Myers, Ibtisam Barakat, and Jeanette Winter
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An Evening with Dracula
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Can the Economy Be Saved? FELIX ROHATYN, NOURIEL ROUBINI & JEFFREY SACHS
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Can the Economy Be Saved? LIVE Conversation Portrait
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LIVE from the NYPL presents "Dead from the NYPL": The Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
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Yaddo: Making American Culture
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Alphabet Juice: Roy Blount Jr. and Jean Strouse
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An Evening with Alan Alda
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A Farewell to Quenelles: The Evolution of Restaurant Culture in New York
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The Ferran Adrià Interview - NYPL Insight, with Rebecca Federman
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FERRAN ADRIÀ in conversation with Corby Kummer & Harold McGee: "A Day at elBulli"
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Uta Hagen’s Acting Class: Discussion with Karen Ludwig, Rochelle Oliver and Austin Pendleton
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Restoring the Chester Burger Military Patch Collection
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SPIKE LEE & JAMES McBRIDE
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Miracle at St. Anna: LIVE Conversation Portrait
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The Lost Spy: Espionage & Idealism, Before the Cold War
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PAUL AUSTER & CÉLINE CURIOL: Man in the Dark & Voice Over
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LIVE Conversation Portrait: What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?
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ANTÓNIO LOBO ANTUNES with Paul Holdengräber: What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?
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ROBERT BADINTER in conversation with NEAL KATYAL
Abolition: One Man's Battle Against the Death Penalty
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Panel: Barbara Barrie, Richard Easton, Hal Prince, Fritz Weaver, Foster Hirsch (Remembering Uta)
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Reading in a World of Images: Daniel Mendelsohn & James Wood in conversation with Pico Iyer
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Violence & the Left in Dark Times: Bernard-Henri Levy & Slavoj Zizek
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Art Deco
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Inside the Piano
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Knowing What to See
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The Harlem Renaissance
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Mapping the World
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The New York World's Fair, 1939-40
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The Jack Kerouac Archive
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The Katharine Hepburn Papers
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Popular Culture
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Menus & Cookbooks
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A Century of Sound
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Orientalist Architecture in Manhattan
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How to Research a Building
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on the State of the Economy
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SALMAN RUSHDIE in conversation with JEFFREY EUGENIDES: The Enchantress of Florence
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A Tribute to NUALA O'FAOLAIN
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Making Theater and New Communities: A Talk by Michael Boyd
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EMINENT DOMAIN: THE AMERICAN DREAM ON SALE
Marshall Berman, Mindy Fullilove, Tom Angotti, Brian Berger & Michael Galinksy, moderator
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Eminent Domain: LIVE Conversation Portrait
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Cosprom: the 2008 Anti-Prom
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PHILIP GOUREVITCH & ERROL MORRIS
Standard Operating Procedure
Carne Ross, moderator
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Conversation Portrait: Standard Operating Proceedure
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Understanding Black Theology: A 40-Year Retrospective
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Mark Morris in Conversation with Wendy Lesser
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PEN WORLD VOICES Conversations in the Library COLUM MCCANN & MICHAEL ONDAATJE Adventures in the Skin Trade
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PEN WORLD VOICES
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TRUTH & RECONCILIATION: A National Reckoning
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PEN WORLD VOICES
BOOKS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE
Annie Proulx, Olivier Rolin, Yousef Al-Mohaimeed, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Catherine Millet
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PEN WORLD VOICES Conversations in the Library
PÉTER ESTERHÁZY & WAYNE KOESTENBAUM
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PEN WORLD VOICES Conversations in the Library
JEFFREY EUGENIDES & DANIEL KEHLMANN
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PEN WORLD VOICES Conversations in the Library
BERNHARD SCHLINK & ANDRÉ ACIMAN
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Fresh Takes: Michael Kinsley, Maureen Dowd, and Frank Rich in Conversation
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ARCHIVE FEVER:
Okwui Enwezor, Christian Boltanski, Luc Sante, Lorna Simpson, George Lewis & Paul Holdengräber
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PICO IYER in conversation with Paul Holdengräber The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
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AGAINST THE MACHINE: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob
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AN INNOCENT MAN IN GUANTANAMO: Five Years of My Life Murat Kurnaz
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LGBT Committee Inaugural Reception, Featuring Edmund White
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A JAMES BALDWIN Tribute COLM TÓIBÍN with JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN, MANTHIA DIAWARA, FARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN
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SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK: A Lecture—Performance
THEY LIVE! HOLLYWOOD
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EDIBLE ESTATES: Attack on the Front Lawn Fritz Haeg, Peter Sellars, Dolores Hayden, Frederick Kaufman, Shamim Momin & Paul Holdengräber
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SAMANTHA POWER in conversation with AZAR NAFISI:
Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello & the Fight to Save the World
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KRISTA TIPPETT & STUART BROWN in conversation with Paul Holdengräber: FOR PLAY
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Opening Night! JOHN RICHARDSON in conversation with ROBERT HUGHES: The Paradox of Picasso and The Role of the Biographer
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Peter Martins In Conversation with Pia Catton on New York City Ballet's Romeo and Juliet
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NICHOLAS KRISTOF: Darfur The First Genocide of the 21st Century
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CEES NOOTEBOOM in conversation with Paul Holdengräber:Lost Paradise
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PIERRE BAYARD & UMBERTO ECO with Paul Holdengraber:How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
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THERE YOU GO AGAIN: Orwell Comes to America Part I PROPAGANDA THEN AND NOW:WHAT ORWELL DID AND DIDN’T KNOW
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THERE YOU GO AGAIN: Orwell Comes to America Part II DECEIVING IMAGES:THE SCIENCE OF MANIPULATION
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THERE YOU GO AGAIN: Orwell Comes to America Part III SOLUTIONS:THE FUTURE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE
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BLIND SPOT: Collapsing Images Part I A CONVERSATION BETWEEN JACK PIERSON & JERRY SCHATZBERG
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BLIND SPOT: Collapsing Images Part II MONEY, MONEY, MONEY, MONEY
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BLIND SPOT: Collapsing Images Part III TRUTH AND AUTHENTICITY IN PHOTOGRAPHY
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NEWT GINGRICH in conversation with JEFFREY SACHS:A Contract with the Earth
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n+1 MAGAZINE: Fright Night, On the Politics of Fear Benjamin Kunkel, Meghan Falvey, Alex Gourevitch, Mark Greif & Chad Harbach
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MAIRA KALMAN in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
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RICHARD PEVEAR & LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY in conversation with Keith Gessen
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OUT OF FASHION: THE ABSENCE OF COLOR
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THE MOTH: Stories about Loss Melissa Bank, Bliss Broyard, Ophira Eisenberg, Jeffrey Rudell & Josh Swiller
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JAMES GEARY Juggles Aphorisms
Flash Rosenberg performs Quote Repair
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KEN BURNS in conversation with Robert Stone: The War
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NAOMI KLEIN in conversation with Roger D. Hodge:
The Shock Doctrine, The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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An Evening with Arthur Laurents
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ORHAN PAMUK
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS and AL SHARPTON:
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God Is Not Great
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"Grow Your Child's Brain with Songs and Games"
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A Master Class with Barbara Cook
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SPY Magazine: The Funny Years, the 20th Anniversary with GRAYDON CARTER, KURT ANDERSEN, GEORGE KALOGERAKIS & DAVID CARR
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The Library at Night: ALBERTO MANGUEL in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
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ANDY BOROWITZ
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The Japanese Illustrated Book: Continuity and Change
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BILL MOYERS in conversation with Bill McKibben: Welcome to Doomsday
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INVISIBLE SYMPOSIUM: European Dream Festival with CHARLES GRODIN, master of ceremonies
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E.O. WILSON in conversation with Ira Flatow
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TIMOTHY GREENFIELD-SANDERS with André Leon Talley, Tim Gunn & Martha Nelson
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JOEL MEYEROWITZ: Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive
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KITCHEN SECRETS: BILL BUFORD with Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain
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JOHN UPDIKE in conversation with Jeffrey Goldberg
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REPORTING: DAVID REMNICK in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
DAVID REMNICK in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
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DUONG THU HUONG in conversation with Robert Stone
PEN WORLD VOICES: The New York Festival of International Literature
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AYAAN HIRSI ALI in conversation with Philip Gourevitch
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ZADIE SMITH in conversation with Kurt Andersen
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AMARTYA SEN in conversation with Salman Rushdie
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THE LIMITS OF TOLERANCE? Multiculturalism Now
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REVOLUTION: A User's Manual
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Kathy Hirsch-Pasek: Einstein Never Used Flash Cards
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ALFRED BRENDEL in conversation with Paul Holdengraber
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AMERICAN VERTIGO: Bernard-Henri Lévy and Tina Brown
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DESTROYING THE COLOR LINE: John Hope Franklin and President Bill Clinton
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Free Speech Zone: Authors Read From Banned Books
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Hal Prince in Conversation with Foster Hirsch
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October 15, 2001: The Duke of York Reopens Library Auditorium
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Sir Peter Shaffer on Oscar Wilde
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The Subway at 100: General William Barclay Parsons and the Birth of the NYC Subway
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Selected Clips from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project
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"The SIBL Experience"
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Accounting & Bookkeeping Essentials
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Pricing your product or service: Break Even Analysis Primer
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How Certification Can Lead to Contracts for Minority and Women-Owned Businesses
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Credit Management & Credit Repair for Entrepreneurs
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Good Business Practices for Entrepreneurs
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A Quick Guide to Building a Successful Export Business
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How to Start a Fashion Line in Today's Market
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Legal Strategies for Small Businesses
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Market Research: Information Sources for Small Business
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Tips for Opening and Running a Restaurant in NYC
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Retail Essentials: How to Open and Run a Successful Retail Store
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Break the Rules and Win More Business
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SCORE: Essentials for Starting and Growing Your Own Business
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