Today @ 2:00 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

"American Splendor," DVD, Color, produced by Ted Hope; written and directed by Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman, with Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, Judah Friedlander, James Urbaniak, Earl Billings, James McCaffrey, Maggie Moore and Vivienne Benesch, 101 minutes, 2003.
Film

Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is also a comic book fan wh...

Mon, Nov 23 @ 6:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

Author @ the Library presents: "Knut Hamsun: His Brilliance, his Tragedy and his Legacy," with Robert Ferguson, the author of the Hamsun biography "Enigma: The Life of Knut Hamsun.
Author Visit

Join us for an introduction to Hamsun's life and literary work, and a discussion of the controversie...

Tue, Nov 24 @ 6:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

"Getting Organized for an Uncluttered, Meaningful and Happy Holiday Season and New Year!" with A. J. Miller, a residential and workplace organization and productivity expert.
Lecture

The holiday season juggernaut is speeding forward and you need to be prepared if you hope to thrive,...

Sun, Nov 29 @ 2:00 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

"Vanya on 42nd Street," DVD, Color, directed by Louis Malle; produced by Fred Berner, with Julianne Moore, Brooke Smith, George Gaynes ... [et al.], 119 minutes, 1994.
Film

A group of actors meet to rehearse Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and find the same conflicts in their own li...

Mon, Nov 30 @ 6:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

Author @ the Library presents: "Knut Hamsun and the Birth of the Modern Novel," with Frode Saugestad.
Author Visit

Come to a discussion of how Knut Hamsun's early novels have inspired and influenced a series of mode...

Tue, Dec 1 @ 6:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

"A Night in the Day of a Copy Editor" with Merrill Perlman, who managed the copy desks at The New York Times as part of her 25-year career.
Lecture

Learn what a copy editor is supposed to do, what a copy editor can do realistically, and how the Int...

Wed, Dec 2 @ 6:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

Author @ the Library presents: "Triumph of Order: Democracy of Public Space in New York and London," with Lisa Keller.
Author Visit

Learn the detailed story of how two of the world's greatest cities dealt with the challenge of balan...

Thu, Dec 3 @ 6:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

MoMA @ the Library Presents: "Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity," with Deborah A. Goldberg, Ph.D.
Slide/Lecture

Explore this temporary retrospective exhibition on view at MoMA from November 8, 2009 to January 25,...

Sun, Dec 6 @ 2:00 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

"Wordplay, DVD, Color, written by Patrick Creadon, produced by Christine O'Malley, 94 minutes, 2005.
Film

A journey into the world of Will Shortz, the crossword puzzle editor at The New York Times. Shortz h...

Mon, Dec 7 @ 6:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

Authors @ the Library present: "Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine," with John Harley Warner James M. Edmonson.
Author Visit

Explore a hidden treasure of images of late 19th and early 20th century medical students posing arou...

Tue, Dec 8 @ 6:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

"ROOMS, Behind the Closed Doors of New York City," with Alan Feuer.
Lecture

The writer of the Rooms column in the NY Times Metro section, discusses the series and the dugouts,...

Wed, Dec 9 @ 6:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

Author @ the Library presents: "Green Oasis in Brooklyn The Evergreens Cemetery 1849-2008," with John Rousmaniere.
Author Visit

A noted historian traces the history of the Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. Beginning w...

Thu, Dec 10 @ 6:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

lgbt@nypl presents "Masculine Identity in Post-War Art and Beyond," with Jennifer Katanic, a lecturer at The Museum of Modern Art.
Slide/Lecture

This presentation will consider a wide range of male artists working in the post-war years to today....

Sun, Dec 13 @ 2:00 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

"Love and Death on Long Island," DVD, Color, written and directed Richard Kwietniowski, 94 minutes, 1996.
Film

A chance encounter with a struggling B-movie star opens up a whole new world to a buttoned-up Britis...

Mon, Dec 14 @ 6:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

Authors @ the Library presents: "In The Footsteps Of Marco Polo: A Companion to the Public Television Film" with Denis Belliveau and Francis O’Donnell.
Author Visit

Travel in the footsteps of Marco Polo, with two young men from NYC (Queens), Denis Belliveau, an awa...

Tue, Dec 15 @ 6:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

Author @ the Library presents: "Gilbert Rohde: Modern Design for Modern Living," with Phyllis Ross.
Author Visit

Discover the career of the designer who transformed the look of American furniture and brought moder...

Wed, Dec 16 @ 6:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

"Legal, Medical, and Psychological Thrillers: How Professionals Use Their Inside Knowledge When They Write," with moderator, Lawrence Light and panelists, Charles Atkins, MD, Roberta Isleib, Sarah Langan, Justin Peacock and Elizabeth Zelvin of Mystery Writers of America / New York Chapter.
Panel Discussion

Write what you know. Harnessing that age-old dictum, many working professionals directed their "day...

Thu, Dec 17 @ 6:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

lgbt@nypl presents "A History of New York Gays and Lesbians during the Great Persecution of Peter Stuyvesant. with Dr. Ronald J. Brown.
Slide/Lecture

The first settlers of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam were primarily men, and sexual activity amon...

Sat, Dec 19 @ 2:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

"Shades of Light," an artist dialogue with artist, Michael Kukla and Florence Neal,
Discussion

Emerging artist Michael Kukla will converse with Florence Neal, co-founder and director of Kentler I...

Sun, Dec 20 @ 2:00 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

"Love and Death on Long Island," DVD, Color, directed by Kevin MacDonald, 97 minutes, 1999.
Film

An extreme Palestinian group called Black September held 11 Israeli athletes hostage in the Olympic...

Mon, Dec 21 @ 6:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

Author @ the Library presents: "Knickerbocker: The Myth Behind New York," with Elizabeth Lee Bradley, the Deputy Director of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library.
Author Visit

Follow the career of the fictional Dutch historian, dreamed up by Washington Irving in 1809, who bec...

Tue, Dec 22 @ 6:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

Author @ the Library presents: "Rogues' Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan," with Michael Gross.
Author Visit

“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.” With these words as...

Sun, Dec 27 @ 2:00 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

"Spellbound," DVD, b&w, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; screenplay by Ben Hecht, starring Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, and Michael Chekhov, 111 minutes, 1945.
Film

A psychologist falls for a suspect in a murder, which she tries to solve by unlocking the clues hidd...

Mon, Dec 28 @ 6:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

"The Neighbors," a new play by Dimitri Michalakis.
Theatre

A staged reading about a group of neighbors who bicker and trade gossip over their backyard fire esc...

Tue, Dec 29 @ 6:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
for adults

Filmmaker @ the Library presents: "Clearwater Nation; Pete Seeger introduces Clearwater’s 'Next Generation Legacy Project,"' with Pamela Timmins.
Film

View this 2009 documentary DVD featuring Pete Seeger's performances, his forty years involvement wit...