It's that time of the month again! Come join us for an Author @ the Library talk this February at Mid-Manhattan Library to hear distinguished non-fiction authors discuss their work and answer your questions. Author talks take place at 6:30 pm on the 6th floor of the Library, unless otherwise noted. You can also request the authors' books by clicking on the book cover images below.
Charles Affron and Mirella Jona Affron tell how the Metropolitan became and remains a powerful actor on the global cultural scene, and traces the offstage/onstage workings of this famed New York institution.
Renee Marten explores the role rice has played in society and the food economy through the centuries, from its beginnings in Asia and West Africa to global prominence.
Walter Frank offers an in-depth look at the court cases that were pivotal in establishing gay rights, and tells the story of those individuals who were willing to make waves by fighting for those rights, taking enormous personal risks at a time when the tide of public opinion was against them.
Photographer Brian Rose shows photographs of the ever-evolving New York City neighborhood taken in the winter of 1985 coupled with images of the same streets from the summer and fall of 2013.
Sam Roberts, the urban affairs correspondent at the New York Times, has taken on the ambitious task of excavating the meaning of some of NYC’s most noteworthy artifacts.
Peter Duffy presents the never-before-told tale of the German-American who spearheaded a covert mission to infiltrate New York’s Nazi underground in the days leading up to World War II—the most successful counter-espionage operation in US history.
Mary Pilon reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man’s lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game’s questionable origins.
Cartoonist Craig Yoe speaks on Milt Gross’ ‘lost graphic novel, “New York.” In the story, Pop and his sidekick son travel all through the city from the East Side to the West Side with stops in Chinatown, Harlem, and even Yankee Stadium and Coney Island.
Journalist and Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer gives a personal account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to better understand and address a progressive and deadly affliction.
Thursday
February 26, 2015
6:30 pm
Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians!
Justin Martin a Civil War era circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon that changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality.
If you'd like to read any of the books presented at our past author talks, you can find book lists from our January 2013–February 2015 Author @ the Library programs in the BiblioCommons catalog.
