Come join us for an Author @ the Library talk this April 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.
Jeffrey Kluger frames the new research on narcissism, explains the complex, and oftentimes exasperating personality disorder and reveals how narcissism and narcissists affect our lives. He also offers some suggestions for dealing with narcissists.
Featuring portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers—including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, Federico García Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E.E. Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Robert Olen Butler, and Katie Roiphe—editor Louis J. Parascandola focuses on the unique history and transporting experience of a beloved fixture of the New York City landscape.
Susan Butler explores the complex partnership between FDR and Stalin during World War II, focusing on how the leader of the capitalist world and the leader of the Communist world became more than allies of convenience during World War II.
Peter Mendelsund has designed hundreds of book covers ranging from Crime and Punishment to Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. In this illustrated presentation, he’ll discuss the covers for two new books of his own, Cover and What We See When We Read.
Journalist Colleen Taylor Sen examines the Indian subcontinent’s cuisine through thousands of years in the context of its religious, moral, social, and philosophical development.
Adam Sobel takes the audience through the devastating and unprecedented events of Hurricane Sandy, using the storm to explain our planet’s changing climate, and what we need to do to protect ourselves and our cities for the future.
Exploring both the sugarcane and sugar beet industries, Andrew F. Smith tells story after story of those who have made fortunes and those who have met with tragedy thanks to sugar’s simple but profound hold on our palettes.
Historian Kevin C. Fitzpatrick recalls the 1920s through the world of the famous “Vicious Circle” of New York City writers, critics, actors, and wits who met for lunch every day at the Algonquin Hotel.
Michael Newman examines the differences and similarities among the ways English is spoken by the extraordinarily diverse population living in the New York region.
Nicholas Carlson shares the inside story of how Yahoo got into such awful shape in the first place, Marissa Mayer's controversial rise at Google, and her desperate fight to save an Internet icon.
Gary F. Merrill provides a clear, scientifically based explanation of what happens to all the major organ systems and bodily processes—such as the cardiovascular and digestive systems—as people age.
Michael McCarthy discusses a mysterious industrial atrocity and how the prosperous, guilty Eastland owners tried to shift the blame to the whistleblower and one true hero on the ship, engineer Joseph Erickson, a working class immigrant.
In this memoir, theatrical press agent Susan L. Schulman reveals what goes on behind the curtain, sharing snapshots from more than 40 years of close-up experiences New York.
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–April 2015 Author @ the Library programs in the BiblioCommons catalog.
