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What to Read While You're Waiting for 'The Girl on the Train' Movie
The Girl on the Train movie, starring Emily Blunt and based on the bestselling novel has begun filming and is slated to be released October 7, 2016. As that is still a ways away, here are some novel...
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Antiheroes in Graphic Novels
Next year two films will be hitting the big screen with leads that do not fit the typical superhero mold. Deadpool, from Marvel comics, will be featuring the lone character as the star and Suicide...
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Head Shots: Tallulah Bankhead's Sleeve
Tallulah Bankhead. Photograph by Florence Vandamm. Image ID: 5057002If you walk west on 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, you will go past the “blades.” These electronic signposts...
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Printing Women: Valerie Hammond
Blue Anemone, Valerie Hammond, Lithograph, 2011While the exhibition Printing Women focuses on Henrietta Louisa Koenen’s (1830–1881) collection of female printmakers from the 16th to 19th centuries, it...
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Discussing 'To Kill a Mockingbird' to Learn and Live a Language
A student's copy of To Kill a Mockingbird marked up for reading aloudEvery Wednesday from 10 AM-1 PM, a group of ESOL students who were enrolled in the Upper Manhattan Adult Literacy program, but who...
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The Library's New Mellon Director
Today we share the news of the appointment of The New York Public Library’s Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Libraries—William P. Kelly.The Library's Mellon Director leads the Library's four...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of December 13
SAGEWorks Boot Camp - Enrollment Now open for January 4th. SAGEWorks assists people 40 years and older in learning relevant, cutting-edge job search skills in a LGBT-friendly environment. This two...
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Adam Silvera Visits the Bronx Library Center
The Leteo Institute gives you the chance to erase all of your bad memories. If you could, would you take advantage of it? But what if what you wanted to erase was an inherent part of you? Aaron Soto...
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NYPL's Suggestions for the 2016 Read Harder Challenge
Our friends at Book Riot came up with a doozy of a New Year's resolution: Spend a whole year reading consciously, thoughtfully, and outside your comfort zone.Book Riot's latest Read Harder Challenge...
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Podcast #91: Timbaland on Mantronix, Reinvention, and Kids
Subscribe on iTunes.Timbaland is a producer, rapper, songwriter, and now, an author. A four-time Grammy winner, Timbaland has worked with artists including Rihanna, Nas, Aaliyah, Jay-Z, Nelly Furtado,...
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Booktalking "The Secret Side of Empty" by Maria Andreu
Monserrat Thalia's gaze on life is losing focus. An undocumented immigrant from Argentina, she is a senior in high school. She cannot see a way into college, considering her status. MT starts skipping...
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Barack and Michelle Obama's Favorite Books, Movies, and TV of 2015
POTUSFavorite book: Fates and Furiesby Lauren GroffFavorite movie: The Martian (based on the book The Martin by Andy Weir)Favorite TV show: The KnickFavorite song: "How Much a Dollar Cost" (Album: To...
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New York Times Read Alikes: December 20, 2015
No strangers to the top five this week: Kristin Hannah, Jack Ryan, Alex Cross, Harry Bosch, and John Grisham. Welcome back everyone!#1 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed The Nightingale by Kristin...
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Bake Like New York's Best Bakeries!
Buttery croissants, lusciously frosted cupcakes, chocolate studded brownies, fresh fruit pies, crusty artisan bread...there is so much deliciousness on display in New York City bakery windows. If...
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Early 1970s Fiction: 45 Novels for 45 Years of Mid-Manhattan
The Mid-Manhattan Library turned 45 this year. The library opened its doors to the public on October 26, 1970 and we’ve been serving readers from all over the city—and the world—ever since. To...
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Telling Claudette Colvin's Important Civil Rights Story
Erika Paul, Pre-Professional in our Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, reflects on the significance of Civil Rights pioneer Claudette Colvin through a new display—sixty years after...
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Library Stories: "Destined to be a Librarian"
"Destined to be a Librarian""Other kids played school and house and all of those things. I played library." - Dawn Collins (Zimmerer) Posted by NYPL The New York Public Library on Friday, December 18,...
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Time After Time
The Temple of Time. Image ID: ps_grd_350Recently, the WSJ wrote about Cyndi Lauper's songwriting process for her hit single "Time After Time." The song was inspired by her personal life, but also by...
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The Wu-Tang Clan and the #Wuseum… the Saga Continues
Influential, iconic, legendary. Just some of the words that could be used describe The Wu-Tang Clan. The St. George Library Center on Staten Island pays homage to the hip-hop greats with a compilation...
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Novedades de Diciembre 2015: Feliz Navidad con más Novedad
Para muchos, el 24 de diciembre Día de Nochebuena, es una celebración tan importante como la fiesta de Navidad del 25 de diciembre, por ser la víspera del nacimiento de Jesús (según la religión...
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