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The Original Circle in the Square Photographers: An Interview with Justin and...
They figured the two of you weren’t perverts.Barbara: Right, exactly. Because photographers had a really bad reputation, and these kids, they don’t know. They’d walk around the city and go see anybody...
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Booktalking "Silhouette of a Sparrow" by Molly Beth Griffin
Sixteen-year-old Garnet Richardson finds a breath of fresh air in her summer visit to Excelsior, Minnesota in 1926 to live in a hotel with Mrs. Harrington and her daughter Hannah. She is relieved to...
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Mad Men: The Beginning of the End
It has been a long and memorable ride, unlike any other on television. But the final season of Mad Men begins April 13.It's the beginning of the end. Whatever will be, will be.The first episode of Mad...
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Booktalking "The Devil Wears Prada" by Lauren Weisberger
Miranda Priestly is the harbinger of fashion excellence, at least according to her. Factor in a woman who throws temper tantrums about having to wait two and a half minutes for anything, and you have...
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Friends, Boys, Basketball... and the Holocaust
Next month the world celebrates Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Think that couldn't have much to do with a great, funny teen novel? Then you just haven't read Lauren Yanofsky Hates the...
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The Yiddish Broadway and Beyond
Given New York City’s major role in the Yiddish theater, it’s no surprise that The New York Public Library has a wonderful Yiddish theater collection. Here you’ll find posters, playbills, sheet music,...
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Education and Employment Resources for Women
Did you know that besides the Federal Student Aid that both men and women can apply for when enrolling in college there are scholarships for women and single parents as listed below? Remember, you...
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Manny Ramirez meets Manhattan Bridges High School at Columbus Library
The partnership between Yianni Stamas and Lights Camera Read and NYPL's Columbus Branch Young Adult services begins with our 2014 entrepreneurial series for teens—examining jobs in the real world. Our...
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Story Time for Grown-Ups: "The Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin
Listen to: "The Story of An Hour"Download: Audio (4 MB MP3, 8 min 13 sec)Read by Lois Moore“Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently...
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Booktalking "Meet the Dancers" by Amy Nathan
Want to "get in the groove" and discover what it takes to be a pro dancer? Long, sweaty hours in the dance studio, time spent away from family and friends, pursuit of your dream? You decide if that is...
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Memory Circles Bring History to Life at Jefferson Market Library
About this ProjectYour Village, Your Story: Greenwich Village Oral History Projectis an oral history project that works to both preserve and document neighborhood history through the stories of...
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Booktalking "Hunwick's Egg" by Mem Fox
Once upon a time, there lived a bandicoot named Hunwick. One day after a big storm, Hunwick found a treasure, a perfectly shaped humongous egg. He took care of the egg and covered it with twigs when he...
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Novedades de Marzo 2014: ¡Celebrando la Historia de la Mujer!
Para celebrar el mes de la historia de la mujer presentamos una variedad de obras nuevas con temas de salud y auto superación personal escritas por destacados autores. Además ofrecemos una variedad de...
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Story Time for Grown-Ups: "The Lady or the Tiger?" by Frank R....
Listen to: "The Lady, or the Tiger?"Download: Audio (9.6 MB MP3, 20 min 05 sec)Read by Lois MooreLong ago in a semi-barbaric country, guilt or innocence was decided when the accused chose one of two...
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Booktalking "Children Make Terrible Pets" by Peter Brown
A bear in a tutu tries to have a pet boy she named Squeaker, and all mayhem breaks loose. This all came to fruition when Lucy the bear noticed a kid hiding behind some shrubs in the woods, and she...
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The Reader's Den: Flannery O'Connor's "The Displaced...
In Flannery O'Connor's short story "The Displaced Person," originally published in the 1955 collection A Good Man is Hard to Find, racism, prejudice, and distrust take center stage.Mrs. Shortley, who...
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Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder: Art Class at the Library
Most people can recall, with varying degrees of disconcertment, the subjects in school which posed a distinct challenge for the respective individual. As I have expressed in my prior posts, the subject...
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Writers' Club@Columbus and Homelessness in New York
Last week it was thrilling to have two of the club’s guardian angels working with us. A special thanks to Lois Stavsky, who organized and created our workshop lesson and to Young Adult author Lyn...
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Stuffed Animal Husbandry: Caring for Winnie-the-Pooh and Friends
The New York Public Library is the proud home of the REAL Winnie-the-Pooh, the actual toy teddy bear that once belonged to Christopher Robin Milne, son of A. A. Milne, and the basis for the character...
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In Praise of Unconventional Travel
I once heard it said that no one ever got drunk by reading the label on a bottle of wine. This is an apt metaphor for the difference between studying another region of the world versus experiencing it...
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