Spring 2009
Publisher's Preview
Monday, February 9
For all Conservators
Conservators got a special chance to join The New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein in conversation with journalist Anna Quindlen as they discussed Ms. Fairstein's new novel, Lethal Legacy, which unravels a mysterious crime taking place at The New York Public Library.
Lenox & Astor Reading Group
Thursday, February 12
For Lenox and Astor Conservators
Andrew Solomon, award winning author and Council of Conservators member, discussed Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse.
Josephine Hart: Poetry at the Library
An Evening with T.S. Eliot
Monday, April 6
For all Conservators
Best selling author and theater producer Josephine Hart brought her sold-out British Library poetry evening to The New York Public Library for an encore performance. This year she was joined by celebrated actors Dame Eileen Atkins and Edward Herrman who read the poetry of T.S. Eliot.
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Preview Club featuring Sam Tanenhaus and Seth Lipsky
Tuesday, June 23
For all Conservators
Sam Tanenhaus, editor of The New York Times Book Review and Week in Review discussed his highly anticipated new book, The Death of Conservatism, with Seth Lipsky, founding editor of The New York Sun.
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Fall 2008
Personal Information: A Conversation about Family
Tuesday, October 7
For all Conservators
Biographers struggle with the pressure to accurately depict their subjects. This challenge is exacerbated when they write about their own families. Honor Moore and Francine du Plessix Gray shared their personal and very different experiences capturing their family’s story with Bob Colacello moderating.
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Privileged Information: A Look at the Oval Office Through the Historian's Prism
Tuesday, October 21
For all Conservators
On the eve of the 2008 presidential election, a distinguished group of presidential biographers and historians discussed the lives of some of our most storied leaders: FDR, JFK and LBJ. The panel included Robert Caro, Bob Clark and Ted Sorensen, and was moderated by biographer and editor James Atlas.
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Lenox & Astor Reading Group
Wednesday, November 12
For Lenox and Astor Conservators
Ross King, noted historian and award-winning author, lead an intimate discussion on Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano that has been called both a masterpiece and one of the towering novels of this century.
Holiday Cocktail Reception
Thursday, December 4
For Tilden, Lenox, and Astor Conservators
Library President Paul LeClerc hosted a reception at his home exclusively for donors who give at the $2,500 level or above.
SPRING 2008
Philanthropy in the 21st Century: Conversations on the Power of Giving
Dr. Muhammad Yunus with Fareed Zakaria
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
For all Conservators
What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? Impossible? The Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that. As founder of Grameen Bank, Yunus has created an innovative banking program that provides poor people--mainly women--with small "microcredit" loans they use launch businesses and lift their families out of poverty.
The distinguished journalist, author, and CNN host Fareed Zakaria joined Dr. Yunus in a probing conversation on Yunus's groundbreaking work in social business--finding new ways to use the creative vibrancy of the marketplace to tackle social problems that range from poverty and pollution to inadequate health care and lack of education.
This is the second in the Conservators three-part series on Philanthropy in the 21st Century and is made possible through the generous support of The Bank of New York Mellon.
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Preview Club
Thursday, March 6, 2008
For all Conservators
Princeton University historian and former Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Fellow Sean Wilentz discussed his highly anticipated new book, The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008.
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Computer Classes
Wednesday, March 12 and Monday, March 17, 2008
For all Conservators
Rare Books 101 offered an inside look at the world of rare book libraries, and will explore a wide range of topics of interest in the field of rare and antiquarian books using some of the latest electronic information resources for conducting rare books-related research.
Poetry at the Library: Josephine Hart & Friends
Monday, April 7, 2008
For all Conservators
Best selling author/theatrical producer Josephine Hart brought her sold-out British Library poetry evening to the United States for the first time to coincide with the publication of her new book with companion CD, Catching Life by the Throat: How to Read a Poem and Why. She was joined by celebrated actors Brian Dennehy and Mark Strong who read from the works of Robert Frost and Robert Lowell.
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FALL 2007
Forum
An Evening with the Mitford Sisters, featuring special guest Charlotte Mosley.
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Lenox and Astor Reading Group
Morgan Entrekin on Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter House 5
Preview Club
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Stalin
SPRING 2007
Spring Forum on Philanthropy
Patty Stonesifer, Chief Executive Officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in conversation with noted journalist Mike Kinsley
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Lenox and Astor Reading Group
A.M. Homes on Richard Yates's short stories from The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
Preview Club
Michael Korda, Ike: An American Hero
FALL 2006
Behind-the-Scenes
Truman Capote
Gerald Clarke
Gay Talese
Lenox and Astor Reading Group
James Salter on The Complete Works of Isaac Babel
Preview Club
Simon Schama, The Power of Art
SPRING 2006
Behind-the-Scenes
The Juilliard School, 1905-2005: Celebrating 100 Years
Jane Gottlieb
Patti LuPone
Forum
The Right Address: Power, Property, Personalities
Louis Auchincloss
Thomas Beller
Candace Bushnell
Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Nick McDonell
Preview Club
Madeleine Albright, The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs
FALL 2005
Forum
Back on the Road: The Beat Generation in Vogue Again
A.M. Homes
Lewis Lapham
Sterling Lord
Featured a reading by Ethan Hawke, Josh Hamilton, and Jonathan Mark Sherman
Lenox and Astor Reading Group
Tom Wolfe on John O'Hara's BUtterfield 8
Preview Club
James Shapiro, A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
SPRING 2005
Lenox and Astor Reading Group
Olivier Bernier on Honore de Balzac's Pere Goriot
Preview Club
Jennet Conant, 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
FALL 2004
Behind-the-Scenes
The Balanchine I've Known
Jacques d'Amboise
Lenox and Astor Reading Group
Pete Hamill on Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote
Preview Club
Robert MacNeil, Do You Speak American?
Joined by John Simon and Jesse Sheidlower
SPRING 2004
Forum
An Evening with Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson
Lenox and Astor Reading Group
Susan Cheever on Henry David Thoreau's Walden
Preview Club
Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton
FALL 2003
Behind-the-Scenes
Double Helix: The Story of Two Lives
James Watson
Forum
Russia Engages the World: A 21st-Century Perspective
Eliot Borenstein
Stephen Cohen
Nina Khrushcheva
Robert MacNeil
Lenox and Astor Reading Group
Olivier Bernier on Jane Austen's Emma
Lenox and Astor Reading Group
George Plimpton, Norris Church Mailer, and Terry Quinn perform "One Sunday at the Fitzgeralds"
Preview Club
Arthur Gelb, City Room
SPRING 2003
Forum
50th Anniversary of The Paris Review
Robert Silvers
George Plimpton
Paul Auster
Joanna Scott
Lenox and Astor Reading Group
Jane Stanton Hitchcock on Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country
Preview Club
Anne Applebaum, GULAG, A History
FALL 2002
Forum
Edible Contents
Colman Andrews
Ariane Batterberry
Michael Batterberry
William Grimes
Waldy Malouf
Drew Nieporent
Preview Club
Nicholas A. Basbanes, Among the Gently Mad: Perspectives and Strategies for the Book-Hunter in the Twenty-First Century
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