Library Talks

The New York Public Library

Audio from programs at the New York Public Library

  • 57 minutes 46 seconds
    Dava Sobel with Angela Saini: The Elements of Marie Curie

    In her new biography, The Elements of Marie Curie, Dava Sobel explores not just on Curie’s legendary genius, but the 45 women who worked in her lab—from Marguerite Perey, who discovered the element francium, to Curie’s elder daughter, Irène, winner of the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Sobel chronicles Curie’s remarkable life of discovery alongside the lives of the women who followed down the trail she blazed. Sobel discusses her new book with science journalist Angela Saini.

    17 December 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 55 minutes 21 seconds
    Daniel Saldaña París with Chloé Cooper Jones: Planes Flying over a Monster

    Daniel Saldaña París speaks with Chloé Cooper Jones about his latest book Planes Flying over a Monster, which explores the cities where París has lived, each one home to a new iteration of himself. These now diverging, now coalescing selves raise questions: Where can we find authenticity? How do we construct the stories that define us? What if our formative memories are closer to fiction than truth?

    10 December 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    New York Crime Stories: Reading from the Archives

    Dive into the Library’s collections for true tales of crime and chicanery from some of the city’s most outstanding lawbreakers. Beloved actors and performers read stories mined from the Library’s collections about the words and deeds of New Yorkers who lived on either side of the letter of the law. 

    3 December 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 52 minutes 10 seconds
    Maira Kalman with Rumaan Alam: Still Life with Remorse

    Beloved artist and author Maira Kalman sits down with author Rumaan Alam to discuss her new collection of illustrations, Still Life with Remorse, her most autobiographical and intimate work to date.

    26 November 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 53 minutes 22 seconds
    Celebrating Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer’s 'The Joy of Connections'

    Celebrating The Joy of Connections, the last book of beloved icon (and long-time New Yorker) Dr. Ruth Westheimer. Co-authors Allison Gilbert and Pierre Lehu are joined by Dr. Ruth's children, Dr. Miriam Westheimer and Dr. Joel Westheimer, in a conversation moderated by WABC-TV's Bill Ritter.

    19 November 2024, 5:00 pm
  • 55 minutes 4 seconds
    Glory Edim with Aminatou Sow: Gather Me

    Glory Edim, the founder of Well-Read Black Girl, discusses her new memoir, Gather Me, an ode to the power reading has had on her life and to books’ ability to help us understand ourselves.

    12 November 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 58 minutes 27 seconds
    Clara Bingham with Farai Chideya: Revolutionary Foremothers

    Clara Bingham discusses her new book, The Movement, the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement.

    5 November 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    Ayana Elizabeth Johnson with Steve Connell: What If We Get It Right?

    Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, the beloved marine biologist and policy expert imagines an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures.

    29 October 2024, 11:00 am
  • 54 minutes 57 seconds
    Ada LimĂłn and Peter SĂ­s: In Praise of Mystery

    The U.S. Poet Laureate and Caldecott honoree Illustrator discuss their transcendent picture book featuring a poem that will travel into space aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper.

    22 October 2024, 11:00 am
  • 57 minutes 47 seconds
    Richard Powers with Marlon James: Playground

    Author Richard Powers discusses his latest novel, Playground, which intertwines tales of technology, race, friendships, and the environment.

    15 October 2024, 11:00 am
  • 58 minutes 21 seconds
    Library Talks: Eliza Griswold, Hahrie Han with Andrea Elliott: 'Circle of Hope' and 'Undivided'

    Not all evangelical churches fit the stereotypes. In their latest books, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Eliza Griswold and the Inaugural Director of the SNF Agora Institute, Hahrie Han, bear witness to two churches who break the mold. In Circle of Hope, Griswold chronicles the ravaging and ultimately destructive results to a group of progressive-leaning Philadelphia evangelicals who attempt a racial reckoning. In Undivided, Han follows four members of a conservative Midwest church whose lives are radically altered for the better by a six-week program designed to tackle racial injustice among their ranks.

     

    Griswold and Han discuss their books with journalist Andrea Elliott and examine how their stories shed light on the complexity of contemporary American evangelism.

    8 October 2024, 9:03 pm
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