Join The New York Public Library and your favorite writers, artists, and thinkers for smart talks and provocative conversations from the nation's cultural capital.
Elvis Costello on the Internet, Records, & Imitation
98 hours 31 mins; November 17, 2015
Sloane Crosley on College, Jewelry, & Publicity
37 mins; November 10, 2015
The 2015 Library Lions on Truth & Inspiration
51 mins; November 03, 2015
Shaquille O'Neal on Germany, Rap, & Slam Dunks
62 hours 45 mins; October 27, 2015
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Theft, Atheism, & History
96 hours 51 mins; October 20, 2015
Patti Smith on Authors She Loves
67 hours 54 mins; October 13, 2015
Erica Jong on Becoming a Poet & Favorite Authors
41 mins; October 06, 2015
Ron Rash on Writer Survival & Place
36 mins; September 29, 2015
Alice Waters on the Pleasures of the Palate
90 hours 29 mins; September 22, 2015
John Lithgow on Shakespeare & Bedtime Stories
74 hours 28 mins; September 15, 2015
Jack White on Music & Freedom
88 hours 20 mins; September 08, 2015
In Memoriam: Oliver Sacks on Hallucinations
74 hours 3 mins; August 31, 2015
Chimamanda Adichie & Zadie Smith on Race, Writing, & Relationships
64 hours 2 mins; August 25, 2015
Colson Whitehead on Poker
30 mins; August 18, 2015
The Moth on the Power of Storytelling
96 hours 59 mins; August 11, 2015
Lou Reed on Playing Outside the Box
70 hours 49 mins; August 04, 2015
Vivian Gornick on Voice in Memoir
38 mins; July 28, 2015
Alan Rusbridger on Whistleblowers & Wikileaks
92 hours 50 mins; July 21, 2015
Patti Smith on Youth & Friendship
80 hours 24 mins; July 14, 2015
Sally Mann on Ethical Photography & Stories
36 mins; July 07, 2015
Werner Herzog on Greece & Wrestlemania
100 hours 52 mins; June 30, 2015
Dan Savage on Monogamy
96 hours 44 mins; June 23, 2015
Suzanne Farrell on George Balanchine
89 hours 0 mins; June 16, 2015
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Bitcoin
70 hours 57 mins; June 09, 2015
Damien Echols on Hope & Death Row
82 hours 43 mins; June 02, 2015
Matthew Weiner on the End of "Mad Men"
86 hours 15 mins; May 26, 2015
Alan Cumming on NYC & Acting
35 mins; May 19, 2015
Diane von Furstenberg on Confident Women
74 hours 15 mins; May 12, 2015
Sonia Sotomayor on Education & Color Blindness
54 mins; May 05, 2015
Frank Bruni on College Admissions Mania
35 mins; April 28, 2015
T.C. Boyle on Finding Stories and Themes
27 mins; April 22, 2015
Tavis Smiley on Maya Angelou
44 mins; April 14, 2015
Azar Nafisi on the Freedom to Read
85 hours 0 mins; April 07, 2015
Jeffrey Deitch on Art & Spectacle
85 hours 30 mins; March 31, 2015
RuPaul on Fantasy & Identity
93 hours 33 mins; March 24, 2015
Stay Tuned
1 min; March 19, 2015
Sarah Lewis & Anna Deavere Smith on Inspiring Failures
72 hours 51 mins; March 12, 2015
Ann Patchett & Elizabeth Gilbert on Writing
72 hours 27 mins; March 05, 2015
Jay-Z on Hustling & Forgiveness
106 hours 42 mins; February 26, 2015
Charles Blow on His Unexpected Childhood Hero
85 hours 59 mins; February 20, 2015
Tom Wolfe on Handwriting & Humility
86 hours 34 mins; February 12, 2015
Ntozake Shange on Inspiration & Harlem
66 hours 24 mins; February 06, 2015
Joan Didion on Writing & Revising
52 mins; January 29, 2015
Cheryl Strayed on Wild Success
86 hours 24 mins; January 23, 2015
Joyce Carol Oates on Inspiration and Obsession
80 hours 11 mins; January 16, 2015
Marlon James & Salman Rushdie on Storytelling
69 hours 54 mins; January 09, 2015
Thomas Struth on Collective Memory and Family Photos
94 hours 56 mins; December 30, 2014
Neil Gaiman Reads "A Christmas Carol"
86 hours 46 mins; December 19, 2014
Maira Kalman on Her Favorite Things
26 mins; December 11, 2014
Mark Strand on Artistic Imagination
26 mins; December 02, 2014
Marcus Samuelsson on Food, Love, & Gratitude
83 hours 42 mins; November 24, 2014
Richard Ford on Becoming a Reader and Finding a Voice
35 mins; November 20, 2014
George Clinton on the Future of Funk
86 hours 11 mins; November 13, 2014
Neil Gaiman on Fairy Tales Revisited
108 hours 36 mins; November 06, 2014
Sam Roberts on New York City
31 mins; October 31, 2014
Marjane Satrapi - Narratives of Social Protest.
79 hours 7 mins; October 24, 2014
Jane Smiley - The Last Hundred Years
26 mins; October 17, 2014
Philip K. Howard - The Rule of Nobody
35 mins; October 10, 2014
Tom Perotta - Nine Inches
33 mins; October 03, 2014
Ben Lerner - 10:04
88 hours 21 mins; September 26, 2014
Ayana Mathis - The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
28 mins; September 22, 2014
Losing Parents to AIDS: The Personal and the Political
97 hours 52 mins; September 05, 2014
Robert Morris: "Object Sculpture, 1960-1965"
79 hours 36 mins; August 22, 2014
CUT – The Songs That Didn't Make It
69 hours 36 mins; August 07, 2014
The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
49 mins; July 24, 2014
George Prochnik - "The Impossible Exile"
92 hours 36 mins; July 10, 2014
Amazon: Business As Usual?
95 hours 7 mins; July 03, 2014
A. E. Hotchner - Stories and Biographies
33 mins; June 26, 2014
Karl Ove Knausgaard and Jeffrey Eugenides – "My Struggle"
73 hours 51 mins; June 23, 2014
John Waters - "Car Sick"
83 hours 58 mins; June 05, 2014
Colm TóibÃn - The Testament of Mary
31 mins; May 30, 2014
Kara Walker and Jad Abumrad - "A Subtlety"
91 hours 42 mins; May 22, 2014
Chuck Palahniuk and Douglas Coupland: "Balls in the Air"
89 hours 30 mins; May 16, 2014
Eve Ensler: "In the Body of the World"
40 mins; May 09, 2014
The Craft Beer Revolution
98 hours 2 mins; April 29, 2014
Joyce Carol Oates: "The Landscape of My Spiritual Self"
31 mins; April 18, 2014
"Books are Conversations": Katherine Boo & Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
82 hours 10 mins; April 11, 2014
"Get to the point" | Malcolm Gladwell LIVE from the NYPL
97 hours 21 mins; April 03, 2014
The Snow Queen: Michael Cunningham on "Books at Noon"
30 mins; March 26, 2014
Report from the Interior | Paul Auster on "Books at Noon"
27 mins; March 20, 2014
The Fun Parts | Sam Lipsyte on 'Books at Noon'
23 mins; March 13, 2014
The Baby Boom | PJ O'Rourke on Books at Noon
26 mins; March 06, 2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel: Wes Anderson LIVE from the NYPL
87 hours 18 mins; March 03, 2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson LIVE from the NYPL
87 hours 18 mins; March 03, 2014
You Don't Know Nothing: Toni Morrison and Junot DÃaz LIVE from the NYPL
82 hours 41 mins; February 06, 2014
My Life In Middlemarch: Rebecca Mead LIVE from the NYPL
81 hours 49 mins; January 30, 2014
The Good Lord Bird Band: James McBride LIVE from the NYPL
70 hours 40 mins; January 27, 2014
40 Chances: The Buffetts with Tom Brokaw LIVE from the NYPL
