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"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan and not quite enough time."

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Each year at the library lunch, Library supporters gather under the historic glass dome of the Celeste Bartos Forum to enjoy lunch in the company of friends and hear from today’s most prominent writers. Past Lunch programs have featured such luminaries as Hilton Als, Nora Ephron, Jhumpa Lahiri, Gary Shteyngart, and Zadie Smith, and have covered a wide range of topics including art and politics, humor writing, and poetry. This year, we ask guests to join us for an afternoon of lively literary discussion about the art

of the memoir. 

 

The library lunch is Generously sponsored by iconic British luxury brand, Asprey, and is presented with Literary Partner, The New Yorker.


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2018 LIBRARY LUNCH CO-CHAIRS

ABIGAIL BARATTA
MAHNAZ ISPAHANI BARTOS

LOUISE GRUNWALD

ZIBBY OWENS

DAISY PRINCE

DAVID REMNICK

 

HONORARY CO-CHAIR

JENNIFER EGAN

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2018 Library Lunch:
The art of the memoir

Illustration by Barry Blitt, The New Yorker cover artist, exclusively for The New York Public Library.

Featuring Elizabeth Alexander, Daniel Mendelsohn, and David Remnick

Elizabeth Alexander, renowned poet, essayist, memoirist, and scholar, is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She was recently appointed President of the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation. She previously served as the inaugural Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University, where she taught for 15 years and chaired the African American Studies Department. Professor Alexander is the author of six books of poems and two books of essays, and was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her latest book, the memoir The Light of the World, was named by Michelle Obama as her favorite book of 2015.



Daniel Mendelsohn is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books.  His books include the international best seller The Lost, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and many other honors; a memoir, The Elusive Embrace, a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; a translation, with commentary, of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; and two collections of essays.  He lives in the Hudson Valley of New York.






 

 

David Remnick was named the editor of The New Yorker in 1998. He joined the magazine in 1992, after ten years with the Washington Post, where he was a Moscow correspondent. He is the author of several books, including The Bridge, King of the World, and Lenin’s Tomb, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. Under Remnick’s leadership, The New Yorker has become the country’s most honored magazine, winning forty-one National Magazine Awards and, in a first for a magazine, three Pulitzer Prizes.








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Alexia Leuschen, Lunch Co-Chair Abigail Baratta, and Poppy Pulitzer at the 2018 Library Lunch.

Our 2018 speakers, Daniel Mendelsohn, Elizabeth Alexander, and David Remnick.


Honorary Co-Chair Jennifer Egan and Dambisa Moyo at the 2018 Library Lunch.


Sheena Paul and Joanna Rose at the 2018 Library Lunch.

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Lunch Co-Chair Louise Grunwald and Fran Lebowitz at the 2018 Library Lunch.

A special thanks to our 2018 Library Lunch sponsor, Asprey.


Dani Shapiro, Kyle Owens, Lunch Co-Chair Zibby Owens, and Caitlin Macy at the 2018 Library Lunch.

Our 2018 speakers, David Remnick, Elizabeth Alexander, and Daniel Mendelsohn.

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Sheena Paul and Joanna Rose at the 2018 Library Lunch.



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A special thanks to our 2018 Library Lunch sponsor, Asprey.


Dani Shapiro, Kyle Owens, Zibby Owens, and Caitlin Macy at the 2018 Library Lunch.

David Remnick, Elizabeth Alexander, and Daniel Mendelsohn at the 2018 Library Lunch.

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Daniel Mendelsohn

Daniel Mendelsohn is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. His books include the international best seller The Lost, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and many other honors; a memoir, The Elusive Embrace, a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; a translation, with commentary, of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; and two collections of essays.  He lives in the Hudson Valley of New York.


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2018 Steering Committee

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Tara Abrahams
Pamela Awad
Clara Bingham
Lisa Blau
Kathryn Court
Judy Gordon Cox
Jill A. Davis
Karen Eckhoff
Judith Ehrlich
Fleur Fairman
Barbara G. Fleischman
Leslie V. Godridge

Nina Griscom

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Lucy and Lawrence Guffey
Agnes Gund
Jessica Harris
Janine Hill
Nancy J. Hodin
Amie James
Eleanora Kennedy
Patricia Klingenstein
Beth Kojima
Julie Lawson
Anne Lee
Kamie Lightburn

Catie Marron

Abby S. Milstein



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Elyse Newhouse
Lynn O'Mealia
Katharine J. Rayner
Darcy Rigas
Daniel and Joanna S. Rose
Deborah Goodrich Royce
Georgina Schaeffer
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sue Wachenheim
Amanda Waldron
Evelene Wechsler
Sue Ann Weinberg
Nanar and Tony Yoseloff

2018 LIBRARY LUNCH CO-CHAIRS

ABIGAIL BARATTA
MAHNAZ ISPAHANI BARTOS

LOUISE GRUNWALD

ZIBBY OWENS

DAISY PRINCE

DAVID REMNICK

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FEATURING HILTON ALS, SAMANTHA BEE, AND ADAM GOPNIK SHARING THEIR NEW YORK CITY STORIES

WITH DAVID REMNICK.

HILTON ALS

Hilton Als, a staff writer and theatre critic at The New Yorker, has been contributing to the magazine since 1989. Als's most recent book, White Girls, was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his work in criticism, and was granted a Guggenheim fellowship in 2000. In addition to working with performer Justin Bond, in 2015, he collaborated with Celia Paul to create “Desdemona for Celia by Hilton,” an exhibition for the Metropolitan Opera. Als is currently an associate professor of writing at Columbia University.

SAMANTHA BEE

Samantha Bee is the host of TBS' new satirical topical show, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. Prior to assuming her role as the lone female in late night, Ms. Bee was a correspondent on The Daily Show from 2003-2015. She and her husband, Jason Jones, are also co-creators of the upcoming sitcom The Detour. Ms. Bee is currently writing a middle-grade novel for Farrar Straus Giroux. She also has a collection of personal essays, titled I Know I Am, But What Are You?

ADAM GOPNIK

adam gopnik, a staff writer at The New Yorker, has been contributing to the magazine since 1986. His books, ranging from essay collections to children’s novels, include Paris to the Moon, The King in the Window, and Through the Children’s Gate: A Home in New York, among others. Gopnik has three National Magazine awards and the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. In March of 2013, Gopnik was awarded the medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. He lectures widely, and, in 2011, delivered the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Massey Lectures.

DAVID REMNICK

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker since 1998, began his reporting career at The Washington Post in 1982. He is the author of several books, including The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, King of the World, Resurrection, and Lenin's Tomb, for which he received both the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism. During his tenure at The New Yorker, the magazine has won forty-one National Magazine Awards, more than any other editor in the industry. In 2015, Remnick debuted as host of "The New Yorker Radio Hour", a national radio program and podcast.

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To learn more about the 2018 Library Lunch, please email librarylunch@nypl.org or call 212.930.0889.


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