While I’m on the subject of slightly egghead-ish events (aka Readings and Talks), here’s what the initial 2012 schedule looks like for LIVE from the NYPL. Tickets for members go on sale, Jan 6, non-members can purchase tickets on Jan 9. If you like, you can become a friend of the NYPL over here.
TARIQ ALI & OLIVER STONE in conversation
THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012, 7 P.M.
$25 General Admission, $15 FRIENDS, Seniors and Students with valid ID – Become a FRIEND for a $10 discount on every ticket for LIVE
TICKETS ON SALE JANUARY 6 FOR FRIENDS OF THE NYPL, JANUARY 9 FOR NOT-YET-FRIENDS
PICO IYER on GRAHAM GREENE in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012, 7 P.M.
“Who are these figures who take residence inside our heads, to the point where we can hear their voices even when we’re trying to make contact with our own?”–Pico Iyer
$25 General Admission, $15 FRIENDS, Seniors and Students with valid ID – Become a FRIEND for a $10 discount on every ticket for LIVE
TICKETS ON SALE JANUARY 6 FOR FRIENDS OF THE NYPL, JANUARY 9 FOR NOT-YET-FRIENDS
WERNER HERZOG: Death Row & Other Journeys, in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012, 7 P.M.
“I am not an advocate of the death penalty. I do not even have an argument; I only have a story, the history of the barbarism of Nazi Germany. The argument that innocent men and women have been executed is, in my opinion, only a secondary one. A State should not be allowed-under any circumstance-to execute anyone for any reason. End of story.”–Werner Herzog
$25 General Admission, $15 FRIENDS, Seniors and Students with valid ID – Become a FRIEND for a $10 discount on every ticket for LIVE
TICKETS ON SALE JANUARY 6 FOR FRIENDS OF THE NYPL, JANUARY 9 FOR NOT-YET-FRIENDS
CLAUDE LANZMANN: Shoah and My Life, in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012, 7 P.M.
Shoah and My Life
$25 General Admission, $15 FRIENDS, Seniors and Students with valid ID – Become a FRIEND for a $10 discount on every ticket for LIVE
TICKETS ON SALE JANUARY 6 FOR FRIENDS OF THE NYPL, JANUARY 9 FOR NOT-YET-FRIENDS
E. O. WILSON
TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2012, 7 P.M.
“Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Conceived in ultimate simplicity by Paul Gaugin on the canvas of his Tahitian masterpiece, these are in fact the central problems of religion and philosophy. Will we ever be able to solve them? Sometimes it seems not. Yet perhaps we can.”–E. O. Wilson
$25 General Admission, $15 FRIENDS, Seniors and Students with valid ID – Become a FRIEND for a $10 discount on every ticket for LIVE
TICKETS ON SALE JANUARY 6 FOR FRIENDS OF THE NYPL, JANUARY 9 FOR NOT-YET-FRIENDS