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Gloria Steinem on Sex, Justice, & Magazines
Mary-Louise Parker on Relationships, Motherhood, & Religion
Elvis Costello on the Internet, Records, & Imitation
Sloane Crosley on College, Jewelry, & Publicity
The 2015 Library Lions on Truth & Inspiration
Shaquille O'Neal on Germany, Rap, & Slam Dunks
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Theft, Atheism, & History
Patti Smith on Authors She Loves
Erica Jong on Becoming a Poet & Favorite Authors
Ron Rash on Writer Survival & Place
Alice Waters on the Pleasures of the Palate
John Lithgow on Shakespeare & Bedtime Stories
Jack White on Music & Freedom
In Memoriam: Oliver Sacks on Hallucinations
Chimamanda Adichie & Zadie Smith on Race, Writing, & Relationships
Colson Whitehead on Poker
The Moth on the Power of Storytelling
Lou Reed on Playing Outside the Box
Vivian Gornick on Voice in Memoir
Alan Rusbridger on Whistleblowers & Wikileaks
Patti Smith on Youth & Friendship
Sally Mann on Ethical Photography & Stories
Werner Herzog on Greece & Wrestlemania
Dan Savage on Monogamy
Suzanne Farrell on George Balanchine
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Bitcoin
Damien Echols on Hope & Death Row
Matthew Weiner on the End of "Mad Men"
Alan Cumming on NYC & Acting
Diane von Furstenberg on Confident Women
Sonia Sotomayor on Education & Color Blindness
Frank Bruni on College Admissions Mania
T.C. Boyle on Finding Stories and Themes
Tavis Smiley on Maya Angelou
Azar Nafisi on the Freedom to Read
Jeffrey Deitch on Art & Spectacle
RuPaul on Fantasy & Identity
Stay Tuned
Sarah Lewis & Anna Deavere Smith on Inspiring Failures
Ann Patchett & Elizabeth Gilbert on Writing
Jay-Z on Hustling & Forgiveness
Charles Blow on His Unexpected Childhood Hero
Tom Wolfe on Handwriting & Humility
Ntozake Shange on Inspiration & Harlem
Joan Didion on Writing & Revising
Cheryl Strayed on Wild Success
Joyce Carol Oates on Inspiration and Obsession
Marlon James & Salman Rushdie on Storytelling
Thomas Struth on Collective Memory and Family Photos
Neil Gaiman Reads "A Christmas Carol"
Maira Kalman on Her Favorite Things
Mark Strand on Artistic Imagination
Marcus Samuelsson on Food, Love, & Gratitude
Richard Ford on Becoming a Reader and Finding a Voice
George Clinton on the Future of Funk
Neil Gaiman on Fairy Tales Revisited
Sam Roberts on New York City
Marjane Satrapi - Narratives of Social Protest.
Jane Smiley - The Last Hundred Years
Philip K. Howard - The Rule of Nobody
Tom Perotta - Nine Inches
Ben Lerner - 10:04
Ayana Mathis - The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Losing Parents to AIDS: The Personal and the Political
Robert Morris: "Object Sculpture, 1960-1965"
CUT – The Songs That Didn't Make It
The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
George Prochnik - "The Impossible Exile"
Amazon: Business As Usual?
A. E. Hotchner - Stories and Biographies
Karl Ove Knausgaard and Jeffrey Eugenides – "My Struggle"
John Waters - "Car Sick"
Colm Tóibín - The Testament of Mary
Kara Walker and Jad Abumrad - "A Subtlety"
Chuck Palahniuk and Douglas Coupland: "Balls in the Air"
Eve Ensler: "In the Body of the World"
The Craft Beer Revolution
Joyce Carol Oates: "The Landscape of My Spiritual Self"
"Books are Conversations": Katherine Boo & Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
"Get to the point" | Malcolm Gladwell LIVE from the NYPL
The Snow Queen: Michael Cunningham on "Books at Noon"
Report from the Interior | Paul Auster on "Books at Noon"
The Fun Parts | Sam Lipsyte on 'Books at Noon'
The Baby Boom | PJ O'Rourke on Books at Noon
The Grand Budapest Hotel: Wes Anderson LIVE from the NYPL
The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson LIVE from the NYPL
You Don't Know Nothing: Toni Morrison and Junot Díaz LIVE from the NYPL
My Life In Middlemarch: Rebecca Mead LIVE from the NYPL
The Good Lord Bird Band: James McBride LIVE from the NYPL
40 Chances: The Buffetts with Tom Brokaw LIVE from the NYPL
Undisputed Truth: Mike Tyson LIVE From the NYPL