Thursday 4/24 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street In an era of rapid change, the role of museums and art has never been more vital in connecting the past to the present. Laurence des Ca ...
Vicky Osterweil in conversation with Bill Gleason: "The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World"(Post)Wed 9/9 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join Vicky Osterweil in conversation with Bill Gleason around her new book The Extended Universe, a provocative history of Disney’s ...
Durba Mitra & Chandra Talpade Mohanty in conversation, facilitated by Lorgia García Peña: "The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism"(Post)Thurs 3/26 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Durba Mitra's new book explores how Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imag ...
Steven Weitzman in conversation with Leora Batnitzky: "Disasters of Biblical Proportions: The Ten Plagues Then, Now, and at the End of the World"(Post)Tues 3/17 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street People have been telling and retelling stories about disasters for as long as they have been telling stories. One of the oldest of such stor ...
Library Live at Labyrinth Presents Jack Lohmann in conversation with Brian Eugenio Herrera(Post)Thursday 3/27 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street A profound and lyrical reflection on the cyclical nature of life, what happens when we break that cycle, and how to repair it, told through th ...
"Writers on Writing: "Middles" - A Labyrinth & Library Collaboration featuring Amy Jo Burns, Anica Mrose Rissi, John Vercher, and Alexandra Villasante(Post)Thurs 7/30 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join acclaimed authors Amy Jo Burns (Wait for Me), Anica Mrose Rissi (Girl Reflected in Knife), John Vercher (Devil Is Fine), and Alexandra ...
Judith Weisenfeld in conversation with Nicole Myers Turner(Post)4/29 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street In the decades after the end of slavery, African Americans were committed to southern state mental hospitals at higher rates as white psychiatrists lis ...
Althea Ward Clark Reading by Kaitlyn Greenidge & Hisham Matar(Post)Tues 3/24 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge, a 2019-20 Princeton University Hodder Fellow, and 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hisham Matar read from their wor ...
Tania Lombrozo in conversation with Elizabeth Margulis: "Why We Ask Why: The Science of Explanation and the Human Drive to Understand"(Post)Wed 10/7 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Tania Lombrozo discusses her new book with Elizabeth Margulis. Why We Ask Why is an insightful look at the science of explanation, using psyc ...
Robert G. Parkinson: "Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence"(Post)Tues 6/30 @ 7:00PMRobertson Hall 100 (Arthur Lewis Auditorium), Princeton University A dramatic, untold “people’s history” of the storied event that helped trigger the American Rev ...
Curtis Dozier: "The White Pedestal"- A Library & Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Mon 3/23 @ 6:00PMPrinceton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street The classicist and author presents his book The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece a ...
Twenty years of Harry Frankfurt’s "On Bullshit"(Post)Thurs 10/30 @ 5:00PMPrinceton University Press, 41 William Street With Jaime Fernández Fisac, Elizabeth Harman, and Gideon Rosen, moderated by Joe Schmid The world has changed dramatical ...
Radha Lin Chaddah in Conversation with Amy Jo Burns: A Princeton Public Library Book Brunch Event(Post)Sun 2/8 @ 11:00AMThe Princeton Public Library The author presents and discusses her novel And the Ancestors Sing. Doors open at 10:45 a.m. for coffee & pastri ...
Matthew Quick in conversation with Amy Jo Burns: A Library & Labyrinth Collaboration -- "Dad, Love, Me: A Memoir"(Post)Tues 7/21 @ 6:00PMThe Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street Matthew Quick, bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, discusses his recently published memoir Dad, Love, Me with A ...
Edward Tenner: "Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences," A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Wednesday 6/4 @ 7:00pm Princeton Public Library Essays by international bestselling author Edward Tenner that explore the surprises of human ingenuity How did the addition of lifeboats after the Tita ...
Daniel Mendelsohn in conversation with Yelena Baraz - A New Translation of The Odyssey(Post)Thursday 4/17 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Join us as celebrated author, critic, classicist, and translator Daniel Mendelsohn discusses his new translation of The Od ...
Paige Allen and Stacy Wolf in conversation with Jill Dolan: "Feminist Approaches in Musical Theatre(Post)Tues 12/2 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join us as we celebrate the release of Stacy Wolf and Paige Allen's new book Feminist Approaches in Musical Theatre. The authors' conversation wi ...
Cynthia McVay in conversation with Mimi Schwartz: "A Field of My Own: A Memoir of Place"(Post)Sunday 6/22 @ 2:00PM Labyrinth Books Join us as Cyntha McVay presents her book A Field of My Own: A Memoir of Place. A lifelong creative and environmentalist, McVay chronicles her intimate, two-decad ...
Lisa Gardner in Conversation with Amy Jo Burns A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration -- SUN 1/12 at 11 AM @ PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY(Post)Sunday 1/12 at 11:00am @ Princeton Public Library Princeton Public Library hosts Lisa Gardner in conversation with Amy Jo Burns to discuss her latest novel Still See You Everywhere at this tick ...
What’s So Great About “The Great Gatsby”?(Post)Monday 4/28 @ 4:30PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Free registration required. Register here. Featuring The Great Gatsby scholars Maureen Corrigan, Anne Margaret Daniel, and Kirk Curnutt, a ...