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 ...
Eduardo Cadava and Sara Nadal-Melsio in conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore(Post)
Thursday 3/6 at 6:00PM
Labyrinth Books
122 Nassau Street
How reading and writing are collective acts of political pedagogy, and why the struggle for change must begin at the level of the sen ...
Dylan Gottlieb in conversation with Kevin Kruse: "Yuppies" - A Labyrinth & Library Collaboration(Post)
Thurs 5/14 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street
Dylan Gottlieb is joined in conversation with Kevin Kruse to discuss Dylan’s new book. From Harvard University Press, Yuppies: The B ...
Laurie Woolever in Conversation with Daria Lavelle: A Princeton Public Library Book Brunch Event(Post)
Sun 4/12 @ 11:00 AMPrinceton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street
Noted food writer Laurie Woolever discusses Care and Feeding, her candid memoir of making her way through the culinary world wh ...
Emily Nemens in conversation with Jack Livings: "Clutch: A Novel" - A Labyrinth & Library Collaboration(Post)
Tues 3/3 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Emily Nemens’s new novel Clutch follows a group of five friends as they navigate the biggest challenges of their lives, asking how much ...
Merlin Holland Lectures on “After Oscar: Wilde between the li(n)es”(Post)
Fri 4/10 @ 4:30PMJames Stewart Film Theatre, 185 Nassau Street
Biographer and editor Merlin Holland, the only grandson of Oscar Wilde, gives a lecture entitled “After Oscar: Wilde between t ...
The C. K. Williams Reading Series presents Maya Marshall and Student Readers(Post)
Tues 10/28 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
The C.K. Williams Reading Series, named in honor of the late Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet C.K. Williams, who served on Pr ...
Jazmina Barrera in conversation with Megan McDowell: "The Queen of Swords: A journey through the Princeton Archives of Elena Garro"(Post)
Wed 11/12 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
The Queen of Swords Tour: Jazmina Barrera and Megan McDowell on Elena GarroAuthor Jazmina Barrera, on tour from Mexico City, and translator Megan ...
On Journalism and Scholarship: Kevin Sack in conversation with Avram Alpert about Mother Emanuel: "Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church"(Post)
Tues 4/21 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Kevin Sack, Mother Emanuel is a sweeping history of one of the nation’s most important African ...
Cortney Lamar Charleston in conversation with Patricia Smith: "It’s Important I Remember: Poems"(Post)
Thurs 4/16 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Cortney Lamar Charleston is joined by Patricia Smith to discuss his new collection of poems from Northwestern University Press.
“History d ...
Morten Høi Jensen in conversation with Florian Fuchs: "The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of 'The Magic Mountain'" (Post)
Thurs 10/23 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Join us for a discussion on the arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain while a defeated Germany descended into politi ...
A Labyrinth and Library Collaboration: "Writers on Writing: Beginnings" featuring Amy Jo Burns, Anna-Marie McLemore, Dexter Palmer, & Anica Mrose Rissi(Post)
Thurs 4/28 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Join acclaimed authors Amy Jo Burns (Wait for Me), Anna-Marie McLemore (We Could Be Anyone), Dexter Palmer (Version Control), and Anica Mro ...
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 ...
Allison Carruth in conversation with Eliza Griswold Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech(Post)
Tuesday 3/4 at 6:00pm
Labyrinth Books
122 Nassau Street
Tracing the convergence of ecology and engineering over the last three decades, Novel Ecologies pinpoints a new environmental p ...
Maria Pinto: "Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival"(Post)
Thurs 2/19 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street
Maria Pinto’s debut book is a beautiful examination of nature and human connection.
Naturalist, forager, and educator Maria Pinto off ...
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 ...
Joseph Fronczak in conversation with Shiri Pasternak: "The Five Ages of Antifascism"(Post)
Weds 4/15 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Joseph Fronczak, research scholar at Princeton University’s Department of History, is joined in conversation with Shiri Pasternak about his ...
The Althea Ward Clark Reading Series Presents: Marilyn Hacker & Ayana Mathis(Post)
Tuesday 3/18 at 6:00PM
Labyrinth Books
122 Nassau Street
Bestselling authors Marilyn Hacker and Ayana Mathis read from their recent work as a part of the 2024-25 Althea Ward Clark W&r ...
Save the MJL presents: A Poetry Reading & Conversation with Paul Muldoon(Post)
Tuesday 5/13 @ 5:00PM
The Present Day Club
72 Stockton Street, Princeton
A Poetry Reading and Conversation to protect the future of the Mary Jacobs Library
This is a ticketed event. Tickets available ...
