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    The New Rap Language: How Musicians Continue to Transform the Spoken Word

    NYPL Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) New York Public Library 455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States
    Hybrid Event

    Groundbreaking musicians Audry Funk, Bartika Eam Rai, and Felukah sit down with renowned journalist Jessica Lipksy to discuss using their native and adopted languages to shape their unique styles, and how their artistry speaks to issues important to them. The discussion will be followed by short performances from each artist demonstrating their special techniques. Jessica […]

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    Author Talk: Vicky Nguyen with Tracey Nguyen Mang: Boat Baby—A Memoir

    NYPL Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) New York Public Library 455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    ​NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen joins us for a conversation about Boat Baby, her new memoir that tells the story of her family’s daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to reporter, with Tracey Nguyen Mang of podcast and non-profit Vietnamese Boat People. Starting in 1975, Vietnam’s “boat people”—desperate families seeking […]

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    New Voices of the Bengali Diaspora: Poetry Reading and Discussion

    Parkchester Library of the NYPL New York Public Library 1985 Westchester Ave, Bronx, NY, United States
    Hybrid Event

    Join the New York Public Library for a celebration of Poetry and the Bengali Diaspora in New York City! This is a hybrid event. This panel will be bringing together contemporary poets of the Bengali diaspora: Ashna Ali and Amatan Noor. These writers will read excerpts of their work, followed by a conversation about identity […]

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    Asian American Authors in Conversation – The Chinatown Beatdown: The Facts and the Fictions

    Chatham Square Library 33 East Broadway, New York, NY

    Please join acclaimed author Henry Chang and our staff as we discuss his Chinatown detective/crime novel series (that started with Chinatown Beat) in the context of two recent non-fiction works on New York's Chinatown gangs and the NYPD--Peter Chin's In the Ghost Shadows and Mike Moy's Bad to Blue.

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    Author Talk with Pornsak Pichetshote, J. Holtham, Michael Lee Harris and Michael Walsh (The Horizon Experiment)

    Zoom
    Virtual Event

    Join us in a discussion with the creative team behind the critically acclaimed comic anthology, The Horizon Experiment,  a collection of five one-shots by some of the most celebrated names in comics, literature, TV, and film, providing pilots for new series featuring a Chinese James Bond, a Muslim exorcist, a reverse Indiana Jones, East African werewolves living in […]

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    • Understanding AI with Data & Society | The Environmental Costs of AI Are Surging—What Now? (Hybrid)

    NYPL Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) New York Public Library 455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States
    Hybrid Event

    Researcher Tamara Kneese speaks with environmental justice researcher Sanjana Paul and critical social scientist Jasmine McNealy about the environmental toll AI development is taking on local water supplies, energy systems, and communities around the world. This event will take place online and in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor Artificial […]

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    • Exhibit: Niyū Yūrk: Middle Eastern and North African Lives in the City

    NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 42nd Street & 5th Avenue New York, NY 10018 42nd Street & 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    The first-ever exhibition at The New York Public Library to explore the history of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) immigration to NYC, Niyū Yūrk highlights how the city has shaped the […]

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    Monday Night Movies: From Spikes to Spindles (1976)

    Jefferson Market Library (NYPL) New York Public Library 425 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, United States

    From Spikes to Spindles (1976; 46 minutes). Director: Christine Choy. Producer: Third World Newsreel. A portrait of lower Manhattan Chinatown in the mid-1970s. Sparked by the mobilization of Asian American New […]

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    Author Talk: Gish Jen with Weike Wang: Bad Bad Girl (Hybrid)

    NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
    Hybrid Event

    The acclaimed novelist mines her own family history for an intimate story of mothers, daughters, and the wounds that echo across generations. Gish Jen’s latest novel, Bad Bad Girl, began as a memoir of her late mother, Loo Shu-hsin, before evolving into a fictionalized portrait of their turbulent mother-daughter relationship. As a child Shu-hsin learns how […]

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    Maps That Speak: Asia, the Pacific, and Hawai’i with Jo-Ann Wong

    NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building – Lenox & Astor Room, 216 Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street, New York, NY

    A Map Division specialist highlights how cartography reveals histories, perspectives, and legacies that are often overlooked in traditional narratives. The Library’s Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one […]

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    Author Talk: Tim Wu with Lina Khan: The Age of Extraction (Hybrid)

    NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 42nd Street & 5th Avenue New York, NY 10018 42nd Street & 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States
    Hybrid Event

    The legal scholar and former White House official examines how today’s tech giants extract wealth from ordinary citizens and deepen America’s class divide. Pre-order your copy of The Age of Extraction and […]

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