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    • Cory Doctorow Discusses Ensh*ttification with Lina M. Khan

    Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library, Dweck Center 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, NY, United States

    BPL Presents welcomes Cory Doctorow, to discuss Ensh*ttification, which argues that “it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can fix—or disensh*ttify—it.” Doctorow will be in conversation with Lina M. Khan. When Cory Doctorow coined the term ensh*ttification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are […]

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    Brian Jones Discusses Black History Is for Everyone with Jamaal Bowman

    Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library, Dweck Center 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, NY, United States

    BPL Presents welcomes Brian Jones, a longtime educator whose Black History Is For Everyone explores how the study of Black history challenges our understanding of race, nation, and the stories we tell about who we are. Jones will be in conversation with Jamaal Bowman. Black history is under attack from powerful forces that seek to […]

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    Unscripted: A Night Against Censorship, Featuring George Takei

    Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library, Dweck Center 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, NY, United States

    Brooklyn Public Library welcomes George Takei to Central Library's Grand Lobby for a conversation about the transformative power of books and the dangerous trend of censorship. The event is free and open to the public. A pioneering author, actor and activist, George Takei is the honorary chair of Banned Books Week 2025. This annual nationwide event highlights […]

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    • Author Talk: Katie Kitamura Discusses Audition

    Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library, Dweck Center 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, NY, United States

    Join BPL Presents as Katie Kitamura takes the Dweck stage to discuss Audition, an exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love. Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young—young enough […]

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    • Music: Classical Interludes: Orchestra of St. Luke’s: The Music of Chen Yi

    Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library, Dweck Center 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, NY, United States

    Discover the remarkable music of Chen Yi, a celebrated Chinese-American composer whose work connects cultures and tells stories that resonate around the world. This special program brings Chen Yi’s music to life offering an experience that blends tradition, inspiration, and creativity. Born in China and thriving as an artist in the United States, Chen Yi combines […]

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    Poetry Café of the National Black Writers Conference

    Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library, Dweck Center 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, NY, United States

    As part of Brooklyn Public Library's longtime partnership with National Black Writers Conference, the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College co-presents an annual poetry café featuring four amazing poets: Angela Du, Kaiyah Ellison, Bonafide Rojas, and Zora Satchel. Participants Angela Du is a young poet, actress, and model. Angela grew up in the […]

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    • Author Talk: Amitava Kumar Discusses My Beloved Life with Katie Kitamura

    Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library, Dweck Center 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, NY, United States

    An absorbing, exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man’s life, an ordinary life made exceptional by the fact that he has loved and has been loved in turn. Jadunath Kunwar’s beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. In 1935 in a village near George Orwell’s birthplace, Jadu’s mother, while pregnant with him, nearly dies […]

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    • Teaching Lenape History & Presence in New York City Schools

    Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library, Dweck Center 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, NY, United States

    The Brooklyn Public Library, in collaboration with the Lenape Center, presents a talk to introduce and discuss a new Lenape curriculum developed for PK-12 students. This curriculum aims to bring Indigenous history to life and address the often overlooked narrative of the Lenape people in New York City. The talk features key contributors to the […]

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