Read Maggie Jackson's Blog!

NYSL member Maggie Jackson's blog is one you should be reading. Forbes Magazine just named it one of the Top 100 Websites for Women 2012.

Maggie is an author and journalist who posts about the balancing acts of working parents and how technology is changing the way we live and work. She is the author of the books Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age and What's Happening to Home?: Balancing Work, Life, and Refuge in the Information Age

Congratulations Maggie!

What's a Writer?

This is late notice, but definitely should be of interest to all of you:

What's a Writer?

The Coffin Factory editor Laura Isaacman in discussion with (and readings by) contributors Bonnie Nadzam, Jacques Strauss and John Reed.

Tuesday, June 12th, 6:00 - 7:30 pm
DeWitt Wallace Periodicals Room 108
The New York Public Library
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street
(Please use 5th Avenue entrance)
Admission is free.

Richard Ford and Joyce Carol Oates in Conversation

I want to give you all a gentle nudge toward a great upcoming program focused on the writing life. Our sister membership library, The Center for Fiction (in partnernship with the City University of New York), will host Richard Ford and Joyce Carol Oates, two of America's most interesting contemporary writers, in conversation about their latest books and the writing life. I'm looking forward to a fascinating discussion and an opportunity to discover how these prolific, award winning writers work. I hope I'll see you there.

Richard Ford and Joyce Carol Oates in Conversation
Wednesday June 6, 7:00 pm
Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College
899 10th Avenue (betw. 58th & 59th)


Ticket pricing for this program includes your choice of either author's latest book:
- Ticket and Richard Ford's Canada or Joyce Carol Oates's Mudwoman, $28 ($25 for members, seniors, and students)
- Ticket without book, $15
- Ticket buyers also have an option to donate an additional $5 to The Center for Fiction’s Books for NYC Schools program

For more information and to buy tickets, click here

Congratulations Nancy Goldner!

Congratulations to NYSL member Nancy Goldner who has been selected to receive the 2012 Dance Critics Association's Senior Critic Award. She will receive her award during the conference on Saturday June 23. Nancy Goldner studied at the School of American Ballet and began writing dance criticism in the late 1960s for Dance News. In addition to Dance News, she has written about dance for such publications as The Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, Saturday Review, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She is the author of More Balanchine Variations (2011), Balanchine Variations (2008) and The Stravinsky Festival of the New York City Ballet (1974). She has also lectured widely for the George Balanchine Foundation.

Jan C. Grossman's Poetry

It's National Poetry Month...

NYSL member (and leader of NYSL's own poetry writing group)
Jan C. Grossman, will be reading this coming Saturday:

Saturday, April 14, 2pm
New York Public Library
96th Street Branch






And don't miss Jan at our Library's own National Poetry Month Celebration next week, along with NYSL member poets Louis Phillips and David Yezzi.
Three Poets, Three Voices
Friday, April 20
Refreshments at 6pm, Readings at 6:30pm
Members' Room
$10 with advance registration

Maggie Jackson

NYSL member Maggie Jackson will be speaking at the Murray Hill Institute as part of the Culture and Core Beliefs Lecture series.

Maggie Jackson
From Daydreaming to Contemplation: Rediscovering Reflection in a Hurried, Overloaded Age
April 11, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00 pm
$10; Refreshments will be served
RSVP by Monday, April 9th, or call 347-213-0729 to reserve a space.

Murray Hill Institute
243 Lexington Avenue

Jay Prasad's Prisoner of Love Opening April 5

NYSL member Jay Prasad's new play Prisoner of Love premieres this week.

Prisoner of Love
April 5th-7th, 10th-14th, 17th-21st @ 8PM
Matinees on April 8th and 15th @ 2PM
45th Street Theatre
354 W. 45th St. (between 9th and 10th ave)
General Admission tickets $25
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