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LIVE from the NYPL

The public library hosts months of fascinating discussions

by Josh Kurp   |   Sep 14, 2010

LIVE from the NYPL

Raja Alem, Tom McDonough, Muhammed Al Mur and Joe Sacco at last year’s LIVE from the NYPL (Photo: LIVEfromtheNYPL, via Flickr)

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Tickets for the Fall 2010 season of “LIVE from the NYPL” went on-sale yesterday. The mission of the series is to “provoke, engage, enlighten, instigate and agitate the mind,” and the library describes LIVE as “provocative conversations, real debates, irresistible performances, original ideas.” Encore describes it as a lot of cool people talking about cool things. Here’s the schedule:

Monday, September 20
Celeste Bartos Forum, 7 p.m.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer in conversation with Jeffrey Rosen and Paul Holdengräber

Wednesday, September 22
Celeste Bartos Forum, 7 p.m.
Jonathan Lethem in conversation with Paul Holdengräber

Wednesday, October 6
Celeste Bartos Forum, 7 p.m.
David Chang, Rene Redzepi and Ruth Reichl

Wednesday, October 13
Celeste Bartos Forum, 7 p.m.
David Grossman and Nicole Krauss

Monday, October 18
Celeste Bartos Forum, 8 p.m.
Steven Johnson and Kevin Kelly

Thursday, October 21
Celeste Bartos Forum, 8 p.m.
The Moth

Friday, October 22
Celeste Bartos Forum, 7 p.m.
W.S. Merwin in conversation with Paul Holdengräber

Wednesday, October 27
Celeste Bartos Forum, 7 p.m.
Angela Davis and Toni Morrison

Saturday, October 30
Symphony Space, TBD
Singing in the Dark

Thursday, November 4
South Court Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Antonia Fraser in conversation with Paul Holdengräber

Tuesday, November 9
Celeste Bartos Forum, 7 p.m.
Slavoj Zizek

Wednesday, November 10
Celeste Bartos Forum, 7 p.m.
Edwidge Danticat in conversation with Paul Holdengräber

Friday, November 12
Celeste Bartos Forum, 7 p.m.
Antonio Damasio and Marina Abramovic

Thursday, November 18
Celeste Bartos Forum, 7 p.m.
Siddhartha Mukherjee

Monday, November 22
Celeste Bartos Forum, 7 p.m.
Zadie Smith in conversation with Paul Holdengräber

Friday, December 3
Celeste Bartos Forum, 7 p.m.
Derek Walcott

Saturday, December 4
Celeste Bartos Forum, 7 p.m.
National Lampoon Revisited

Tickets can be purchased here. According to Brooklyn Vegan, more names will be announced soon, possibly including Keith Richards and Jay-Z.