LIVE from the NYPL is a series created by Director of Public Programs, Paul Holdengraber. The mission is to create cognitive theater and provide a platform for the kinds of provocative conversations, debates and interviews that "agitate the mind" . LIVE from the NYPL has welcomed some of the world's most influential thinkers, leaders, authors, historians, artists, and politicians including Salman Rushdie, Günter Grass & Norman Mailer, Bill Clinton & John Hope Franklin, Zadie Smith, Spike Lee, Lou Reed, Wes Anderson, Ryan Adams, Toni Morrison, Barbara Kingsolver, Frank Gehry, Jhumpa Lahiri, Queen Noor, Mary-Louise Parker, Ira Glass, Etgar Keret, Werner Herzog and many others.
For more information on the past seasons as well as information on the upcoming season, please visit us as www.nypl.org/LIVE.