Join two of the UK’s most celebrated debut authors, Vanessa Onwuemezi and Thea Lenarduzzi, as they delve into interplays of language, heritage, and writing.
In an unparalleled and personal history of Berlin, writer and art critic Kirsty Bell considers the layered process of making, unmaking, and remaking lives, homes, and urban spaces.
The Library welcomes author of #You Know You’re Black in France When, Trica Keaton for a conversation about antiblackness and the politics of race in France.
In the presence of Jim Dine, Hugo Pernet, Ghazal Mosadeq, and others, discover Journal: a new, multilingual magazine stressing the urgency of poetry in conversation.
Essayist and critic Brian Dillon joins us at the Library to share his love of language.
Join Karin Roffman and Sharon Roffman for an evening of poetry, biography, and musical performance celebrating the life of American poet John Ashbery.
Composer-in-Residence and Miss America 2019, Nia Franklin, sings jazz standards, spirituals, and music of her own from her 2021 EP, Extended.
The Library is delighted to welcome authors Dimitris Lyacos and Vanessa Onwuemezi for a conversation about poetic experimentation, style, and musicality.
Grammy-nominated composer Missy Mazzoli and Pulitzer Prize-winning librettist Royce Vavrek present opera for the 21st-century.
Writer and scholar Selby Wynn Schwartz comes to the Library to discuss her Booker Prize-longlisted novel, After Sappho.
Art, advocacy, and the liberatory power of creative expression: dive into the current landscape of the arts with three of the most prominent voices of the new artistic generation.
Join us for a conversation with Writer-in-Residence Patricia Lockwood.
Friends of the Library (50€ – 249€) will receive invitations to unique, donor-only programs.
Folio Society (250€ – 1 999€) supporters will be invited to the annual Book Award ceremony, as well as donor-only programs.
Gutenberg Society (2 000€ – 9 999€) patrons will have the opportunity to host a dinner with an Evenings with an Author sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg speaker, as well as all the benefits listed above.
Ex Libris Lux Society (10 000€ and above) sponsors will be invited to an annual dinner with Ex Libris Lux donors and Library leadership, as well as all the benefits listed above. They will also be invited to an exclusive cocktail dînatoire with our Gala speaker.
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