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Getting ready for another day on the seesaw...
Work-life balance? More like work-kid-writing-volunteering-more writing-family stuff-friends-commuting -- oh, you get the idea!

#vintage Kate Greenaway print from the NYPL Digital Collections.
#momlife #writerslife #mysterywriter
September 30, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Digital libraries over the years have tried to solve this in a bunch of ways, and I go into that in the blog post above.

I also tell a fun little memory lane story from during my time in NYPL Labs of how we tried to come up with generative ebook covers for a large corpus of public domain works.
September 30, 2026 at 2:18 AM
“Writing is something that happens to us without us knowing.”

Elizabeth Alexander in conversation with Hilton Als at the NYPL
September 30, 2026 at 12:40 AM
...and that's exactly the same expression the Professor has when he has to let me drive.

#vintage poster from the NYPL Digital Collections.
#momlife #writerslife #givemethekeys
September 29, 2026 at 9:08 PM
This week we are celebrating Pura Belpré for Hispanic Heritage Month! 🌸🥳

Sources: NYPL, “Pura Belpré: The Library Storyteller”; NYC Public Schools, “Pura Belpré: The Librarian Who Brought Puerto Rican Folktales to Life.”

#HispanicHeritageMonth #Elin #UConn #Inspire
September 29, 2026 at 6:53 PM
The robber barons who scared the earth and built their empires on the blood of thousands would *at least* pretend they cared about “the public” (the NYPL, for example, was funded with their money, as were various museums).
September 29, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Went to see the Martha Graham exhibition at the NYPL branch in Lincoln Center. I'm not a dancer but I was blown away. There is a great deal to take in if you read it all. Highly recommended.
September 29, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Wouldn't this have been great to see?

Madeline Kahn & Ed Asner in a revival of Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday
📷 Martha Swope, 1989
NYPL digital collection
September 29, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Just watching the tide go out on September...

#vintage poster from the NYPL Digital Collections.
#septembervibes #writerslife #fallvibes
September 29, 2026 at 10:27 AM
📸 PAPARAZZI: FRANCIS MARTIN LIBRARY, NYPL

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September 28, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Trust Kate Greenaway to make chilly fall nights look pretty!

#vintage print from the NYPL Digital Collections.
#fallvibes #autumnvibes #writerslife
September 28, 2026 at 9:03 PM
The NYPL is an exception that proves the rule imo
September 28, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Once had a surprisingly good first date at NYPL main branch + the nearby actual branch.
September 28, 2026 at 4:15 PM
My latest read. It’s a history of neoliberalism economic theory back to post WWI. The founders believed that free trade was the ultimate need, more important than democracy or human rights. Free trade also needed international enforcement mechanisms. Thanks NY Public Library #booksky #NYPL
September 28, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Don't forget! Join us tomorrow with the NYPL to learn about the wide array of resources to support geographic scholarship, including research facilities, archives, and fellowship programs. The webinar will finish with a preview of sessions the NYPL will host at #AAG2027.

Register: buff.ly/129KKap
September 28, 2026 at 1:02 PM
An NYPL event gave Benjamin Moser a platform to promote anti-Zionist claims comparing Israel to a dog shelter, with limited challenge and supportive questioning.
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September 28, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Yovel on the Dreyfus Affair in Law and Literature
Jonathan Yovel, University of Haifa Faculty of Law, has The Dreyfus Affair: A Law and Literature Account of a Law and Literature Affair, which appears in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities: Alfred Dreyfus (NYPL)  How does law become public? What happens to it when it does? A note fished from a wastebasket, forged evidence, a secret court-martial, public humiliation and a republic stressed to its limits: in 1894–95 France convicted and degraded Captain Alfred Dreyfus for treason he did not commit. Within years the Dreyfus Affair had engulfed France, reshaping politics and giving rise to a new public sphere. It was fought in courts and offices as much as in newspapers, pamphlets, periodicals, open letters, and even real-time feature film. This article reads L'Affaire as a "law and literature event," a real-time contest over meaning and performance in which novelists and essayists pleaded, lawyers turned authors, and legal performances spilled into the streets and back into a series of courts. Treating law and literature as a phenomenon, not only a method, unsettles the divide between "law in" and "law as" literature. Through discourse analysis drawing on Bakhtin, Perelman, and Barthes, it examines Labori's carnivalesque pleading, Zola's address casting the jurors as protagonists, Lazare's forensic pamphlets, Proust's studied distance, Méliès's 1899 docudrama, and the anti-Dreyfusard Barrès' emphatic report from Dreyfus' Rennes trial, whose rhetoric of names, race, and a fictive "everyone" is a rhetorical masterpiece expressing the later "friend-enemy" foundation of Schmittian political theory. It traces how material, technological, and legal conditions shaped the construction of a mass public sphere and the ways law and legal discourse interacted within it, constructing audienceship and modes of expression and participation.  "L'Affaire" means different things to different people. It is a story of shame and of the nascent political culture that would ravage Europe, but also of courage, struggle and redemption. The paper follows L'Affaire past Dreyfus's 1906 rehabilitation into a darker, second-generation sequel: the son of his accuser, du Paty de Clam, became Vichy's Commissioner-General for Jewish Affairs, while Dreyfus's granddaughter, a Resistance member, perished in Auschwitz. Vichy and Dreyfus's 2025 posthumous promotion each offer a chapter in an ongoing legal story, or stories: the article argues that "L'Affaire" has become a plurality of stories told to and by fractured audiences to this very day. --Dan Ernst
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September 28, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Yovel on the Dreyfus Affair in Law and Literature
**Jonathan Yovel, University of Haifa Faculty of Law,** has The Dreyfus Affair: A Law and Literature Account of a Law and Literature Affair, which appears in the _Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities_: > --- > Alfred Dreyfus (NYPL) > How does law become public? What happens to it when it does? > > A note fished from a wastebasket, forged evidence, a secret court-martial, public humiliation and a republic stressed to its limits: in 1894–95 France convicted and degraded Captain Alfred Dreyfus for treason he did not commit. Within years the Dreyfus Affair had engulfed France, reshaping politics and giving rise to a new public sphere. It was fought in courts and offices as much as in newspapers, pamphlets, periodicals, open letters, and even real-time feature film. > This article reads _L'Affaire_ as a "law and literature event," a real-time contest over meaning and performance in which novelists and essayists pleaded, lawyers turned authors, and legal performances spilled into the streets and back into a series of courts. Treating law and literature as a phenomenon, not only a method, unsettles the divide between "law in" and "law as" literature. > > Through discourse analysis drawing on Bakhtin, Perelman, and Barthes, it examines Labori's carnivalesque pleading, Zola's address casting the jurors as protagonists, Lazare's forensic pamphlets, Proust's studied distance, Méliès's 1899 docudrama, and the anti-Dreyfusard Barrès' emphatic report from Dreyfus' Rennes trial, whose rhetoric of names, race, and a fictive "everyone" is a rhetorical masterpiece expressing the later "friend-enemy" foundation of Schmittian political theory. It traces how material, technological, and legal conditions shaped the construction of a mass public sphere and the ways law and legal discourse interacted within it, constructing audienceship and modes of expression and participation. > > "_L'Affaire_ " means different things to different people. It is a story of shame and of the nascent political culture that would ravage Europe, but also of courage, struggle and redemption. The paper follows _L'Affaire_ past Dreyfus's 1906 rehabilitation into a darker, second-generation sequel: the son of his accuser, du Paty de Clam, became Vichy's Commissioner-General for Jewish Affairs, while Dreyfus's granddaughter, a Resistance member, perished in Auschwitz. Vichy and Dreyfus's 2025 posthumous promotion each offer a chapter in an ongoing legal story, or stories: the article argues that "_L'Affaire_ " has become a plurality of stories told to and by fractured audiences to this very day. --Dan Ernst
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September 28, 2026 at 1:54 PM
A beautiful way to send the weekend into the sunset!

#vintage postcard from the NYPL Digital Collections.
#sunsetvibes #vintagepostcard #writerslife
September 27, 2026 at 8:56 PM
This is fantastic! Would have been so great if they had this when the Met put on the Malcolm X opera.

The NYPL should also have day passes or something for Met Opera on Demand or The Met:Live at Home. #accessibility

#Opera #OperaIsForEveryone
Never been to the opera before?
Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
September 27, 2026 at 7:44 PM
There's a city council hearing tomorrow (Monday) at 11 am at the Schomburg focused on the city's research libraries. I only heard about this on Friday so cannot attend. I think the public can submit written testimony: www.eventbrite.com/e/show-your-...
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September 27, 2026 at 5:01 PM
OMG - Canadian actress Sheila McCarthy plays a librarian in the NYPL reading room in this movie!
September 27, 2026 at 1:13 AM
📸 PAPARAZZI: HUNTS POINT LIBRARY, NYPL

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September 26, 2026 at 9:56 PM
The fellas are looking sharp for the late game on Sharp-Dressed Saturday Night!

#vintage print from the NYPL Digital Collections.
#sharpdressedman #fallfashions #vintagestyle #vintagefashion #histfic #historicalmystery #historicalromance
September 26, 2026 at 9:03 PM