Join LIVE from the NYPL: Risk Takers: National Geographic and the New Age of Exploration with Lynsey Addario, Dr. Kenny Broad, James Nachtwey, and Dr. Zoltan Takacs (featured above) Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 7 p.m!

Scientist-adventurer and National Geographic Emerging Explorer Dr. Zoltan Takacs develops drug leads from the world’s most dangerous venomous animals. He is the co-inventor of the Designer Toxin technology, which produces millions of toxin variants and selects the ones (drug leads) that specifically bind to a target that determine the outcome of a disease. Dr. Takacs holds a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Columbia University and has been a researcher at Rockefeller, Columbia, and Yale Universities. He served as an Earth Institute Fellow at Columbia, where he established and co-taught the school’s first Herpetology course. Dr. Takacs’s expertise as an aircraft pilot and scuba diver are essential to his field work, which aims to extract venom and DNA samples from venomous animals living in the most remote habitats on Earth. Some noteworthy adventures include a jailing in the Balkans while working with vipers in military zones and a rescue by helicopter from civil war in Laos while searching for King cobras. Zoltan is the survivor of a number of snake bites, for all of which he faults himself. Zoltan’s research has been featured multiple times in the National Geographic Magazine, the National Geographic Channel, and PBS/NOVA.

In celebration of National Geographic’s 125th anniversary theme, The New Age of Exploration, photographers and explorers reveal the physical, personal, and political perils involved in pushing the boundaries of discovery and bearing witness. The evening will start with presentations from Dr. Kenny Broad, cave diver, environmental anthropologist, and National Geographic Explorer who searches for new freshwater reserves; and National Geographic Emerging Explorer Dr. Zoltan Takacs, a herpetologist/toxinologist who studies the healing potential of toxic venoms. A moderated discussion will follow about the risks of documenting war, conflict, and human rights issues with award-winning National Geographic photojournalists Lynsey Addario and James Nachtwey. Presented by RBC.

Check out this article on Liao Yiwu who will be appearing LIVE from the NYPL Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 7p.m!

Check out all of William Gibson’s works at http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/

He’ll be Live with the NYPL April 19!

Our April 22 guest André Aciman’s work “Harvard Square” is on the New Yorker’s list of April books to look out for!

UPDATED April LIVE from the NYPL Schedule
Make sure to purchase your tickets before it’s too late, don’t miss out!

WILLIAM GIBSON
FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2013, 7 P.M.

William Gibson is the author of ten books, including, most recently, the New York Times-bestselling trilogy Zero History, Spook Country and Pattern Recognition. Gibson’s 1984 debut novel, Neuromancer, was the first novel to win the three top science fiction prizes—the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. Gibson is credited with coining the term “cyberspace” in his short story “Burning Chrome,” and with popularizing the concept of the Internet while it was still largely unknown. He is also a co-author of the novel The Difference Engine, written with Bruce Sterling.

The Costs of Assimilation: André Aciman & Nicole Krauss
MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013, 7 P.M.

What are the costs of assimilation into American society? And what happens when we become someone other than the person we thought we would be? In his new novel, Harvard Square, André Aciman explores these and other questions in a tale of friendship between a Jewish student and an Arab cab driver, set amid the bars and cafés of late 1970s Cambridge. Aciman is joined in conversation by novelist Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love  to talk about themes that haunt them both: identity, exile, fiction, and memory.

JUNOT DÍAZ
TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013, 7 P.M.

2012 MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz joins Paul Holdengräber onstage to discuss multiculturalism, family, love, and the immigrant experience - prominent themes in the author’s works. Díaz’s first book, the short story collection Drown, established him as a writer with “the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet” (Newsweek). His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, established him as a bestseller and earned critical acclaim; Wao was named #1 Fiction Book of the Year” by Time magazine and spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. In his new book, This Is How You Lose Her, Díaz again offers a collection of short stories, all deeply concerned with love – obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love.

“If I lived in [New York City], I’d probably write about unicorns.”
–William Gibson, interviewed by Larry McCaffery in Across The Wounded Galaxies (1990)

Music enthusiasts, don’t miss out! New York Public Library’s Library of Performing Art presents

Rhapsodic City: Music of New York

The six week music love affair will start TONIGHT, March 20th at 6 p.m. with the 30th anniversary of Style Wars. It will be followed by a panel discussion with film maker Henry Chalfant, sculptor/painter Carlos “Mare139” Rodriguez, and moderated by painter/DJ iona rozeal brown.

On March 27th at 6 p.m., music icons Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie join Will Hermes, senior critic of Rolling Stone and author of Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever for a discussion of the style and sound of the New York Music scene in the 1970s.

Click HERE for a full schedule

Sandra Day O’Connor in Conversation with Madeleine Albright
Thursday, March 28, 2013
7 p.m.
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

This just in! Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will join retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in conversation at LIVE from the NYPL on March 28. The event celebrating Justice O’Connor’s new book, Out Of Order, has been sold out for weeks but we’ve just released a few more tickets to this exciting program.