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The Future of New York

Tuesday, Dec 8, 2020

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Tue. Dec 8, 2020 8:00pm – 9:00pm EST

The New York Public Library Robert B. Silvers Lecture — at the close of one of the city's most challenging years, contributors to The New York Review of Books look toward a future of resilience and renewal for New York.

Two enduring city institutions, The New York Public Library and The New York Review of Books, join forces for an evening of conversation grounded in the ideas of possibility and promise. Get free online tickets for the Robert B. Silvers Lecture: the Future of New York

At the close of one of the city's most challenging years, contributors to The New York Review of Books look toward a future of resilience and renewal for New York.

FEATURING

• Molly Crabapple
• Deborah Eisenberg
• Michael Greenberg
• Hari Kunzru
• Jana Prikryl

Two enduring city institutions, The New York Public Library and The New York Review of Books, join forces for an evening of conversation grounded in the ideas of possibility and promise. Regular NYRB contributors—fellow New Yorkers all—gather to discuss their reasons for optimism about what lies ahead and to speculate on how New York will come back from its setbacks in 2020. While there is no shortage of uncertainty surrounding 2021, there is always room for hope.

The Robert B. Silvers Lecture is an annual series created by Max Palevsky in recognition of the work of Robert B. Silvers, who was a co-founding editor of The New York Review of Books. LIVE from NYPL is made possible by the support of Library patrons and friends, as well as by the continuing generosity of Celeste Bartos, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos, and the Margaret and Herman Sokol Public Education Endowment Fund.