Past Library Lunch Programs
2024 | Food for Thought | Fuchsia Dunlop David Prior Jamila Robinson |
David Remnick (moderator) |
2023 | Write of Passage | Tayari Jones Ocean Vuong Tara Westover |
David Remnick (moderator) |
2022 | Back Onstage: Inspiration and Creativity | Isabella Boylston André De Shields Tony Kushner |
David Remnick (moderator) |
2021 | Long Story Short | Nicole Krauss Zadie Smith Elizabeth Strout |
David Remnick (moderator) |
2019 | Historically Speaking | Jennifer Egan Min Jin Lee Colm Tóibín |
David Remnick (moderator) |
2018 | The Art of the Memoir | Elizabeth Alexander Daniel Mendelsohn |
David Remnick (moderator) |
2017 | Lunch Poems | Robert Pinsky Jorie Graham Kevin Young |
Paul Muldoon |
2016 | A New York State of Mind |
Hilton Als
Samantha Bee
Adam Gopnik
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2015 | Writing Funny | Andy Borowitz Colin Jost Susanna Wolff |
David Remnick (moderator) |
2014 | A Sense of Place | Jeffrey Eugenides Zadie Smith |
David Remnick (moderator) |
2013 | A Conversation on the Classics | Rebecca Mead Gary Shteyngart |
David Remnick (moderator) |
2012 | The Making of the Making of a President: Politics as Art | John Heilemann, Danny Strong | Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. |
2011 |
New York Then and Now:1911-2011 |
Nora Ephron |
Hermione Lee |
2010 | All Eyes on Her: The Queen Mother and the 20th Century | William Shawcross | Amanda Foreman (interviewer) |
2009 | Not For Children Only | Mary Ann Hoberman Salman Rushdie |
Chris Van Allsburg Adam Gopnik (moderator) |
2008 | A Funny Thing Happened at the Library | Jenny Allen Andy Borowitz Ian Frazier |
Fran Lebowitz Calvin Trillin David Remnick (moderator) |
2007 | The French Connection | Adam Gopnik Simon Schama |
Caroline Weber Joan Juliet Buck (moderator) |
2006 | Memoir: Truth? Consequences? | Mary Karr Frank McCourt Robert MacNeil (moderator) |
J.R. Moehringer Jeannette Walls |
2005 | Starting Over, Glancing Back: The Immigrant Experience in Literature | Gish Jen Jhumpa Lahiri |
Gary Shteyngart Dick Cavett (moderator) |
2004 | Love, Lust and Literature | Michael Cunningham Azar Nafisi |
Shirley Hazzard Jonathan Galassi |
2003 | My Country 'tis of Thee: Defining American Identity | Joan Juliet Buck Chuck Close Lee Cullum |
Russell Simmons Harold Evans (moderator) |
2002 | America: What's Next? | Michael Beschloss Jamaica Kincaid Jim Hoagland |
Nicholas Lemann Jim Lehrer (moderator) |
2001 | The New Money: A Cultural Transformation | Barbara Taylor Bradford Ron Chernow James B. Stewart |
Wendy Wasserstein Paula Zahn (moderator) |
2000 | Celebrity: Our Cultural Obsession | Marie Brenner Dominick Dunne Neal Gabler |
Walter Isaacson Diane Sawyer (moderator) |
1999 | Millennium: The Search for Meaning | Thomas Cahill Peter John Gomes Francine du Plessix Gray |
Burton Visotzky Charles Osgood (moderator) |
1998 | What's Cooking? Food in Life and Literature | Isabel Allende Ruth Reichl Calvin Trillin |
Alice Waters Sally Quinn (moderator) |
1997 | Why Jane Austen? Why Now? The Classics Return | Russell Baker David Denby Ismail Merchant |
Daphne Merkin Roger Rosenblatt (moderator) |
1996 | New York, New York | Ken Auletta E.L. Doctorow Dominick Dunne |
Kitty Carlisle Hart Harold Evans (moderator) |
1995 | America the Courtroom | Floyd Abrams Linda Fairstein Terry Moran |
Jeffrey Toobin Charles R. Nesson (moderator) |
1994 | The Play's the Thing | Tony Kushner Terrence McNally Wendy Wasserstein |
August Wilson A. R. Gurney (moderator) |
1993 | The First 85 Days: The Changing of the Guard | Tom Brokaw Tom Wicker Gary Wills |
Judy Woodruff Charlie Rose (moderator) |
1992 | Two Sexes Separated By a Common Language | Erica Jong Robert MacNeil Sally Quinn |
Roger Rosenblatt Liz Smith (moderator) |
1991 | Can You Believe Everything You Read? | Don Hewitt Hugh Sidey |
Doris Kearns Goodwin Kati Marton James Hoge (moderator) |
1990 | Censored: Writers Under Attack | Judy Blume Kitty Kelley Gay Talese |
Bob Woodward Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. (moderator) |
1989 | Intimate Relations: Writers Reflect on Their Parents | Haywood Hale Broun Susan Cheever Jonathan Schwartz |
Sara Lawrence Lightfoot Robert MacNeil (moderator) |
1988 | Funny Bone in the Politic | Roy Blount, Jr. Tom Brokaw Pat Oliphant |
Mark Shields Liz Smith (moderator) |
1986 | American Perspectives: A Discussion of Where We Came From/Where We Are | Rita Mae Brown James Carroll Pat Conroy |
J. Anthony Lukas Cynthia Ozick Donna Shalala (moderator) |
1985 | High Crimes and Misdemeanors | Shana Alexander Mary Higgins Clark Tony Hillerman |
Gregory McDonald Robert Parker Calvin Trillin (moderator) |
1984 | Other People's Lives: The Look at the World of Biography | Robert Caro Robert Massie Nancy Milford |
Paul Nagel David McCullogh (moderator) |
1983 | Books Into Reels: The Author's Experience | E.L. Doctorow Judith Rossner |
William Styron Brendan Gill (moderator) |
1982 | Laugh at the Library | Russell Baker Peter DeVries Nora Ephron |
Fran Lebowitz Thomas Meehan Calvin Trillin (moderator) |
1981 | Two Countries Separated By a Common Language | David B. Guralnik Rosemary Harris Alan Pryce-Jones |
Samuel S. Vaughn William F. Buckley, Jr |