Aidan

"Ignorance is expensive." —Octavia E. Butler
@nypl @LIVEfromNYPL

[Aidan @flaxclark]

Accidentally read this headline from @Annaleen as Liberaces Can Help End the Culture Wars and now imagining an army of bewigged Michael Douglases squaring off against Moms4Liberty. https://t.co/2NAcxyelEI

[Aidan @flaxclark]

Smoking black-market Parliaments inside the office, hearing old gossip about the Kennedys and Winston Churchill, attending editing school from one of the absolute best—anyone who worked for Lewis knows what a singular experience it was.

[Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquart]

Lewis H. Lapham, the founder of Lapham’s Quarterly and one of the great American essayists, journalists, and editors, died in Italy during the night of July 23-24. He was eighty-nine.
https://t.co/5KdhjiFnpg

[Aidan @flaxclark]

96% of parents feel safe with their kids in libraries.

78% of all Americans have said they trust libraries and librarians.

Show me anything else in this country more people agree on. #NoCutsToLibraries

[Aidan @flaxclark]

I can't believe it: another year and we still have to tell @NYCMayor and @NYCCouncil #NoCutsToLibraries!

$58.3 million in proposed cuts

Most branches in ALL OF NEW YORK CITY open only 5 days a week

That's the best we can do in "the greatest city on the globe" Mayor Adams?

[Hiba Abid هبة عبيد @Hiba_3abid]

I am pleased to announce that The NYPL now offers the first Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Fellowship to support advanced research on NYPL's materials from the Arab world,Turkey,Iran,South Asia, Central Asia, and their diasporas in the United States 1/
https://t.co/tHXlmtykZ1

[Caoilinn Hughes @CaoilinnHughes]

It was an honour to interview Colm Tóibín for Live at NYPL @nypl @NYPLEvents. Thanks to director of the series @flaxclark and to photographer @sarahstacke for the great photos.
The conversation is now online: https://t.co/dcpuyFyqUp

[Aidan @flaxclark]

@artcrimeprof Everything on Twitter should be this. You make the internet better.

[Aidan @flaxclark]

@victorlavalle Partially written @nypl and we have Robert Moses' papers (plus the 64–65 Worlds Fair) if those are things you need to dive deeper on

[Aidan @flaxclark]

@willy_auge @laphamsquart More love and support from another former LQ-er

[Aidan @flaxclark]

@Urrealism @littlebrown Let's do it! I'll be there.

[Aidan @flaxclark]

First the end of Goodnight Irene made me weep uncontrollably and then @Urrealism nearly did it to me again yesterday when we talked about his remarkable mother and all the unsung heroines of WWII who served in the Clubmobile Corps. (@littlebrown)
https://t.co/OEEFPk1rnm

[Aidan @flaxclark]

Help us fight the proposed $36.2 million budget cut to NY's libraries!.@NYCMayor & @NYCCouncil! New Yorkers won't stand for this cut. Retweet to help stop the cuts that could end weekend service in branches across the city. #NoCutsToLibraries https://t.co/Hz3WfjeijV

[Aidan @flaxclark]

@summerbrennan How about this fascinating and delightful book by the brilliant @OldFortunatus

[Aidan @flaxclark]

@colindickey He was working next door. Later explained that's what the song was saying to him. Which I took as a compliment!

[Aidan @flaxclark]

@colindickey A top-5 life moment for me is when Shock G strolled into a studio where we were recording an instrumental, stood quietly in the back listening deeply, and then started singing "Butt naked in the darkness!" a few times, and then left.

[Aidan @flaxclark]

Library work is something else. Where else but @nypl could you in 1 week:
…Watch @TimGunn interview @stacyschiff
…Host a book-themed Halloween parade w/ genius costumes
…interview the brilliant @papergirlmacy and @andreafelliott about two of the best books you read all year?

[Aidan @flaxclark]

@lenabitts Would love one!

[Aidan @flaxclark]

I just managed to accidentally write deeply three times in one sentence I win the pulitzer

[Festival of New York @FestivalofNY]

From borough to borough, our partners transformed beloved venues across New York City into the ultimate dance party! Here’s your citywide #DancePartyNYC recap 🧵