A New Year at Jefferson Market
By Corinne Neary
PRINTS AND POSTCARDS INSIPIRED BY FABLES AND FAIRYTALES, on exhibit at Jefferson Market Library. Paintings courtesy of JML Archives.
It’s a brand-new year and Jefferson Market Library is kicking things off with Shelley Winters, of course! The New Year holiday wouldn’t be the same without The Poseidon Adventure and that’s why we’re showing the 1972 disaster feature for our first-ever Thursday night movie screening on January 4! Longtime fans of our Monday night movies — do not fear. We enjoy hosting film screenings so much, we’ve decided to double the fun and so we’ll be showing two movies each week, Mondays and Thursdays at 6 pm.
There will be lots of variety in the lineup, from classic Hollywood to the deliciously campy to the strange and the artistic. Other upcoming titles include Ken Russell’s The Music Lovers (1971), Judy Garland in The Pirate (1948), and Isabella Rossellini in the expressionistic The Saddest Music in the World (2003). That’s just to name a few, so please check our website and flyers for the full program.
Other additions to our programming are literary. Our formerly bi-monthly novella and poetry discussions are now happening monthly, along with our full-length novel discussion! Coming up on Wednesday, January 10 at 4:30 pm: From From, a 2023 New York Times notable poetry book by National Book Award finalist Monica Youn. The following week, our novella discussion dives into Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Wednesday, January 17 at 4:30 pm. And finally, for those who love digging into a long and challenging read: Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady, Thursday, January 25 at 4:30 pm. Prefer to stay inside under the covers? We’ve still got plenty of online discussions to keep you busy! Check our website for upcoming selections.
Finally, don’t neglect to visit our basement gallery space, where we are exhibiting prints and postcards inspired by fables and fairy tales. The exhibition postcards are courtesy of the NYPL Picture Collection, which is housed in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Library at 42nd Street and 5th Avenue. The Illustrations on Cardboard are a longtime holding of the Jefferson Market Library archive.
