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NYC Council outlines budget response to fund library services, free 3K programs
The New York City Council unveiled its budget proposal on Monday — with calls for the Big Apple to keep libraries open on weekends and fully fund free 3K programs.
Library patron returns book — just 47 years late
They could have thrown the book at him. A former patron of the library in Lake Elmo, Minnesota, has returned a car repair manual – 47 years late. The borrower...
In My Library: Anthony Horowitz
When he was 13, Anthony Horowitz received the gift he requested: a human skull. Nearly 50 years later, it’s still on his desk, a constant reminder that time is fleeting....
In My Library: Pat Kiernan
Don’t expect to party with Pat Kiernan: NY1’s morning news anchor wakes up at 3 so he can be at work by 4 a.m. So he was the perfect pick...
In My Library: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
When he became a father, basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar found himself modeling his parenting skills on that of his college coach, John Wooden. “I’d think of some of the wiseguy...
In My Library: Scott Wittman
You never forget your first Tony. Broadway’s Scott Wittman, whose music and lyrics for “Hairspray,” written with his partner, Marc Shaiman, won in 2003, recalled how the couple’s good friends,...
In My Library: Paula Poundstone
When she started writing “The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness” (Algonquin Books), comedian Paula Poundstone told The Post, “I figured it might be the scaffolding for...
In My Library: Wendy Whelan
What’s the expiration date for a dancer? That’s the underlying question behind “Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan.” Out May 24, the documentary focuses on the Kentucky-born ballerina, who started ballet lessons...
In My Library: Rachel Bay Jones
It seems actress Rachel Bay Jones never stops being a mom: She has a 14-year-old daughter, Miranda, at home, and an angsty 17-year-old son on stage, in Broadway’s “Dear Evan...
In My Library: Jerry Blevins
He pitches for the Mets, but Jerry Blevins would rather not read about baseball. “I use reading as an escape,” the lefthanded relief pitcher told The Post. “I enjoy science...
In My Library: Ann Brashares
Given that she gave us “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” the 2005 movie that introduced us to Blake Lively, you’d think Ann Brashares gravitates to girlish adventures. But no....
In My Library: Boris Akunin
Best-selling Russian crime writer Boris Akunin never quite trusted Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”: “A ghost? Seriously? I thought that one day, when I become a writer, I’ll sort it out.” So he...
In My Library: Lynn Nottage
During 2011’s Occupy Wall Street movement, Lynn Nottage wanted to understand how economic stagnation was affecting this country. So the Brooklyn playwright headed to Reading, Pa., then the poorest city...
In My Library: Greg Iles
A brush with death can change your life. When a 2011 car crash left Greg Iles in a coma for a week with a torn aorta and a lost right...
In My Library: Omar Metwally
He’s gone from “The Affair” to an all-out orgy. Or, at least Omar Metwally’s character enjoys one with Marisa Tomei and the rest of the cast in Sarah Ruhl’s “How...
In My Library: Malcolm Merriweather
Don’t let that baby face fool you: Malcolm Merriweather is 31, but even so, he’s packed a lot in: A singer and conductor, he’s on the faculty of Brooklyn College,...
In My Library: Daphne Merkin
She’s written about spanking (she’s in favor) and depression (not). Which one has the bigger stigma? “Depression,” says Daphne Merkin, whose bold new and sometimes funny memoir, “This Close to...
In My Library: Ruby Shamir
In case your calendar didn’t tip you off, March is Women’s History Month. It’s as good a time as any to consider the nation’s first ladies, who took what seemed...
In My Library: Christina Baker Kline
When Christina Baker Kline was 8, she had a poster on her bedroom wall of Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World.” Now the author of “Orphan Train” has written a book about...
In My Library: Lucinda Rosenfeld
Karen Kipple’s Brooklyn is a hipster’s paradise: a land of artisanal sausages, laundromats turned slow-drip coffee salons and parents who take seriously the need for hormone-free milk in the cafeteria....