Check out my book talk with Susan Seidelman as part of the QPL's Culture Connection series!

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Check out my book talk with Susan Seidelman as part of the QPL's Culture Connection series!

We're delighted to host this program with Susan Seidelman in honor of Women’s History Month! https://www.instagram.com/desperately_seeking/

Susan Seidelman is an alumna of the Graduate Film program at New York University and began her career in the 1980s, when her movie “Smithereens” became the first American independent film to be accepted into the Cannes Film Festival. Her next movie, “Desperately Seeking Susan,” starring Madonna and Rosanna Arquette, was a critical and commercial success.

Seidelman has directed dozens of other films, starring actors like Meryl Streep, Brooke Shields, and Sally Field, as well as the first four episodes of the iconic HBO series “Sex and the City.” In 2024, she wrote the book “Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls.”

Susan Seidelman will be interviewed by multimedia artist, graphic designer, and documentary filmmaker Heidi Gelover. https://www.heidigelover.com/

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Learn More about our celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth: http://queenslib.org/WHM2025

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Check out my book talk with Brad Gooch as part of QPL's Culture Connection Series! →

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Check out my book talk with Brad Gooch as part of QPL's Culture Connection Series!

Join us for this conversation with biographer Brad Gooch and The New School's Heidi Gelover in honor of #LGBTQ+ #PrideMonth! Keith Haring was one of the most emblematic artists of the 1980s, a figure described by his contemporaries as “a prophet in his life, his person, and his work.” Haring broke down barriers between high art and popular culture, creating work that was accessible for all and using it as a means to provoke and inspire radical social change. Brad Gooch, who was granted access to Haring’s extensive archive, has written a biography that will become the authoritative work on the artist. Based on interviews with those who knew him best, Gooch’s book captures the magic of Keith Haring, a visionary icon whose tragically short life has a unique aura of mystery and power. Thank you to the Keith Haring Foundation for providing the images used during tonight's program. Borrow “Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring” from the Library. https://www.queenslibrary.org/book/Ra... Learn More about Heidi Gelover: http://www.heidigeloverfilm.com/ Learn More about Brad Gooch: http://www.bradgooch.com/ Learn More about Keith Haring: https://www.haring.com/

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Rewatch a discussion about TURN EVERY PAGE with Lizzie Gottlieb and Priscilla Gilman!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apku3f806Ck

Join us for our conversation with director Lizzie Gottlieb and author Priscilla Gilman!

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro and legendary editor Robert Gottlieb worked and fought together for 50 years, building one of publishing’s most iconic partnerships. Caro’s 1974 biography of Robert Moses, "The Power Broker," edited by Gottlieb, is considered one of the greatest books of the 20th century.

Directed by Robert Gottlieb’s daughter, Lizzie Gottlieb, "Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb" (2022) explores Caro and Gottlieb's remarkable collaboration, including the behind-the-scenes drama of creating "The Power Broker" and Caro's ongoing multi-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson. With humor and insight, this unique double portrait reveals the work habits, peculiarities, and professional joys of these two ferocious intellects.

The New School's Heidi Gelover will moderate our program. http://www.heidigeloverfilm.com/

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Check out my book talk with Alice Carriere & Muffie Meyer as part of the QPL's Culture Connection Series!!

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Check out my book talk with Alice Carriere & Muffie Meyer as part of the QPL's Culture Connection Series!!

Join us for this #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth conversation with memoirist Alice Carrière, filmmaker Muffie Meyer (https://middlemarch.com), and artist Heidi Gelover (http://www.heidigeloverfilm.com).

In “Everything/Nothing/Someone,” Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist Jennifer Bartlett, and a charismatic father, European actor Mathieu Carrière. Her childhood days were a mixture of privilege, neglect, loneliness, and danger—a child living in an adult’s world, with little-to-no enforcement of boundaries or supervision.

As she enters adolescence and adulthood, a dissociative disorder erases Alice’s identity and doctors medicate her further away from herself. Eventually, she finds purpose in caring for her mother, as she descends into dementia; in a love affair with a recovering addict who steadies her; in confronting her father, whose words and actions splintered her; and in finding her voice as a writer. https://www.alicecarriere.com/

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I'll be moderating this book talk about Roxanne Gay's book "Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business" as part of QPL's Culture Connection Series!

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https://www.youtube.com/live/cnECp2HHwNY?si=rYOFBGjpXfuX3M5O

QPL’s Culture Connection is proud to kick off #WomensHistoryMonth by hosting this conversation with Roxane Gay, Priscilla Gilman, and Rachel Abrams!

Roxane Gay is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. She is the author of the books “Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business,” “Ayiti,” “An Untamed State,” the New York Times-bestselling “Bad Feminist,” the nationally bestselling “Difficult Women,” and the New York Times-bestselling “Hunger.” https://roxanegay.com/

Priscilla Gilman is a former professor of English literature at both Yale University and Vassar College and the author of "The Critic's Daughter" and "The Anti-Romantic Child.” https://www.priscillagilman.com/

Rachel Abrams is a senior producer and reporter for “The New York Times Presents,” the Times’s award-winning television documentary series for Hulu and FX. Her bestselling book with James B. Stewart, “Unscripted,” tells the shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount Global, the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire controlled by the Redstone family. https://www.nytimes.com/by/rachel-abrams

The New School's Heidi Gelover will help us introduce our program and guests. http://www.heidigeloverfilm.com/

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Watch DOG PEOPLE On Demand!

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NEW!! It's HERE!! Watch DOG PEOPLE
On Demand as part of
The Dog Film Festival's NEW YORK,
NEW YORK Collection benefitting animals!

http://www.dogfilmfestival.com/on-demand-collections

THE ON DEMAND COLLECTIONS

Entertainment at your fingertips that does good for others!
Every download benefits the artists who made the dog-loving
films, and also supports the innovative national animal welfare
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pet owners and animal welfare organizations. Found Animals
created the first free national microchip registry, funds research
into next generation spay/neuter technology, provides affordable
high quality products for shelters, and has their own
adoption centers in Los Angeles.

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Had a great time at The 2016 Montclair Film Festival Party in May!

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CHECK OUT THIS ARTICLE IN THE MONTCLAIR TIMES:

Montclair Film Festival 2016: partying with filmmakers

By Ricardo Kaulessar and gwen orel

Staff Writer | 

The Montclair Times

"Heidi Gelover, director of the documentary short, "Dog People," appreciated what the festival had to offer:

"You get to mingle with other filmmakers, and you get to compare notes about how you raise funds. It's just a great environment, it really fosters more creativity.""

Montclair Film Festival Party!

CONE PHONES to screen @DOCNYCfest as part of shorts program "A Few of My Favorite Things" →

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I'm happy to announce that Cone Phones will be screening as part of DOC NYC 's Shorts program "A Few of My Favorite Things" on Sunday November 15th at 11:45 am at IFC Center – SAVE THE DATE! Hope to see you there:) http://www.docnyc.net/ — in New York, New York http://www.docnyc.net/film/cone-phones/#.Vh6W-nsxj-d http://www.docnyc.net/…/shorts-program-a-few-of-my-favori…/…