NYLI Holiday 2024 Newsletter

Lucy, Brooke and I were thrilled to attend the early February book launch at the historic Strand Bookstore. Stacy Horn chatted about the process of writing how white collar crime resulted in East New York eventually earning the NYPD nickname “the Killing Fields” as the once thriving working class Brooklyn neighborhood became the murder capital…

Obviously, Abraham Lincoln is immediately identified as a U.S. President…. But it could easily be argued that Lincoln is the still the best lawyer who ever became President…. Lincoln is estimated to have been a lawyer for approximately 5,600 cases and presided as a pro-tem Judge for about 300… Corporate Tax Law? Lincoln was attorney…

February 20 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group will meet via Zoom on Thursday February 20th at 12.  We will discuss How to be Happy by Eleanor Davis (available at NYPL).  Please see our LibGuide for past and upcoming titles.  Please contact, Eileen Dolan at edolan@NYLI.org to be added to the meeting.

Fast Company’s Faisal Hoque writes about AI and the death (and rebirth) of middle management: Inside the fall and rise of ‘unbossing.’. “…AI could lead to a “white-collar massacre” if companies fail to adapt thoughtfully” Read more here.