— Tuesday, May 1st, 2018 —

Book Launch “One Track Mind: Drawing the New York Subway”
99 Schermerhorn Street at New York Transit Museum
Time: 6:30pm – 8pm
Price: $10
For four decades, Philip Ashforth Coppola has meticulously documented the New York City subway system in a series of extraordinary drawings, detailing the historic mosaics and ornamental designs found there. Join Coppola, co-editors Jeremy Workman and Ezra Bookstein and Senior Curator Amy Hausmann at the Transit Museum to celebrate the launch of One Track Mind: Drawing the New York Subway with a screening of the documentary short of the same name, a conversation, and a book signing.

Inside the Male Brain: Toxic Masculinity and #MeToo
128 Pierrepont Street at Brooklyn Historical Society
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Price: $5; FREE/members
With sexual misconduct and mass shootings at the fore of the national conversation, take a deeper look into the cultural, psychological, and sociological forces driving deleterious male behavior. Michael Kimmel, one of the world’s leading experts on men and masculinity and executive director of SUNY Stony Brook Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities is joined by Columbia University psychology professor Geraldine Downey and journalist Alexis Grenell to discuss upending expressions of toxic masculinity from workplace harassment to violence in public spaces.

Working It: The Labor Force in Literature, and Beyond
28 Frost Street at Brooklyn Art Library
Time: 7pm – 10pm
FREE
Join the Brooklyn Art Library at this inaugural Hacking Finance Live as they bring finance and literary folk together to meet, talk and spark candid conversations about what work means today—and what it might tomorrow. In collaboration with literary event series H.I.P. Lit, they’ve gathered some of their favorite local writers to read excerpts of their work and join a panel discussion.

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