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# Message from the Library with Molly Crabapple
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/bpl-message-from-the-library-with-molly-crabapple/
- Published: 2020-11-30T16:22:27.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:15:32.000Z
- Description: Join award-winning artist, writer, and author Molly Crabapple as she presents Brooklyn Public Library’s next Message from the Library
- Author: Brooklyn Public Library
- Tags: Announcement, Event Announcement, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:08 (2019, 2020, part 3)

Award-winning artist, writer, and author of *Drawing Blood* and *Brothers of the Gun* (with Marwan Hisham) [**Molly Crabapple**](https://bit.ly/3mfOxvg?ref=hyperallergic.com) has been commissioned by [Brooklyn Public Library to present the next Message from the Library lecture on Sunday, December 13 at 7pm (EST).](https://bit.ly/2JdBIn3?ref=hyperallergic.com)

*Message from the Library* lectures ask leading cultural figures to reflect on today’s most precarious issues and is part of BPL’s mission to convene diverse voices in the Library’s safe space to have a meaningful dialogue about the political, economic, social, and cultural issues of the day.

**Molly Crabapple** is an artist and writer in New York. She is the author of two books, *Drawing Blood* and *Brothers of the Gun* (with Marwan Hisham), which was long-listed for a National Book Award in 2018\. Her reportage has been published in the *New York Times*, *New York Review of Books*, *The Paris Review*, *Vanity Fair*, *The Guardian*, *Rolling Stone*, *The New Yorker* and elsewhere. Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art. Her animated short “A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez” has been nominated for an Emmy award in the category of Outstanding News Analysis: Editorial and Opinion.

[*Register here*](https://bit.ly/2JdBIn3?ref=hyperallergic.com) *to join us for this free virtual event on Sunday, December 13 at 7pm (EST).* This event is accessible for those who are deaf or hard of hearing.

**Message from the Library* is made possible through support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).*