Producer, director and former studio head, Robert Kline, returns for his annual hosting of “A Night of the Oscars”. He will take us through an evening of the top movies and screen roles as well as behind-the-scenes stories of Hollywood and film. For a special new highlight, Mr. Kline will present a feature on the new Hollywood power brokers and how a new generation of film and stars are being born. DVDs of classic films courtesy of Warner Bros. will be given away as prizes during the Q&A so brush up on your movie savvy!

We are pleased to announce that Steven Levy, author of IN THE PLEX: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives will make a special appearance at the library. Mr. Levy will be in California for the TED Conference.

Drawing on unprecedented access to Google’s top management, from legendary co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page on down, acclaimed technology journalist and Hackers author Steven Levy tells the inside story of the astonishing success, influence, and ambition – as well as the embarrassing blunders – of what is arguably the most important and forward-looking company in the world today. For almost three years, Levy – who has covered Google from its earliest days for Wired and Newsweek – immersed himself in the company’s culture and corporate life, to report how it really operates, how it develops its products, and how it is managing its stunning growth. Levy also wanted to assess how Google was handling increasingly controversial issues such as its involvement in China, Net neutrality, its massive collection of private data, its plan to scan all the world’s books, and its bitter feud with Apple.

Sebastian Smee has been the Boston Globe’s art critic since May 2008. In 2011 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his "vivid and exuberant writing about art, often bringing great works to life with love and appreciation.” Smee is widely appealing to both veteran art aficionados to the curious but not quite sure about modern art. Always at the center of major art happenings, Smee informs without pretention and is witty without trivializing.

Previously, he was national art critic at The Australian. Prior to that, between 2000 and 2004, he was an art critic at the Daily Telegraph in London, where he also wrote for The Art Newspaper, The Guardian, Prospect Magazine, The Independent on Sunday, The Times, The Financial Times, Art Review and Modern Painters, as well as the Spectator (for which he continues to write book reviews). Smee has written a book called Side by Side: Picasso v Matisse (2001) and five books on Lucian Freud.

Sebastian Smee has been the Boston Globe’s art critic since May 2008. In 2011 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his "vivid and exuberant writing about art, often bringing great works to life with love and appreciation.” Smee is widely appealing to both veteran art aficionados to the curious but not quite sure about modern art. Always at the center of major art happenings, Smee informs without pretention and is witty without trivializing.

Previously, he was national art critic at The Australian. Prior to that, between 2000 and 2004, he was an art critic at the Daily Telegraph in London, where he also wrote for The Art Newspaper, The Guardian, Prospect Magazine, The Independent on Sunday, The Times, The Financial Times, Art Review and Modern Painters, as well as the Spectator (for which he continues to write book reviews). Smee has written a book called Side by Side: Picasso v Matisse (2001) and five books on Lucian Freud.

Alexandra Fuller’s life has often been stranger than fiction. Her four books of non-fiction including her debut Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, a New York Times Notable Book for 2002 which portrays a life that is at once mesmerizing and devastating.

A masterful and charismatic storyteller, Fuller tells us as much about her incredible life as she does the history of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The Legend of Colton H. Bryant was published in May 2008. Her latest book is Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, which was met with rave reviews.

Fuller has also written extensively for magazines and newspapers including the New Yorker Magazine, National Geographic Magazine, Vogue and Granta Magazine. Her reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The Financial Times, The Toronto Globe and Mail.

Fuller was born in England in 1969 and moved to Africa with her family when she was two. She married an American river guide in Zambia in 1993. They left Africa in 1994 and now live in Wyoming with their three children.

Alexandra Fuller’s life has often been stranger than fiction. Her four books of non-fiction including her debut Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, a New York Times Notable Book for 2002 which portrays a life that is at once mesmerizing and devastating.

A masterful and charismatic storyteller, Fuller tells us as much about her incredible life as she does the history of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The Legend of Colton H. Bryant was published in May 2008. Her latest book is Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, which was met with rave reviews.

Fuller has also written extensively for magazines and newspapers including the New Yorker Magazine, National Geographic Magazine, Vogue and Granta Magazine. Her reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The Financial Times, The Toronto Globe and Mail.

Fuller was born in England in 1969 and moved to Africa with her family when she was two. She married an American river guide in Zambia in 1993. They left Africa in 1994 and now live in Wyoming with their three children.

Ken Auletta has been on the frontlines of the new communications revolution since 1992 with his “Annals of Communications” columns and profiles for the prestigious New Yorker magazine. He is the author of eleven books, including five national bestsellers: Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way; Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of The House of Lehman; The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Super Highway; World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies; and Googled: The End of the World As We Know It.

Auletta was among the first to popularize the so-called information superhighway with his February 1993 profile of Barry Diller's search for something new. He has profiled the leading figures and companies of the Information Age, including Google, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, AOL Time Warner, John Malone, Harvey Weinstein and The New York Times. His 2001 profile of Ted Turner won a National Magazine Award as the best profile of the year. He also covered the Microsoft antitrust trial for the magazine.

Google has arguably changed the world as we know it, as Steve Jobs did with Apple. Auletta has spent his career analyzing and reporting on what it all means and where it is going.

Ken Auletta has been on the frontlines of the new communications revolution since 1992 with his “Annals of Communications” columns and profiles for the prestigious New Yorker magazine. He is the author of eleven books, including five national bestsellers: Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way; Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of The House of Lehman; The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Super Highway; World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies; and Googled: The End of the World As We Know It.

Auletta was among the first to popularize the so-called information superhighway with his February 1993 profile of Barry Diller's search for something new. He has profiled the leading figures and companies of the Information Age, including Google, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, AOL Time Warner, John Malone, Harvey Weinstein and The New York Times. His 2001 profile of Ted Turner won a National Magazine Award as the best profile of the year. He also covered the Microsoft antitrust trial for the magazine.

Google has arguably changed the world as we know it, as Steve Jobs did with Apple. Auletta has spent his career analyzing and reporting on what it all means and where it is going.