We are delighted to announce that Bill Goldstein will be the keynote speaker for the 2024 Long Island Library Conference!

Bill Goldstein reviews books and interviews authors for NBC’s Weekend Today in New York, and was the founding editor of The New York Times books website. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Goldstein received a Ph.D. in English from the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is writing a biography of Larry Kramer, to be published by Crown, and worked on the book as a 2023-24 fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and The Year that Changed Literature, published in 2017.

To learn more about his books, please visit: https://www.billgoldsteinbooks.com/

 

Past Keynote Speakers

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2023
2019
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 Speaker

Ellen Jovin
Dave Isay
Emily Esfahani Smith
K.C. Boyd
Tad Hills
Jadeep Mansour
Sarah Vowel
Jack Gantos
Nancy Pearl
Andrew Xia Fukuda
Richard Paul Evans
Adriana Trigiani
Ellen Meister
Susan Isaacs
Chris Crutcher
Mike Lupica
Roger Rosenblatt
Mick Foley
David Baldacci
Sarah Long
M.E. Kerr