TV series that depicted the Main Branch included "The Library", an episode of Seinfeld, as well as "The Persistence of Memory", the eleventh part of Carl Sagan's TV series Cosmos. Literature The Main Branch also appears in literature, including: Lawrence Blochman's Death Walks in Marble Halls (1942) Jane Smiley's Duplicate Keys (1984) Akimi Yoshida's Banana Fish (1985) Allen Kurzweil's The Grand Complication (2001) Cynthia Ozick's Heir to the Glimmering World (2004) Lynne Sharon Schwartz's Writing on the Wall (2005) Peng Shepherd's The Cartographers (2022) Poems include: E. B. White's "A Library Lion Speaks" and "Reading Room" in Poems and Sketches of E.B. White (1981) Richard Eberhart's "Reading Room, The New York Public Library," in Collected Poems, 1930–1986 (1988) Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Library Scene, Manhattan," in How to Paint Sunlight (2001) Excerpts from several of the many memoirs and essays mentioning the Main Branch are included in the anthology Reading Rooms (1991), including reminiscences by Alfred Kazin, Henry Miller, and Kate Simon. See also List of National Historic Landmarks in New York City List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan from 14th to 59th Streets List of New York Public Library Branches National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan from 14th to 59th Streets New York Public Library in popular culture References Notes Citations Sources External links 1911 establishments in New York City Beaux-Arts architecture in New York City Bryant Park buildings Carrère and Hastings buildings Fifth Avenue Libraries in Manhattan Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Manhattan Library buildings completed in 1911 National Historic Landmarks in Manhattan New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan New York City interior landmarks Main Branch Sculptures carved by the Piccirilli Brothers Tourist attractions in Manhattan