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Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda introduces Kansas City’s 2010 Big Read selection—Marilynne Robinson...

The Big Read brings author Marilynne Robinson to Kansas City on Wednesday, May 12, at 6:30 p.m. at the...

The earliest deceit in Old School centers on a high school student who conceals his Jewish heritage from his classmates. To understand h...

The Kansas City Public Library hosts A Conversation with Tobias Wolff, author of the Kansas City Big Read select...

Brian Daldorph presents Real Characters: The Writing Lifestyle Depicted in Old School on Wednesd...

For nearly 50 years Josephine Marcus Earp was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, the legendary hero of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. As an indep...

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Is True Grit’s Mattie Ross a genuine feminist hero or a merely a woman who mimics traditional masculinity? Panelists Brenda...

Renowned stage and screen actor Hal Holbrook visits the Kansas City Public Library on Wednesday, November 9, 2011...

As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,...