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Signature Event
Monday, February 22, 2010
6:30pm
Novelist and critic Edmund White discusses his new memoir City Boy on Monday, February 22...
Signature Event
Monday, February 27, 2012
6:30pm
Angela Elam, host of the New Letters on the Air radio program, conducts a public conversation with novelist...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 26, 2012
6:30pm
Short story writer and novelist Adam Johnson discusses his work in a public conversation with local author Whitney Terrell...
Signature Event
Monday, November 8, 2010
6:30pm
Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Writers at Work series with an appearance by National Book Award winner an...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Presidential races are the stuff of myth, sometimes literally. Like the 1952 contest between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, both purportedly r...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 17, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, was a critical Cold War moment for Dwight D. Eisenhower. What he called “a sma...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
2015 commemorates not only the 125th anniversary of the birth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but also the U.S. Census Bureau’s declaration that th...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
6:30pm
Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache of...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 15, 2016
6:30pm
This event has been canceled at the speaker’s request. We will make every effort to notify interested persons when and i...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 2, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Matt Gallagher has emerged in the past decade as one of literature’s most distinctive and perceptive voices on the Iraq War. As an Ar...