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Award-winning essayist and poet Taylor Brorby discusses his new memoir Boys and Oil, recounting the uneasiness of being gay in a rugged land of coa...

Get the scoop behind Kansas City’s newest, biggest, and most family-friendly scavenger hunt. Anne Kniggendorf, a writer and editor at the Li...

Ari Rabin-Havt, the deputy campaign manager for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential run, joins KC Tenants Director Tara Raghuveer in a discussion of...

This half-day workshop in honor of World Doll Day kicks off with a keynote presentation by Lenexa author Elizabeth Bunce, who just released her thi...

Irish comedian and writer Maeve Higgins, a regular panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!, discusses her new book Tell Ev...

U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, whose acclaimed An American Sunrise is the focus of the Library’s Big...

Beverly Daniel Tatum, president emerita of Spelman College and an authority on racial issues in the U.S., looks anew at the challe...

In a discussion of her memoir Smacked, former New York Times business columnist Eilene Zimmerman...

Arguments in the divisive right-to-die debate range from legal to spiritual, ethical, and social. Longtime public radio host and podcaster...

Merriam-Webster has thrown its considerable weight behind the use of “they” as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun, expanding its dictionary definit...