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Annie Presley, co-author of the award-winning book Read This… When I’m Dead, joins us at the Plaza Library...

Steve Paul, a longtime writer and editor at The Kansas City Star, examines a transformative time in the life of an iconic wr...

Sabermetrics savant Bill James applies his research and analytical skills to true-crime solving, making a convincing case that a more...

Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...

A tragic chapter in America’s westward expansion turned sensationalistic when some members of the stranded and starving Donner-Reed party of 1846 bega...

Veteran British director and master acting teacher Ian Wooldridge has helmed more than 100 stage productions, including The Tempest a...

In a discussion of one of the year’s most heralded books, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, author Davi...

Yaa Gyasi’s emotionally powerful Homegoing continues to resound a little more than a year after its publica...

The National Endowment for the Arts affirmed the Kansas City area as a hub for fine poets and poetry late last year, awarding $25,000 creative writing...

Matthew Quirk doesn’t simply write spy thrillers. To the extent he can, he lives them first – in the case of Dead Man Swi...