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Jamie Bernstein, the eldest daughter of revered composer Leonard Bernstein, and David Charles Abell, who is conducti...

Nationally renowned urban thinker Chuck Marohn, who kicked off the Library’s Making a Great City series in January 2018, returns to assess the crucial...

Crime Magazine publisher J. Patrick O’Connor discusses his book Justice on Fire: The Kansas City Firefighters Case and th...

Rhiannon Ally, the Emmy-winning evening news anchor for Kansas City’s NBC affiliate, 41 Action News, discusses her newly released children’s book, ins...

In a discussion of his book Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America, Georgetown University’s Peter Edelma...

Approaching the 150th anniversary of the original release of Louisa May Alcott’s classic Little Women, author Anne Boyd Rioux...

C.J. Janovy, former editor of The Pitch and now the digital content editor for public radio affiliate KCUR, examines the evo...

Denis Kitchen, the founder of Kitchen Sink Press, discusses the life and career of the great Will Eisner, a comics pioneer who created the iconic crim...

Every guitarist has a six-string story. They tell tales of their first guitar, guitars lost or stolen, and guitars that chose the musician. Profession...

From four different prisons over 27 years of confinement, Nelson Mandela penned a multitude of letters to prison authorities, government officials, co...