Signature Event Strictly Speaking: Equal Rights Should Have No Deadline Saturday, August 29, 2020 10:00am Online How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens... Read More
Signature Event Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener Thursday, August 27, 2020 6:30pm Online At 23, while serving as the youngest school principal in the state, Alice Chenoweth was excoriated in Ohio’s newspapers in 1876 for having an affai... Read More
Signature Event Qualified Rights: Women’s Suffrage, Citizenship, and the 19th Amendment Reconsidered Tuesday, August 18, 2020 6:30pm Online One hundred years ago this month, women won their fight for the right to vote – though not all of them. Black women, who had pleaded as passionatel... Read More
Signature Event A Conversation with John Freeman Tuesday, November 19, 2019 6:30pm Central Library In Person There may be no more ardent disciple of literature today than John Freeman, founder of Freeman’s anthology of new writing and the... Read More
Signature Event A Conversation With Tom Barbash Tuesday, April 16, 2019 6:30pm Central Library In Person With an award-winning novel, best-selling collection of short stories, and a nonfiction best-seller (On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howar... Read More
Signature Event On Writing, on Race Wednesday, February 20, 2019 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Two distinctive writers and educators join local novelist Whitney Terrell in a discussion of their craft and our nation’s fraught... Read More
Signature Event A Conversation with John Freeman Tuesday, November 28, 2017 6:30pm Central Library In Person Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman joins Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell in a public conversation about Freeman’s... Read More
Signature Event A Conversation With Stewart O'Nan Tuesday, October 24, 2017 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Stewart O’Nan's work spans from Snow Angels and Last Night at the Lobster to a nonfiction collaboration with Stephe... Read More
Signature Event Theater of War Thursday, February 2, 2017 6:30pm Central Library 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... Read More
Signature Event A Life in Literature Wednesday, April 20, 2016 6:30pm Central Library In Person Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman launched the year’s most anticipated literary magazine, the biannual Freeman’s, in S... Read More