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Signature Event
Monday, September 10, 2018
6:30pm
In a script-in-hand performance commemorating Labor Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) read select...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
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...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 13, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Jamie Bernstein, the eldest daughter of revered composer Leonard Bernstein, and David Charles Abell, who is conducti...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 15, 2018
10:15am
The Veterans Writing Workshop opens with a public presentation featuring Iraq War veteran, author, and poet Brian Turner...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 20, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of her new book Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought Americans into the Twentieth Century, Rutgers Uni...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
6:30pm
Drawing from her poignant new memoir – one of 10 nonfiction works on the longlist for a 2018 National Book Award – Sarah Smarsh discu...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new biography Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In an illustrated discussion marking the launch of his book Kansas City Houses 1885–1938, local scholar Michael C. K...
Signature Event
Monday, October 29, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
John Kaag of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, discusses his new book Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
6:30pm
Laura Kasischke, a renowned literary multi-talent who has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her poetry and seen three of...