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Novelist and critic Edmund White discusses his new memoir City Boy on Monday, February 22...

Short story writer and novelist Adam Johnson discusses his work in a public conversation with local author Whitney Terrell...

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Writers at Work series with an appearance by National Book Award winner an...

Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache of...

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...

What does it mean to be a “great city”? Since 2018, the Library has hosted public presentations by urban planners and round-table conversations with c...

Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with one of the country’s most acc...

Author Daniel Woodrell discusses his new collection of short stories, The Outlaw Album, in a discussion led...

Tanner Colby engages in a public conversation about his new book, Some of My Best Friends Are Black, with K...

Anthony Swofford's new memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails, chronicles how in the years after the success...