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Signature Event
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Writers for Readers, annually one of Kansas City’s premier literary events, returns vitrually with a special lineup featuring celebrated author P...
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Online
Five days before Americans go to the polls, two leading writers/journalists with both local and national perspective – best-selling author and...
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In Person
In this special fundraising event benefitting a new creative writing initiative from the Library and UMKC, Academy Award-winning screenwriter ...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 19, 2009
7:00pm
In Person
Author Sam Lipsyte presents the February talk in the Library’s Writers at Work series on Thursday, Febr...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 5, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
Writers for Readers, one of Kansas City's premier literary events, returns with an exciting lineup featuring celebrated author Lan Samantha Chang in c...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 4, 2008
7:00pm
In Person
Michael Knight and Allen Wier join moderator Steve Paul of The Kansas City Star for the...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
In 1982-83, William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, a chronicle of traveling America’s back roads, spent 4...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Author Deb Olin Unferth discusses her new memoir about the year she spent in Central America looking for a revolution to help “foment...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,...
Signature Event
Saturday, March 30, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
Artist Benjamin Wills has come to understand what a few lines in a letter – or just the arrival of mail – can mean to someone behind...