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Thursday, May 4, 2017
6:30pm
After eight nonfiction books including the 1982 best-seller Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon has turned at age 77 to f...
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Monday, May 8, 2017
6:30pm
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Yaa Gyasi’s emotionally powerful Homegoing continues to resound a little more than a year after its publica...
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Thursday, August 22, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Michael Kranish, an investigative political reporter for The Washington Post and co-author of the 2016 best-seller Tr...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
What do we make – what does their home state of Kansas make – of Charles and David Koch? Business reporter Christopher Leonard exa...
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Thursday, August 29, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Irish-born comedian David Nihill looks at how stand-up comedy principles can be applied to public speaking, drawing from his book...
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Thursday, September 12, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Television and Donald Trump grew up together, a synergistic happenstance that carried an attention-hogging, reality TV-imbued, Twitter- and Fox New...
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Tuesday, October 8, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Author Mallory O’Meara spotlights the history-making but too-long-overlooked creator of one of movies’ most iconic monsters in a d...
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Thursday, October 10, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of her new memoir Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares, Aarti Shahani walks th...
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Monday, October 14, 2019
6:30pm
We take our seats in a darkened movie theater, turn ourselves over for a couple of hours to a romantic storyline and the romantic leads, and walk away...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019
6:30pm
In a discussion of his book A Pilgrimage to Eternity, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan recount...