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 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 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 Tanner Colby - Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America Wednesday, October 10, 2012 6:30pm Central Library In Person Tanner Colby engages in a public conversation about his new book, Some of My Best Friends Are Black, wit... Read More
Signature Event Hospitals, Hotels and Jails Wednesday, November 14, 2012 6:30pm Central Library In Person Anthony Swofford's new memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails, chronicles how in the years after the success... Read More
Signature Event Gryphon: New and Selected Stories Monday, October 21, 2013 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person In Gryphon, his career-spanning collection of short stories, author Charles Baxter offers yarns in which our acutely observe... Read More
Signature Event Quiet Dell - Jayne Anne Phillips Thursday, November 6, 2014 6:30pm Central Library In Person Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with one of the country’s most... Read More
Signature Event The Audacious Ascetic: What the Bin Laden Tapes Reveal about Al-Qa’ida - Flagg Miller Wednesday, March 23, 2016 6:30pm Central Library In Person 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... Read More