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

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In Gryphon, his career-spanning collection of short stories, author Charles Baxter offers yarns in which our acutely observe...

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

The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the i...

The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the i...

One of Kansas City’s greatest entrepreneurial success stories traces back to a picnic table in Loose Park in the late 1970s, when Cliff Illig...

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...

The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundat...

The country continues to struggle with the issue of capital punishment and questions ranging from how fairly sentences are imposed and carried out...