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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
6:30pm
Candice Millard, author of Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
6:30pm
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The first vice president to occupy the White House after the death of the incumbent, John Tyler was derided by critics as “His Accidency.” Yet histori...
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Monday, October 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Gryphon, his career-spanning collection of short stories, author Charles Baxter offers yarns in which our acutely observe...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014
6:30pm
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John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) is among the most overlooked presidents in U.S. history even though his progressive values helped shape the course of th...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2019
6:30pm
Two distinctive writers and educators join local novelist Whitney Terrell in a discussion of their craft and our nation’s fraught dia...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019
6:30pm
With an award-winning novel, best-selling collection of short stories, and a nonfiction best-seller (On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howar...
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Tuesday, November 28, 2017
6:30pm
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Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman joins Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell in a public conversation about Freeman’s...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
6:30pm
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There may be no more ardent disciple of literature today than John Freeman, founder of Freeman’s anthology of new writing and the...
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Thursday, October 3, 2013
6:30pm
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A century after his inauguration, President Woodrow Wilson remains among the most influential figures of the 20th century—and o...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015
6:30pm
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Kansas City novelist and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with author Elizabeth Ga...