Activity Christmas Eve Tuesday, December 24, 2024 12:00am All locations closed for Christmas Eve.... Read More
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Signature Event Quiet Dell - Jayne Anne Phillips Thursday, November 6, 2014 6:30pm Central Library Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with one of the country’s most acc... Read More
Signature Event Daniel Woodrell: The Outlaw Album Thursday, November 17, 2011 6:30pm Central Library Author Daniel Woodrell discusses his new collection of short stories, The Outlaw Album, in a discussion led... 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 Tanner Colby engages in a public conversation about his new book, Some of My Best Friends Are Black, with K... Read More
Signature Event Anthony Swofford - Hospitals, Hotels and Jails Wednesday, November 14, 2012 6:30pm Central Library 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 - Charles Baxter Monday, October 21, 2013 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Gryphon, his career-spanning collection of short stories, author Charles Baxter offers yarns in which our acutely observe... Read More
Signature Event On Writing, on Race Wednesday, February 20, 2019 6:30pm Plaza Branch Two distinctive writers and educators join local novelist Whitney Terrell in a discussion of their craft and our nation’s fraught dia... Read More
Signature Event A Conversation With Tom Barbash Tuesday, April 16, 2019 6:30pm Central Library With an award-winning novel, best-selling collection of short stories, and a nonfiction best-seller (On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howar... Read More