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Anthony Swofford's new memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails, chronicles how in the years after the success...

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

Two distinctive writers and educators join local novelist Whitney Terrell in a discussion of their craft and our nation’s fraught dia...

With an award-winning novel, best-selling collection of short stories, and a nonfiction best-seller (On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howar...

French Emperor and military commander Napoleon Bonaparte continues to fascinate, even centuries after his death. Jonathan Abel, associate professor of...

Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman joins Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell in a public conversation about Freeman’s...

There may be no more ardent disciple of literature today than John Freeman, founder of Freeman’s anthology of new writing and the...

Kansas City novelist and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with author Elizabeth Ga...

Military historian Brian Steed of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College recounts the history-altering c...

In the latest installment of the Library’s Turning Points series in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, military histori...