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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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A Life in Literature

Wednesday, April 20, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman launched the year’s most anticipated literary magazine, the biannual Freeman’s, in S...

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When the World Was Young - Elizabeth Gaffney

Thursday, February 26, 2015 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

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

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Plaza Branch: Friday Night Family Fun

Spring! Wacky Weather

Friday, March 1, 2024 5:30pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

We never know if March will come in like a lion and go out like a lamb or the other way around. Amid this unpredictability, learn about how rain cloud...

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