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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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Jim Shepard: You Think That’s Bad

Monday, February 27, 2012 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

Angela Elam, host of the New Letters on the Air radio program, conducts a public conversation with novelist...

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Adam Johnson: The Orphan Master’s Son

Thursday, April 26, 2012 6:30pm

Central Library

Short story writer and novelist Adam Johnson discusses his work in a public conversation with local author Whitney Terrell...

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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...

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A Conversation with John Freeman

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

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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On Writing, on Race

Wednesday, February 20, 2019 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

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

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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...

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From Harper’s to “the Great American Internet Novel”

Thursday, September 15, 2016 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

This event has been canceled at the speaker’s request. We will make every effort to notify interested persons when and i...

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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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Guerrillas in Our Midst

August 18, 2013 - December 29, 2013

Central Library

Before and during the Civil War, Confederate guerrillas – men like William Clarke Quantrill, “Bloody Bill” Anderson, and Frank and Jesse James – battl...

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