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Books & Authors
Signature Event
Thursday, January 30, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
As sentiment for a new downtown baseball stadium simmers in Kansas City, Vanity Fair contributing editor Paul Goldberger...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 23, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Drawing from new book Health Justice Now, activist and author Timothy Faust makes the case for a single-...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
As the civil rights movement waned in the 1960s and early ’70s, federal programs promoted a new means of racial equality: the franchising of McDona...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
In an industry—local television news—that churns through on-air talent with nearly every ratings dip and shift in management, Al Wallace...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 5, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Author John A. Farrell examines our nation’s 37th president and the relevance of his career and complex legacy in the era of Trump in...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
6:30pm
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...
Signature Event
In Person
In this special fundraising event benefitting a new creative writing initiative from the Library and UMKC, Academy Award-winning screenwriter ...
Signature Event
Monday, November 4, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
We want to make our children readers. The question is: How? Which books are best to read to babies? How do we judge our kids’ reading progress? Are te...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Megan Phelps-Roper took part in her first Westboro Baptist Church protest at age 5. Granddaughter of the late Fred Phelps, patriarch...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
6:30pm
In a discussion of his book A Pilgrimage to Eternity, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan recount...