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Books & Authors
Thursday, February 26, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City novelist and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with author Elizabeth Ga...
Thursday, February 19, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kyle Gann is one of the foremost experts on American music today, having spent almost two decades as the new-music critic for the...
Thursday, January 29, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by medieval and modern myth. It is true that they pillag...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Today, amid the many manufacturers of smartphones, tablets, and apps, two names tower above the others: Apple and Google, whose philosophies, leade...
Sunday, January 25, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
How did Kansas City miraculously transform itself from “the filthiest city in the United States” in the 19th century to the clean, well-planned emb...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Football’s evolution from sport to religion will be reconfirmed Feb. 1, 2015, when 85,000 fans in Glendale, Arizona, and a global TV audience of mo...
Sunday, December 14, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Washburn University’s Tom Averill, an O. Henry Award winner, discusses his inventive new novel, which subtly evokes Charles Dicken...
Thursday, November 20, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
In the early twentieth century, publicly staged productions of historical events became increasingly popular—and increasingly grand—in Ireland. The...
Thursday, November 13, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Sandra Moran’s first novel, Letters Never Sent, resonated deeply in the LGBT community when it was relea...