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Books & Authors
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Screenwriter Mitch Brian employs original texts and film clips to illustrate how classic (Chandler, Hammett, Thompson) and modern noi...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 6, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Ever get the feeling that Christmas has morphed into something it was never supposed to be?
How did a celebration of joy, togetherness, l...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
6:30pm
Anthony Swofford's new memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails, chronicles how in the years after the success...
Signature Event
Monday, October 29, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
For his latest book Thomas Frank, the best-selling author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? and The Wrecking Crew: How C...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
During his 18 years playing for the Royals, Frank White became a beloved figure in Kansas City. In a public conversation with sportsw...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Tanner Colby engages in a public conversation about his new book, Some of My Best Friends Are Black, wit...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
The grandmothers of today are younger, healthier, better educated, and better off than grandmothers have ever been. And, as photojournalist Pa...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Steve Paul is joined by three of the area writers who contributed to Kansas City Noir, a collection of shor...
Signature Event
Friday, September 21, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
As a member of the Black Panther Party, Jamal Joseph advocated burning Columbia University to the ground. Forty years later he&rsq...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 13, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
An estimated 225,000 adults in Kansas City are denied some of the simplest and most important moments in life because they cannot read.To ce...