One of the leading Chicano writers in the country with 14 published books in memoir, fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature, and poetry,...

A native of the American Midwest, Juliet Gael presents her novel, a mix of fact and fiction that captures the passions, hopes, d...

Award-winning novelist Chang-rae Lee discusses his new novel The Surrendered, a spellbinding story of how love and war...

Kansas City Royals play-by-play announcer Ryan Lefebvre discusses his struggles with depression and how he emerged with a new perspec...

Master storyteller Gladys Coggswell shares inspirational tales and “down-home” stories about all walks of African-American life...

Lillian Lincoln Lambert rose from humble beginnings as a poor farm girl in the segregated South to become the first black woman...

Veteran Washington journalist Carl M. Cannon, co-author of Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawy...

Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda introduces Kansas City’s 2010 Big Read selection—Marilynne Robinson...

Kansas City-based independent writer and producer Jack Cashill marks the one-year anniversary of the $787 billion American Recov...

Howard Frank Mosher discusses his new book Walking to Gatlinburg: A Novel on Tuesday,...