The Waldo Branch will be open for hold pickups only Monday, December 9 through Thursday, January 2 due to branch upgrades.
Writers at Work
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
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
With an award-winning novel, best-selling collection of short stories, and a nonfiction best-seller (On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howar...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Two distinctive writers and educators join local novelist Whitney Terrell in a discussion of their craft and our nation’s fraught...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman joins Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell in a public conversation about Freeman’s...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Stewart O’Nan's work spans from Snow Angels and Last Night at the Lobster to a nonfiction collaboration with Stephe...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 2, 2017
6:30pm
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...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman launched the year’s most anticipated literary magazine, the biannual Freeman’s, in S...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
6:30pm
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...
Signature Event
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...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 6, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with one of the country’s most...