Search the Library

What does it mean to be a “great city”? Since 2018, the Library has hosted public presentations by urban planners and round-table conversations with c...

There may be no more ardent disciple of literature today than John Freeman, founder of Freeman’s anthology of new writing and the...

With an award-winning novel, best-selling collection of short stories, and a nonfiction best-seller (On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howar...

Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman joins Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell in a public conversation about Freeman’s...

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...

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 of...

Kansas City novelist and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with author Elizabeth Ga...

Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with one of the country’s most acc...

Anthony Swofford's new memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails, chronicles how in the years after the success...

Tanner Colby engages in a public conversation about his new book, Some of My Best Friends Are Black, with K...