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Signature Event
Monday, February 22, 2010
6:30pm
Novelist and critic Edmund White discusses his new memoir City Boy on Monday, February 22...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 26, 2012
6:30pm
Short story writer and novelist Adam Johnson discusses his work in a public conversation with local author Whitney Terrell...
Signature Event
Monday, November 8, 2010
6:30pm
Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Writers at Work series with an appearance by National Book Award winner an...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
6:30pm
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...
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
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...
Exhibit
November 11, 2023
- February 10, 2024
Children’s Book Week is the United States’ longest-running literacy initiative, promoting reading to generations of children and t...
Signature Event
Friday, March 8, 2024
7:00pm
Online
In Person
As part of the Library’s sesquicentennial celebration, decorated author Jacqueline Woodson joins in a public conversation about her life and career, t...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 14, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Carrie Westlake Whitney was a remarkable exception to the patriarchal times in which she lived, a 27-year-old woman who became the first full-time dir...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
7:00pm
In Person
Margaret Atwood is one of the few writers so prolific that her work can be ordered into a 101-item best-of listicle, starting with her 1985 dystopian...