What happened to young Elphaba, once a relatable young girl, before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the publication of the original novel – setting the stage for the international phenomenon Wicked: The Musical – GREGORY MAGUIRE reveals the story of the prickly young Wicked Witch of the West-to-be in […]

DAVID GREENBERG’s John Lewis: A Life captures the legacy of the civil rights icon through long-lost footage, never-before-used FBI documents, and interviews with hundreds of people who knew him, including Lewis himself. In LEONARD PITTS JR.’s 54 Miles: A Novel, a family confronts painful memories, past trauma, and racial injustice during a few pivotal weeks […]

Former U.S. Poet Laureate BILLY COLLINS reads from his latest book and discusses the role of poetry in the community. In Water, Water, he combines his vigilant attention and respect for the peripheral to create moments of delight and capture the beauties and ironies of everyday experience in 60 new poems. Moderated by ROBERT CASPER, […]

In Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation, Emmy Award-winning actor JIM O’HEIR offers a heartfelt behind-the-scenes look at one of America’s most beloved sitcoms – including never-before-told stories and dozens of unseen photos. Joining him in conversation is comedy writer ALAN ZWEIBEL, author of Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier.   SPONSORED BY   […]

KARA SWISHER’s Burn Book: A Tech Love Story – part memoir, part history – tells the inside story of Silicon Valley and tech’s most powerful players, including Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Bob Iger, and Mark Zuckerberg. Together and at odds, they ruled over an explosion of world-changing innovation that […]

Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls is SUSAN SEIDELMAN’s first-person story of her trailblazing four-decade career in film, which began when few women were directing movies. From her Twiggy-obsessed girlhood through the women’s liberation movement of the early 1970s, the Madonna-mania of the ’80s, and beyond, Seidelman offers a keen […]

In ANN HOOD’s The Stolen Child: A Novel, a former WWI soldier enlists a college dropout to help him solve a decades-old mystery, leading both to reckon with regret, betrayal, and the lives they left behind. In ROXANA ROBINSON’s Leaving: A Novel, college lovers Sarah and Warren reconnect after a chance meeting and embark on […]

Tracing 50-plus years in one New York neighborhood, JONATHAN LETHEM’s Brooklyn Crime Novel begins on the streets of 1970s New York, where the promise of violence is everywhere. GEORGE PELECANOS’ Buster: A Dog is one resilient canine’s story, as told by the dog himself. Along the way, as he befriends other dogs and witnesses the […]

MARIE ARANA’s LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority – a sweeping yet personal overview of the Latino population in America – celebrates Latino resilience and character and shows why we must understand the largest and fastest-growing minority in America. PAOLA RAMOS’ Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What […]

V (FORMERLY EVE ENSLER)’s Reckoning recounts her creative journey and process across 40 years, representing the ideas that have become global movements and the methods through which she survived abuse and self-hatred. Seamlessly moving from the internal to the external and the personal to the political, Reckoning is a moving and inspiring work of prose, […]

How can you navigate life as the “normal” child of an extraordinary creative? In Earth to Moon: A Memoir, MOON UNIT ZAPPA writes about the wonders and challenges of growing up the daughter of Frank Zappa. But while every family faces unique problems related to their particular makeup, the journey to growing into yourself with […]