USING LOSS, LOVE & TRAUMA TO CRAFT PROPULSIVE READS
Livestream + In PersonIn My What If Year: A Memoir, ALISHA FERNANDEZ MIRANDA writes about pausing her successful high-powered career for a year to explore a few jobs of her dreams, a journey […]
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HUMANS: RISE & FALL
Livestream + In PersonSIMON SCHAMA’s Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations investigates the tangled history of pandemics and vaccines through the 18th and 19th centuries, from smallpox in London to […]
HAPPILY NEVER AFTER: THE FEMININE URGE TO STAGE A RECKONING
Livestream + In PersonIn the bittersweet You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir, poet MAGGIE SMITH explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself, ultimately reckoning with contemporary […]
WACKY, WILD & WITTY
On DemandIn DAVE BARRY‘s Swamp Story: A Novel, Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her bad-news ex-boyfriend – then she stumbles across a […]
THREE AUTHORS ON FRACTURED FAMILIES
Livestream + In PersonALLEGRA GOODMAN’s Sam: A Novel is the story of a 7-year-old with a nearly absent father and a mother struggling to make ends meet. But all Sam wants to do […]
A HISTORICAL RECKONING: ON THE STATE OF AMERICA’S SOUL
Livestream + In PersonIn Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, HEATHER COX RICHARDSON offers a compelling and original narrative of how, over the decades, a small group of wealthy people have […]
DAUGHTERS OF LATIN AMERICA: A CONVERSATION
Livestream + In PersonSANDRA GUZMÁN, editor of Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women, is joined by contributors ELIZABETH ACEVEDO, DAINA CHAVIANO, ANJANETTE DELGADO, and ESMERALDA SANTIAGO to […]
ON MASTERY & KNOWLEDGE: THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE
Livestream + In PersonFrom the creation of the first encyclopedia and Wikipedia to ancient museums and modern kindergarten classes, SIMON WINCHESTER’s Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to […]
COMIC RELIEF & POP CULTURE ZEITGEIST
Livestream + In PersonIn Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome, comedian APARNA NANCHERLA delivers a collection of essays marked by her signature humor, sharing hilarious and incredibly insightful meditations on body image, […]
RECKONINGS & RECRIMINATIONS
Livestream + In PersonPineapple Street: A Novel, JENNIFER JACKSON's debut, follows three women in a one-percenter clan, offering glimpses of their indulgent pleasures, the miles between the haves and have-nots, and the insanity […]
DON’T CALL ME SHIRLEY: DAVID ZUCKER ON THE MAKING OF AIRPLANE!
Livestream + In PersonSurely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! is a first-ever history of the making of the 1980 comedy classic Airplane! by DAVID ZUCKER, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry […]
CELESTIAL BODIES: A CONVERSATION
Livestream + In PersonIn Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark, Egyptian American astrophysicist SARAFINA EL-BADRY NANCE shares how she carved out a place in her field, grounding herself […]