Literary Events - Talks - Debates - Book Launch

What happens to a child as the offspring carrying the legacy of Nazi Germany and that of a Jewish Concentration Camp survivor? The war that should have separated the parents of Elke Babicki actually brought them together and made them rise above prejudice. In "Identity: From ..

In "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate", author Naomi Klein argues that confronting climate change is no longer about changing the light bulbs. Join us on Earth Day (April 22) for a discussion of Naomi's book. Register online. Category: Community | Librari ..

San Francisco Public Library is honored to announce its 16th Annual One City One Book selection, Chanel Miller's, Know My Name. Chanel Miller will join Robynn Takayama for a candid conversation about her book, art and her personal experience with sexual trauma and the CA ..

Shine Until Tomorrow is a time-travel tale that takes its troubled teenage protagonist from present-day San Francisco back to the “Summer of Love” in 1967. A fun and touching novel about the people who raise us, the times that define us, and the stumbling blocks along the w ..

Come meet authors and artist from across the country as we celebrate all things wordy. FREE GIFT BAG for the first 50 shoppers. Enter to win our gift basket door prize And fall in love with books again! Category: Arts | Books & Literature ..

The New Albany Community Foundation's New Albany Lectures Series will present the most decorated swimmer in history and mental health advocate, Michael Phelps, on March 9, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. This virtual program is free and open to all. Registration for the event is available ..

KAREN MEYER'S passion for history began as a young girl and led her to copy an early Ohio settler's diary in her senior year of high school. After earning a bachelor's degree cum laude in English and Education, she became an Air Force wife, and over the course of nine years ..

“The novel truly becomes novel again in Luiselli’s hands-electric, elastic, alluring, new... She is a superb chronicler of children: the daughter and son feel piercingly real- perceptive, irreplaceable...” - The New York Times Exploring the experience of dislocation as a ..

Most working writers have at least one thing in common: they seek to grow the readership for their work. But what leads to readership growth? And what can you do, especially without a publisher’s help (or a large bankroll), to encourage that growth? Sometimes this is called ..

The Brookdale Community College Bankier Library is sponsoring a book discussion featuring author Deborah Mura. She will discuss and read from her novel "Stronger than the Storm." Mura's book tells the story of Hurricane Sandy from the eyes of a 15-year-old and her friends. T ..

How did a group of self-taught internet sleuths end up solving the biggest crimes of our time? Bellingcat is what the world needs right now – an intelligence agency by the people, for the people. Higgins** This is an ONLINE only event. Conway Hall is a charity and we poli ..

Join us as we launch the Architecture Anew talk series with a shared conversation between award-winning architects Anna Heringer and Anupama Kundoo, co-presented by RIBA and VitrA Bathrooms. This exciting and unique event will bring two acclaimed architects together to di ..

If you want to understand what's happening in the world, look at a map. Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn't changed, but the world h ..

THE SECOND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - THE GLOCAL CALA 2021 - THE CONFERENCE ON ASIAN LINGUISTICANTHROPOLOGY 2021 GENERAL INFORMATION • The GLOCAL CALA 2021(SCOPUS / ISI indexed) is the annual GLOCAL conference and set of workshops and lectures on the Linguistic Anthropology, T ..

Dr. Lynne Cheney will discuss her latest book, The Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation, in an interactive Facebook Live event on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 6:30 PM EST. Dr. Cheney will be interviewed by Scott Harris, executive director ..

In this master class, we will explore the poetics of sound and utterance as we craft language and linguistic interventions to align politics and aesthetics. We will experiment with various strategies to texture voice as we become present to this particular moment that we fin ..

Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County Monthly Podcast featuring special guest Peeri will be discussing, The Outlander Series. Listen or watch via our YouTube channel, on Spotify, Anchor, Facebook or on our website. Just search for the Public Library of Mount Vernon ..

Zoom Virtual Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 10 5:30 to 6:30 pm (EST.) ​ Margaret will share her amazing story of how Walt Disney chose her to be the original Tinker Bell live-action model for the Disney animators in her book, “Tinker Bell Talks.” Tim will be ..

Growing up in rural Idaho in a survivalist family, Westover had no birth certificate and no formal schooling. At 17 she decided to educate herself, escaping her family to eventually earn a doctorate from Cambridge University. Westover's redemptive story shows how a young wom ..

Join historian and journalist David Mould on a journey to borders, both real and imagined, Monday, February 1 at 7:00 PM via Zoom. Fill out the online registration form at www.knox.net to receive Zoom information and to be entered into a drawing for a chance to win a copy of ..