Author Talk Series
Enjoy a range of talks from bestselling authors and thought leaders. Brought to you in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium.
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Book
My struggle [2012]
Karl Ove Knausgård
My struggle. Book two, A man in love [2013]
My struggle. Book three, Boyhood [2014]
My struggle. Book four [2015]
My struggle. Book five [2015]
My struggle. Book six [2018]
The lover [1985]
Marguerite Duras
The complete Claudine [2022]
Colette
The ghost writer [1979]
Philip Roth
A portrait of the artist as a young man. [1916]
James Joyce
Swann's way [2013]
Marcel Proust
The Topeka school [2019]
Ben Lerner
Mean free path [2010]
Leaving the Atocha Station : a novel [2011]
Dept. of speculation [2014]
Jenny Offill
Weather : a novel [2020]
How should a person be? : [a novel from life] [2012]
Sheila Heti
Women in clothes [2014]
Pure colour [2022]
Motherhood [2018]
Go tell it on the mountain [1981]
James Baldwin
Second place [2021]
Rachel Cusk
Transit [2016]
Kudos [2018]
A life's work : on becoming a mother [2001]
Outline [2015]
The Bradshaw variations [2010]
The Last Supper : a summer in Italy [2009]
Arlington Park [2006]
The friend [2018]
Sigrid Nunez
The rings of Saturn [1998]
Winfried Georg Sebald
On earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel [2019]
Ocean Vuong
Topics of conversation [2020]
Miranda Popkey
No one is talking about this [2021]
Patricia Lockwood
The Copenhagen trilogy : childhood, youth,… [2021]
Tove Irma Margit Ditlevsen
Leave society [2021]
Tao Lin
On the road [1955]
Jack Kerouac
Crudo : a novel [2018]
Olivia Laing
Evolution [2018]
Eileen Myles