Author Talk Series
Enjoy a range of talks from bestselling authors and thought leaders. Brought to you in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium.
CLOSURE: Central Library will be closed Tuesday, July 21, through Saturday, July 25, while emergency repairs are made to the building’s cooling system. We expect to reopen Monday, July 27. Click for more details on holds, program schedules, and returns during the closure.
Notice of Public Meeting: Kalamazoo Public Library Board of Trustees | July 27 | 5:30 pm | Central Library/Van Deusen Room. The packet of information for the meeting can be found on the library’s website.
Book
Dept. of speculation [2014]
Jenny Offill
Train dreams [2011]
Denis Johnson
The vegetarian : a novel [2015]
Kang Han
Slowness [1996]
Milan Kundera
A pale view of hills [1982]
Kazuo Ishiguro
Fever dream : a novel [2017]
Samanta Schweblin
What belongs to you [2016]
Garth Greenwell
Leaving the Atocha Station : a novel [2011]
Ben Lerner
Point Omega : a novel [2010]
Don DeLillo
The loser [1991]
Thomas Bernhard
Margaret the first [2016]
Danielle Dutton
Speedboat [2013]
Renata Adler
The sense of an ending [2011]
Julian Barnes
Signs preceding the end of the world [2015]
Yuri Herrera
The lover [1985]
Marguerite Duras
Mrs. Caliban [1983]
Rachel Ingalls
The house on Mango Street [1984]
Sandra Cisneros
Convenience store woman [2016]
Sayaka Murata
The Patrick Melrose novels : Never mind, Bad… [2012]
Edward St Aubyn
Autobiography of red : a novel in verse [1998]
Anne Carson
Treasure Island!!! [2012]
Sara Levine
Ema, the captive [2016]
César Aira
The days of abandonment [2002]
Elena Ferrante
The mezzanine : a novel [1988]
Nicholson Baker
Machine : a novel [2019]
Susan Steinberg
The Buddha in the attic [2011]
Julie Otsuka
Sula [1974]
Toni Morrison
Winter in the blood [1974]
James Welch
Grief is the thing with feathers : a novel [2016]
Max Porter
Old school : a novel [2003]
Tobias Wolff
Who will run the frog hospital? : a novel [1994]
Lorrie Moore
The bookshop [1978]
Penelope Fitzgerald
Mapping the interior [2017]
Stephen Graham Jones
Mariette in ecstasy [1991]
Ron Hansen
We the animals : a novel [2011]
Justin Torres
The orange eats creeps : a novel [2010]
Grace Krilanovich
