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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Books and authors talked about on your favorite NPR shows.
Book
Roman stories [2022]
Jhumpa Lahiri
Necessary trouble : growing up at midcentury [2023]
Drew Gilpin Faust
Love, Pamela [2023]
Pamela Anderson
Rough sleepers [2023]
Tracy Kidder
Saying it loud : 1966--the year Black power… [2023]
Mark Whitaker
On minimalism : documenting a musical movement [2023]
O'Brien, Kerry, 1983-
Crossings : how road ecology is shaping the… [2023]
Ben (Environmental journalist) Goldfarb
Assembling a Black counter culture [2022]
DeForrest Jr Brown
The wok : recipes and techniques [2022]
J Kenji López-Alt
Wow, no thank you : essays [2020]
Samantha Irby
Heads of the colored people : stories [2018]
Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Extremely online : the untold story of fame,… [2023]
Taylor Lorenz
Start here : instructions for becoming a better… [2023]
Sohla El-Waylly
Dearborn : stories [2023]
Ghassan Zeineddine
Everything [2023]
Alice Carrière
Shielded : how the police became untouchable [2023]
Joanna C Schwartz
Starstruck : a memoir of astrophysics and… [2023]
Sarafina Nance
Fragile cargo : the World War II race to save… [2022]
Adam (Journalist) Brookes
Growing up Getty : the story of America's most… [2022]
James Reginato
Stay true : a memoir [2022]
Hua Hsu
I don't want to die poor : essays [2020]
Michael Arceneaux
Allergic : our irritated bodies in a changing… [2023]
Theresa MacPhail
The heat will kill you first : life and death on… [2023]
Jeff Goodell
Congratulations, the best is over! : essays [2023]
R Eric Thomas
Fool me once : scams, stories, and secrets from… [2023]
Kelly Richmond Pope
Quietly hostile : essays [2023]
Break the wheel : ending the cycle of police… [2023]
Keith Ellison
Building : a carpenter's notes on life & the art… [2023]
Mark Ellison
Worthy [2023]
Jada Pinkett Smith
The great displacement : climate change and the… [2023]
Jake Bittle
Armageddon : what the Bible really says about… [2023]
Bart D Ehrman
Sparks : China's underground historians and… [2023]
Ian 1962 July 27- Johnson
An immense world : how animal senses reveal the… [2022]
Ed Yong
Partisans : the conservative revolutionaries who… [2022]
Nicole Hemmer
American cartel : inside the battle to bring… [2022]
Scott Higham
Invisible child : poverty, survival, and hope in… [2021]
Andrea Elliott
In the company of men [2021]
Véronique Tadjo
Yellow Bird : oil, murder, and a woman's search… [2020]
Sierra Crane Murdoch
In defense of looting : a riotous history of… [2020]
Vicky Osterweil
The country of the blind : a memoir at the end… [2023]
Andrew Leland
Soul boom : why we need a spiritual revolution [2023]
Rainn Wilson
Sofreh : a contemporary approach to classic… [2023]
Nasim Alikhani
Honey, baby, mine : a mother and daughter talk… [2023]
Laura Dern
Biting the hand : growing up Asian in Black and… [2023]
Julia Sun-Joo Lee
Black punk now : fiction, nonfiction, and comics [2023]
Terry, Chris L.,
A day in the life of Abed Salama : anatomy of a… [2023]
Nathan Thrall
Master slave husband wife : an epic journey from… [2023]
Ilyon Woo
Is math real? : how simple questions lead us to… [2023]
Eugenia Cheng
Son of elsewhere : a memoir in pieces [2022]
Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Illegally yours : a memoir [2022]
Rafael Agustin