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Watch and listen to recordings of discussions and readings by major, local, and up and coming authors. Learn more about your favorite authors, discover new voices and go behind the scenes to hear the stories behind the stories.
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"Dark and Tender": Aaron Johnson and Prentis Hemphill in Conversation
Join us for an interactive film screening with embodiment practice and conversation with Aaron Johnson and Prentis Hemphill.
View Video (01:05:12) | Posted May 2025
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Karen Russell discusses "The Antidote"
Join us to hear bestselling author Karen Russell discuss her new novel, a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town.
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Omar El Akkad and Ijeoma Oluo discuss "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This"
Award-winning writer Omar El Akkad discusses his new book, a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.
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Pico Iyer and David Guterson discuss "Aflame: Learning From Silence"
Join us for this conversation about the abiding clarity and calm to be found in quiet retreat.
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Rebecca Nagle and Wudan Yan discuss "By the Fire We Carry"
Join us to hear Nagle discuss this powerful work that blends reportage and history and tells the story of the generations-long Native-led battle for justice.
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Rachel Kushner presents "Creation Lake"
Rachel Kushner will discuss her new novel "Creation Lake" with local writer Phil Neel.
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Paul Lynch and Paul Constant discuss “Prophet Song”
Winner of the 2023 Booker Prize, Lynch will discuss his highly original novel, which spins a terrifying, suspenseful vision of an Ireland careening towards authoritarianism.
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Dr. Karen Tang and Jane Park discuss "It's Not Hysteria"
Join us for a discussion about this essential and inclusive resource for reproductive health: “It’s Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (but Were Never Told)”.
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Anna Zivarts discusses "When Driving Is Not An Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency"
Disability advocate Zivarts discusses how improving our transportation system with nondrivers in mind will benefit everyone. Drawing from interviews with involuntary nondrivers from around the US and from her own experience, Zivarts explains how nondrivers get around and the changes necessary to make our communities more accessible.
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Satsuki Ina and Tom Ikeda: "Love, Imprisonment, and Protest"
Satsuki Ina was born in the Tule Lake Concentration Camp and has dedicated much of her life to helping the Japanese American community heal from WWII incarceration – and to fighting to ensure that no other group is subjected to such harm. Ina will present her moving new memoir, “The Poet and the Silk Girl” (Heyday Books, March 2024), in which she recovers the story of how her parents survived and resisted their incarceration in U.S. concentration camps. She will be joined in conversation by Tom Ikeda, founding executive director of Densho.