Lawrence * Manhattan * Topeka * Kansas City

February Literary Calendar

Lawrence * Manhattan * Topeka * Kansas City

4 Wednesday 7:00 pm

Dana Canedy, for A Journal for Jordan

Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, Truman Forum, 4801 Main Street, Kansas City MO

4 Wednesday 9:00 pm $3.00

Fresh Ink Spoken Word and Poetry

JazzHaus, 926 ½ Massachusetts, Lawrence KS

5 Thursday 10:30 am

Lucia Orth, author of Baby Jesus Pawn Shop

Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS

11 Wednesday 6:30 pm

Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea

Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City MO

11 Wednesday 7:00 pm

Washburn professor Tom Prasch, part of Kansas Reads The Virgin of Small Plains

Library Auditorium, Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont Street, Lawrence KS

17 Tuesday 7:00 pm

Talking Tombstones: History in the Cemetery with Albert Hamscher, part of Kansas Reads The Virgin of the Small Plains

Library Auditorium, Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont Street, Lawrence KS

17 Tuesday 7:00 pm

Stanley E. and Janet Banks, authors of Blue Beat Syncopation and Stewed Soul

Johnson County Central Resource Library, 9875 W. 87th St., Overland Park KS

17 Tuesday 7:00 pm

Barbara Delinsky, author of While My Sister Sleeps

Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City MO

19 Thursday 7:00 pm

David Kirby, authors of The House on Boulevard Street

Epperson Auditorium, Kansas City Art Institute, 4415 Warwick, Kansas City MO

19 Thursday 7:00 pm

Sam Lipsyte, authors of Home Land and The Subject Steve

Kansas City Public Library, Helzberg Auditorium, 14 W. 10th St., Kansas City MO

22 Sunday 1:30 pm

Michelle Boisseau, authors of A Sunday in God-Years

Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, Cohen Center, 4801 Main St., Kansas City MO

24 Tuesday 7:30 pm

James McBride, “The Color of Water: Search for Identity”

Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS

25 Wednesday 7:00 pm

Book discussion with Nancy Pickard, author of The Virgin of the Small Plains

Library Auditorium, Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont Street, Lawrence KS

25 Tuesday 7:00 pm

Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I’ve Been Silent About

Kansas City Public Library, 4801 Main Street, Kansas City MO

26 Thursday 6:30 pm

Tom Calvin, author of The Last Stand of Fox Company

Kansas City Public Library, Central Library, Helzberg Auditorium, 14 W 10th Street, Floor 5, Kansas City MO

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