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Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone | How to Be a (Young) Antiracist
Tue, January 31, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $26.50 book with ticket
TICKETS In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6abc Action News morning edition Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a…
Mehdi Hasan | Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
Thu, March 2, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $16.50
TICKETS THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FROM NOVEMBER 17, 2022 ALL PREVIOUSLY PURCHASED TICKETS WILL BE VALID ON THE NEW DATE Meelya Gordon Memorial Lecture In conversation with Marc Lamont Hill British American journalist Mehdi Hasan hosts the eponymously titled The Mehdi Hasan Show , a…
Debra Lee | I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir
Thu, March 9, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $16.50 or $39.00 book with ticket
TICKETS The former longtime CEO of Black Entertainment Television (BET), Debra Lee currently serves on the boards of several of the world’s leading corporations, including Proctor & Gamble, Warner Bros. Discovery, Revlon, Burberry Group Plc, and Marriott International. She is the…
Adam Gopnik | The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery
Tue, March 21, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $16.50
TICKETS A staff writer at The New Yorker for more than three decades, Adam Gopnik is the author of Paris to the Moon , The Table Comes First , At the Strangers’ Gate , and A Thousand Small Sanities , a “witty, humane, learned” ( The New York…
VIRTUAL - Judith Lewis Herman, M.D. | Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
Wed, March 22, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $16.50 ticket or $42.50 book with ticket
TICKETS In conversation with Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Endowed Lecture Your link to the Zoom webinar will be emailed 24 hours prior to the event. A professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School for more than 40 years, Judith Lewis Herman , M.D., is…
Ari Shapiro | The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
Thu, March 23, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $16.50 or $38.80 book with ticket
TICKETS In conversation with award-winning chef and restauranteur Michael Solomonov Ari Shapiro is the cohost of NPR’s All Things Considered , the most listened-to radio news program in the country. Formerly NPR’s White House correspondent and international correspondent based…
Emily St. John Mandel | Sea of Tranquility
Tue, March 28, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $16.50
TICKETS In conversation with Laura McGrath, Assistant Professor of English at Temple University A “soul-quaking” ( Los Angeles Review of Books ) meditation on the everyday miracles we take for granted set amongst the travels and travails of a Shakespearean acting troupe in the…
Matthew Desmond | Poverty, by America
Tue, April 4, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $16.50/$38.00 book w/ticket
TICKETS Sociologist Matthew Desmond won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City , the “exhaustively researched, vividly realized and, above all, unignorable” ( The New…
Mary Louise Kelly | It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
Thu, April 13, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $16.50 or $37.30 book with ticket
TICKETS An NPR reporter for more than two decades, Mary Louise Kelly currently co-hosts the network’s flagship program All Things Considered , the most listened-to radio news show in the United States. Also the author of two popular suspense novels, she has contributed articles and…
Simon Winchester | Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
Wed, April 26, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $16.50
TICKETS Pine Tree Foundation Endowed Lecture Exuding “the comfort and charm of a beloved encyclopedia come to life” ( The New Yorker ), Simon Winchester is the bestselling author of nearly 30 nonfiction books that explore some of the world’s most consequential people, places,…