Jon Meacham ‘And There Was Light’

Hear Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham discuss his new book And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle in an online event on THURSDAY DECEMBER 8 (NEW DATE) at 7 p.m. (EST). Jon will be in conversation with Rutgers University professor and political historian Louis Masur. In this new illuminating portrait, Meacham chronicles the life of Lincoln …

Elizabeth Alexander: The Trayvon Generation

Join us on Festival Day, Saturday, May 7, at 12 p.m. (EST) as we welcome Pulitzer Prize Finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet Elizabeth Alexander. Elizabeth will be live and in-person talking about her new book, The Trayvon Generation, with feminist activist, author, and scholar Salamishah Tillet. Originally published as an essay in the New Yorker, The Trayvon Generation expands …

Salman Rushdie ‘Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020’

Salman Rushdie event June 22 2021

Join renowned storyteller Salman Rushdie for a literary conversation about his latest book Languages of Truth: Essays 2003–2020 on Tuesday, June 22 at 8 p.m. (EST). He will be live in conversation with author and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Nathan Englander. Rushdie explores what the work of authors from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty, and Toni Morrison mean to him, on the page or in …