Michele Norris
In Conversation with Laura Coates
Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity is a compilation of these stories, along with richly reported essays and photographs that provide a window into America during a tumultuous era. The book offers an honest, if sometimes uncomfortable, conversation about race and identity, permitting us to eavesdrop on deep-seated thoughts, private discussions, and long submerged memories.
- Date:
- Jan 18, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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In-Person:
Ticket: $18
Ticket + Signed Book: $38Virtual:
Ticket: $12
Ticket (free) + Signed Book: $43
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
Common
In Conversation with Clint Smith
Common, a multi-award-winning performer, author, and activist, has achieved success in many facets of his life and career, from music to acting to writing. But for a long time, he didn’t feel that he had found fulfillment in his body and spirit. In And Then We Rise: A Guide to Loving and Taking Care of Self, he shares a comprehensive program for addressing mental and physical health and encouraging communities to do the same.
- Date:
- Jan 27, 2024 • 7:30 pm ET
- Admission:
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In Person:
Ticket: $25
Ticket + Signed Book: $42Virtual:
Ticket: $12
Ticket (free) + Signed Book: $37
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
Kate Bowler
In Conversation with Judy Woodruff
Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day! Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens is a collection of spiritual reflections and action-steps to help you get through any kind of day—good, bad, or mediocre. Bowler understands that every day can be an obstacle course, and we don’t always have magical lives that work out. She encourages us to develop our capacity to feel the breadth of our experiences as a way to become more resilient, courageous, loving, and honest—while discovering divine moments with God.
- Date:
- Jan 30, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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In Person:
Ticket: $22
Ticket + Signed Book: $35Virtual:
Ticket: $12
Ticket (free) + Signed Book: $34
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
Moshe Kasher
In Conversation with Lauren Ober
In Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes, the stand-up comedian, writer, and actor tells the story of the lives he has spent careening between and how he found his people, over and over again, in different settings. This program will include a short stand-up set and a moderated conversation.
- Date:
- Feb 6, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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In Person:
Ticket: $20
Ticket + Signed Book: $35Virtual:
Ticket: $12
Virtual Ticket (free) + Signed Book: $37
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
Asking for a Friend
with Rhaina Cohen and Dr. Marisa Franco
Just before Valentine’s Day, give some TLC to the less discussed relationship type, friendship. Amidst declining marriage rates and a loneliness epidemic, Rhaina Cohen—author of The Other Significant Others—and Dr. Marisa Franco—author of Platonic—illuminate friendship’s power to transform how we define a fulfilling life.
- Date:
- Feb 13, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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In Person:
Ticket: $15
Ticket + Signed Cohen Book: $30
Ticket + Signed Franco Book: $30
Ticket (free) + Signed Both Books: $57
Post-event Friendship Bingo: SOLD OUT
Virtual:
Ticket: $10
Ticket (free) + Signed Cohen Book: $37
Ticket (free) + Signed Franco Book: $36
Ticket (free) + Signed Both Books: $73
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
Dolly Alderton
In Conversation with Karin Tanabe
From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love comes Good Material, a story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both.
- Date:
- Feb 28, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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In Person:
Ticket: $25
Ticket + Signed Book: $42Virtual:
Ticket: $12
Virtual Ticket (free) + Signed Book: $36
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
Kara Swisher
In Conversation with Laurene Powell Jobs
From the award-winning journalist, host of “On with Kara Swisher,” and cohost of “Pivot” comes Burn Book: A Tech Love Story, a history and an accounting of the tech industry and its most powerful players who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
- Date:
- Feb 29, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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In Person:
Ticket + Signed Book: $40Virtual:
Ticket: $12
Virtual Ticket (free) + Signed Book: $38
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
Becky Lynch
In Conversation with Lauren Ober
Culled from decades of journal entries, Becky Lynch: The Man: Not Your Average Average Girl Rebecca Quin, the WWE superstar now known in the ring as Becky Lynch, delves into her earliest wrestling days, her scrappy beginnings, and her meteoric rise to fame—offering a raw and honest depiction of the complex woman behind the character played on TV.
- Date:
- Mar 28, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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In Person:
Ticket: $25
Ticket + Signed Book: $40Virtual:
Ticket: $12
Virtual Ticket (free) + Signed Book: $37
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
CANCELED – Chris Dixon
In Conversation with MacKenzie Sigalos
In the New York Times bestseller Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet, technology entrepreneur, startup investor, and general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (“a16z”) Chris Dixon argues that the dream of an open network for fostering creativity and entrepreneurship doesn’t have to die and can, in fact, be saved with blockchain networks.
- Date:
- Apr 9, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
Joseph E. Stiglitz
In Conversation with Timothy Noah
In The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society, the Nobel Laureate dissects America’s current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure.
- Date:
- Apr 25, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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In-Person:
Ticket: $25
Ticket + Book: $40Virtual:
Ticket: $12
Virtual Ticket (free) + Signed Book: $38
- Category:
- Authors & Talks