Talks & Entertainment

Emily St. John Mandel

In Conversation with Maureen Corrigan

The bestselling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with Sea of Tranquility, a novel of art, time, love, and plague spanning centuries and space from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later.

Ocean Vuong

In Conversation with Kat Chow

From the author of the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and critically-acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds, comes Time Is a Mother, a deeply intimate poetry collection that finds Vuong searching for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death.

Jonathan Van Ness

In Conversation with Chasten Buttigieg

From the New York Times bestselling author of Over the Top and grooming expert on Netflix’s “Queer Eye” comes the candid and curious essay collection, Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life.

VIRTUAL: Susan Cain

In Conversation with Daniel Pink

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Quiet comes Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole, revealing the power of a bittersweet, melancholic outlook on life and why we’ve been so blind to its value.

Zakir Hussain, tabla: Triveni

Jayanthi Kumaresh, veena, and Kala Ramnath, Carnatic violin

The tabla maestro known for fostering musical dialogues between Hindustani (North Indian) and Carnatic (South Indian) music pays homage to this spirit by leading a trio of Indian classical music virtuosos.

Janelle Monáe and Collaborating Writer Alaya Dawn Johnson

In Conversation with Kimberly Drew

From groundbreaking musician, actor, fashion icon and futurist Janelle Monáe and an outstanding group of collaborators comes The Memory Librarian, a collection of short fiction, bringing to the written page the rebellious and Afrofuturistic world of Monáe’s critically acclaimed album, Dirty Computer.

Randy Rainbow

Playing With Myself Book Tour

In his memoir Playing with Myself, the viral sensation and three-time Emmy-nominated musical comedian takes readers through his life—the highs, the lows, the lipstick, the pink glasses, and the show tunes.

Danilo Pérez’s Global Messengers

The GRAMMY-winning jazz pianist and UNESCO Artist for Peace unites his twin passions of music and humanitarianism in this international sextet.

CANCELED: Jennifer Grey

In Conversation with Sarah L. Kaufman

Best known for her iconic, Golden Globe-nominated portrayal of Baby in the beloved classic Dirty Dancing, Jennifer Grey offers a deeply candid and refreshingly spirited memoir of identity lost and found in Out of the Corner. Get ready to have the time of your life!

Dijon

Formerly one half of the acclaimed musical duo Abhi//Dijon, the Baltimore-area native establishes himself as a solo artist to watch with his debut album, Absolutely.