Virtual Authors Live! is thrilled to welcome back Liz Moore –- one of the first guests to appear in the Library Speakers Consortium series –to discuss her latest work, The God of the Woods, an instant New York Times bestseller and one of NPR’s 2024 “Books We Love” highlights. Early morning, August 1975: a camp […]
This month we will be discussing Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead’s 2021 crime novel.
Feminist philosopher Dr. Lindsey Stewart’s book, The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic, tells the stories of Negro Mammies of slavery; the Voodoo Queens and Blues Women of Reconstruction; and the Granny Midwives and textile weavers of the Jim Crow era. These women, in secrecy and subterfuge, courageously […]
Take part in a conversation with Tom Crouch about the trials, errors, and incredible legacy of the Smithsonian’s foundation.
This month find all the materials needed to make your own multimedia collage. We will provide paint, fabric scraps, old books and magazines to cut from, as well as small canvases and other odds and ends to fuel your creativity.
Join Virtual Authors Live in conversation with bestselling author and humorist Michael Perry, whose collection of genre-spanning works encapsulates the experiences – and the magic – of rural town communities and the everyday people who reside in them. In his memoir, Population: 485, Perry tells a frequently comic tale leavened with moments of heartbreaking delicacy […]
This month we will discuss Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas (2007).
You’re invited to join Virtual Authors Live for a conversation with acclaimed author Kate Quinn about her latest fantastical work, The Astral Library, which poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live inside a book? Welcome to the Astral Library, where books are not just objects, but doors to new worlds, new lives, […]
Join Virtual Authors Live for a special conversation between award-winning journalist Shoshana Walter and bestselling and award-winning author Barbara Kingsolver as they chat about Walter’s book Rehab: An American Scandal. In this work, Walter, a Pulitzer finalist, exposes the country’s failed response to the opioid crisis, and the malfeasance, corruption, and snake oil which blight […]
Join Virtual Authors Live! for an exhilarating journey through the history of US women astronauts with Valerie Neal, emerita curator from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and expert on human spaceflight. Click on the image below to find out more!
Ages 18+. Read and discuss Fahrenheit 451 (1953), by Ray Bradbury. Drop in; no registration required.
Join Virtual Authors Live! in conversation with acclaimed author Brad Taylor on his latest work, Shadow Strike, book 20 of the bestselling Pike Logan series. Click on the image below to find out more!
