2024-25 Series Lineup

Ira Glass

Saturday, September 21, 2024
Doors at 7 PM / Event at 8 PM
The Morrison Center

Ira Glass is the host and creator of the public radio program This American Life. The show is heard each week by over 5 million listeners on public radio stations and via podcast. Under Glass's editorial direction, This American Life has won the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic excellence, including seven Peabody awards and the first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded for audio journalism. In 2021, This American Life episode ‘The Giant Pool of Money’ was the first podcast entry inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry. Glass also served as an editor for the groundbreaking podcasts Serial, S-Town, and Nice White Parents.

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Lydia Millet & Richard Powers

Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025
Doors at 7 PM / Event at 8 PM
The Morrison Center

Lydia Millet has written more than a dozen novels and story collections. Her novel A Children's Bible was a New York Times "Best 10 Books of 2020" selection and shortlisted for the National Book Award. In 2019 her story collection, Fight No More, received an Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and her collection, Love in Infant Monkeys, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010. She’s worked as an editor and staff writer at the Center for Biological Diversity since 1999. 


Richard Powers is the author of 14 novels, many exploring the natural world and the effects of modern science and technology. His 12th novel, The Overstory, won the Pulitzer Prize, was a finalist for the Man Booker, and received widespread praise by the likes of Barbara Kingsolver and President Obama. A former recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, his 2006 book, The Echo Maker, won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.


Series subscribers will receive a book by both authors.

Sandeep Jauhar

Thursday, March 13, 2025
Doors at 6:30 PM / Event at 7:30 PM
The Egyptian Theatre

Sandeep Jauhar is the bestselling author of four acclaimed books on healthcare and modern medicine: Intern, Doctored, and Heart: A History, which was named a best book of 2018 by Science Friday and a PBS NewsHour and New York Times book club pick. His latest book, My Father’s Brain, wrestles with the moral and psychological issues that arise when family members become caregivers. A practicing physician, Jauhar writes regularly for the opinion section of The New York Times. His TED Talk on the emotional heart was one of the ten most-watched TED Talks of 2019.

Series subscribers will receive a book by Jauhar.

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Luis Alberto Urrea

Thursday, April 10, 2025
Doors at 6:30 PM / Event at 7:30 PM
The Egyptian Theatre

Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of 17 books, a master storyteller known for his explorations of love, loss and triumph. The Devil’s Highway, his non-fiction account of a group of Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona desert, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and was called, “the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy” by The Atlantic. His acclaimed historical novels, The Hummingbird’s Daughter and Queen of America together tell the epic story of Teresita Urrea, a great aunt who was a healer and Mexican folk hero. His latest, Good Night, Irene, takes as inspiration his mother’s own Red Cross service.

Téa Obreht

Thursday, May 22, 2025
Doors at 6:30 PM / Event at 7:30 PM
The Egyptian Theatre

Téa Obreht is an decorated Serbian-American novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, The Tiger’s Wife, won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction, and was an international bestseller. Named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty, Obreht’s second novel, Inland, an epic set in the American West in 1893, was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize and called “more convincingly Cormac McCarthy than McCarthy himself” by The Guardian. Her highly-anticipated third book, The Morningside, was published in March 2024.

Angeline Boulley

Thursday, February 27, 2025
Doors at 6:30 PM / Event at 7:30 PM
The Egyptian Theatre

Angeline Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. She is a former Director of the Office of Indian Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Her debut novel, Firekeeper’s Daughter, was an instant #1 NYT Bestseller and is being adapted for television on Netflix by Higher Ground, Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company. The winner of many awards, the book was listed as one of the best 100 young adult books of all time by Time magazine.

PLEASE NOTE: This event is an R&C add-on and is not included with series tickets, tickets must be purchased separately for this event.

Readings & Conversations Add-on Event

This event is not included in series tickets and must be purchased separately.

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City of Boise, Rediscovered Books, Idaho Town Car, Edwards Greenhouse & Flowershop, and The Grove Hotel

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