READINGS & CONVERSATIONS
2023 / 2024

  • Steve Inskeep with Nicholas Kristof

    JANUARY 25, 2024

    Author of Differ We Must and co-host of NPR’s Morning Edition appears with legendary, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

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  • Ayana Mathis

    FEBRUARY 29, 2024

    Acclaimed author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie returns with her much-anticipated novel, The Unsettled.

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  • Gabrielle Zevin

    APRIL 24, 2024

    Best-selling novelist, author of the “utterly brilliant” love story turned global phenomenon, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.

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  • Ed Yong

    MAY 14, 2024

    Pulitzer Prize winning science journalist, author of the bestsellers I Contain Multitudes and An Immense World.

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  • Elizabeth Gilbert

    MAY 20, 2024

    Critically-acclaimed novelist and nonfiction writer, inspirational author of Eat, Pray, Love, Committed, and Big Magic.

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  • Steve Inskeep with Nicholas Kristof on January 25, 2024

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The 2023-24 Series Lineup

Steve Inskeep with Nicholas Kristof

Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024
Doors at 7 PM / Event at 8 PM
The Morrison Center

Steve Inskeep is a co-host of NPR’s Morning Edition, the most widely heard radio program in the United States, and of NPR’s Up First, one of the nation’s most popular podcasts. His reporting has taken him across the United States, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, Pakistan, and China. His search for the full story behind the news has led him to history; he is the author of Instant City, Jacksonland, Imperfect Union, and his latest, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America.


Nicholas Kristof is a New York Times op-ed columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. With his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, he has written four best-selling books, including the No. 1 New York Times best-seller Half the Sky. Kristof and WuDunn were the first married couple to win a Pulitzer for journalism, for their coverage of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement in China and the massacre that followed. Kristof later won a second for his columns from Darfur.

Season subscribers will receive a copy of Inskeep’s Differ We Must and Kristof’s Chasing Hope.

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Ayana Mathis

Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. *NEW DATE
Doors at 6:30 PM / Event at 7:30 PM
The Egyptian Theatre

Ayana Mathis’s first novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, was a New York Times Bestseller, featured in book clubs by Oprah and NPR, and long listed for the Dublin Literary Award, among other honors. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone. Mathis received her MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and went on to become the first African-American woman to serve as an assistant professor in the program.

*Ayana’s lecture was originally scheduled for Tuesday, February 27, but has been rescheduled to Thursday, February 29.

Gabrielle Zevin

Wednesday, Apr. 24, 2024
Doors at 6:30 PM / Event at 7:30 PM
The Egyptian Theatre

Gabrielle Zevin is the New York Times and internationally best-selling author of several critically acclaimed novels, including The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, and Young Jane Young, and her most recent smash, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Her novels have been translated into thirty-nine languages.

Ed Yong

Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Doors at 6:30 PM / Event at 7:30 PM
The Egyptian Theatre

Ed Yong is the best-selling author of I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us. An accomplished speaker and science staff writer for The Atlantic, Yong won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for his crucial coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Monday, May 20, 2024
Doors at 7 PM / Event at 8 PM
The Morrison Center

Elizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love, Committed, and Big Magic, as well as the award-winning short story collection, Pilgrims. A Pushcart Prize winner and National Magazine Award-nominated journalist, she works as writer-at-large for GQ. Her journalism has been published in Harper's Bazaar, Spin, and The New York Times, and her stories have appeared in Esquire, Story, and the Paris Review.

Season subscribers will receive a copy of Gilbert’s forthcoming book.

Victoria “V.E.” Schwab with Cory Doctorow

Monday, October 2, 2023
Doors at 6:30 PM / Event at 7:30 PM
The Egyptian Theatre

Victoria “V.E.” Schwab is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including the acclaimed novel The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, the Shades of Magic series, Villains series, and the Monsters of Verity duology. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, translated into more than a dozen languages, and optioned for television and film. 

Cory Doctorow is a regular contributor to the Guardian and Locus, and a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an MIT Media Lab Research Associate and a visiting professor of Computer Science at the Open University. His award-winning novels Little Brother and its sequel Homeland were New York Times bestsellers.

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. Each ticket includes a hardcover copy of Schwab’s forthcoming novel The Fragile Threads of Power.

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