2025-26 Series Lineup
Geraldine Brooks
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Doors at 6:30 PM / Event at 7:30 PM
The Egyptian Theatre
Geraldine Brooks is a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist renowned for her deeply-immersive, character-driven historical novels. Her fiction debut, Year of Wonders, became an international bestseller, translated into more than 25 languages and is currently optioned for a limited series by Olivia Colman’s production company. Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize for her second novel, March, and her other bestsellers include People of the Book, Caleb’s Crossing, The Secret Chord, and Horse. An accomplished journalist, Brooks spent 11 years as a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, reporting from the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. She received the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
Series subscribers will receive a book by Geraldine Brooks.
Jill Lepore with Steve Inskeep
Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025
Doors at 7 PM / Event at 8 PM
The Morrison Center
Jill Lepore is an award-winning American historian, journalist, and staff writer at The New Yorker, where she has contributed since 2005. Her many books include The Whites of Their Eyes, The Deadline, and the international bestseller These Truths: A History of the United States, named one of Time magazine's top ten non-fiction books of the decade. Lepore serves as the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and professor of law at Harvard Law School. Her forthcoming book, We the People, offers a stunning new history of the U.S. Constitution for a troubling new era.
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.
Series subscribers will receive a hardcover copy of We The People by Jill Lepore.
Alison Bechdel with Samuel Hunter
Thursday, February 26, 2026
Doors at 6:30 PM / Event at 7:30 PM
The Egyptian Theatre
Alison Bechdel is an author and cartoonist whose cult following for her early comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For, expanded wildly upon the publication of her family memoirs, Are You My Mother? and the New York Times bestselling and Time magazine #1 Book of the Year graphic memoir Fun Home, adapted into a Tony Award–winning musical. Bechdel is a Professor in the Practice at Yale University and has won both Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, among many other honors.
Samuel D. Hunter is a decorated playwright originally from Moscow, Idaho. His plays include The Whale, A Bright New Boise, Greater Clements, and A Case for the Existence of God, which garnered the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play. His screenplay adaptation of The Whale, directed by Darren Aronofsky, received two Oscars, including Best Actor for Brendan Fraser. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Hunter holds degrees from NYU and Juilliard and an honorary doctorate from the University of Idaho.
Series subscribers will receive a hardcover copy of Spent by Alison Bechdel.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Monday, March 23, 2026
Doors at 7 PM / Event at 8 PM
The Morrison Center
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Gathering Moss and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, which has remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over five years. Her newest book, The Serviceberry, offers a bold vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world. A SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, Kimmer received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022.
Chris Bohjalian
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Doors at 6:30 PM / Event at 7:30 PM
The Egyptian Theatre
Chris Bohjalian is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than two dozen books. His novels include Midwives (an Oprah’s Book Club selection), The Sandcastle Girls, Hour of the Witch, The Lioness, and The Flight Attendant, adapted into a celebrated series on HBO. Dubbed “one of our finest storytellers” by The Boston Globe, Bohjalian uses his gripping fiction to explore contemporary social issues, including domestic violence, climate change, genocide, homelessness, and human trafficking. His 25th book, The Jackal’s Mistress, is a heart-stopping work of historical fiction based on a largely unknown piece of American Civil War history.
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