At the Library

At the Library

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At the Library episodes

  • Margo Price in conversation with S. G. Goodman

    MARGO PRICE is a Nashville-based singer-songwriter. She has released three LPs, earned a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, performed on Saturday Night Live, and is the first female musician to sit on the board of Farm Aid.

    S.G. GOODMAN is a critically-acclaimed musician and Kentucky native. She was rightly coined an “untamed rock n roll truth-teller” by Rolling Stone.
    Recorded 10-18-2022
    #margoprice #grammys #kentucky

    1 hr 15 min
  • On Writing: A Conversation with Louisville Women Writers

    The Main Library welcomes four accomplished Louisville writers as they describe the thriving Louisville writing scene, share some of their triumphs, discuss navigating the challenges of publishing, and much more. Panelists will include:


    Ashleé Clark: Journalist, author, and manager of the American Journalism Project

    Kelly Hill: novelist

    Michelle Tyrene Johnson: Playwright and Louisville Public Media Senior Producer

    Erin Keane: Critic, poet, memoirist, and Chief Content Officer at Salon.com


    Presented in partnership with Spalding University’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing


    Recorded 3-5-2024

    1 hr 25 min
  • Rebecca Makkai in conversation with Katy Yocom

    Carmichael's Bookstore presents New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Makkai in conversation with Katy Yocom


    Award-winning author Rebecca Makkai will be joined onstage by Louisville writer Katy Yocom for a discussion of her New York Times bestselling mystery novel I Have Some Questions for You. Named a best book of 2023 by People, USA Today, and Real Simple, Makkai’s latest literary mystery follows the story of a podcaster who revisits the role she played in a flawed investigation from her past. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca Makkai teaches at Northwestern University, and is the Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago. Her 2018 book The Great Believers was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the year by the New York Times.


    Recorded 2-26-2024

    56 min
  • Everyday Argument in a Polarized World - Week 4

    This four-part series presented by UofL's Dr. Calvin Coker is about

    making argument less frightening, healthier, and more productive, by furnishing participants with a set of skills to better and more thoughtfully argue in the modern day.

    Download: ⁠Week 4 Handout⁠
    Recorded 1-30-2024


    1 hr 26 min
  • Everyday Argument in a Polarized World - Week 3

    This four-part series presented by UofL's Dr. Calvin Coker is about

    making argument less frightening, healthier, and more productive, by furnishing participants with a set of skills to better and more thoughtfully argue in the modern day.

    Download: ⁠Week 3 Handout⁠
    Recorded 1-23-2024


    1 hr 25 min
  • Everyday Argument in a Polarized World - Week 2

    This four-part series presented by UofL's Dr. Calvin Coker is about

    making argument less frightening, healthier, and more productive, by furnishing participants with a set of skills to better and more thoughtfully argue in the modern day.

    Download: ⁠Week 2 Handout⁠
    Recorded 1-16-2024


    1 hr 28 min
  • Everyday Argument in a Polarized World - Week 1

    This four-part series presented by UofL's Dr. Calvin Coker is about making argument less frightening, healthier, and more productive, by furnishing participants with a set of skills to better and more thoughtfully argue in the modern day.

    Download: Week 1 Handout

    Recorded 1-9-2024

    1 hr 23 min
  • Andy Weir in conversation with John Scalzi

    From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science.

    Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance
    mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
    Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his
    own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
    All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And
    he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home,
    with nothing but two corpses for company.
    His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that
    an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this
    tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific
    mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
    And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.
    Or does he?
    An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.


    Andy Weir built a two-decade career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian,

    allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time. He is a
    lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of such subjects as
    relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned
    spaceflight. He also mixes a mean cocktail. He lives in California.


    John Scalzi is one of the most popular SF authors of his generation. His debut, Old Man's War, won him the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, Redshirts (which won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel), and 2020's The Last Emperox. Material from his blog, Whatever (whatever.scalzi.com), has earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.

    1 hr 1 min
  • Eric Klinenberg: "Palaces for the People"

    LFPL and the Library Foundation were excited to host sociologist Eric Klinenberg, author of Palaces for the People, for two special events at the Main Library (April 14, 2023). The first was a public panel discussion on how social infrastructure can help fight inequality and polarization.

    Community leaders from across the city joined Klinenberg, as they discussed the value we place on our city’s social
    infrastructure—including libraries—and how it may offer solutions to some of Louisville’s critical issues.

    1 hr 27 min

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