At the Library

Harvey Sloane, former Mayor of Louisville, is an exemplary public servant whose career took him from Yale to Vietnam, from Kentucky to Washington, D.C. In his memoir Riding the Rails: My Unexpected Adventures in Medicine, City Hall and Public Service, Sloane takes the reader through his life as a surgeon and public health official, and his political career in his adopted state.

Starting with an upset win to become Mayor of Louisville, his two terms coincided with turbulent times in the city, and his bids for governor and senate brought him in contact, good or ill, with the major political players in Kentucky’s recent history.

Acclaimed poet, essayist, and novelist Honorée Fanonne Jeffers visited LFPL's Main Library to discuss her bestselling novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction, was longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction, and was included in “Ten Best Books of 2021” by The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Jeffers is the recipient of the 2023 Spalding Prize for the Promotion of Peace and Justice in Literature for her much lauded debut.

Adam Rubin, the #1 New York Times bestselling children’s author of Dragons Love Tacos, The Ice Cream Machine, and the new book, The Human Kaboom.

In her acclaimed memoir, Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time,

A young Korean American and an aspiring concert solo violinist, she was forced to give up her dream due to performance anxiety. Anchoring her story with illuminating research in neuroscience and quantum physics, Hodges traces her own passage through

Housing policy expert and author Leah Rothstein visited

Join local author Jermaine Fowler, host of the top-rated history

For lovers of The Big Chill and Four Weddings and a Funeral, Rowley’s latest book, The Celebrants, explores and celebrates decades-long friendships with a deeply honest tribute to the growing pains of selfhood and the people who keep us going.

NY Times bestselling author Steven Rowley is the New York Times bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus, a Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, The Editor, named by NPR as one of the Best Books of 2019, The Guncle, a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist for 2021 Novel of the Year and winner of The 22nd Thurber Prize for American Humor, and The Celebrants, a TODAY Show Read With Jenna Book Club pick.

Celeste Ng is the New York Times bestselling author of two novels, Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. Just released in paperback, Little Fires Everywhere was Amazon's #2 best book and best fiction book of 2017, and was named a best book of the year by over 25 publications. This complex suburban saga was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick and is currently being adapted for an eight-episode series on Hulu, starring Witherspoon and Kerry Washington.

Join Celeste Ng, in conversation with Anne Bogel—author and creator of the popular Modern Mrs.