Calendar

Check here for all of the upcoming events at UCPL. If you have questions about any of them, give us a call at 314-727-3150.

Apr
2
Tue
Online Author Event: Smithsonian Curator Paula J. Johnson
Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Virtually step into the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History
with Curator Paula Johnson as she discusses the book Smithsonian American Table:
The Foods, People, and Innovations That Feed Us on Tuesday, April 2 at 1
p.m. via digital live-stream in partnership with UCPL!

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Apr
9
Tue
Online Author Event: Diane Foley & Colum McCann
Apr 9 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Join us at 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 9 for a one-of-a-kind conversation with National Book Award-winner Colum McCann as he is joined by Diane Foley, the inspiration behind the heartrending book American Mother.

American Mother is the story of a mother who, in the course of confronting her son’s killer, gets to the elemental heart of violence and forgiveness. Diane Foley is the mother of Jim, a freelance journalist captured and beheaded by ISIS in 2014, an image that became one of the most iconic of the 21st century. Seven years later, Diane gets the chance to spend three days with the murderer of her son in a Virginia courthouse, inspiring her to tell her life story. What unfolds is one of the most compelling narratives in recent literary history, channeled into searing reality by New York Times bestselling author Colum McCann, who brings us on a journey of strength, resilience, and radical empathy.

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Apr
17
Wed
Online Author Event: Xochitl Gonzalez
Apr 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Join us at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 17 for an online chat with award-winning and bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez about her newest novel Anita de Monte Laughs Last. 

Anita de Monte Laughs Last is a propulsive, witty examination of power, love, and art, daring to ask who gets to be remembered and who is left behind in the rarefied world of the elite. In 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn’t. By 1998 Anita’s name had been all but forgotten―certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student was preparing her final thesis. She stumbles upon Anita’s story, raising questions about the dynamics of her own relationship with a well-connected older student, which eerily mirrors that of the forgotten artist.

Xochitl Gonzalez is the New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming. Named a Best of 2022 by The New York Times, TIMEKirkusWashington Post, and NPROlga Dies Dreaming was the winner of the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Fiction and The New York City Book Awards.

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