Friday, June 7 Carmichael’s Bookstore 2720 Frankfort Ave. • 896-6950 Free; 7 p.m. Anthropologists will tell you that the hunter-gatherer lifestyle was real cutting-edge back around 15,000 B.C. In the modern world you can still find tribes in remote areas who live that way … but none of them write (or photograph, or compose web [...]
Thursday, May 23 Brown Hotel 335 W. Broadway • 873-4400 Free; 6:30 p.m. Celebrated author appearance: As part of Spalding University’s semi-annual Festival of Contemporary Writing, Tim O’Brien, author of the classic Vietnam War story collection “The Things They Carried,” will give a reading/signing at the 16th-floor gallery of the Brown Hotel. Sena Jeter Naslund [...]
UofL’s Archives and Special Collections has extended the closing date for its exhibit of items from its Harlan Hubbard Collection. It will now be on display through mid-July. Lower Level, Ekstrom Library.
Friday, April 26 Carmichael’s Bookstore 2720 Frankfort Ave. carmichaelsbookstore.com Free; 7 p.m. History fans take note, David Dominé, Louisville’s only (that I know of) author, college instructor, entrepreneur and ghost tour guide will be speaking about and signing his brand new book, “Old Louisville: Exuberant, Elegant, and Alive” at Carmichael’s Friday evening. The beautiful 248-page [...]
April 18, 2013 – 12:57 pm
Thursday, April 18 Louisville Free Public Library 301 York St. • 574-1611 lfpl.org Free (tickets required); 7 p.m. David Rohde has unique bona fides for authoring books on modern geopolitical conflict and its human cost. Not only has this journalist earned two Pulitzers, but he’s lived through months as a hostage of the Taliban. His [...]
April 18, 2013 – 12:55 pm
Thursday, April 18 Kentucky Center 501 W. Main St. • 584-7777 kentuckycenter.org $39.50+; 7:30 p.m. In advance of a book signing in Louisville a few years ago, humorist David Sedaris took the time to chat with LEO over the phone. And as expected, the conversation darted in unexpected directions, with the humorist rattling off absurd [...]
Registration required. The Carnegie Center for Art & History, 201 East Spring St. in New Albany, 812-944-7336 is hosting “Lunch & Learn: From Slavery to Civil War Nurse, Lucy Higgs Nichols” on Tuesday, April 16 from 12-1 pm. Author, dramatis and storyteller Judith C. Owens-Lalude will present her first-person interpretation of Lucy Higgs Nichols as part [...]
Thursday, March 7 Barnes & Noble The Summit • 327-0410 Free; 6:30 p.m. Long before the Waverly Hills Sanatorium became a haunted tourist destination, it was a haven for the sick. The hospital opened in 1910 to accommodate patients stricken with tuberculosis, a deadly bacterial disease that was rampant in Louisville’s swampy Ohio Valley climate. [...]
February 1, 2013 – 10:52 am
Friday, Feb. 1 Carmichael’s Bookstore 2720 Frankfort Ave. • 896-6950 Free; 7 p.m. Historical novelist Alison Atlee is coming to Carmichael’s to promote “The Typewriter Girl.” This trade-paperback original is the debut for the local author, and it’s garnered significant attention (e.g., starred review in Publisher’s Weekly) even before showing up on store shelves. Betsey [...]
January 31, 2013 – 9:41 am
Thursday, Jan. 31 Louisville Main Public Library 301 York St. • 574-1644 lfpl.org Free; 7 p.m. Before he watched his career as director of the Central Intelligence Agency implode over his less-than-secret dalliance with a journalist, Gen. David Petraeus made a name for himself as the commander of operations in post-U.S. invasion Iraq and, later, [...]
January 30, 2013 – 2:31 pm
Wednesday, Jan. 30 Barnes & Noble The Summit • 327-0410 Free; 7 p.m. When I was a tween, I wanted to be Leeza Gibbons. As one of the hosts on “Entertainment Tonight,” I thought she had the perfect job — interviewing celebrities and sitting beside John Tesh. I suppose it’s why I always set my [...]
January 25, 2013 – 2:00 pm
Lawrence Crutcher will be presented with the Samuel W. Thomas Louisville History Book Award for his book “George Keats of Kentucky: A Life” on Sunday, Jan. 27 at 2 p.m. Kentucky School for the Blind auditorium at Frankfort Ave. and Haldeman Ave. Free and open to the public. Call Steve Wiser 523-6799 for more details. In connection with their [...]
January 23, 2013 – 10:17 am
Wednesday, Jan. 23 Brown & Williamson Club Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium 2800 S. Floyd St. • 852-2667 Free; 7 p.m. At age 19, Harry Wu did what many of his American counterparts did in college: criticize the government. Under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party’s 100 Flowers Campaign, whereby dissent and openness was supposedly [...]
January 9, 2013 – 2:21 pm
Wednesday, Jan. 9 Kentucky Center for the Arts 501 W. Main St. • 584-7777 $20; 5 p.m. (doors) How often does a professor of geography become a lightning rod for political debate as well as heated discussion among rational audiences? Jared Diamond can regularly incite such attention. Once Diamond began writing books for popular consumption, [...]
November 27, 2012 – 9:51 am
Tuesday, Nov. 27 620 S. Third St. worldkentucky.org $15 ($10 members); 6:30 p.m. Stand up for your (digital) rights! On Tuesday, Rebecca MacKinnon, former Newsweek contributor and CNN bureau chief, and co-founder of the organization Global Voices Online, will speak up for the interests of bloggers and “citizen media” worldwide. There’s no doubt the Arab [...]
