Past Events

April 10

Arthur Brooks with Simon Sinek

The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic’s happiness columnist Arthur Brooks.

March 29

Jane McGonigal with Felicia Day

In  Imaginable, Jane McGonigal draws on the latest scientific research in psychology and neuroscience to show us how to train our minds to think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable. She is a future forecaster and designer of reality games created to improve real lives and solve real problems.

March 14

J. Kenji López-Alt with Molly Baz (Virtual Event)

J. Kenji López-Alt, the New York Times best-selling author of The Food Lab discusses his new cookbook, The Wok: Recipes and Techniques — one of Time‘s 10 Most Anticipated Cookbooks of 2022 — with Molly Baz. The obsessive mastermind behind one of the decade’s best-selling cookbooks returns with the definitive English-language guide to the science and technique of cooking in a wok.

March 13

Bob Odenkirk with Jack Black

Bob Odenkirk (Mr. Show, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) opens up about the highs and lows of showbiz, his cult status as a comedy writer, and what it’s like to reinvent himself as an action film ass-kicker at fifty.

 

March 10

J. Kenji López-Alt with Molly Baz

J. Kenji López-Alt, the New York Times best-selling author of The Food Lab discusses his new cookbook, The Wok: Recipes and Techniques — one of Time‘s 10 Most Anticipated Cookbooks of 2022 — with Molly Baz. The obsessive mastermind behind one of the decade’s best-selling cookbooks returns with the definitive English-language guide to the science and technique of cooking in a wok.

March 9

Bob Odenkirk with Jack Black

Bob Odenkirk (Mr. Show, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) opens up about the highs and lows of showbiz, his cult status as a comedy writer, and what it’s like to reinvent himself as an action film ass-kicker at fifty.

 

March 7

Mike Schur with Kristen Bell

Mike Schur, the creator of “The Good Place” and the co-creator of “Parks and Recreation”, offers a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,400 years of deep thinking from around the world.

March 3

Shaka Senghor with DeVon Franklin

Shaka Senghor, The New York Times bestselling author of Writing My Wrongs, invites men everywhere on a journey of honesty and healing through this book of moving letters to his sons—one whom he is raising and the other whose childhood took place during Senghor’s nineteen-year incarceration.

March 1

Roddy Doyle with Lorrie Moore

Roddy Doyle talks with Lorrie Moore about his brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories. He won the Booker Prizewinning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

February 16

Daniel Pink with Susan Cain

Daniel Pink talks to Susan Cain about his new book, “The Power of Regret,” about the transforming power of our most misunderstood yet potentially most valuable emotion: regret. Pink is the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of “When” and “Drive.”