Malcolm Nance and Ned Price Speak at U of L Event
Kentucky Author Forum guests Malcolm Nance and Ned Price featured in inaugural conversation for U of L’s Office of Thought Leadership & Civic Engagement.
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The Mind Meld of Bill Gates and Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker was the guest of the Author Forum in May, 2012, celebrating the publication of his book The Better Angels of Our Nature.
Review of Trumpocracy by David Frum
The reviews are in – The New York Times and The Courier-Journal give their thoughts on David Frum’s book Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic.
Kentucky Author Forum Finalist for CINE Golden Eagle award
University of Louisville Kentucky Author Forum and KET are proud to announce that the 2016 Forum program featuring E. J. Dionne, of The Washington Post, in conversation with James Fallows, of The Atlantic, has been honored by the 60th CINE Golden Eagle Awards for Professional Media. Founded in 1957, CINE’s mission is to honor and […]
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz
American economist Joseph Eugene Stiglitz is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics and the John Bates Clark Medal.
Colson Whitehead wins 2017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Re-watch our December 2016 interview between Colson Whitehead and Isaac Fitzgerald from Buzzfeed here.
P.J. O’Rourke
P.J. O’Rourke is the author of such bestsellers as Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance, as well as How the Hell Did This Happen?
John Glenn at the Kentucky Author Forum
The former astronaut and senator passed away December 8th. Here, the author of the autobiography John Glenn: A Memoir, was interviewed by Lou Dobbs, CEO of Space.com. This is a KET production taped at The Kentucky Center. Click here for video.
Colson Whitehead
Praising Colson Whitehead, John Updike wrote: “Whitehead’s writing does what writing should do; it refreshes our sense of the world.”
John Lewis and Colson Whitehead win National Book Awards
The 67th National Book Awards were presented on Nov. 16 in New York City, where authors of fiction, nonfiction, young people’s literature and poetry convened to celebrate the art of writing.
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