Former GREAT PODVERSATIONS guest, Michael R. Jackson wins Best Musical at the 2022 Tony Awards

Podcast guest Michael R. Jackson wins Tony for A Strange Loop

Announcing our Fall 2016 Season!

We are pleased to announce these author guests in our upcoming 2016-17 season at The Kentucky Center: Sebastian Junger, author of Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging Interviewed by TIME Magazine's Joe Klein Wednesday, September 21,…

Past Forum Guests in the News

James Gleick's review of ‘The Gene,’ by Siddhartha Mukherjee in the New York Times Book Review. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/books/review/the-gene-by-siddhartha-mukherjee.html Mukherjee was Forum guest in 2011- when 'The Emperor…

Kentucky Author Forum Guest James Fallows on Kentucky’s FirstBuild

While in town to interview E.J. Dionne, James Fallows visited GE's FirstBuild for a story in The Atlantic. What was the big idea here? From GE’s point of view, it started with an effort to reduce the “mind-to-market” cycle time, as…

Amazing 2015-2016 Seasons Ends with Special Performance Piece

  After an intense and shocking interview where Joe Nocera and Buzz Bissinger discussed the treatment of athletes in the NCAA, Brandon Harrison and Lance Newman stood during the Q&A to deliver their piece "E.S.P.N." It was a moving…

Special offer for Louisville Public Media

Louisville Public Media's spring membership drive is on-air right now, and  for one day only (April 13) you could win a ticket package to each of the next three Kentucky Author Forums. You’ll enjoy the interview in the Bomhard Theater and…

Ann Patchett on Diane Rehm and Photos from the event

Ann spoke of her interview with Diane Rehm on her website. Embed from Getty Images

Pat Conroy (1945-2016)

The Kentucky Author Forum joins readers all over the world mourning the loss of Pat Conroy. You can watch his episode of Great Conversations with Maureen Corrigan from October 2013 here.

Stephen George’s Interview with E.J. Dionne

Stephen George's Interview with E.J. Dionne

Photos: John Irving and Sam Tanenhaus

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E. L. Doctorow, Author Forum guest in 2001

E. L. Doctorow, author of Ragtime and numerous other much-loved novels, passed away on July 21, 2015. Kentucky Author Forum had the pleasure of  Mr. Doctorow's conversation at The Kentucky Center in February, 2001. That Forum interview can…

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