2024 Community Speaker Series with John Vaillant

2024 Community Speaker Series with Judy Blume

2024 Margaret Atwood – “Burning Questions”

2024 Stephen Breyer & Jeffrey Rosen – “Reading the Constitution”

2024 Anne Lamott – “30th Anniversary of Bird by Bird”

2024 Kristin Hannah with Jenny Emery Davidson – “Unforgettable Heroines”

2024 Margaret Atwood with Ayad Akhtar – “Writer in the World”

2024 Kristin Hannah, John Burnham Schwartz, and Abraham Verghese with Pamela Paul – “Investigating the Past: Writing the Historical Novel Today”

2024 Rabbi Sharon Brous with Jeffrey Goldberg – “Moral Earthquakes and How We Talk about Them”

2024 Judy Blume with Jeffrey Brown – “The Radical Honesty of Judy Blume”

2024 Niall Ferguson with Evan Osnos – “What Would Kissinger Do?”

2024 Erik Larson – “Never Say Never”

2024 Padma Lakshmi with Aleksandra Crapanzano – “Best Meal Ever: Food & Life”

2024 Stephen Breyer with Evan Osnos – “The Supreme Court & the Peril of Politics”

2024 Niall Ferguson, David Miliband, and Clarissa Ward with Jeffrey Goldberg – “On the Frontlines of Chaos”

2024 Anne Lamott – “Paper Ships: Reading, Writing, and Reason to Live”

Anne Applebaum – Ukraine, the European Union, and NATO

Javier Zamora – Solito: A Memoir

Tracy K. Smith – A Poetry Reading

Abraham Verghese – The Covenant of Water

Jennifer Homans with Peter Boal – George Balanchine’s 20th Century

Robert Kagan – The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of the World Order, 1900-1941

Maria Hinojosa, Evan Osnos, and Imani Perry with Judy Woodruff – America at a Crossroads: Why We Are So Divided and What Can Be Done About It

Anne Applebaum, Robert Kagan, and Evan Osnos – Will Democracy Survive?

Ezra Klein with Willy Walker on AI

Jake Barton – And Now For Something Completely Different: The Storytelling Revolution

Dave Barry – Swamp Story: Dave Barry’s Florida | Frank McCourt Memorial Lecture

Rita Dove: “A Poetry Reading”

Rebecca Donner: “The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler”

Heather McGhee: “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone”

Kathryn Schulz: “Lost and Found: A True Story of Grief and Love”

Evan Osnos: “The Future of America’s Contest with China”

Lauren Groff: “Historical Fiction’s Radical Possibilities”

Ben Rhodes: “After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made”

Noah Feldman: “The Supreme Court: Now What?”

Erich Schwartzel: “Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy” (Community Speaker Series)

Ayad Akhtar: “Homeland Elegies” (Community Speaker Series)

Imbolo Mbue: “How Beautiful We Were” (Community Speaker Series)

TOBIAS WOLFF “The Art of the Short Story” (Community Speaker Series)

SUSAN ORLEAN “The Library Book” (Community Speaker Series)

SHERI FINK “What I Saw: Stories from Inside the Pandemic”

GEORGE PACKER “Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal”

TOBIAS WOLFF “The Art of the Story”

ISABEL ALLENDE “The Soul of a Woman”

WILLIAM D COHAN “A Wild Walk Down Wall Street, Circa 2021”

DELIA OWENS “Where the Crawdads Sing”

LARRY DIAMOND & NOAH FELDMAN “How to Repair Our Democracy”

LAWRENCE WRIGHT “The Plague Year: America In the Time of Covid”

DANIEL JAMES BROWN & TOM IKEDA “Facing the Mountain: Japanese-American Heroes of World War II”

TAYARI JONES “An American Marriage: A Story of Love & Injustice”

NOAH FELDMAN “Lincoln and the Broken Constitution”

DAVID WALLACE-WELLS “The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming”

LARRY DIAMOND “The Global Wave of Authoritarianism and How to Counter It”

ELLIOT ACKERMAN & ADMIRAL JAMES STAVRIDIS “The Next World War & America’s Geopolitical Future: Fact & Fiction”

“Master Class with John Lithgow”

SVWC NOW Presents: A Conversation with Isabel Allende

SVWC NOW Presents: “The Story of the Song” with Craig Finn

SVWC NOW Presents: “A Conversation with Roger McNamee” – Part II

SVWC NOW Presents: “A Conversation with Roger McNamee” – Part I

SVWC NOW Presents: “A Conversation with Susan Orlean”

SVWC NOW Presents: “A Conversation with A. Scott Berg”

SVWC NOW Presents: “A Conversation with George Packer”

SVWC NOW Presents: “A Conversation with Dr. Abraham Verghese”

2019 Pavilion: Miriam Pawel & Kathleen Brown – “The Browns of California”

2019 Pavilion: Andrew Roberts – “Churchill: Walking with Destiny”

2019 Pavilion: Carl Hiaasen – “The Case Against Intelligent Design: True Stories from Florida”

2019 Pavilion: Mitch Landrieu – “E Pluribus Unum”

2019 Pavilion: Dani Shapiro – “The End of Secrets”

2019 Pavilion: Julie Lythcott-Haims – “Real American”

2019 Pavilion: Martin Amis – “Martin Amis & The Rub of Time”

2019 Pavilion: Kwame Anthony Appiah – “The Lies That Bind”

2019 Pavilion: Rick Atkinson – “The British Are Coming”

2019 Pavilion: Dave Eggers – “Word & Deed”

Pablo Cartaya @ The Community Library

Overheard @ SVWC 2019: Min Jin Lee and Mitch Kaplan

Overheard @ SVWC 2019: Novelist Madhuri Vijay Chats with SVWC Fellow Ada Zhang

Overheard @ SVWC 2018: “Sportswriting and Norwich“

Overheard @ SVWC 2018: “Global Writing and the Rise of Women Novelists”

Overheard @ SVWC 2018: “Hemingway’s Legacy in Literature and Sun Valley”