Upcoming Events

Journalist and author James Fallows

Main Library, Wednesday, May 23, 7 p.m.

In China Airborne, James Fallows documents, for the first time, the extraordinary scale of China’s five-year plan to spend a quarter of a trillion dollars to jump-start its aerospace industry. He explains why this is a crucial test case for China’s hopes for modernization and innovation, and examines what this latest demonstration of Chinese ambition means for the United States and the rest of the world.

Fallows is a contributing writer for The Atlantic, Slate, and The New Yorker, and was a former speechwriter for President Carter.

The event is free, but tickets are required; call 574-1644.

Historical novelist and former GQ editor
Thomas Mallon

Main Library, Monday, June 18, 7 p.m.

In Watergate, historical novelist Thomas Mallon conveys the drama and high comedy of the Nixon presidency through the urgent perspectives of seven characters, moving readers from the private cabins of Camp David to the klieg lights of the Senate Caucus Room, and ultimately into the hive of the Watergate complex itself.

The event is free, but tickets are required; order online or call 574-1644.

NY Times columnist and bestselling author
Gail Collins

Main Library, Thursday, June 28, 7 p.m.

Not until she visited Texas, did Gail Collins, the bestselling author and columnist for the New York Times, realize that she had missed the one place that mattered most in America’s political landscape: Texas, where Bush, Cheney, Rove, and Perry created a conservative political agenda that is shaping our political landscape. “Like it or not,” she says, “as Texas goes, so goes the nation.”

The event is free, but tickets are required; order online or call 574-1644.