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AUTHOR PODCASTS

The Midtown Scholar is proud to host national award-winning authors and emerging literary sensations for free public readings and book signings year-round. Listen and join us as we celebrate the essential role of literature in contemporary culture and provide a unique space for the region's vibrant literary and civic community to engage in wide-ranging discussions on books, politics, society and the arts. 

In 2023 we’ll be reissuing podcasts of some of our favorite author talks at our independent bookstore in Pennsylvania’s capital city. 

For more recent author talks, visit and subscribe to the Midtown Scholar’s video series on YouTube!

SIGNED books from visiting authors are available in-store and online here.

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2020 Author TalKs

Featured
Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine
The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Long Bright River, An Evening with Liz Moore
Long Bright River, An Evening with Liz Moore
An Afternoon with Christopher McDougall and Alexandra Horowitz
An Afternoon with Christopher McDougall and Alexandra Horowitz
An Evening with Salman Rushdie,
An Evening with Salman Rushdie,
Agents of Influence: A British Campaign, a Canadian Spy, and the Secret Plot to Bring America into World War II
Agents of Influence: A British Campaign, a Canadian Spy, and the Secret Plot to Bring America into World War II
Rush: Revolution, Madness & The Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
Rush: Revolution, Madness & The Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle Outside of the South
The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle Outside of the South
Stop Being Reasonable: How We Really Change Our Minds
Stop Being Reasonable: How We Really Change Our Minds
How to Be an Anti-Racist with Ibram X. Kendi and Imani Perry
How to Be an Anti-Racist with Ibram X. Kendi and Imani Perry
An Afternoon with Tea Obreht, Author of "Inland"
An Afternoon with Tea Obreht, Author of "Inland"
An Evening with Stephen Chbosky
An Evening with Stephen Chbosky
Emerging Voices: An Afternoon with R.O. Kwon and Joanne Ramos
Emerging Voices: An Afternoon with R.O. Kwon and Joanne Ramos
Political Parody in the Age of Trump
Political Parody in the Age of Trump
Story Time with Jonathan Stutzman and Heather Fox
Story Time with Jonathan Stutzman and Heather Fox
Story Time with Vashti Harrison
Story Time with Vashti Harrison
Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram
Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram
WITF Smart Talk Live with Eric Foner
WITF Smart Talk Live with Eric Foner
For the Love of Beer: Pennsylvania's Breweries
For the Love of Beer: Pennsylvania's Breweries
Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television and the Fracturing of America
Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television and the Fracturing of America
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump
Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals That Direct Our Lives
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals That Direct Our Lives
The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent
The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Incendiaries: A Novel
Incendiaries: A Novel
Meet Me in Monaco: A Novel of Grace Kelly's Royal Wedding
Meet Me in Monaco: A Novel of Grace Kelly's Royal Wedding
Sacred Liberty: America's Long, Bloody and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom
Sacred Liberty: America's Long, Bloody and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom