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Now displaying: May, 2019
May 21, 2019

The 2019 AViD podcast series concludes as C.J. Chivers joins Aaron Gernes. Chivers, author of The Fighters, discusses the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and the process of gathering the stories of the soldiers highlighted in his book. Chivers will be at the Central Library for Authors Visiting in Des Moines (AViD) on Thursday, May 23, at 7:00 PM.

May 21, 2019

The 2019 AViD podcast series concludes as C.J. Chivers joins Aaron Gernes. Chivers, author of The Fighters, discusses the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and the process of gathering the stories of the soldiers highlighted in his book. Chivers will be at the Central Library for Authors Visiting in Des Moines (AViD) on Thursday, May 23, at 7:00 PM.

May 3, 2019

AViD author Madeline Miller joins special guest host Laura Rowley on the DMPL Podcast. Miller discusses her critically-acclaimed novel, Circe. She discusses recasting Circe into a feminist hero and how women were given short shrift and often demeaned in ancient storytelling. It’s a great conversation on literature and the flawed perspectives of the Greeks and others from millennia ago.

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