This year’s lineup of award-winning essayists, poets, and novelists will offer you everything from escapism and hope, to brilliantly researched and reasoned work about the times and troubles in which we live, to the pure, musical joy of art and language. These books are, to a one, humane, deep, funny, engrossing, and brilliant. The author visits promise to be lively and inspiring.

We've compiled a list of events where you can hear from the authors of our selected readings. We hope you’ll join us for Living Writers 2026 and take the chance to reconnect with the liberal arts spirit of reading, deep thinking, sustained attention, and conversation around shared texts. Expand your reading habits and join this community of readers looking to connect through books!