PAM CUT // Whitsell Auditorium

Young adult authors, Maggie Stiefvater and Isabel Cañas come together for a conversation on the hauntingly enchanted worlds in their latest releases. In the newest installment of the graphic novel iteration of The Raven Cycle, Stiefvater and...

Nelio Biedermann and Tom Linn come together to discuss their recent publications and the surreal settings their casts of characters inhabit. Featuring grand intergenerational families, encroaching wars, and inexplicable powers, each novel...

Writer and cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt joins fellow graphic memoirist Julia Wertz for a conversation on graphic memoirs and the comedy found in crises, obsessions, and growing up. Both works feature the vulnerability of the memoir form displayed in...

Novelists Julie Buntin and Emeline Atwood discuss themes of gender, power, and a relentless search for identity that permeate both of their most recent novels. With exquisite interiority, each main character grapples with loneliness, ambition,...

Pulitzer and National Book Award finalist Anand Gopal is joined by moderator and OPB host Geoff Norcross for a conversation about his recent publication, Days of Love and Rage. This work of nonfiction follows a group of Syrian citizens who carry...

PAM CUT @ Whitsell hosts a screening of the documentary film Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World (2026), directed by Sasha Waters Freyer.