Public Programs

Nextbook presents public programs throughout the United States. In Chicago, Seattle, and Washington, DC, Nextbook presents year-round programs, featuring some of the country's foremost writers, critics, and scholars. Nextbook also presents one-day festivals of ideas in Los Angeles and New York City each spring. Nextbook works with the American Library Association to present Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature, a scholar-led reading and discussion program in America's libraries. More than 200 libraries have taken part in this program since its inception in 2004.

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