Events for October 2, 2023 - November 10, 2023

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https://www.pbsbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Indiana-v2-Dec.-10.png Fasten your seatbelt and join PBS Books and the Library of Congress for our next stop in  American Stories: A Reading Road Trip: Indiana! Join us on December 10th at 8pm EST for a PBS Books Facebook Live event, or on the PBS Books YouTube channel, the PBS app, or pbs.org. Visit pbsbooks.org/readingroadtrip to learn more. At the crossroads of America lies Indiana—a state with a literary culture as golden as an ear of corn. The Golden Age of Indiana literature gave us treasures like Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons, James Whitcomb Riley's poetry about Little Orphan Annie, Lew Wallace's [...]