Known for his camera work on films like "The Shawshank Redemption," "No Country for Old Men," "Blade Runner 2049," and "1917," Deakins is also, as his book "Byways" makes clear, a brilliant and perceptive B&W photographer.

Rekdal's multimedia piece, "West: A Translation" -- which she'll read from here on campus -- employs translations, archival research, essays, poems, videos, and images in order to document the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay, where many Chinese migrants were detained after the implementation of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882.

Norris will deliver a talk on Friday night (the 31st) and lead a workshop on Saturday morning (the 1st).

Sáenz will appear at a free-to-the-public reading/signing on Saturday the 1st, at the TCCL's Central Library in downtown Tulsa; at this event, he'll receive the first-ever Hummingbird Award in Literary Arts.

"The story of a painful but inspiring search for a cure for a fatal disease.... A moving argument for a more focused, humane, and efficient system for conducting medical research." -- Kirkus (starred review)

His free address happens in the Reynolds Center on Tuesday night, the 28th, at 7:30pm.

Now in paperback, here is (per a starred review in Booklist) "possibly the most important book of the year.... Perlroth's precise, lucid, and compelling presentation of mind-blowing disclosures about the underground arms race a must-read exposé."

Based in the heart of the Tulsa Arts District, 108 Contemporary presents work by notable fine-craft artists from all over our region -- and from all over the nation.

Our guest — an impressively accomplished TU alum — spoke recently on the subject of international cyber-security at the TCFR.

"Nuila practices internal medicine in Houston at Ben Taub Hospital, but the doctor's new book might take place in any big city where the uninsured -- like the patients he chronicles here -- face astronomical fees, mazes of endless paperwork, and poor or insufficient diagnoses made by exhausted medical professionals. Nuila's storytelling gifts place him alongside colleagues like Atul Gawande." -- The Los Angeles Times