April 22, 2018 marks the annual celebration of Earth Day. Inspire continued progress in sustainability by inviting one of our brilliant environmental speakers to your next event.
Kory Stamper’s debut book Word by Word, is based on her lifelong love of language and her almost 20 years as a lexicographer and editor for Merriam Webster. In Stamper’s hands,…
To celebrate poetry’s vital place in our culture, we are proud to highlight a collection of our award-winning poetry and spoken word speakers.
From New York Times bestselling author of The Interestings, an electric, multilayered novel about ambition, power, friendship, and mentorship, and the romantic ideals we all follow deep into adulthood, not just about who we want to be with, but who we want to be
In The Big Ones, leading seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones offers a bracing look at some of the world’s greatest natural disasters, whose reverberations we continue to feel today. At Pompeii, Jones explores how a volcanic eruption in the first century AD challenged prevailing views of religion. She examines the California floods of 1862 and the limits of human memory. And she probes more recent events–such as the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 and the American hurricanes of 2017–to illustrate the potential for globalization to humanize and heal.
A hilarious new collection of essays from New York Times bestselling author Annabelle Gurwitch on family dysfunction, drawn from her own experiences growing up in a large and often eccentric family.
This is Oh, the Places You’ll Never Go–the ultimate hilarious, cynical, but absolutely realistic view of a college graduate’s future. And what he or she can or can’t do about it.
With humor and the biting insight of a native, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower explores the history, culture, and politics of Texas, while holding the stereotypes up for rigorous scrutiny.
The Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau is thrilled that each week many of our speakers are on The New York Times Bestseller List.
