Palm Springs Speaks

Thursday, April 3 – 7:00pm

Palm Springs Cultural Center
2300 E. Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262

Mary Louise Kelly is co-host of All Things Considered, National Public Radio’s flagship and award-winning newsmagazine. Previously, she spent a decade as national security correspondent for NPR News, and she’s kept that focus in her role as anchor. That’s meant taking All Things Considered to Russia, North Korea, and beyond (including live coverage from Helsinki, for the infamous Trump-Putin summit). Her past reporting has tracked the CIA and other spy agencies, terrorism, wars, and rising nuclear powers. Kelly’s assignments have found her deep in interviews at the Khyber Pass, at mosques in Hamburg, and in grimy Belfast bars.

Her debut espionage novel, Anonymous Sources, was published by Simon and Schuster in 2013. It’s a tale of journalists, spies, and Pakistan’s nuclear security. Her second novel, The Bullet, followed in 2015. Her most recent book, a memoir, It. Goes. So. Fast. A Year of No Do-Overs, published by Henry Holt & Company was a New York Times bestseller and will be released in paperback on April 8, 2025, just a week after she appears here in the desert. 

Tickets:
$45 general admission;
$65 premium reserved (first few rows and a copy of her book!).