Jenna Bush Hager is bringing her Thousand Voices book club to Kansas City for an onstage conversation with author Lucy Tan about Tan's novel “Tiger's Mouth,” set for Unity Temple on the Plaza. The Today show co-host will sit down with Tan to discuss the book in front of a local audience, giving Kansas City readers a rare in-person look at the celebrity-driven book club that has become a fixture of daytime television.
According to KSHB 41 Kansas City, Thousand Voices is a book club founded by Bush Hager that works with Random House Publishing Group to spotlight authors. The station reports that tickets and event information for the Lucy Tan event are available at rainydaybooks.com. Rainy Day Books, which is handling the event, describes it simply: “Join Rainy Day Books at Unity Temple to celebrate Tiger's Mouth with Jenna Bush Hager and author Lucy Tan!”
A Familiar Stop for Thousand Voices in Kansas City
This isn't the first time Bush Hager's book club has made a stop in the Kansas City area. Earlier this year, the station reported that Bush Hager joined author Anna McCollie for a question-and-answer session about McCollie's soccer romance novel, timed to World Cup hype. That event, like the upcoming Lucy Tan appearance, tied the national reach of Thousand Voices to a hyper-local audience eager to meet the authors in person.
Lucy Tan, the author at the center of this latest stop, is being introduced to Kansas City through the same partnership between Thousand Voices and Random House Publishing Group that has powered the book club's picks. The on-stage format — Bush Hager interviewing the author directly — has become something of a signature for these events, giving fans a conversational, rather than purely promotional, experience.
Bush Hager Weighs in on Daly's New Saturday Role
During the same conversation reported by the station, Bush Hager touched on a shakeup back at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. She said Carson Daly is taking over Saturdays Today with “Lara Jarrett,” and that colleagues celebrated Daly's new role and joyful moments among the Today family, per the station's reporting.
That account differs slightly in spelling from NBCUniversal's own announcement, which says Carson Daly has been named co-anchor of NBC News' Saturday TODAY and identifies his co-anchor as Laura Jarrett. Per NBCUniversal, Daly was scheduled to make his official debut alongside Jarrett on November 7, while continuing to co-host TODAY on weekdays as he joins the Saturday morning team.
The network's statement frames the move as an expansion rather than a replacement, with Daly simply adding the Saturday anchor chair to his existing weekday duties. Further detail on the debut and Daly's reaction appeared in an exclusive conversation with USA Today, in which Daly discussed the new assignment.
What's Verified, and What Isn't
KSHB notes that its story was reported on-air by a journalist and converted to the platform with the assistance of AI, and that its editorial team verifies reporting across all platforms for fairness and accuracy. The station's report does not specify the date or time of the Kansas City event, nor does it detail ticket pricing or availability beyond pointing readers to Rainy Day Books for that information.
