2009-10 Literary\Arts Series
Presenting Sponsor: Seattle Times
Series Sponsor: Glant Textiles

Annie Proulx (CAPTIONED*)- Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Lydia Davis - Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Richard Price(CAPTIONED*) - Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Jane and Michael Stern (CAPTIONED*)- Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Dr. Abraham Verghese - Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Michael Chabon (CAPTIONED*)- Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Elaine Pagels - Friday, April 30, 2010
Laila Lalami - Seattle Public Library's Seattle Reads Author - Monday, May 10, 2010

Tickets for the event with Michael Chabon will be available beginning at 6pm at the Box Office at Benaroya Hall with CASH OR CHECK ONLY. Tickets will be available at all seating levels.

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All Literary\Arts Series events begin at 7:30pm in the S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium at Benaroya Hall.

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Annie Proulx (CAPTIONED*)
Underwritten by Stoel Rives, LLP
Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Shipping News and superlative short stories such as "Brokeback Mountain" and the collection Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3

Lydia Davis
A true writer's writer; National Book Award finalist for Varieties of Disturbance and Samuel Johnson Is Indignant; translator of Proust, Foucault, Flaubert

Richard Price (CAPTIONED*)
Author of seven novels, including Clockers and Lush Life; recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and an Edgar Award as writer for HBO's The Wire

Jane and Michael Stern (Jan 12 lecture at Benaroya Hall will be CAPTIONED)
Travelers of America's back roads and authors of Two for the Road: Our Love Affair With American Food and Blue Plate Specials and Blue Ribbon Chefs: The Heart and Soul of America's Great Roadside Restaurants

Don't miss this additional special event with the Sterns! Join Seattle Arts & Lectures and two of America's most famous foodies for a splendid "Community Dinner" to benefit SAL, January 11 at the fabulous Palace Ballroom. Food by awared-winning chef Tom Douglas, wonderful wine, and a chance to win a truly great piece of barbecue equipment—a Weber Summit S-670 Gas Grill!

Dr. Abraham Verghese
Underwritten by University Bookstore
Sponsorship by Swedish Medical Center
A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for My Own Country: A Doctor's Story and author of the novel Cutting For Stone, set in his Ethiopian homeland

Michael Chabon (CAPTIONED*)
Underwritten by Teutsch Partners, LLC
Tickets for the event with Michael Chabon will be available beginning at 6pm at the Box Office at Benaroya Hall with CASH OR CHECK ONLY. Tickets will be available at all seating levels.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and the Nebula Award for The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Elaine Pagels
MacArthur Fellow, popular scholar, and author of The Gnostic Gospels; Adam, Eve and the Serpent; Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity (with Karen L. King)

Laila Lalami
With Seattle Public Library's Seattle Reads
Moroccan-born author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits and Secret Son; shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African writing in 2006 and the National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Award in 2009.

*Accessible seats at SAL's events are available in all seating sections and price ranges. Please contact the SAL Box Office at sal@lectures.org or 206-621-2230 for any special needs.

SAL is pleased to be able to caption five events for the Significantly Hard of Hearing (SHOH) community during our 2009-10 Season. Based on a prior year’s worth of advice and testing gleaned from organizations representing the deaf and hard of hearing, we determined to make captioning available to patrons throughout the hall rather than in one particular seating section. Working with Dave Crowther of Counterbalance Productions and captioner Darlene Pickard, we devised a projection system that is as low-profile and unobtrusive as possible while still projecting text that is readable from most seats in Taper Auditorium at Benaroya Hall. Through these efforts, SAL intends to create a setting that makes our performances both more accessible and understandable to the SHOH community. The feedback from our audience members has been overwhelmingly positive; here’s what one Literary\Arts Series patron had to say:

“You can’t imagine how thrilling it was for me to attend last night’s presentation of Annie Proulx at Benaroya. For years and years, I have wanted to attend your presentations, but because of a profound hearing loss, have not done so. The captioning was a godsend, a blessing like you can’t believe. Thank you for captioning that performance—after a couple of glitches at the beginning, it went off without a hitch. I could easily read the captions from where I sat, and felt a sense of inclusion and involvement that was exhilarating.

For information about speakers who have appeared in past Literary\Arts Series, please visit our author archive.