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Literary\Arts Series

Eight outstanding authors whose work ranges from multi-award-winning novels and films to history and current affairs. Subscribe now!

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Amy Tan (replacing Joan Didion)
Wed, Jun 5, 2013
Author of five New York Times best sellers including The Joy Luck Club and Saving Fish from Drowning.  Her forthcoming novel, The Valley of Amazement will be published later this year.
Jeffrey Toobin
Wed, Oct 10, 2012
CNN legal affairs analyst; author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court and The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court (forthcoming).
Hari Kunzru
Tue, Oct 23, 2012
British author of 4 novels, including Gods Without Men (2011); essays on travel, visual arts, and music; and journalism on technology, cultural change, and politics.
Julie Otsuka
Tue, Jan 29, 2013
Author of When the Emperor Was Divine (2002) and The Buddha in the Attic, which won the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was a 2011 National Book Award Finalist.
Stephen Greenblatt on "The Survival of Dangerous Ideas: Lucretius, The Renaissance and The Modern World"
Mon, Mar 4, 2013
Author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction and 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction, and of the bestselling Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare.
Karen Russell
Wed, Apr 3, 2013

Author of Swamplandia!, a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, and The New Yorker's 20 Under 40.

CANCELLED - Nell Freudenberger
Tue, Apr 23, 2013

Nell Freudenberger event has unfortunately been cancelled. We are trying to reschedule for next season, but a date has not yet been determined. If you have tickets to this event, please call the SAL Box Office at 206.621.2230 x10 for your options.

Susan Orlean
Tue, May 14, 2013
New Yorker staff writer and author of The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Oscar-winning film Adaptation. Her latest work is Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
Notices

Please Note: We will CAPTION all 2012-13 LiteraryArts Series events.

Thanks to all our bookstore partners this season: Elliott Bay Book Co., Mockingbird Books, Open Books: A Poem Emporium, Third Place Books, University Book Store, Village Books, and Wide World Books & Maps.

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