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Back to top2021/2022 Seattle Arts + Lectures Season announced!
Featuring both in-person and digital options, and an incredible line-up of authors and thinkers ...
Details about the appearances, including reviews of books and great videos of the guests, all on the SAL website, here.
A brief list of the guests and dates of their appearances is here, and further down is a selection of the books with brief reviews...
Billie Jean King: Online-Only. Thursday, September 23, 2021 7:30 pm PST
Anthony Doerr: In-Person & Online. Tuesday, September 28, 2021 7:30 pm PST
Lauren Groff: In-Person & Online. Sunday, October 17, 2021 7:30 pm PST
Louise Erdrich: Online-Only. Wednesday, November 10, 2021 6:00 pm PST
Peter Wohlleben: Online-Only. Tuesday, November 16, 2021 7:30 pm PST
Rita Dove: Online-Only. Friday, December 3, 2021 7:30 pm PST
Cathy Park Hong in Conversation with Ijeoma Oluo: In-Person & Online. Friday, January 28, 2022 7:30 pm PST
**New Addition to the Schedule** Michael Schur in Conversation with George Meyer: In‑Person & Online. Wednesday, February 2, 2022 7:30 pm PST.
Charles Yu: In-Person & Online. Tuesday, February 15, 2022 7:30 pm PST
Daniel James Brown: In-Person & Online. Tuesday, March 15, 2022 7:30 pm PST
**New FREE Addition to the Schedule** Tune in virtually on Wednesday, April 6, 2022 3 pm PT, for a conversation with Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie, the co-authors of "Abolition. Feminism. Now." A limited number of free copies of "Abolition. Feminism. Now." is available for the first 400 registrants. All the infromation here.
Don Mee Choi: In-Person & Online. Thursday, April 7, 2022 7:30 pm PST
Richard Powers: In-Person & Online. Tuesday, April 19, 2022 7:30 pm PST
**New Addition to the Schedule** Sonya Renee Taylor in Conversation with Ijeoma Oluo: In-Person & Online. Monday, May 2, 2022 7:30 pm PST
**New Addition to the Schedule** Natalie Baszile: In‑Person & Online Thursday, May 5, 2022 7:30 pm PST. Part of the Women You Need to Know series.
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Published: Knopf - August 17th, 2021
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Published: Scribner - September 28th, 2021
In the Pulitzer Prize–winning "All the Light We Cannot See," Anthony Doerr crafted one of the most beloved novels of our time. A writer of immense imagination and compassion, Doerr has returned with "Cloud Cuckoo Land," a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood searching for hope in a broken world.
"Cloud Cuckoo Land" is a hauntingly beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship—of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart.
https://lectures.org/event/anthony-doerr/
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Published: Scribner - April 4th, 2017
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Published: Riverhead Books - September 7th, 2021
The author of six books of fiction, Lauren Groff has been described as brilliant and hard-working, “a woman of intellect and integrity, generous and warm, and hard to keep up with.” The same could be said of her stunning, glimmering prose.
The two-time National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author returns with an exhilarating new novel called "Matrix," her first since the groundbreaking "Fates and Furies." In this tale of historical fiction, Groff follows the real-life figure of Marie de France into a violent, sensual world of religious ecstasy and consuming passion—a world that refuses to reconcile itself with Marie’s bold heart and crusading existence.
https://lectures.org/event/lauren-groff/
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Published: Riverhead Books - September 13th, 2016
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Published: Mariner Books - December 10th, 2019
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Published: Harper - November 9th, 2021
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Published: Harper Perennial - March 23rd, 2021
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Published: Harper Perennial - September 24th, 2013
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Published: Harper Perennial - August 23rd, 2016
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Published: Greystone Books - June 1st, 2021
Around the time scientists discovered a vast underground network of fungi connecting trees of different species—an arboreal Internet or “wood wide web”—renowned forester and New York Times bestselling author Peter Wohlleben began to notice bizarre root shapes and strange growth patterns in the forests he tended in Western Germany.
In "The Hidden Life of Trees," Wohlleben describes what he learned by listening to trees; in his newest work, "The Heartbeat of Trees," he delves deeper, drawing on research and new scientific discoveries to show how humans are deeply connected to the natural world.
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Published: Greystone Books - September 13th, 2016
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 17th, 2021
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - August 11th, 1999
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - November 14th, 2017
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Published: One World - March 2nd, 2021
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Published: Seal Press - September 24th, 2019
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Published: Seal Press - December 1st, 2020
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Published: Simon & Schuster - January 25th, 2022
From the creator of The Good Place and the co-creator of Parks and Recreation, comes "How to Be Perfect"—a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,500 years of deep thinking from around the world. Q&A with George Meyer.
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - January 14th, 2020
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Published: St. Martin's Press - January 25th, 2022
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Published: Vintage - November 17th, 2020
Charles Yu is the infinitely inventive writer on HBO’s Westworld and the author of four books, including his latest, "Interior Chinatown," winner of the 2020 National Book Award.
"Interior Chinatown" is a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.
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ISBN: 9780525557401
Published: Viking - May 11th, 2021
Daniel James Brown is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "The Indifferent Stars Above," "Under a Flaming Sky," and "The Boys in the Boat."
His latest, "Facing the Mountain," is a gripping saga about the contributions and sacrifices Japanese immigrants and their children made during World War II: the courageous Japanese American Army unit that overcame brutal odds in Europe; their families, incarcerated back home; and a young man who refused to surrender his constitutional rights.
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Published: Penguin Books - May 27th, 2014
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Published: Mariner Books - September 22nd, 2015
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Published: Haymarket Books - January 18th, 2022
"Abolition. Feminism. Now." is a celebration of freedom work, a movement genealogy, a call to action, and a challenge to those who think of abolition and feminism as separate—even incompatible—political projects. Join these change-makers as they offer a course toward a liberated future.
A limited number of free copies of "Abolition. Feminism. Now." is available for the first 400 registrants.
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Published: Wave Books - April 7th, 2020
The multilayered works of National Book Award-winning translator, poet, and essayist Don Mee Choi are known for holding history accountable. Her most recent book, "DMZ Colony" is described as “a tour de force of personal and political reckoning set over eight acts.”
As a storyteller, Choi often weaves together poems, prose, photographs, and drawings to create a palimpsest of voices that further intertwine. In these fertile overlaps, Choi creates space for these voices to converse and to question truth, fact, and imagination.
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 21st, 2021
The characters created by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Powers share a certain discomfort with the world. They shift between the impulse to connect and the urge to withdraw—into a novel, a piece of music, a movie house, a museum, even cyberspace.
"The Overstory," Powers’ sweeping, impassioned paean to the natural world, was a move to unite a cast of iconoclastic activists and resisters, roots to crown. His forthcoming novel, "Bewilderment," is a deeply felt study into attachment, loss, and hope: of a grieving father, an extraordinary yet troubled son, and an imperiled planet, each of which is inextricably linked with the others.
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 2nd, 2019
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Published: Berrett-Koehler Publishers - February 9th, 2021
World-renowned activist Sonya Renee Taylor is the Founder and Radical Executive Officer of "The Body is Not An Apology," a digital media and education company promoting radical self-love and body empowerment as the foundational tool for social justice and global transformation.
Taylor is also a former National and International poetry slam champion, the author of two books, including "The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love," and an educator who has enlightened and inspired organizations, audiences, and individuals, from board rooms to prisons, universities to homeless shelters, elementary schools to some of the biggest stages in the world.
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Published: Amistad - April 6th, 2021
Natalie Baszile has created an immersive, polyphonic examination of Black people’s connection to American land from Emancipation to the present day.
"We Are Each Other’s Harvest" is an anthology of essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories that explore the lives of Black farmers today: why they continue to farm despite systemic discrimination and land loss, how they are building on the legacy of their ancestors, and the challenges they face in seeking to redress food justice, food sovereignty, and reparations.