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25th season january–june 2016 Literary & performing arts events featuring acclaimed authors, performers, & artists

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“What a beautiful, intellectual, memorable evening on my favorite subject: words.”

—Arts & Letters Live attendee

“Tonight I got to meet my favorite author and it was magical.”

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Check DMA.org/ALL for newly added events during the season and this summer and fall. staff Director of Programming and Arts & Letters Live: Carolyn Bess; Program Manager: Michelle Witcher; Audience Relations Coordinator: Madeleine Fitzgerald; Administrative Coordinator: Carolyn Hartley; McDermott Intern: Jenny Wang

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Memoiristas mary karr & mary-louise parker monday, january 11, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium

Ticket Prices Public: $35; Member: $30; Student: $15 VIP Experience includes priority seating and booksigning access as well as a hardcover book of your choice Public: $75; Member: $70

Mary Karr is an award-winning poet and New York Times–bestselling memoirist. The author of The Liars’ Club, Cherry, and Lit returns by popular demand to share insights into her latest book, The Art of Memoir, a master class on the fastest-growing literary genre. In it, she synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and “black belt sinner.” Cheryl Strayed hailed it as “astonishingly perceptive, wildly entertaining, and profoundly honest. . . . the definitive book on reading and writing memoir for years to come.”

Mary-Louise Parker is a Tony and Emmy award–winning actress, starring in Weeds, Angels in America, and Showtime’s forthcoming series Lit, in which she plays Mary Karr. An extraordinary literary debut, Dear Mr. You is a memoir in letters composed to the men, real and hypothetical, who have informed the person Parker is today. Beginning with the grandfather she never knew, the letters include a missive to the beloved priest from her childhood, remembrances of former lovers, and an homage to a firefighter she encountered on 9/11. Mary Karr called it a “pants-pissingly funny, gut-wrenching meditation. . . . I drank it down in one gulp, then started back at page one again.”

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Innovative Ideas eric weiner thursday, january 14, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium

Ticket Prices Public: $35 Member: $30 Student: $15

Promotional Partner: World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth

Eric Weiner can’t keep away from life’s big questions. His New York Times bestseller The Geography of Bliss was about happiness; next came Man Seeks God. He has the special ability to take these timeless questions and make them personal, writing from an “everyman’s perspective”—full of humor, insight, and even self-doubt.

Now this acclaimed travel writer seeks to answer the question of how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times. In The Geography of Genius, he explores the history of places, from ancient Athens to Renaissance Florence to modern day Silicon Valley, examining the connection between our surroundings and our most innovative ideas. His reevaluation of the importance of culture in nurturing creativity is an informed romp through history that will surely jumpstart a national conversation.

A former correspondent for NPR and the New York Times, Weiner has reported from more than three dozen countries.

“The Geography of Genius is witty, informative, and compulsively readable.

Whether you’re getting genius tips from Freud in Vienna or hearing the secrets of high-tech powerhouses in Silicon Valley, you’ll emerge smarter after reading this delightful travelogue of ingenuity.” —Daniel H. Pink 6:30 p.m. Enjoy a pre-event tour of collection highlights that dovetail with the cultures and time periods featured in The Geography of Genius. artful musings

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TwitterInspired Tales helen ellis friday, january 15, 7:00 p.m. horchow auditorium

Members FREE Public: Included in Late Night ticket Not ticketed in advance; DMA Members will be seated first.

Meet Helen Ellis—acclaimed author of Eating the Cheshire Cat, competitive poker player, and charming Upper East Side housewife. Her latest book, American Housewife: Stories, was inspired by her hilarious but anonymous “American Housewife” Twitter account (@WhatIDoAllDay). With sharp wit and humor, Ellis probes the dark world of domesticity. Women in these stories wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it’s cloudy. They make casseroles. They pump the salad spinner like it’s a CPR dummy.

And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies out of the oven. If you enjoy books by Amy Sedaris and Maria Semple, you’ll love American Housewife.

These twelve stories range from a haunted prewar Manhattan apartment building to the set of a rigged reality television show, from the unique initiation ritual of a book club to the getaway car of a pageant princess on the lam, from the gallery opening of a tinfoil artist to the fitting room of a legendary lingerie shop.

“Hilarious and moving, terrifying and shockingly strange. . . . stories of infidelity and infertility, of decorators and doormen, of love and failure and friendship and hope.

This book is feminism with teeth and a southern drawl.” —Hannah Tinti

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From Chanel to Reves olivier meslay & rhonda k. garelick wednesday, january 20, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium

Ticket Prices Public: $35; Member: $30; Student: $15 VIP Experience includes priority seating and booksigning access, your choice of one book, and three-course dinner at 6:00 p.m. in the Founders Room featuring a French menu and wine.

Public: $150; Member: $125

Join us for a French Riviera fête celebrating the connections between Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel and the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection.

How did a poor orphan become a global icon of both luxury and everyday style? How are the personal, professional, and political interwoven in her life? Rhonda K. Garelick unravels these mysteries in her bestselling biography Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History. Judith Thurman says, “This is the definitive biography of Chanel. It is gripping, astute, and elegantly written.” A Guggenheim fellow and professor, Garelick writes on fashion, design, performance, art, literature, and cultural politics.

In 1953, Emery Reves purchased Villa La Pausa from Chanel. Chanel built it and was responsible for most of the decoration, ornamental details, and furniture. By an extraordinary coincidence, the DMA became the major repository of objects that had once belonged to Chanel. Olivier Meslay and Martha MacLeod have uncovered layers of rich history and published a beautifully illustrated catalogue, From Chanel to Reves: La Pausa and Its Collections at the Dallas Museum of Art. artful musings

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Texas Bound I human foibles & hijinks monday, january 25, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Ticket Prices Public: $35; Member: $30; Student: $15

octavio solis reads his story Last Gallantry of a Badass

owen egerton reads his story The Martyrs of Mountain Peak

chris hury reads Elk by Rick Bass

g. w. bailey reads Waffle by Owen Egerton Octavio Solis is a playwright whose plays have been produced in Dallas and across the country.

His works have been published in the Chicago Quarterly Review, Eleven Eleven, and Zyzzyva. His new story Mundo Means World will be published in January 2016 in the Catamaran Literary Reader.

Owen Egerton is a novelist, performer, and filmmaker. He is the author of several books, including How Best to Avoid Dying. He’s the writer-director of the psychological horror film Follow and has written for Disney, Warner Brothers, and Fox studios. Egerton also hosts a monthly podcast for KUT, an NPR affiliate, called The Write Up. Chris Hury has worked on stage extensively in North Texas over the past few years, most recently as Jason in the Dallas Theater Center’s production of Medea and as Dr. Bayliss in Water Tower Theater’s production of All My Sons. He can be seen as Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet at the Dallas Theater Center starting January 27.

G. W. Bailey is perhaps best known for his roles as Sergeant Rizzo in M*A*S*H, Lieutenant Harris in The Police Academy films, and, most recently, Detective Provenza on TNT’s Major Crimes. He is also the Executive Director of the Sunshine Kids Foundation, which provides trips for young cancer patients.

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Fast-Paced Fun Reads chris grabenstein sunday, january 31, 3:00 p.m. horchow auditorium

Ticket Prices Public: $15 Member: $10 Student: $7

Promotional Partners: Friends of the Dallas Public Library and Dallas Public Library

Chris Grabenstein delights readers with the much-anticipated puzzlepacked sequel to the New York Times–bestselling, award-winning Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library, described as “part Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, part A Night in the Museum, and a whole lot of fun.” In Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics, Kyle and his teammates are back, and world-famous game maker Luigi Lemoncello is at it again. This time Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS. But something suspicious is going on . . . books are missing from Mr. Lemoncello’s library. Is someone trying to CENSOR what the kids are reading? In between figuring out mind-boggling challenges, the kids will have to band together to get to the bottom of this mystery. Now it’s not just a game—can Mr. Lemoncello find the real defenders of books and champions of libraries? Let the games begin!

Currently nominated for thirty-four different state book awards, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library has spent thirty-eight weeks on the New York Times Middle Grades bestseller list, and Nickelodeon has optioned the book to become a movie. Grabenstein is also the author of The Island of Dr. Libris and co-author with James Patterson of the #1 bestselling I Funny, Treasure Hunters, and House of Robots series. He’s a playwright and screenwriter, not to mention a former advertising executive and improvisational comedian. His dog, Fred, has even better credits—he starred on Broadway in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. booksmart

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Capote’s Capers melanie benjamin tuesday, february 2, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Ticket Prices Public: $35 Member: $30 Student: $15 Book + Ticket: Public: $50 Member: $45

Publishers Weekly raves, “Talented historical novelist Melanie Benjamin has a knack for picking intriguing, if somewhat obscure, women in history and making them utterly unforgettable.” She is the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator’s Wife, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb, and Alice I Have Been.

In the dazzling high society of 1950s Manhattan, gossip and rumors swirled around a heart-wrenching and scandalous relationship between Babe Paley, a Manhattan socialite, and Truman Capote, a literary genius. Melanie Benjamin’s newest book, The Swans of Fifth Avenue (to be released January 26), seduces readers with this legendary romance, opening the doors to the private parlors of the rich and famous and the secrets whispered therein.

Babe Paley was dubbed “the Goddess of Beauty” and seemed to have it all. But beneath this elegantly composed exterior was a woman longing for true love and connection. Truman Capote, a diminutive golden-haired genius with a larger-than-life personality, exploded onto the social scene, setting Babe and her circle of “Swans” aflutter. Frank Sinatra, Andy Warhol, Lauren Bacall, and Rose Kennedy make cameo appearances in the book.

Before the event: Enjoy craft cocktails inspired by Truman Capote and Babe Paley in the DMA Cafe, and 6:30 p.m.“high society” tours of collection highlights.

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special event

Pollock in Motion world premiere DMA Members and TBT subscribers only:

tuesday, february 9, 7:30 p.m.

General public:

wednesday, february 10, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium

Ticket Prices Public: $35 Member: $30 Student: $15

Inspired by the DMA’s two masterpieces by Jackson Pollock and the Blind Spots exhibition (on view through March 20), Arts & Letters Live has commissioned the world-class Texas Ballet Theater to create a new suite of five dances resonant with his art, particularly his black paintings of 1951–1953.

Jackson Pollock—widely considered the most influential American painter of the 20th century—used house paint instead of traditional artist’s paint to create a radical technique that revolutionized the art world in the 1950s. “It doesn’t make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said,” expressed Pollock. “Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. I control the flow of the paint. There is no accident.”

Gavin Delahunty, Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art and curator of Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots, will share insights into Pollock’s oftunderexplored work and the significance of assembling these thirty-three works of art, which will likely not be reunited again in our lifetime; the Guardian hailed this exhibition as “sensational” and “exhilarating.”

Texas Ballet Theater Artistic Director Ben Stevenson, O.B.E., choreographed the new dances and calls them Reflections of an Iconic Artist. He says, “In no way have I tried to reflect the brilliant work of Jackson Pollock, but have instead gone with the title of his works. [Pollock’s] vision of the title is on the canvas; my vision of his title is with the dancers.” artful musings

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Stumbling in the Dark sarah hepola friday, february 19, 7:00 p.m. horchow auditorium

Members FREE Public: Included in Late Night ticket Not ticketed in advance; DMA Members will be seated first.

The theme for this month’s Late Night is “Virtues and Vices,” and this book explores both. For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was “the gasoline of all adventure.”

She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly stayed till last call. To her, drinking felt like the birthright of a strong, enlightened woman. But there was a price. She often blacked out, waking up with a blank space where four hours should be. She apologized for things she couldn’t remember doing, as though she were cleaning up after an evil twin. Publicly, she covered her shame with self-deprecating jokes, and her career flourished; but as the blackouts accumulated, she could no longer avoid a sinking truth. The fuel she thought she needed was draining her spirit instead.

A memoir of unflinching honesty and poignant, laugh-out-loud humor, Sarah Hepola’s Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget tells the story of a woman stumbling into a new kind of adventure—the sober life she never wanted. Shining a light into her blackouts, she discovers the person she buried, as well as the confidence, intimacy, and creativity she once believed came only from a bottle. This is a story about giving up the thing you cherish most—but getting yourself back in return.

“Razor-sharp . . . modern, raw, and painfully real— and even hilarious . . . Hepola moves beyond the analysis of her addiction, making this the story of every woman’s fight to be seen for who she really is.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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Selected Shorts art & artists saturday, february 27, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Ticket Prices Public: $35, Member: $30, Student: $15

blythe danner reads How to Become A Writer by Lorrie Moore

john benjamin hickey reads Weber’s Head by J. Robert Lennon

denis o’hare reads The Color Master by Aimee Bender Blythe Danner has appeared on Broadway in Butterflies Are Free, for which she earned a Tony Award; Betrayal; A Streetcar Named Desire; and, most recently, The Country House. Her films include Meet the Parents, The Prince of Tides, The Great Santini, 1776, and the forthcoming Tumbledown. Her television credits include We Were the Mulvaneys, St. Elsewhere, Will & Grace, and Huff, for which she earned two Emmy Awards.

John Benjamin Hickey won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in The Normal Heart. His other Broadway credits include Mary Stuart, The Crucible, and Cabaret. He has a recurring role as Neil Gross on The Good Wife, and appeared for four seasons on Showtime’s The Big C, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He has appeared in films such as Pitch Perfect, Flags of Our Fathers, and the upcoming Tallulah. He currently stars in the original WGN television series Manhattan.

Denis O’Hare has appeared in such films as Milk, for which he won the Critics Choice Award for Best Acting Ensemble; A Mighty Heart; Michael Clayton; Duplicity; 21 Grams; Garden State; and Changeling. He won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Take Me Out and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for his role in Sweet Charity. Recent television appearances include American Horror Story, True Blood, and The Good Wife.

Selected Shorts on KERA 90.1 On Saturdays at 7:00 p.m., tune in to the award-winning public radio series featuring classic and bold new stories read by acclaimed actors.

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Brontë Bicentennial claire harman monday, february 29, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium

Ticket Prices Public: $35 Member: $30 Student: $15

Claire Harman’s Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart marks the bicentennial of the iconic author’s birth and has been hailed as the literary biography of 2016.

Drawing on correspondence unavailable to previous biographers, Harman reveals that Charlotte’s life contained all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels. Raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors and sent away to a brutally strict boarding school, Charlotte also endured the deaths of all five of her beloved siblings. As an adult, she was haunted by a great and unrequited love—one that tortured her but also inspired some of the most moving, intense, and revolutionary novels ever written in the English language.

A literary visionary and feminist trailblazer, Charlotte was the driving force behind the Brontë family. A bestselling female author in a world still dominated by men, she wrote books featuring heroines inspired by herself and her life, fiercely intelligent women burning with hidden passions. Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart provides uniquely intimate and complex insights into one of history’s best-loved writers.

Claire Harman has taught English at Oxford University and creative writing at Columbia University. Her bestselling book Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World is a remarkable biography of the writer’s lasting cultural influence.

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The Aca-Perfect Concert Experience vocalosity wednesday, march 2, 7:30 p.m. mcfarlin memorial auditorium, smu

In partnership with Ticket Prices $25–$45 based on seat location Order online at attpac.org or call 214-880-0202.

Vocalosity is the all-new live concert event from the creative mind of music director and artistic producer Deke Sharon (Pitch Perfect, The Sing-Off) that takes a cappella to a whole new level. This fast-paced production features twelve dynamic voices singing some of today’s chart-topping hits in brand-new arrangements too incredible to miss. No genre of music is off limits in the world of a cappella and Vocalosity will explore them all—from 10th-century Gregorian chant to bouncing doo-wop, all the way to The Beatles and Bruno Mars. Combine that with movement and choreography from Sean Curran (Stomp original cast member) and you have an exhilarating evening of song unlike anything you’ve ever seen or heard, live on stage.

Vocalosity came together through the passion of Deke Sharon, who has built a career in a cappella as a singer, arranger, director, and producer; it is his arrangements you’ll hear performed. Universal Music Classics will release a CD in conjunction with Vocalosity’s national tour, which will be available for purchase at the event.

“They’re all a team, which creates an immediate chemistry and an immediate connection between the people and their voices. . . . And you hear that when they sing together live.”

—Deke Sharon Submit your 90-second a cappella video in advance and enter to win a spot as one of three performers in the opening act. Visit the ticketing site for details. special event

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Texas Bound II in hindsight monday, march 14, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Ticket Prices Public: $35; Member: $30; Student: $15

doris roberts reads The Ship That Has Sailed by Will Clarke and A Fine Monument by Betty Wiesepape

jeffrey schmidt reads Colonel Fandango and the Fredericksburg Duck Irons by Doug Dorst and Outside the Toy Store by Bret Anthony Johnston

stephen tobolowsky reads his story The Dangerous Animals Club Doris Roberts was a twenty-year veteran of the Broadway stage before making regular appearances in the sitcoms Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and Angie. Her career highlights include many films and television shows, including Grey’s Anatomy and Melissa & Joey, but Roberts is best known for her role as the indomitable matriarch, Marie, on Everybody Loves Raymond. The show became one of the best-loved sitcoms in history, garnering Roberts seven Emmy nominations and four wins for her colorful role.

Jeffrey Schmidt is an actor, director, and designer with a twenty-year history in theater, film, and television. He scenic designed The Arsonists for Kitchen Dog Theater and performed in The Book Club Play for Dallas Theater Center as well as the feature films Parkland and DV Short, written and directed

by Francis Ford Coppola.

Stephen Tobolowsky has appeared in over two hundred movies and television shows, including Groundhog Day, Freaky Friday, Memento, Glee, Seinfeld, Californication, and Comedy Central’s new series Big Time in Hollywood, Florida. His first book of memoiristic short stories, The Dangerous Animals Club, was published in 2012, and My Adventures with God was released in 2015.

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Poetry, Place, & Race tracy k. smith & kevin young thursday, march 17, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium

Ticket Prices Public: $35; Member:$30; Student: $15

Tracy K. Smith won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Life on Mars. Her critically acclaimed memoir Ordinary Light is shortlisted for the 2015 National Book Award in Nonfiction. The youngest of five children, she was raised with limitless affection and a firm belief in God by a stay-at-home mother and an engineer father. But after spending a summer in Alabama at her grandmother’s house, Smith returned to California with a new sense of what it means to be black. Booklist calls Ordinary Light “a gracefully nuanced yet strikingly candid memoir about family, faith, race, and literature,” and BBC’s Between the Lines says, “It is a lament, an homage, a discovery, a blessing.” Smith is currently the Director of Princeton University’s Creative Writing Program.

Kevin Young is widely regarded as one of the leading poets of his generation, one who finds inspiration in African American music, particularly the blues, and in the bittersweet history of Black America. Billy Collins praised him as “tender, sassy, and just plain cool.” The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Book Award. Young’s latest compendium, Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995–2015, draws from all nine of his previous collections and includes new poems as well.

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Quirks, Comedy, & Creativity rainn wilson saturday, march 19, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Ticket Prices Public: $35 Member: $30 Student: $25 Check online for VIP Experience details and pricing

For nine seasons, Rainn Wilson made his name playing obnoxious Dwight Schrute, everyone’s favorite work nemesis and beet farmer, on the hit television series The Office. Now, he’s ready to explain how he came up with his unique sense of humor and share his socially awkward climb to stardom in his memoir, The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy.

Wilson describes how he grew up “bone-numbingly nerdy before there was even a modicum of cool attached to the word.” He also charts his years of mild debauchery as a young actor in New York, his many adventures and insights about The Office, and finally, his achievement of success and satisfaction, both in his career and spiritually by reconnecting with the artistic and creative values of the Bahá’í faith of his childhood.

Long celebrated for his quirky comedic talent, Wilson is also known for being a co-creator of the popular philosophy website and media company SoulPancake.com, which went on to become the bestselling book SoulPancake: Chew on Life’s Big Questions. Among many of the site’s accomplishments, SoulPancake discovered and nurtured the Internet phenomenon “Kid President.”

“As if the bassoon, xylophone and science fiction obsession wasn’t enough, I then took up an interest in chess. It’s as if the sirens of dweebdom lured me inexorably into their pimply lair, from which I never really returned.” —from The Bassoon King 18

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wit & wisdom

Tragedy & Transcendence hanya yanagihara in conversation with Krys Boyd

tuesday, march 22, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium

Ticket Prices Public: $35 Member: $30 Student: $15

Promotional Partner: KERA

One of the most talked about books of the year and winner of the 2015 Kirkus Prize for Fiction, Hanya Yanagihara’s novel A Little Life follows four college friends living in New York as young adults: Malcolm is an architect; Willem an actor; JB a painter; and the fourth, Jude, is a litigator with a dark, painful past that remains a secret to those who love him. Despite enormous professional success and strong personal relationships, Jude can’t shake the destructive self-loathing endemic to his childhood abandonment and abuse. Tackling the issues of depression, sexual abuse, and self-harm, Yanagihara examines the ways that friends can help remake a life that has been destroyed, and the limits to their influence. Insightful, devastating, and hopeful, A Little Life pushes the limits of human cruelty while examining the restorative power of love.

A National Book Award Finalist, A Little Life also garnered a spot on the 2015 Man Booker Prize Short-List for Fiction. Her first novel, The People in the Trees, was shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction.

“Yanagihara’s immense new book, A Little Life, announces her . . . as a major American novelist. Here is an epic study of trauma and friendship written with such intelligence and depth of perception that it will be one of the benchmarks against which all other novels that broach those subjects (and they are legion) will be measured.”

—Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal distinguished writers

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A Fatal Voyage erik larson thursday, march 31, 7:30 p.m. first united methodist church

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Erik Larson returns with the enthralling story of the sinking of the British ocean-liner RMS Lusitania. The publication of Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania coincides with the 100th anniversary of the fatal event that resulted in the deaths of more than one thousand passengers and crew. Larson renders a thrilling account of the Lusitania and a German U-boat making their way toward Liverpool, and the array of forces—hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more—that all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history. Switching between the hunter and the hunted, Larson captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster that strongly influenced America’s eventual declaration of war two years later in 1917.

Larson is the author of five New York Times bestsellers; The Devil in the White City stayed on the Times’ hardcover and paperback lists for a combined total of over five years and was a National Book Award finalist. In the Garden of Beasts, Thunderstruck, and Isaac’s Storm have also graced the bestseller list, and Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania hit #1 on the list soon after its launch.

“In his gripping new examination of the last days of what was then the fastest cruise ship in the world, Larson brings the past stingingly alive. . . . He draws upon telegrams, war logs, love letters, and survivor depositions to provide the intriguing details, things I didn’t know I wanted to know. . . . Thrilling, dramatic and powerful.” —NPR Before the event: Enjoy dinner in the DMA Cafe featuring a menu actually served on the Lusitania.

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Dutch Masters & Deceit dominic smith tuesday, april 5, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium

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In Dominic Smith’s spellbinding new novel, The Last Painting of Sara De Vos, one 17th-century painting changes the course of three lives: the woman who paints it, the lawyer who inherits it, and the art history student who forges it. This event serves as the launch party for the novel.

In 1631, Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the Guild of St. Luke in Holland. Strict rules at the time allowed women to paint only still lifes, never landscapes. And yet, three hundred years later, her only known remaining work is a landscape. It hangs in the bedroom of a wealthy Manhattanite, a descendant of the original owner.

In Brooklyn, an Australian graduate student struggling to stay afloat agrees to paint a forgery of the landscape for a dicey art dealer. This decision will shape her life and one day threaten to unravel it entirely. Half a century later, she’s a prominent curator, mounting an exhibition—and both versions of the landscape are en route to her museum.

Author Ben Fountain praised it, saying it is “quite simply, one of the best novels I have ever read, and as close to perfect as any book I’m likely to encounter in my reading life.” Ben Fountain and DMA Chief Conservator Mark Leonard will join Smith on-stage in conversation. The author of three previous novels and the recipient of Dobie Paisano and Michener fellowships, Dominic Smith grew up in Australia and now lives in Austin.

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Food & Family padma lakshmi friday, april 8, 7:30 p.m. first united methodist church

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Promotional Partner: Crow Collection of Asian Art

Long before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television set, she learned that how we eat is an extension of how we love, how we comfort, how we forge a sense of home, and how we taste the world as we navigate our way through it. Shuttling between continents as a child, she lived a life of dislocation, never quite at home in the world. And yet, through all her travels, her favorite food remained the simple rice she first ate sitting on the cool floor of her grandmother’s kitchen in South India. A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, that is punctuated with recipes, Love, Loss, and What We Ate traces Lakshmi’s extraordinary journey from that humble kitchen to the judges’ table of Top Chef and beyond. It’s a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl’s Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron’s Heartburn.

Padma Lakshmi is the host of the Emmy Award–winning, top-rated Bravo series Top Chef and the author of two cookbooks: the award-winning Easy Exotic and Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet. She is the first internationally successful Indian supermodel and has walked the runway for designers Ralph Lauren, Emanuel Ungaro, and Roberto Cavalli.

6:00 p.m. Enjoy a special dinner with Padma Lakshmi in the Founders Room inspired by her favorite recipes and the DMA’s global collection. Limited VIP tickets include a three-course dinner with wine, ticket, and hardcover book.

Public: $165; Member: $130

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Guts & Glory daniel james brown tuesday, april 12, 7:30 p.m. first united methodist church

Ticket Prices Public: $35 Member: $30 Student: $15

Author David Laskin says of Daniel James Brown’s The Boys in the Boat, “I really can’t rave enough about this book . . . dazzling . . . novelistic . . . cinematic.

I read the last fifty pages with white knuckles, and the last twenty-five with tears in my eyes. History, sports, human interest, weather, suspense, design, physics, oppression and inspiration. . . . This is Chariots of Fire with oars.”

This longtime #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2014 Nonfiction Book of the Year by the American Booksellers Association chronicles the journey of the 1936 University of Washington men’s crew team, who beat their California rivals, defeated the Ivy League’s top oarsmen, and ultimately stunned the world and upstaged Hitler at the Berlin Olympics.

Against the grim backdrop of the Great Depression, these nine boys— sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers—reaffirmed the American notion that merit, in the end, trumps birthright. This is a heartwarming story of one young man in particular. Abandoned by his family at an early age, Joe Rantz rows not just for glory, but to regain his shattered self-image, to regain his trust in others, and to find his way back to a place he can call home.

This is the ultimate underdog story that appeals to everyone. A young reader’s edition for ages 10 and older was released in fall 2015; this is a story that deserves sharing with the next generation.

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America’s First Serial Killer skip hollandsworth tuesday, april 19, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium

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Skip Hollandsworth, award-winning journalist, executive editor for Texas Monthly, and screenwriter of the acclaimed film Bernie, can now add author to his impressive resume. This event celebrates the release of his first book, The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer.

Set in 1884, when Austin was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a true cosmopolitan metropolis, the book follows a vicious killer who stalked the streets of the city for an entire year, striking on moonlit nights and attacking women from every race and class. Before it was all over, the crimes would expose what a newspaper called “the most extensive and profound scandal ever known in Austin.” Hampton Sides says, “Skip Hollandsworth has a bloodhound’s nose for a great tale.” The Midnight Assassin is a scrupulously researched, riveting depiction of one of the most chilling and little-known events in Texas history.

“Skip Hollandsworth is not just a Lone Star treasure, but a national treasure. . . . Whether you love true crime, history, or Texana, The Midnight Assassin is bursting at the seams with everything you want in a great book; a spellbinding mix of mystery, horror and historical detective work.” —Bryan Burrough

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Belly Laughs david sedaris wednesday, april 27, 7:30 p.m. thursday, april 28, 7:30 p.m. friday, april 29, 7:30 p.m. dallas city performance hall

Ticket Prices $32–$75 depending on seat location Order online at attpac.org or call 214-880-0202.

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Beloved satirist David Sedaris returns to Dallas for the seventh consecutive year to read new and unpublished material, imparting his incisive social critiques and sharing his sardonic wit with his devoted fans. Hailed as the “rock star of writers,” Sedaris has become one of America’s preeminent humor writers, with bestselling books such as Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice, as well as collections of personal essays, including Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and When You Are Engulfed in Flames. The audio version of Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls was a 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album. Sedaris’s pieces appear regularly in the New Yorker and on the public radio show This American Life, and have twice been included in The Best American Essays. Seven million copies of his books are in print, and they have been translated into twenty-nine languages. Fans eagerly await the publication of his next book, slated for summer 2017, a collection of his diary entries entitled Theft by Finding.

David and his sister Amy Sedaris have collaborated under the name “The Talent Family” to write half-a-dozen plays, which have been produced at La Mama, Lincoln Center, and The Drama Department in New York City.

“Compared to Twain and Hawthorne, David Sedaris has become one of the best-loved humorists of our time, writing with perfect pitch about the ludicrousness of our age.”

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Purpose & Passion dave isay in conversation with Krys Boyd

tuesday, may 3, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium

Ticket Prices Public: $35 Member: $30 Student: $15

Promotional Partner: KERA

StoryCorps founder Dave Isay’s latest book, Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, presents unforgettable stories from people doing what they love. Some are paid well for their work, others not at all; some found their paths at a very young age, others later in life; many overcame great odds or upturned their lives in order to pursue what matters to them. In Isay’s book, we meet a man from the barrios of Texas whose harrowing experiences in a family of migrant farmers inspired him to become a public defender. We meet a young man on the South Side of Chicago who became a teacher in order to help at-risk teenagers, like the ones who killed his father, get on the right track. We meet a woman who volunteers to help former inmates gain the skills and confidence they need to rejoin the workforce. Together these stories demonstrate how work can be about much more than just making a living. An essential contribution to the beloved StoryCorps collection, Callings is an inspiring tribute to rewarding work and the American pursuit of happiness.

Dave Isay is the recipient of six Peabody Awards, a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, and the 2015 TED Prize. He is the author-editor of numerous books that grew out of his public radio documentary work, including four StoryCorps books that are all New York Times bestsellers.

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wit & wisdom

Creative Living elizabeth gilbert tuesday, may 10, 7:30 p.m. charles w. eisemann center

Ticket Prices $35–$60 based on seat location Purchase tickets online at eisemanncenter.com or call 972-744-4650.

In Elizabeth Gilbert’s #1 New York Times bestseller Big Magic, she digs deep into her own generative process to share wisdom and a unique perspective about creativity. With empathy and generosity, she offers potent insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration, illustrating how to embrace curiosity and how to tackle what we most love while facing down what we most fear. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits needed in order to live a creative life. With soulful spirituality and cheerful pragmatism, Gilbert encourages the discovery of “strange jewels” that are hidden within each person.

Whether you’re looking to write a book, make art, embark on a dream long deferred, or simply infuse everyday life with more mindfulness and passion, Big Magic cracks open a world of wonder and joy.

Gilbert is the bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and has been a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her novel, The Signature of All Things, was named a Best Book of 2013 by the New York Times, O Magazine, and the New Yorker.

“Elizabeth Gilbert is my new spirit animal. . . . I have profoundly changed my approach to creating since I read this book.” —Huffington Post

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Musical Poet & Prophet kate tempest friday, may 13, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium

Ticket Prices Public: $20 Member: $15 Student: $10

Promotional Partner: DaVerse Lounge – A Big Thought and Journeyman Ink Program

Award-winning poet and performer Kate Tempest’s electrifying debut novel, The Bricks That Built the Houses, takes us into the beating heart of London in a multi-generational tale of youth, desire, and belonging. Young Londoners Becky, Harry, and Leon are leaving the city in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of money. They are also leaving behind Pete, Becky’s boyfriend, at his surprise birthday party. Moving back in time, the novel explores a cross-section of contemporary urban life with a powerful moral microscope, giving us intimate stories of hidden lives and loves, and showing us that good intentions don’t always lead to the right decisions. Taking us into the homes and hearts of ordinary people, their families and their communities, Kate Tempest exposes moments of beauty, disappointment, ambition, and failure.

Kate Tempest grew up in southeast London and is widely regarded as the UK’s leading spoken word poet. Her long poem Brand New Ancients, conceived as a performance piece, won the Ted Hughes Award for Poetry in 2013. Her album Everybody Down was shortlisted for the 2014 Mercury Prize, and each track corresponds to a chapter in The Bricks That Built the Houses.

“Citing both the poet William Blake and the rapper RZA among her influences, she is a powerful mix of innocence and experience with a growing, and fervent, following. . . .

Ms. Tempest’s work jumps boundaries.” —The New York Times

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CrimeFighting Sisters amy stewart tuesday, may 17, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium

Ticket Prices Public: $35 Member: $30 Student: $15

While researching a character for her bestselling book The Drunken Botanist, Amy Stewart discovered a story that had been lost to time. In 1915, a man named Henry Kaufman ran his car into a horse-drawn carriage driven by three sisters: Constance, Norma, and Fleurette Kopp. They got into a conflict over payment for the damages, and it escalated from there. The sisters received kidnapping threats, shots were fired at their house, and they were generally tormented for almost a year. When the sheriff enlists Constance’s help in convicting the men, she is forced to confront her past and defend her family—and she does it in a way that few women of that era would have dared.

Amy Stewart’s novel Girl Waits with Gun is based on the true story of one of the nation’s first female deputy sheriffs, a story that has largely been forgotten until now. It is the first book in a series that will re-tell the entire life story of Constance, including her intelligence work during World War I and the detective agency she started and ran with her sisters.

Stewart is also the author of six previous works of nonfiction, including four New York Times bestsellers—The Drunken Botanist, Wicked Bugs, Wicked Plants, and Flower Confidential. She and her husband also run an independent bookstore called Eureka Books in Eureka, California.

Before the talk: Enjoy Amy Stewart’s cocktail created for Girl Waits with Gun in the Atrium. special event

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Colorful Characters drew daywalt sunday, may 22, 3:00 p.m. horchow auditorium

Ticket Prices Public: $15 Member: $10 Student: $7

One day while brainstorming book ideas, Drew Daywalt stared at a box of crayons on his desk and couldn’t help but notice how uneven they were. What would they say if they could say anything they wanted? Blue and red were nubs, pink was untouched, peach had had its wrapper torn off. . . . Drew Daywalt gave voice to these crayons in the New York Times bestseller The Day the Crayons Quit.

And now the highly anticipated sequel, The Day the Crayons Came Home, presents a whole new group of crayons. From Maroon Crayon, who was lost beneath the sofa cushions; to Burnt Sienna, who was chewed up and spit back out by the dog; to poor Turquoise, whose head is now stuck to a sock after they both ended up in the dryer together; to Pea Green, who knows darn well that no kid likes peas—in this delightfully quirky sequel, every crayon has a woeful tale to tell.

Illustrated by the brilliant Oliver Jeffers, the Boston Globe says, “By telling stories from the points of view of crayons, giving voices to the small and ignored, Daywalt and Jeffers have created two books that offer plenty of charm and fun, but also make children feel deeply understood.”

Come early with your family and pick up an Art to Go family tote bag themed on color. These bags are filled with games, hands-on activities, and conversation starters that can be used in fun ways to explore the galleries.

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booksmart

Survival of the Kindest dacher keltner tuesday, may 31, 7:30 p.m. dallas city performance hall

Ticket Prices Public: $35 Member: $30 Student: $15

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Dacher Keltner, Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, served as the scientific consultant for the highly acclaimed Pixar film Inside Out. He helped revise the story, emphasizing the neuropsychological findings that human emotions are mirrored in interpersonal relationships and can be significantly moderated by them. At this event, he will highlight key insights from that science and how they play out in the film, showing film clips as illustrations. He will also focus on five practices that elevate compassion, increasing our well-being and life expectancy.

Keltner is the author of the bestseller Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life and The Compassionate Instinct, as well as the forthcoming book The Power Paradox (May 2016). He has written for the New York Times Magazine, and his research has been covered in Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, CNN, NPR, and the BBC. He has also collaborated on projects at Facebook and Google.

Keltner is Director of the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab, and serves as the Faculty Director of the Berkeley Greater Good Science Center. His research focuses on the biological and evolutionary origins of compassion, awe, love, and beauty, as well as power, social class, and inequality.

“Dacher Keltner speaks about our emotional lives with scientific precision and in the most fascinating way. Born to Be Good offers us a fact-filled, fun, and enlightening peek into our minds and hearts.” —Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence wit & wisdom

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The Power of a Name sherman alexie saturday, june 4, 11:30 a.m. horchow auditorium

Ticket Prices Public: $15 Member: $10 Student: $7

Thunder Boy Jr. is named after his dad, but he wants a name that’s all his own. Just because people call his dad Big Thunder doesn’t mean he wants to be Little Thunder. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he’s done, like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder.

But just when Thunder Boy Jr. thinks all hope is lost, he and his dad pick the perfect name . . . a name that is sure to light up the sky.

In Thunder Boy Jr., Sherman Alexie’s lyrical text and Caldecott Honor–winner Yuyi Morales’s striking and beautiful illustrations celebrate the special relationship between father and son.

A National Book Award–winning author, poet, and filmmaker, Alexie has been named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists and has been lauded by the Boston Globe as “an important voice in American literature.” He is one of the most well known and beloved literary writers of his generation and has received numerous awards and citations, including the PEN/Malamud Award for Fiction and the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award. Thunder Boy Jr. is his first picture book.

2:30 p.m. Teen writing workshop (ages 12–18) led by Sherman Alexie using works of art as inspiration: $15. Advance reservations strongly recommended as space is limited.

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Literary Super Thrillers justin cronin friday, june 10, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium

Ticket Prices Public: $35 Member: $30 Student: $15

The first novel in Justin Cronin’s series, The Passage, generated a bidding war among publishers and became an instant bestseller. Film rights were snapped up reportedly for seven figures, and an apocalypse trilogy was born.

Author Jennifer Egan hailed it as “a wildly headlong, sweeping extravaganza of a novel. . . . a bona fide thriller that is sharply written, deeply human, ablaze with big ideas, and absolutely impossible to put down.” The first two novels in the series, The Passage and The Twelve, depict the fall of civilization and humanity’s desperate fight to survive.

At last, this bestselling series races to its breathtaking finale with The City of Mirrors (to be released May 24), which begins with quiet calm on the horizon and challenges the reader to determine if the silence indicates the nightmare’s end or the second coming of unspeakable darkness. Cronin has said that the themes in the series are those that engage him as a person and a writer—love, sacrifice, friendship, loyalty, and courage. He delves into the bonds between people, especially parents and children, while examining the pull of history, and the power of place and landscape to shape experience.

Cronin has won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Stephen Crane Prize, and the Whiting Writer’s Award, and received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Cronin earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is now a Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Rice University. special event

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Rescue to Redemption vinh chung monday, june 20, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium

Ticket Prices Public: $35 Member: $30 Student: $15

In honor of World Refugee Awareness Day

Vinh Chung’s powerful and poignant memoir Where the Wind Leads has garnered more than 250 five-star reviews on Amazon.com. He opens with: “This is a story that spans two continents, ten decades, and eleven thousand miles. When I was three and a half years old, my family was forced to flee Vietnam. . . . Several weeks later my family lay half-dead from dehydration in a derelict fishing boat jammed with ninety-three refugees lost in the middle of the South China Sea. We arrived in the United States with nothing but the clothes on our backs and unable to speak a single word of English. Today my family holds twenty-one university degrees. How we got from there to here is quite a story.”

Thai pirates attacked the Chungs’ boat twice, but then a World Vision mercy ship stumbled across their boat and rescued them. His family eventually relocated to Fort Smith, Arkansas, where they faced poverty, ethnic discrimination, and an almost insurmountable language barrier. From one dream and a series of providential encounters, to a life of perseverance, sacrifice, and a new faith in God, Chung excelled and eventually graduated from Harvard Medical School. He and his wife, Leisle, currently run a successful dermatology practice and have four children. Where the Wind Leads is Chung’s tribute to the courage and sacrifice of his parents, a testimony to his family’s faith, and a reminder to people everywhere that the American dream, while still possible, carries with it a greater responsibility. All author royalties from book sales support World Vision’s relief efforts.

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wit & wisdom

Hope & Art After the Apocalypse emily st. john mandel friday, june 24, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium

Ticket Prices Public: $35 Member: $30 Student: $15

Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling novel Station Eleven centers on a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors and musicians roaming a post-apocalyptic North America in the aftermath of a flu pandemic.

Nostalgic for their world “before the collapse,” the Traveling Symphony moves in horse-drawn wagons from town to town and risks everything for the sake of preserving art and humanity, striving to live honorably in a damaged world. One of the Symphony musicians explains that they perform mostly Shakespeare plays for the few remaining survivors because “people want what was best about the world.”

A 2014 National Book Award Finalist, Station Eleven contemplates ambition, the power of memory, and the relationships that sustain us, as well as the fleeting nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it. Mandel’s dazzling and suspenseful novel spans decades, vividly portraying life before and after the pandemic. Equal parts mystery novel and post-apocalyptic tale, the characters’ passionate pursuit of preserving art and humanity infuses the story with hope.

“A superb novel . . . [that] leaves us not fearful for the end of the world but appreciative of the grace of everyday existence.” —San Francisco Chronicle

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The Dallas Museum of Art is supported, in part, by the generosity of DMA Members and donors, the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, and the Texas Commission on the Arts. photo credits: Mary-Louise Parker by Tina Turnbow; Eric Weiner by Justin Tsucalas; Octavio Solis by Susan Simmons; Melanie Benjamin by Deborah Feingold; Jackson Pollock, 1950, Photograph by Hans Namuth, Courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, © 1991 Hans Namuth Estate; Claire Harman by Caroline Forbes; Deke Sharon by Jeremy Daniel; Sean Curran by David Samuel Stern; Tracy K. Smith by Rachel Eliza Griffiths; Hanya Yanagihara by Sam Levy; Erik Larson by Benjamin Benschneider; Dominic Smith by Stacy Sodolak; Padma Lakshmi by Charles Thompson; David Sedaris by Hugh Hamrick; Dave Isay by Harvey Wang; Elizabeth Gilbert by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; Kate Tempest by Niamh Convery; Drew Daywalt by Tracey Morris; Sherman Alexie DMA.org/tickets

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