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distinguished writers

ZADIE SMITH

in conversation with Krys Boyd

saturday, january 14, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Zadie Smith wrote her debut novel, White Teeth, while she was a 22-year-old student at Cambridge. She became a literary wunderkind almost overnight when it won the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, among several others. She followed that with The Autograph Man (2002), and then On Beauty, which won the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction. Smith writes regularly for the New Yorker and has become a celebrated cultural critic, collecting her essays in Changing My Mind.

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Swing Time. Set in both London and Africa,

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it follows the lives of two brown girls who

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dream of being dancers—but only one, Tracey,

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has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It’s a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten either. Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and stubborn roots, about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive them.

"Swing Time is an acidly funny, fluently global, and head-spinning novel about the quest for meaning, exaltation, and love." —Booklist (starred review)

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artful musings

GEOFF DYER wednesday, january 18, 7:00 p.m. horchow auditorium This event celebrates the DMA’s recent acquisition of a work by iconic artist Walter De Maria.

Gavin Delahunty, Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, will address De Maria’s art, and award-winning author Geoff Dyer will share insights about his pilgrimage to De Maria’s The Lightning Field in New Mexico, as well as his musings on travel, landscape, and the power of art in his newest book, White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World.

Dyer takes us along on his adventures, ranging from the Forbidden City in Beijing to Tahiti, where he sought out Gauguin’s notion of paradise. Kirkus raved, “There is an undeniable joy throughout Dyer’s writing, an affirmation that travel and the experience of place—not merely being someplace, but being present in it—is a gateway to the humanity of past, present, and future." Geoff Dyer has received a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.

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The author of four novels and nine works of

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nonfiction, Dyer is writer-in-residence at the

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University of Southern California. The New

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Yorker calls him “a restless polymath and an

Walter de Maria, Large Rod Series: Circle/Rectangle 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 1986, stainless steel, Collection of the Dallas Museum of Art through the TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art Fund and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through the Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for Major Acquisitions, 2015. 47.1.a-i, © 2016 Estate of Walter de Maria

irresistibly funny storyteller.”

Before the event: View the installation Walter De Maria: Counterpoint between 5:00 and 6:45 p.m., and then take your seat by 7:00 p.m. At 7:10 p.m., listen to a performance by percussionist Stockton Helbing of one of De Maria’s rare musical compositions.

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special event

LEVISON WOOD sunday, january 22, 4:00 p.m. horchow auditorium In partnership with the Boshell Family Lecture Series

Levison Wood is a bestselling author, explorer, and photographer who has traveled and worked in over eighty countries around the world; he is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an International Fellow of the Explorers Club. He also served in Afghanistan as an Officer in the British Parachute Regiment.

His work has been featured in National Geographic and Discovery Channel Magazine, and on CNN and the BBC. The Wall Street Journal said, “Mr. Wood’s interest, as well as his talents as a writer, lie . . . in finding out ‘what life was like in corners of the world that do not always TICKET PRICES

make it into our headlines’ and in capturing

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the character and foibles of the people who

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inhabit them.”

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In 2013, Wood became the first person to walk the entire length of the Nile River—a journey

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that took him nine months and over 4,000 miles. He traversed sandstorms, flash floods, and minefields, becoming a potential enemy of the state in South Sudan, where he was caught in a civil war and detained by the secret police.

Then he spent six months trekking 1,700 miles along the Silk Road of Afghanistan, the Line of Control between Pakistan and India, and the earthquake-ravaged lands of Nepal. At this event, he’ll discuss his adventures and his bestselling books, Walking the Nile (2015) and Walking the Himalayas (2016).

“An immense feat of endurance, a magnificent journey and a great adventure.” —Ranulph Fiennes

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distinguished writers

EMMA DONOGHUE tuesday, january 24, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Emma Donoghue’s international bestseller Room was a New York Times Best Book of 2010 and a finalist for the Man Booker and Orange prizes; she also wrote the film adaptation in 2015. Now Donoghue returns with another gripping masterpiece about the transformative power of human relationships in the darkest of circumstances.

In The Wonder, tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O’Donnell, who is said to have survived without food for months and believes herself to be living off manna from heaven. Lib Wright, an English nurse hired to keep watch over the girl, finds herself fightTICKET PRICES

ing to save the child’s life while chasing down

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the truth in a society with a devout religious

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culture. Along the way, Wright uncovers just

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The Wonder works beautifully on many levels—

as much about herself as she does the girl. a tale of two strangers who transform each other’s lives, a powerful psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil. Booklist gave it a starred review, calling it “Outstanding. . . . Exploring the nature of faith and trust with heartrending intensity, Donoghue’s superb novel will leave few unaffected.”

Donoghue is an Irish emigrant and currently lives in London, Ontario. She migrates between genres, writing literary history, biography, and stage and radio plays, as well as fairy tales and short stories.

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selected shorts

SHAKEN & STIRRED saturday, january 28, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Promotional Partner

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This evening of Selected Shorts celebrates the exhibition Shaken, Stirred, Styled: The Art of the Cocktail and the publication of Shaken & Stirred: Intoxicating Stories (Everyman's Library).

michael urie and anika noni rose read You Were Perfectly Fine by Dorothy Parker

michael urie reads The Catbird Seat by James Thurber

joshua malina reads Balloon Night by Tom Barbash

anika noni rose reads Dinner on the Rocks by Dawn Powell TICKET PRICES

Michael Urie, best known for his role as Marc St. James on the hit TV show Ugly Betty, starred

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in the Off-Broadway show Buyer & Cellar, receiving

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Drama Desk and LA Theatre Critics Awards for his

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Ticketholders can view the exhibition

performance. He has also appeared in Modern Family and The Good Wife.

Anika Noni Rose has appeared on Broadway in Caroline, or Change, for which she won a Tony Award; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; and most recently A Raisin in

after 5:00 p.m. and

the Sun (Tony nomination). Her film and TV credits

enjoy special cocktails

include The Good Wife, Roots, Dreamgirls, and Half of a

and dinner in the

Yellow Sun.

DMA Cafe.

Martini glass, Valeri Timofeev, designer, c. 2001, silver gilt, plique-Ă -jour enamel, enamel, and unidentified hardstone, Dallas Museum of Art, Discretionary Decorative Arts Fund, 2014.21

Joshua Malina stars on the hit ABC drama Scandal and is known for his role as Will Bailey on The West Wing. He has performed in numerous Aaron Sorkin projects, including the Broadway production of A Few Good Men and the film The American President.

Listen to Selected Shorts on KERA 90.1, Saturdays at 9:00 p.m.

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wit & wisdom

DAVE EVANS wednesday, february 1, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium At some point in life, many people find themselves asking “What do I want to be when I grow up?” Dave Evans, a former successful tech exec at Apple and Electronic Arts, realized that his real mission in life was to help people find their purpose and passion. Today he teaches Life Design at Stanford University and is the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life.

In Designing Your Life, Evans and co-author Bill Burnett, Executive Director of Stanford’s Design School, inspire readers to view life not as TICKET PRICES Public: $40 DMA Member: $30 Student/ Educator: $20

a problem that needs to be solved, but as a creative adventure. The book emphasizes that it’s never too late to design a life you love through innovation and creative problem-solving, and that the same principles used to create amazing technology and products can also be used to design and build a life filled with purpose and joy that is constantly creative and productive. Whether you are making a career or a life change, Evans will jumpstart your creative journey to fulfillment.

“An empowering book based on their popular class of the same name at Stanford University. . . . Perhaps the book’s most important lesson is that the only failure is settling for a life that makes one unhappy. With useful fact-finding exercises, an empathetic tone, and sensible advice, this book will easily earn a place among career-finding classics.”

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texas bound

TEXAS BOUND I

Fragments of Discovery

monday, february 6, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium constance gold parry reads Door and Puzzles by Fabiana Elisa Martínez

harriet harris reads Sh’khol by Colum McCann This evening of stellar storytelling celebrates the art of short fiction by Texas-connected TICKET PRICES

authors Fabiana Elisa Martínez and Colum

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McCann. Martínez’s works ponder the com-

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plexities of relationships, while the master-

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fully suspenseful short story Sh’khol by critically acclaimed author Colum McCann will have listeners on the edge of their seats.

Constance Gold Parry has been acting in local theaters for the past 30 years, most recently as Mrs. Hardcastle in the Shakespeare Dallas production of She Stoops to Conquer.

Harriet Harris, born and raised in Fort Worth, attended New York’s famed Juilliard School and won a Tony Award in 2002 for her role in the Broadway musical Thoroughly Modern Millie. Her role in Jeffrey, Paul Rudnick’s smash Off-Broadway hit about love in the time of AIDS, led to memorable guest roles on Murphy Brown, Ally McBeal, Six Feet Under, Frasier, Desperate Housewives, and Ellen. She recently appeared in Cherry Lane Theatre's production of The Roads to Home

by Texan Horton Foote.

Following the event: Enjoy a book signing with Dallas author Fabiana Elisa Martínez, who will sign copies of her story collection 12 Random Words.

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distinguished writers

SIMON TOLKIEN & AMOR TOWLES friday, february 10, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Inspired by the experiences of his grandfather J. R. R. Tolkien during World War I, Simon Tolkien delivers a perfectly rendered novel rife with class tension, period detail, and stirring action. No Man’s Land centers on Adam Raine, a boy whose impoverished childhood in turn-of-thecentury London comes to a tragic end when his mother is killed. His grief-stricken father moves the family to a coal mining town to pursue a job, but tensions between the miners and their employer explode with terrible consequences. Adam finds consolation in the company of a beautiful young woman with whom he falls in love. When they become engaged and Adam wins a scholarship to Oxford, he starts to feel like his life is finally coming together—until the outbreak of war threatens to tear everything apart.

Also steeped in early 20th-century history, A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles features wealthy Count Alexander Rostov, who has been sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a famed Moscow hotel, as punishment for writing a poem deemed incendiary by the Bolsheviks. Despite his confinement, the count lives an adventurous life. In a starred review, Kirkus says, “Spread across four decades, this is in all ways a great novel, a nonstop pleasure brimming with charm, personal wisdom, TICKET PRICES

and philosophic insight. . . . The cruelties of the

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age can’t begin to erase the glories of real human

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connection. . . . This book more than fulfills the

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promise of Towles’ stylish debut, Rules of Civility.”

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thrills & chills

CHRIS BOHJALIAN & KATIE KITAMURA wednesday, february 15, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium New York Times bestselling author Chris Bohjalian returns with a suspenseful story about a family’s lies, loss, and buried desire. In his latest novel, The Sleepwalker, wife and mother Annalee vanishes from her bed one night. Her sleepwalking affliction has led to bizarre and sometimes terrifying incidents in the past. As her children and husband begin searching for her with the help of a detective, the mystery surrounding Annalee’s disappearance becomes increasingly complicated.

Conjuring the strange and mysterious world of parasomnia, a place somewhere between dreaming and wakefulness, The Sleepwalker is a masterful novel from the author of The Guest Room and Midwives.

Katie Kitamura’s novel A Separation is a mesmerizing, psychologically taut story about secrecy, intimacy and infidelity, and the gulf that divides a marriage. When a young woman agrees with her faithless husband that their marriage isn’t salvageable, they decide to keep their separation a secret.

As she begins her new life, she gets word that her estranged spouse has gone missing in a remote region of Greece, and she reluctantly agrees to search for him. Adrift in the wild landscape, she traces the disintegration of their relationship and reflects upon her love for a man who may never have been TICKET PRICES Public: $25 DMA Member: $20 Student/ Educator: $15 12

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what he appeared. A Separation is a riveting stylistic masterpiece of absence and presence that will leave the reader astonished and transfixed.

wit & wisdom

JESSI KLEIN saturday, february 25, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Promotional Partner

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Jessi Klein is the Emmy and Peabody award– winning head writer and an executive producer of Comedy Central’s critically acclaimed series Inside Amy Schumer. She has also written for Amazon’s Transparent as well as Saturday Night Live. She has been featured on the popular storytelling series The Moth, and has been a regular panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me! Klein has also had her own half-hour Comedy Central stand-up special.

Growing up a gawkish late bloomer, Jessi Klein never identified with the conventional standards of modern femininity. Instead she TICKET PRICES

viewed herself as a tomboy who found her

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voice through comedy. In her outrageously

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funny and unapologetically candid breakout

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book, You’ll Grow Out of It, Klein compiles a perceptive collection of confessional essays that offer readers a relatable glimpse into exactly what it means to be a woman in today’s world. A Nora Ephron for a new generation, she touches on a variety of topics and recounts the personal growing pains she experienced and the lengths she’s gone to in the pursuit of womanhood. Comedic celebrity Amy Schumer has said of Klein's writing, “It’s like having a glass of wine with the best friend you wish you had.”

“A gifted comedian turns the anxieties, obsessions, insecurities, and impossible-to-meet expectations that make up human nature into laughter.”

—Kirkus (starred review) DMA.org/tickets

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booksmART

ADAM GIDWITZ sunday, february 26, 3:00 p.m. horchow auditorium Adam Gidwitz, New York Times bestselling author of the Grimm trilogy, spent six years, including a year in Europe, researching his latest book, The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog. On a dark night in 1242, travelers at an inn tell stories of three children: Jeanne, a peasant girl who has visions of the future; William, a young monk with supernatural strength; and Jacob, a Jewish boy who can heal any wound. They are accompanied by Jeanne’s loyal greyhound, Gwenforte—recently brought back from the dead.

Their adventures take them on a chase through medieval France to escape prejudice and persecution and save precious and holy texts from being burned. They’re taken captive by knights and save the land from a farting dragon, culminating in a final showdown at Mont Saint-Michel.

The Inquisitor’s Tale is a well-researched and engaging adventure sure to delight middle grade TICKET PRICES Public: $20 DMA Member: $15 Student/Educator: $10 Aquamanile (water jug) in the shape of a unicorn, Workshop of the Flammschweiflöwen, c. 1400, bronze, Nuremberg, Germany, Musée de Cluny, musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris, Cl. 2136, © RMN-Grand Palais/ Art Resource, NY, Photograph; Gérard Blot

readers and older. In a style reminiscent of The Canterbury Tales, Gidwitz provides insightful commentary on the dangers of narrowmindedness and zealotry that will resonate with modern readers. According to Kirkus Reviews, it is “a masterpiece of storytelling that is addictive and engrossing.”

2:00 p.m.: Embark on a scavenger hunt exploring works of art in the Art and Nature in the Middle Ages exhibition.

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TEXAS BOUND II

Fish Out of Water

saturday, march 4, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium octavio solis reads his story The Cotton

luke wilson reads Fish Story by Rick Bass

lydia mackay reads The Marrying Kind by Merrill Feitell

g. w. bailey

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reads Invasion of the Martians by Robert Coover Octavio Solis's plays have been produced across the country. His newest work, "Quixote," will be produced by Shakespeare Dallas in fall 2017. His stories have been published in the Chicago Quarterly Review and other literary journals.

Luke Wilson's acting career began with the lead role in the film Bottle Rocket, which was co-written by his brother Owen Wilson and acclaimed director Wes Anderson. He has since appeared in many films, most notably The Royal Tenenbaums, Legally Blonde, and Charlie’s Angels. He recently starred in the HBO TV series Enlightened.

Lydia Mackay is a theater and voice actress who has been onstage all over DFW. She’s also an adjunct

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professor of performance at TCU and is the Producing

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Artistic Director for The Drama Club. She is a member

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of Actor’s Equity Association, and is represented by

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the Mary Collins Agency.

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.

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new & notable

CHRIS CLEAVE & JENNIFER RYAN monday, march 6, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium In Chris Cleave’s newest novel, on the day England enters World War II Mary North goes straight to the War Office and signs up. Mary is certain she’d be a marvelous spy, but when she is bewilderingly made a teacher, she finds herself protecting the children her country would rather forget.

Tom Shaw decides to ignore the war—until he learns his roommate Alistair Heath has unexpectedly enlisted. And when Mary and Alistair meet, it is love, as well as war, that will test them in ways they could not have imagined. Everyone Brave Is Forgiven features little-known history and a perfect wartime love story inspired by the real-life love letters between Chris Cleave’s grandparents. Cleave is also the author of Gold, Incendiary, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Little Bee. Also set during World War II, Jennifer Ryan’s debut novel, The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir, follows the paths of five women as the war forces them to defy their vicar’s stuffy edict to shutter the church’s choir in the absence of men and instead “carry on singing.” Told through letters and journals, we learn about each choir member and come to see how the strength each finds in the choir’s collective voice reverberates in her individual life. Based on Ryan’s grandmother’s stories of the war, which often involved hilarious happenings in the dark

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blackout streets or in air raid shelters, The Chilbury

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Ladies’ Choir is about how women became stronger

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through the process of having to work and stick

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together to survive.

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distinguished writers

GEORGE SAUNDERS wednesday, march 8, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium In his highly anticipated first novel, National Book Award nominee George Saunders delivers a captivating tale about death, grief, and the abiding power of familial love. Set at the dawn of the Civil War, Lincoln in the Bardo explores a moment of great historical significance with touching pathos and an imaginative twist. Amidst the bloody battles, President Lincoln’s son, Willie, only eleven years of age, falls gravely ill and is ultimately laid to rest at the Georgetown Cemetery. Within this historical framework, Saunders spins a fictional story that is both deeply moving and hilarious. On the night of Willie’s death, and stricken with TICKET PRICES tickets include the price of a hardcover book.

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incredible sorrow, Lincoln visits Willie’s crypt, not yet able to let go of his beloved son. Over the course of the novel, Saunders charts the events of that momentous evening in which Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory—what is known in Tibetan culture as the bardo—surrounded by a host of spirits who commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance.

Saunders is a highly decorated author, receiving the MacArthur Fellowship in 2006 and seven years later winning a Story Prize for his widely acclaimed Tenth of December: Stories.

Lauded for his ability to raise questions about morality in a satirical yet honest tone, what Thomas Pynchon has described as “an astoundingly tuned voice—graceful, dark, authentic, and funny,” Saunders is sure to enchant readers with his newest literary masterpiece.

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MOHSIN HAMID & SHANTHI SEKARAN tuesday, march 14, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Having lived in New York, London, and Pakistan, Booker Prize winner Mohsin Hamid is no stranger to leaving his home to create a new life in a new city. In his fifth and most exhilarating book yet, Exit West, Hamid follows a passionate love affair between an unlikely duo, Nadia, a fiercely independent woman, and Saeed, a reserved and loyal son. In the midst of civil unrest, they are thrust into an interdependent relationship, and in order to escape the escalating violence leave behind their homeland to seek a better life together. A timeless tale about migration, Exit West was praised by the Library Journal as “heartbreakingly relevant.”

Shanthi Sekaran’s Lucky Boy gives a voice to two young women whose fates are bound together through their love of one fortunate child. Solimar Castro Valdez, a woman who bravely crossed the US-Mexican border, finds her purpose in motherhood when she unexpectedly becomes pregnant during a whirlwind romance. When she is detained, her son is cared for by Kavya Reddy, a woman who is unable to conceive but desperately longs to nurture a child with her husband, Rishi.

As Kavya settles into motherhood, her love grows perilously, for her hopes and dreams are wrapped around a child that is not her own. Award-winning

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author Molly Antopol calls Lucky Boy “a heartfelt

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and moving novel that challenges our notions of

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motherhood and the true meaning of home.

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A deeply beautiful book.”

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artful musings

JAMES CRAWFORD thursday, march 16, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium James Crawford’s Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of History’s Greatest Buildings delves into the biographies of 21 of the world’s most fascinating lost and ruined buildings, from the dawn of civilization to the cyber era. A unique guide to a world of vanished architecture, the book profiles such iconic structures as the Tower of Babel, the Bastille, and the Berlin Wall, illustrating how the lives of these structures represent the love and betrayal, catastrophe and hope, of each time period. Crawford uses the historical context of war, religion, politics, and art as a backdrop; their stories provide the stage for a rich array of characters ranging from Gilgamesh to Agamemnon, and TICKET PRICES

Catherine the Great to Adolf Hitler. Author

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Alexander McCall Smith praised it as “a lovely,

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wise book.”

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Crawford works for Scotland’s National Collection of architecture and archaeology, and has previously written a number of photographic books, including Above Scotland: The National Collection of Aerial Photography, Victorian Scotland, Scotland’s Landscapes, and Aerofilms: A History of Britain from Above. In 2013, he wrote and acted as design consultant on Telling Scotland’s Story, a graphic novel guide to Scottish archaeology.

“Magnificent. . . . Many of these buildings can be seen as microcosms of the decline and fall of whole civilizations.” —Daily Telegraph (5 Star Review, UK)

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thrills & chills

PAUL WATSON tuesday, march 21, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Pulitzer Prize–winning author and photojournalist Paul Watson sheds light on a story intricately linked with the broken mast in the DMA’s signature painting The Icebergs

by Frederic Edwin Church.

Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845—whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice—with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the incredible discovery of the flagship’s wreck in 2014. Paul Watson was the only journalist on board the icebreaker that led the discovery expedition.

He tells a fast-paced adventure story: Sir John Franklin and the crew setting off in search of the fabled Northwest Passage, the hazards they encountered, the reasons they were forced to abandon ship, and the decades of searching that turned up only rumors of cannibalism and scattered papers and bones­—until a combination of faith in Inuit lore and the TICKET PRICES

latest science yielded a discovery for the ages.

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Watson’s career as a war correspondent and

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photographer spans almost three decades on

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several continents, including Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. His memoir, Where War Lives (2007), shares his own stories of war

World Affairs Council

reporting and PTSD. He is the recipient of

of Dallas/Fort Worth

almost every major journalism award.

Frederic Edwin Church, The Icebergs (detail), 1861, oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Norma and Lamar Hunt, 1979.28

Pauline Gill Sullivan Associate Curator of

6:15 and 6:45 p.m.: Join Sue Canterbury, The American Art, for a talk in the galleries focused on Church’s The Icebergs. Space is limited.

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distinguished writers

ADAM HASLETT friday, march 24, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Adam Haslett’s novel Imagine Me Gone explores the depths to which people will go to help those they love most. A riveting story that examines the impact of mental illness on a family, this dark yet frequently hilarious novel is a 2016 Kirkus Prize finalist and National Book Award Longlist selection.

Haslett’s intricately rendered characters bring alive the love of a mother for her children, the devotion siblings feel toward one another, and how a father’s pain affects the family.

When Margaret’s fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she decides to marry him despite what she knows of his TICKET PRICES Public: $40 DMA Member: $30 Student/ Educator: $20

condition. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds following her decision.

Like John, their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant music fanatic, struggles with anxiety and depression. Over decades, his mother and siblings attempt to care for Michael’s increasingly fragile condition. While the family is tormented by father-and-son battles with chronic depression, Haslett delicately examines what constitutes a good, meaningful life.

Haslett is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Yale Law School, and recipient of the Berlin Prize. His short story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here was a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist.

“Dark and winning humour, poignant tenderness, and sentences so astute that they lift the spirit. But make no mistake, the novel’s most rewarding surprise is its heart.” —New York Times Book Review DMA.org/tickets

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ERIN AND PHILIP C. STEAD tuesday, april 4, 11:30 a.m. horchow auditorium Take a gentle woolly mammoth, a sincere but sniffly zookeeper, a bear with a story to tell, and a trusty canine sidekick and what do you get? A bookshelf filled with warmth, friendship, and above all, kindness. The dynamic duo Erin and Philip Stead live and work side by side creating heartwarming stories of quiet everyday moments that ring true for both children and adults. Much like the faithful zookeeper in their first picture book, A Sick Day for Amos McGee, they went quietly about their work, crafting captivating illustrations, tending to their stories, and in the process, winning the 2011 Caldecott Medal for Erin’s tender, poetic pictures of a saggy elephant, a TICKET PRICES Public (adults): $8 DMA Member (children & adults): $5 3:30–4:30 p.m.

Illustration workshop (ages 6 and older) led by Erin

brought to life plenty more beloved characters. Erin’s forthcoming book Tony returns to themes of friendship and loyalty with the late poet Ed Galing’s tale of a boy and his horse.

Philip’s latest, Samson in the Snow, highlights the power of simple acts of kindness to bring hope and light to even the coldest world.

and Philip Stead.

“The purpose of art is to transmit some kind of power

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and magic into the world, and nothing is more pow-

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shy penguin, and gentle Amos McGee. Fast forward a few years and the Steads have

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erful and magical than a small kindness.”

—Philip Stead, Library Journal Blog

new & notable

CYNTHIA D’APRIX SWEENEY tuesday, april 11, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney worked as a freelance copywriter before enrolling in writing classes as she approached the age of 50. Her advisor in the Bennington MFA program, Texas-born acclaimed author Bret Anthony Johnston, recognized brilliance in one of her short stories and encouraged her to expand the story into a novel. This effort morphed into The Nest, a debut novel that garnered a seven-figure advance, and spent more than 12 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

With warmth and humor, The Nest dissects TICKET PRICES Public: $40 DMA Member: $30 Student/ Educator: $20

the juicy dynamics of the Plumb family, composed of four dysfunctional adult siblings and a distant mother who holds the purse strings to their inheritance. When the oldest sibling, Leo, maims a teenaged girl in a drunk-driving crash, the mother uses money from “The Nest” to pay for the girl’s medical needs and to keep her quiet. The family dynamics become increasingly complicated —and resentment mounts—as each sibling crafts his or her own way to get Leo to pay back the money he owes them. New York City provides the perfect backdrop for the deliciously neurotic Plumb siblings. Sweeney is currently writing the screenplay for the film adaptation.

“A masterfully constructed, darkly comic, and immensely captivating tale. . . . Not only clever, but emotionally astute.” —Elizabeth Gilbert DMA.org/tickets

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wit & wisdom

STEPHEN TOBOLOWSKY tuesday, april 18, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Stephen Tobolowsky, legendary character actor and author of The Dangerous Animals Club, shares his signature sharp wit in My Adventures with God, a funny, introspective collection of short stories about love, triumph, and catastrophe, all told through the lens of his evolving relationship with the mystery that is “God.” As Tobolowsky explains, “Everyone believes in something. As much as we love certainty, we are often shaped by the invisible, the unexplainable—something we call faith.”

Tobolowsky’s stories tell of a boy growing up TICKET PRICES

in the wilds of Texas, finding and losing love,

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losing and finding himself—all told through

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the prism of the Jewish Torah and Talmud,

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mixed with a touch of quantum physics and refined through a child’s sense of wonder.

My Adventures with God not only shines a light into the life of one of America’s most beloved actors, but provides a structure from which to evaluate our own lives and relationship with God. Stephen Tobolowsky has appeared in more than 100 movies and more than 200 television shows, including unforgettable roles in Mississippi Burning, Groundhog Day, and Glee. He currently has roles on The Goldbergs and HBO’s Silicon Valley, and Norman Lear’s new One Day at a Time.

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TOM VANDERBILT tuesday, april 25, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium If you’ve ever wondered how Netflix recommends movies, why we venerate artists who were controversial or ignored during their lifetimes, or why books often see a sudden decline in Amazon ratings after they win a major prize, Tom Vanderbilt has the answers.

His newest book dives into the subject of why we like the things we like, why we hate the things we hate, and what our preferences reveal about us. In You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice, Vanderbilt navigates psychology, marketing, and neuroscience to explore the elusive beast of taste.

From our food taste to our insecurity before TICKET PRICES Public: $40 DMA Member: $30 Student/ Educator: $20

unfamiliar works of art to the complex dynamics of our playlists, our preferences and opinions are shaped by countless forces. And in the digital age, a nonstop procession of “thumbs up” and “likes” and “stars” is helping dictate our choices. You May Also Like is a joyous intellectual journey that helps us better understand how we perceive, judge, and appreciate the world around us.

Vanderbilt has written for many publications, including the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal Magazine, and Smithsonian, among others. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) and Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America.

6:30 p.m.: Join DMA staff for playful conversations in the galleries, exploring your own reactions to various works of art.

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DAVID SEDARIS friday, april 28, 7:30 p.m. winspear opera house In partnership with

kera and

Beloved satirist David Sedaris returns to Dallas for the eighth consecutive year to read new and unpublished material, imparting his incisive social critiques and sharing his sardonic wit with 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, and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim.

Sedaris’s work appears regularly in the New Yorker and on the public radio show This American Life, and has twice been included in The Best American Essays. Ten million copies of his books are in print, and his work has been translated into 29 languages. Fans eagerly await the publication of his next book, a collection of his diary entries, slated for summer 2017.

Sedaris and his sister Amy have collaborated under the name “The Talent Family” to write half a dozen plays, which have been produced at Lincoln Center and The Drama Department in New York City. He has also been nominated for three Grammy Awards for Best Spoken TICKET PRICES $35–$75 based on seat location Order online at attpac.org or call 214-880-0202.

Word Album and Best Comedy Album.

“Sedaris’s droll assessment of the mundane and the eccentrics who inhabit the world’s crevices make him one of the greatest humorists writing today.”

—Chicago Tribune

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special event

Arts & Letters Live at the

DALLAS BOOK FESTIVAL

saturday, april 29 j. erik jonsson central library Chant, sing, move creatively, and laugh with guitar strumming #1 New York Times bestselling children’s author Eric Litwin, who will share his new book The Nuts: Keep Rolling! With playful interactive rhymes and songs, readers young and old will appreciate the book’s inspiring message to keep trying even when you encounter challenges. Litwin is the author of the first four Pete the Cat books, as well as The Nut Family series and Groovy Joe. His books have sold over 8.5 million copies, been translated into 13 languages, and won 18 literacy awards, including a Theodor Geisel Seuss Honor Award.

When Kristen Radtke was in college, the sudden death of a beloved uncle and the sight of an abandoned mining town sparked a journey around the world in search of deserted places, the people who once inhabited them, and the stories that died along with their disappearance. The result of this journey is her genresmashing graphic memoir Imagine Wanting Only This, in which Radtke leads us through forsaken landscapes across the globe and, ultimately, through the delicate passageways of the human heart. Author Tom Hart describes FREE

it as “riveting and glorious. A book of sorrow

1:30 p.m. Eric Litwin

filtered through intellect. In Kristen Radtke’s

3:00 p.m. Kristen Radtke

hands, nonfiction becomes poetry.”

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artful musings

HAPPY HOUR!

A celebration of song—shaken, sung, and served straight up wednesday, may 3, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Arts & Letters Live presents Happy Hour!, a sweet (and sour) blend of song with a splash of cocktail craft and literary mixology. The DMA’s current exhibition Shaken, Stirred, Styled: The Art of the Cocktail packs just the punch required to encourage five musicians to create this adventurous concoction of rhythm, music, and text to be enjoyed responsibly for one night only. This marks the ninth collaboration of Arts & Letters Live with artistic programmer Ryan Taylor, who seeks to illuminate visual arts with musical and literary excerpts. The songs will range from Mozart, Offenbach, and Verdi to Cole Porter and Joni Mitchell.

6:15–7:00 p.m., Founders Room: Enjoy a cocktail and a talk/Q&A with David Wondrich, Jeni Houser, soprano

one of the world’s foremost authorities on

Nadia Fayad, mezzo-soprano

cocktails and their history, Esquire’s long-

David Walton, tenor

time Cocktail Correspondent, and one of the

Richard Ollarsaba, bass-baritone

founders of the current craft cocktail move-

Joseph Li, piano

ment. The author of Imbibe! serves up a lively, historically informed, and definitive guide to

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American cocktails, complete with over 100 recipes. The first edition won a James Beard

DMA Member: $30

Award. Tickets for this pre-event experience

Student/ Educator: $20

is limited.

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are $20 and cover the cost of one drink; space

booksmART

SCOTT WESTERFELD sunday, may 7, 3:00 p.m. horchow auditorium Dallas native and author of the worldwide bestselling Uglies series and the Locus Award– winning Leviathan series, and co-author of the Zeroes trilogy, Scott Westerfeld releases the first volume of an original graphic series novel, The Spill Zone. After a disastrous event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, life within its borders was never the same.

Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. For one intrepid explorer, the threat of death was no deterrent in her quest to uncover what TICKET PRICES

happened the night her world turned upside

Public: $20

down. Addison Merrick’s parents were dead,

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and she was left as the sole provider for her

Student/Educator: $10

younger sister, who was so deeply scarred by the event she hasn’t spoken since. In order to support her, and perhaps to assuage some of her own curiosity, Addison illegally ventures into the Spill Zone and photographs its twisted attractions. When an eccentric art collector makes Addison a million-dollar offer for some of her bizarre images, she breaks her own hard-learned rules of survival and travels farther into the Zone than she has ever dared before. Deep inside the forbidden domain, Hell awaits—and it is Addison’s calling to expose its dark secrets.

Westerfeld’s other novels include the New York Times bestseller Afterworlds, The Last Days, and Peeps.

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distinguished writers

MARGO JEFFERSON & SANDRA CISNEROS tuesday, may 9, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Pulitzer Prize–winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson will discuss her book Negroland: A Memoir, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography and a New York Times Notable Book. Jefferson was born in 1947 into upper-crust black Chicago; her father was a physician, and her mother, a socialite. Author Isabel Wilkerson hailed the book as “provocative and insightful. . . . Melancholic and hopeful, raw and disarming, she weighs the psychic toll of constructed divisions at the intersection of race, gender, caste, and privilege. A moving memoir that is an act of courage in its vulnerability.” Vanity Fair said, “Jefferson is a national treasure and her memoir should be required reading across the country.”

Literary legend Sandra Cisneros has drawn inspiration from her hometown of Chicago and current residence in Mexico, and has found a home in her richly illustrated compilation of nonfiction pieces that share her transformative memories and artistic and intellectual influences. Written with her trademark lyricism and spanning three decades, A House of My Own is an exuberant celebration of a life well lived. The Library Journal gave it a starred review and praises it as “what may well be the best memoir of the year thus far.” Cisneros has received National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the TICKET PRICES

Lannan Literary Award, the American Book Award,

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and a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2016, President

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Obama awarded her the National Medal of Arts.

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new & notable

HOLGER HOOCK & NATHANIEL PHILBRICK monday, may 15, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium In history class, we are taught that the American Revolution was a war over liberty, involving heroic feats, noble ideals, and courageous patriots. In Scars of Independence: America’s Violent Birth, historian Holger Hoock reveals the less glamorous side of our nation’s inception with accounts of mass murder, disease, and rape. Rather than gloss over the gritty details that disrupt our sense of national pride, Hoock begs his readers to consider what has been written out of history and spurs a dialogue about the moral dilemmas inscribed in the making of a nation. Hoock has received the UK’s Philip Leverhulme Prize, as well as a number of international fellowships.

In Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution, National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick unfolds the tragic relationship between two key figures in the founding of a nation. As Philbrick exposes, the war was not simply a struggle between adversarial neighbors but a much more complex conflict that forced Americans to realize that the real threat to their liberties might not come from without but from within. Valiant Ambition paints a dramatic portrait of people in crisis and a nation on the preciTICKET PRICES

pice of independence. The Boston Globe has called

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it “one of the greatest what-if books of the age—a

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volume that turns one of America’s best-known

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narratives on its head.”

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KWAME ALEXANDER saturday, june 10, 2:00 p.m. horchow auditorium Poet, educator, and New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander kicks off summer reading with his latest book, The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life. A strategy guide written with middle grade readers in mind but motivational for all ages, The Playbook “rules” contain wisdom from inspiring athletes and role models such as Nelson Mandela, Serena Williams, LeBron James, Carli Lloyd, Steph Curry, and Michelle Obama. Alexander also provides his own poetic and uplifting words, as he shares stories TICKET PRICES Public: $20 DMA Member: $15 Student/Educator: $10

of overcoming obstacles and winning games.

This is a great compilation for anyone needing a little encouragement.

The author of 21 books, Alexander writes for children of all ages. His book The Crossover received the 2015 Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor, in addition to many accolades. His other works include Surf's Up, a picture book; Crush: Love Poems for Teenagers; and He Said, She Said, a YA novel.

"An accomplished author and poet, Alexander eloquently mashes up concrete poetry, hip-hop, a love of jazz, and a thriving family bond. The effect is poetry in motion."—Booklist

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JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER tuesday, june 13, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Jonathan Safran Foer is back at it again, asking some of life’s most probing questions about identity and the meaning of home in his first novel in eleven years, Here I Am. This high-energy and emotionally charged novel unfolds over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington, DC, and tells the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As a catastrophic earthquake exacerbates tensions in the Middle East, the Bloch family is forced to evaluate the disparities between the lives they are living and the lives TICKET PRICES Public: $40 DMA Member: $30 Student/ Educator: $20

they think they want. Through one family’s journey, Foer asks his readers to contemplate how we reconcile our various roles in society to claim an identity that is all our own. How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult; Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others?

Foer is the author of two bestselling, awardwinning novels, Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and a bestselling work of nonfiction, Eating Animals.

Among his many accomplishments, Foer was included in the New Yorker magazine’s “20 Under 40” list of writers and Esquire’s “Best and Brightest.” He currently teaches creative writing at New York University.

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wit & wisdom

CHUCK KLOSTERMAN tuesday, june 20, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Chuck Klosterman’s recent book But What If We’re Wrong: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past speculates on the likelihood that many universally accepted cultural and scientific beliefs will someday seem absurd.

Klosterman asks straightforward questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity and time? What will be the defining memory of rock music? How is history constructed (and how much can it be trusted)?

The answers are interwoven with the type of high-wire humor and nontraditional analysis TICKET PRICES

only Klosterman would dare to attempt. Ki-

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netically slingshotting through a broad spec-

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trum of objective and subjective problems, But

Student/ Educator: $20

What If We’re Wrong? is built on interviews with a variety of creative thinkers—George Saunders, David Byrne, Jonathan Lethem, and Neil deGrasse Tyson, among others.

Klosterman is the bestselling author of seven nonfiction books (including the cult classic Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs) and two novels. He has written for the New York Times, GQ, and Esquire and served as Ethicist for the New York Times Magazine. His forthcoming book Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century will be composed of articles and essays covering the past decade, including keystone pieces about Breaking Bad, Taylor Swift, Tom Brady, and many more cultural figures.

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artful musings

TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS tuesday, july 18, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium In her first-ever Dallas appearance, Terry Tempest Williams, naturalist and author of the environmental classic Refuge and Finding Beauty in a Broken World, discusses her latest book, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks. Williams examines what the parks mean to us and what we mean to them. “Our national parks are breathing spaces, in a time when we’re all holding our breath,” she says.

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From the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to Big Bend in Texas and more, The Hour of Land explores the unique grandeur of each park while delving into what it means to shape a landscape. Part memoir, part natural history, and part social critique, The Hour of Land is a medita-

Instagram Creative Response Project Submit a photograph and a written memory or poetic response reflecting on a meaningful experience you’ve had in a national park.

Post your responses with #DMAparkpoet; they will be collected

tion and a manifesto on why wild lands matter to the soul of America. In 2014, Williams received the Sierra Club’s John Muir Award, honoring a distinguished record of leadership in American conservation.

“The writing of Terry Tempest Williams is brilliant, meditative, and full of surprises, wisdom, and wonder. She is one of those writers who changes peoples’ lives by encouraging attention and a slow, patient awakening.” —Anne Lamott

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