Dallas Museum of Art: Arts & Letters Live 2012 Season

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january–june 2012

A celebration of the literary and performing arts featuring acclaimed authors, actors, illustrators, musicians, and more

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fresh ink

nicole waite

luis alberto urrea and ayad akhtar friday, january 20, 7:00 p.m. horchow auditorium

niina subin

Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an American mother, Luis Alberto Urrea has found inspiration in his Mexican roots throughout his extensive career.

Bestselling author of The Devil’s Highway and Into the Beautiful North, Urrea is also the author of several short story and poetry anthologies. His new novel, Queen of America, continues the saga of The Hummingbird’s Daughter, the true story of Urrea’s great-aunt Teresita, who came to be “The Saint of Cabora” during the Tomochic Revolution. In Queen of America, Teresita and her father flee to Arizona, where she continues to be sought after by pilgrims and pursued by assassins.

She embarks on an unforgettable journey through turn-of-the-century America and decides what role she will play in the modern future.

Growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, first generation Pakistani-American Ayad Akhtar was acutely aware that his peers did not understand his Islamic background. His motive for writing his first novel, American Dervish, was to share his sense of Islam in America: its beauty, its simplicity, and its vivid spirituality. “As with so many religions, Islam’s beauty comes with troubling traditions,” Akhtar admits. “In writing the book, one of the things I discovered was that I could not write about Islam truthfully without also exposing the fuller spectrum of my experience in Muslim-America.”

American Dervish is a stirring and explosive novel about an American Muslim family struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world.

The authors will discuss common threads of spiritual-

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ity and multiculturalism in their work.

“For all its history, I am no historian, I am a story-teller.

My goal was to write a story, big and wild.”

—Luis Alberto Urrea 1

wit and wisdom

dave barry and alan zweibel saturday, january 21, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium One of them is a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning humorist. The other is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Together, they form the “League of Comic Justice.”

daniel portnoy

daniel portnoy

Born and raised in New York, Dave Barry was elected Class Clown by classmates at Pleasantville High School. He was a columnist at the Miami Herald for twenty-five years, where he was awarded the Pulitzer and his column was syndicated in more than five hundred newspapers across the globe. He has written over thirty books for children and adults, including an imaginative collection of prequels to the classic story Peter Pan, written with Ridley Pearson.

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Alan Zweibel started his career writing for stand-up comedians who paid him seven dollars a joke. A thousand jokes later, he compiled a portfolio that landed him a job writing for a new show called Saturday Night Live. During his tenure with SNL, he created memorable characters such as Roseanne Roseannadanna and Emily Litella. Other television credits include Monk and Curb Your Enthusiasm. He co-wrote the screenplays for Dragnet and North, the movie that is notoriously famous for being Roger Ebert’s least favorite movie of all time. Zweibel has won multiple Emmys and was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

The pair has collaborated on a new novel, Lunatics (January 2012), about two strangers whose lives collide in a swiftly escalating series of events that will send them running for their lives, pursued by the police, soldiers, terrorists, subversives, bears, and a man dressed as Chuck E. Cheese. Where that takes them you can’t begin to guess, but the journey there is a masterpiece of inspiration and mayhem. What else would you expect from the League of Comic Justice?

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daniel handler and maira kalman sunday, january 29, 3:00 p.m. horchow auditorium Daniel Handler’s intricate and witty writing style has won him numerous fans for both his critically acclaimed novels for adults and his wildly successful children’s books. Under the pen name Lemony Snicket, he is best known as the author of the thirteen-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events. The series has sold over sixty million copies worldwide and was adapted into a film starring Jim Carrey and Meryl Streep. Handler’s writing has been described as “linguistic pyrotechnics”

by Publishers Weekly, “shrewdly funny” by the New Yorker, and “like Kafka on Prozac” by Newsday.

meredith heuer

Maira Kalman’s wise, humorous drawings have appeared throughout the pages of the New Yorker and in an illustrated version of Strunk and White’s classic The Elements of Style. Her recent book, The Principles of Uncertainty, is the result of a yearlong illustrated blog she kept for the New York Times.

Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman will discuss their recent collaboration on the young adult novel Why We Broke Up. Written by Handler and featuring exquisite illustrations by Kalman, the novel tells of the breakup between Min Green and Ed Slaterton. Min writes Ed a letter and gives him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up: items collected over the course of their giddy, intimate, heartbreaking relationship.

rick meyerowitz

Kalman has written and illustrated thirteen children’s books, including What Pete Ate, Fireboat, 13 Words (with Handler), and her beloved books featuring the escapades of Max Stravinsky, the poet-dog. Of Max, Booklist raves, “Every now and then, a character in literature exerts a kind of magnetic field on the reader. . . . The character of Max and his dreams is finally a celebration of eccentricity in all its forms.”

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artful musings

fashioned forward a musical exploration of the creative spirit of fashion icon jean paul gaultier tuesday, february 7, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Inspired by the exhibition The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk Jean Paul Gaultier, who ingeniously reinvented underwear as outerwear, is renowned for his creative construction of garments ranging from the sublime to the avant-garde. His portfolio of impeccable craftsmanship and calculated innovation has both garnered praise and fueled controversy around the world. Using Gaultier’s creative spirit as inspiration, six musicians respond to his collections in a one-of-a-kind, onenight-only performance with musical selections ranging from Mendelssohn and Madonna to Gershwin and Gaga. Fashioned Forward revels in the fusion of French fashion with the eclectic musings of Diana Vreeland, Mark Doty, and Jean Paul Gaultier himself.

This marks the seventh collaboration of Arts & Letters Live with artistic programmer Ryan Taylor, who will create a multimedia extravaganza blending visuals of Gaultier’s work with musical and literary excerpts designed to resonate with the imagination of this celebrated French couturier, designer, and social provocateur.

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Musicians: Angela Mannino, soprano Jamie Van Eyck, mezzo-soprano Andrew Bidlack, tenor Chad Sloan, baritone Joseph Li, piano Wes Yoakam, guitar Image: Jean Paul Gaultier, Movie Stars (or Cinema) collection, “Étoiles et toiles” gown, haute couture fall/ winter 2009–2010, photograph © Patrice Stable/Jean Paul Gaultier

wit and wisdom

dave isay thursday, february 9, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Hailed as “one of the best radio artisans in the business,” Dave Isay is best known as the founder of StoryCorps. Modeled—in spirit and in scope—on the efforts of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the 1930s, StoryCorps conducts oral history interviews across the United States. To date, it has recorded more than thirty thousand interviews among more than sixty thousand Americans in all fifty states and several American territories.

At this event, he will share interviews from and discuss his newest book, All There Is, which conveys stories of love and marriage and the remarkable paths that relationships can take. In the courage of people’s passion, we are reminded of the strength and resilience of the human spirit. This powerful collection bears witness to real love in its varied forms, enriching our understanding of that magical feeling, just in time for Valentine’s Day. “I try to be the vehicle through which people’s stories can be heard. What I’m looking for is poetry on the margins.”

—Dave Isay

harvey wang

Isay has been documenting the lives of ordinary Americans for the past twenty years. His books include Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project, as well as 12 American Voices. Isay is the recipient of five Peabody Awards, a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.

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texas bound

texas bound i monday, february 13, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Constance Gold Parry reads Mary Ladd Gavell’s The Infant Bryan Pitts reads David Haynes’s Taking Miss Keezee to the Polls Actor to be announced reads Tim O’Brien’s July ‘69 Max Hartman reads Jack Handey’s My First Day in Hell

About the actors: Constance Gold Parry is returning to the Texas Bound series for her fifth appearance. She was an ensemble member of the daring and critically acclaimed Classic Theatre Company. She has also performed with Shakespeare Dallas, Echo Theatre, Wingspan, Teatro Dallas, and Undermain Theatre. Connie was most recently seen on stage as Gertrude in the Shakespeare Dallas production of Hamlet.

Bryan Pitts is making his Texas Bound debut. He has studied at Northlake College and the University of North Texas. He has worked with the African American Repertory Theatre, the

In partnership with

Dallas Theater Center, Ebony Emerald Theater, Kitchen Dog Theater, Second Thought Theatre, Stage West, The Modern Stage (New York), and WaterTower Theatre.

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Max Hartman, a Dallas native, is a company member of Kitch-

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en Dog Theater, where he recently appeared as Dr. Givings in In

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Texas from Los Angeles, where he was named “Best Entertainer”

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Vontaine. You may also recognize him from television and radio

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as the voice of Domino’s Pizza.

the Next Room or The Vibrator Play by Sarah Ruhl. Max returns to by the LA Downtown News for his one-man cabaret alter ego Max

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distinguished writers

maxine hong kingston wednesday, february 15, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Maxine Hong Kingston is best known as the author of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, which described her childhood as the daughter of Chinese immigrants in California. The 1976 book was a hybrid of genres, melding Kingston’s memories with Chinese folklore—in creative prose. It was hailed for everything from its magical realist style to its breakthrough explorations of gender, ethnicity, and immigrant life. For this book she won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and her follow-up, China Men, won the National Book Award. Anne Tyler wrote of KIngston’s books in New Republic, “They are fiction at its best—novels, fairytales, epic poems.”

In 1997 Maxine Hong Kingston was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Bill Clinton.

Kingston’s books are staples on college syllabi, overlapping creative writing, cultural studies, and history curricula. Teaching at the University of California at Berkeley and countless seminars with veterans, Kingston has inspired a generation of writers to pen their own personal stories.

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I Love a Broad Margin to My Life is a free-verse memoir that follows the author from the United States to China and back, pausing along the way for an antiwar rally at the White House and other excursions.

At this event, Maxine Hong Kingston will read from her work, discuss her unique blend of magical realism and nonfiction writing, and reflect on aging.

After the event: Enjoy a wine reception and book signing for all attendees at the Crow Collection of Asian Art.

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michael lionstar

fresh ink

richard mason and amor towles

david jacobs

friday, february 17, 7:00 p.m. horchow auditorium South African–born writer Richard Mason published his first book, The Drowning People, while he was still a student at the New College Oxford. His debut was highly acclaimed and sold five million copies around the world. Mason’s fourth novel, History of a Pleasure Seeker, is set at the height of Europe’s Belle Époque in bourgeois Amsterdam. He tells the story of Piet Barol, a handsome young man in his twenties who secures a position as a tutor in a prominent household, and his entry into a world of moneyed glamour and dangerous temptations.

Longtime New Yorker Amor Towles has spent the last decade living a double life: investment professional by day, writer and father by night. His first novel, Rules of Civility, begins in the final hours of 1937 on New Year’s Eve, with everyone hoping for a better year than the

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last. Towles’ heroine, Katey Kontent, and her boardinghouse roommate, Eve, are stretching their last few dollars in a Greenwich Village jazz club when they meet Theodore “Tinker” Grey. This chance encounter will change the girls’ stations in life and test their social mores.

“There are authors who gain creative strength from drawing on their own experience but I find that I gain artistic strength from putting myself in a different set of shoes.”

—Amor Towles

distinguished writers

jeffrey eugenides friday, february 24, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Jeffrey Eugenides has become one of the most admired novelists working today. The New York Times Book Review lauded him, saying, “Mr. Eugenides is blessed with the storyteller’s most magical gift, the ability to transform the mundane into the extraordinary.”

His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, catapulted him into the literary spotlight. The book became an instant bestseller and was adapted into a feature film by director Sofia Coppola, starring Kathleen Turner and Kirsten Dunst.

A decade later, Eugenides garnered a Pulitzer Prize for his next novel, Middlesex. The novel tells the story of Calliope Stephanides, three generations of her GreekAmerican family, and the guilty family secret they have been hiding. People magazine praised the book as “daring and inventive . . . an epic. . . . This feast of a novel is thrilling in the scope of its imagination and surprising in its tenderness.”

Jeffrey Eugenides will discuss the body of his work as well as his long-awaited new novel, The Marriage Plot.

Set in the early 80s, it tells the story of Madeleine Hanna, a senior at Brown University and devotee of classic literature. Only when curiosity gets the best of her does she enroll in a Semiotics class, a bastion of postmodern liberalism, and meet handsome and mysterious Leonard Bankhead. Completing a love triangle is Madeleine’s friend Mitchell, a clear-eyed religious-studies student who believes himself her true intended. Playing off the traditional Victorian marriage plot, the novel brilliantly and humorously explicates the joy and heartache of young love.

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artful musings

chip kidd the art of the book monday, february 27, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Take a peek behind the covers with Chip Kidd, one of the best-known book jacket designers working today.

john madere

Described by USA Today as “the closest thing to a rock star” in graphic design, Kidd is universally recognized as an American master of contemporary book design.

His iconic book covers—from the famous T-Rex for Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park to designs for other literati such as David Sedaris and Cormac McCarthy— have helped spawn a revolution in the art of American book packaging. Author James Ellroy has called him “the world’s greatest book jacket designer.”

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In addition, Kidd is the driving force behind the Pantheon graphic books program, which includes the work of Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, and Marjane Satrapi. He is also a novelist whose books include The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters and The Learners, both of which draw from his experiences as an art student at Penn State University. In 2008 Time magazine selected him as one of the 100 Most Influential People of the Year. Kidd is currently Associate Art Director at Knopf, an imprint of Random House.

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At this event, he will share his insights on the artistic and commercial process that goes into modern book jacket design.

“Books, regardless of their form, still need a face.”

—Chip Kidd

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texas bound

selected shorts: behaving badly monday, march 5, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Jane Kaczmarek reads A. M. Homes’ Adults Alone Isaiah Sheffer reads Lewis Robinson’s The Diver Michael Imperioli reads Stephen King’s Popsy

About the actors: Jane Kaczmarek is best known for her role on the television series Malcolm in the Middle, for which she has been nominated for Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Awards, and has won the Television Critics Award and the American Comedy Award. Her other television work includes Raising the Bar, The Simpsons, Felicity, Frasier, and Hill Street Blues. Her film credits include Pleasantville, DOA, and Uncommon Valor. On Broadway, Jane appeared in Lost In Yonkers. She is currently featured on Whitney.

Isaiah Sheffer is founder of Symphony Space and host and Director of Selected Shorts.

Michael Imperioli has appeared in over thirty films, including Goodfellas, Jungle Fever, and The Lovely Bones. He was a writer and Executive Producer for Spike Lee’s Summer of Sam. His besthenry leutwyler

known role as “Christopher Moltisanti” in the HBO series The Sopranos won him a Best Supporting Actor Emmy Award and two SAG awards. He serves as artistic director of the Off-Broadway theater Studio Dante.

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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booksmART

laura numeroff friday, march 16, 7:00 p.m. horchow auditorium Growing up, Laura Numeroff ’s favorite possessions were a microscope, a box of sixty-four crayons, and her library card. Today, Numeroff is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling If You Give . . . series, illustrated by Felicia Bond, which has sold over 4.5 million copies, been printed in fourteen languages, and won the prestigious Quill Award.

Favorites of both children and parents, the books help kids learn valuable lessons about cause and effect.

Titles in the series include If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, and If You Give a Pig a Pancake, which was recommended by Oprah’s first kids’ book club, and noted as Oprah’s favorite children’s book of the year.

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Numeroff will discuss her latest book, The Jellybeans and the Big Art Adventure. The Jellybeans are back and ready for an art adventure in the latest book in this beloved series. Bitsy enlists the other girls to help her paint a mural at their favorite place: the candy shop!

After a fun trip to the museum to learn about art, the four Jellybeans use their different strengths and talents to work together to create a colorful success.

This fourth book in the successful, New York Times bestselling series once again shows, whether readers are bookworms, artists, or tomboys, that there is a Jellybean for everyone!

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“I have no idea sometimes how I come up with ideas, but that’s the most fun of being a writer.”

—Laura Numeroff

wit and wisdom

sarah vowell in conversation with krys boyd In partnership with

tuesday, march 20, 7:30 p.m. first presbyterian church of dallas 408 park avenue dallas, texas 75201

Sarah Vowell is equally well known for her frequent contributions to Public Radio International’s This American Life. She served as a contributing editor from 1996 to 2008, and her many pieces range in subject from traveling the Trail of Tears with her sister to her own Goth makeover. Her distinctive voice also earned her the part of the introverted teenager Violet Parr in Pixar’s award-winning animated film The Incredibles.

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According to David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell has pioneered a new category, “funny historian.” Her books— which include The Wordy Shipmates, Take the Cannoli, and Assassination Vacation—examine the connections between the American past and present. She offers personal, often humorous accounts of everything from presidents and their assassins to colonial religious fanatics, as well as thoughts on American Indians, utopian dreamers, pop music, and the odd cranky cartographer.

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Her latest book, Unfamiliar Fishes, winds through the political, cultural, and religious influences that led up to the annexation of Hawaii in 1898. The Boston Globe praised Unfamiliar Fishes, saying, “Vowell is a national treasure, exploring the depths of what it means to be American. Witty, irreverent, and wry, Unfamiliar Fishes is a heartfelt examination of the American Dream, told with a slight roll of the eyes in a way that only Vowell can do.”

“It’s not that I try to make history entertaining, although I do. It’s that I see it as inherently entertaining, and part of the fun of my job is sharing that with other people.”

—Sarah Vowell

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artful musings

jonah lehrer In partnership with Big Thought

friday, march 23, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Hailed as “an important new thinker” by the Los Angeles Times, Jonah Lehrer has challenged us to look at the convergence of art and science in new ways.

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A Rhodes scholar, Lehrer began his career working in the lab of Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel. While waiting for an experiment to finish, he read Proust’s Swann’s Way and was immediately swept away. He says, “That’s when I first had the idea that Proust had anticipated my experiment with memory.”

The seeds were then planted for his groundbreaking 2007 book Proust Was a Neuroscientist. In the book, Lehrer deftly weaves between art and science in eight graceful portraits of artists who have foretold scientific future better, at times, than scientists.

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His follow-up book was the instant bestseller How We Decide, which examines recent neuroscience research, as well as real-world experiences, to elucidate the roles of reason and emotion in the decision-making process. The London Observer noted, “This book could change the way you think about thinking.”

At this event, Lehrer will discuss his forthcoming book, Imagine: How Creativity Works (March 2012), a sparkling and revelatory look at the new science of creativity.

Lehrer demonstrates that creativity is not a single gift possessed by the lucky few; it’s a variety of distinct thought processes that we can all learn to use more effectively. Imagine reveals the deep inventiveness of the human mind and its essential role in our increasingly complex world.

“Jonah Lehrer’s clear and vivid writing—incisive and thoughtful, yet sensitive and modest—is a special pleasure.”

—Oliver Sacks

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young writers workshop

young writers workshop In conjunction with the exhibition Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments

saturday, march 24, 1:00–4:00 p.m. center for creative connections studio Young writers will explore the Mark Manders exhibition with Thomas Feulmer, the Director of Educational Programming at The Rachofsky House. Then, using Manders’ work and process as inspiration, Farid Matuk will encourage the writers to create their own poetry.

Matuk is the author of three poetry collections and is the recipient of Ford and Fulbright Fellowships.

Mark Manders: Documented Assignments/Parallel Occurrences, September 25, 2010–January 2, 2011, installation view at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Photography by Brian Forrest

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madeline miller thursday, march 29, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Madeline Miller’s love of ancient Greece was ignited at age five, when her mother began reading her the Greek myths. She currently teaches Latin and Greek at Brown University; she also studied at the Yale School of Drama, specializing in adapting classical tales for a modern audience, and worked on an archaeological dig in Greece. Miller’s debut novel, The Song of Achilles, has been ten years in the making. Author Ann Patchett praised it, saying that it is “at once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and a startingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist. Madeline Miller has given us her own fresh take on the Trojan War and its heroes. The result is a book I could not put down.”

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texas bound

texas bound ii monday, april 2, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Barry Corbin reads Bill Porterfield’s The Empress of Roughnecks David Lozano reads José Skinner’s Flight Lydia Mackay and Alex Organ read Justin Cronin’s Life by Moonlight Peri Gilpin reads Ellen DeGeneres’s This Is How We Live About the actors: Barry Corbin has appeared in more than seventy films and television shows. His credits include No Country for Old Men, The Closer, WarGames, Lonesome Dove, Urban Cowboy, One Tree Hill, Dallas, and Northern Exposure, for which he received an Emmy nomination. In 2009 he was inducted into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in Fort Worth.

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David Lozano currently serves as the Executive Artistic

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Director of Cara Mía Theatre Co. and specializes in writing,

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directing, and performing original bilingual plays for the Latino

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community in the Metroplex. Notable productions include

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Pantomime Circus.

Crystal City 1969, Nuestra Pastorela, and Carpa Cara Mía: A Mexican on February 13, March 5, and May 7.

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Lydia Mackay, a Fort Worth native turned Dallas resident, is a professional actress and theater teacher. She has been seen onstage at many area theaters, and heard on a wide variety of Anime shows. She teaches at Texas Christian University.

Alex Organ is a local actor and educator. He has been seen onstage with the Dallas Theater Center, Second Thought Theatre, Shakespeare Dallas, WaterTower Theatre, and the Trinity Shakespeare Festival. He serves on the faculty at KD College, where he teaches Acting and Shakespeare. Alex attended the Yale School of Drama.

Peri Gilpin is perhaps best known for her role as “Roz Doyle” in NBC’s Emmy-winning comedy series Frasier. She also recently starred in Make It or Break It for ABC Family. Other television credits include King of the Hill, Hot in Cleveland, and Desperate Housewives. Peri was born in Waco and grew up in Dallas. She pursued acting at the University of Texas at Austin and the British-American Academy in London.

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wit and wisdom

christopher moore tuesday, april 10, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Is Christopher Moore the clown prince of contemporary fiction? Thirteen books featuring the most outlandish plots and outrageous characters ever may earn him the title. This cheerfully demented writer’s absurdist fiction has earned him comparisons to master satirists like Kurt Vonnegut, Terry Pratchett, and Douglas Adams.

Moore is a scrupulous researcher. In pursuit of realistic details to ground his fiction, he has immersed himself in marine biology, death rituals, Biblical scholarship, and Goth culture. For his latest title, Sacré Bleu, he traveled to Paris, London, and Italy, where, to quote Moore, “it turns out they keep a lot of the art discussed in this book.” The title is French for sacred blue, the hue named for the cloak of the Virgin Mary— made from crushed lapis lazuli and infused with danger, adventure, and perhaps supernatural powers.

Sacré Bleu is a wonderfully witty masterpiece—a tale of intrigue, passion, and art history filled with crusty bread, can-can girls, absinthe, Toulouse Lautrec, fin de siècle Paris, and many other French accoutrements.

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Moore will discuss his foray into art history in his inimitable satirical style, undoubtedly wearing his trademark Hawaiian shirt.

“My default setting is humor. In other words, even in some pretty dire circumstances I tend to react by making fun. I’ve tried to write straight fiction and always end up wisecracking. It’s what I do. I am always going to have a bit of the flavor of a cult writer, or at least I hope so, in that I want my readers to feel as if they are on the inside of an inside joke.” —Christopher Moore 6:30 p.m.

Enjoy a tour of the collection featuring artists making appearances in Sacré Bleu.

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booksmART

marc brown sunday, april 15, 3:00 p.m. horchow auditorium Beloved author-illustrator Marc Brown has enchanted young readers with his heartfelt stories and watercolor illustrations for over thirty years. Brown is the creator of Arthur Read, the world’s favorite aardvark.

According to Brown, Arthur was born one night when he was telling a bedtime story to his son. Now, Arthur is the star of a series of bestselling books and an Emmy award–winning television series on PBS. Most of the characters in Marc Brown’s books are inspired by people he knew when he was growing up and going to school in Erie, Pennsylvania, including his grandmother Thora, who was very influential to him.

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Besides the popular Arthur series, Marc Brown and his wife, Laurie Krasny Brown, have collaborated on the creation of the series Dino Life Guides for Families, which includes the titles How to Be a Friend: A Guide to Making Friends and Keeping Them and When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death. These heartfelt books explore tough subjects, offering advice and providing understanding to young readers.

At this event, Brown will share his process of creating the illustrations for If All the Animals Came Inside (April 2012), a picture book written by Eric Pinder that imagines what chaos and fun would occur if all the animals at the zoo suddenly became house pets. He will also discuss his work as a whole: the storytelling, the illustrating, and how his books come to life.

2:15 p.m.

Join us for a tour of animals in the Dallas Museum of Art’s collection, inspired by If All the Animals Came Inside.

“The most interesting and funniest things happen in real life.” —Marc Brown

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distinguished writers

joe o’shaughnessy

anne enright and colum mccann an irish writers evening tuesday, april 17, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Anne Enright began writing in earnest when her family gave her an electric typewriter for her twentyfirst birthday. She has published essays, short stories, a nonfiction book, and four novels, and has worked as a television producer and director. Enright’s work explores love and family relationships as well as Ireland’s difficult past and its modern zeitgeist. Her novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, and was hailed by the judge as “an unflinching look at a grieving family . . . [a] very readable and satisfying novel.”

Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations, showing how memories warp and secrets fester. Her new novel, The Forgotten Waltz, is a momentous drama of everyday life and a haunting story of desire, attraction, and longing.

Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of two story collections and five novels, as well as a contributor to the New Yorker and the Paris Review.

His novel Let the Great World Spin, about Philippe Petit’s breathless tightrope walk between the unfinished World Trade Center towers in 1974, won the 2009 National Book Award for fiction and the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Award. About it, Dave Eggers said, “There’s so much passion and humor and pure life force on every page that you’ll find yourself giddy, dizzy, overwhelmed.” McCann’s short film Everything in This Country Must was nominated for an Oscar in 2005.

Raised in Dublin, he has lived in New York for more than ten years.

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booksmART

judy blume thursday, april 19, 7:00 p.m. first united methodist church 1923 ross avenue, dallas, texas 75201 Judy Blume spent her childhood in Elizabeth, New Jersey, making up stories inside her head. She has spent her adult years in many places doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper.

Known for candidly tackling difficult and often controversial subjects, her books have sold more than eighty million copies worldwide and have been translated into thirty-one languages. Some of her beloved titles include Blubber, Deenie, Frecklejuice, Forever, and Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, which was named to School Library Journal’s list of “One Hundred Books That Shaped the Century.”

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She is also the author of the timeless series about the indomitable Fudge. The first book, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.

It centers on the lives of preteen Peter Hatcher, his hilariously troublesome younger brother, Farley (a.k.a.

Fudge), and their confident neighbor Sheila Tubman.

Other books in the series include Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great and Superfudge.

Blume has won more than ninety awards, including the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Library of Congress Living Legends Award, and the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won’t have as much censorship because we won’t have as much fear.” —Judy Blume

fresh ink

paula mclain friday, april 20, 8:15 p.m. horchow auditorium In conjunction with the exhibition Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties Paula McLain met Hadley Richardson, Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, in the pages of his classic memoir, A Moveable Feast. Inspiration to write the book from Hadley’s point of view struck while she was driving, and the pull was so great that McLain drove straight to the library to begin her research.

Born in Fresno, California, Paula McLain was soon abandoned by her parents, and for fourteen years she moved in and out of numerous foster homes. She is the author of Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses, a memoir on living in foster care in the 1970s; several books of poetry; and the novel A Ticket to Ride.

“Beginning to truly hear a character’s voice is like finding a piece of magic string. It pulls you inside their consciousness, and helps you see the world through their very particular point of view, unfolding the story only they can tell.”

—Paula McLain

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McLain says she felt as if she were strapped to a rocket. “I was just electrified,” she said. “Nothing else mattered. Hadley’s voice was like magic string. She is a really good writer—colorful, sassy as hell.” McLain immersed herself in the intoxicating world of Paris in the 1920s and wrote The Paris Wife on Hadley and Ernest’s experiences and acquaintances. The Paris Wife was an instant New York Times bestseller and has been a favorite among readers and critics alike. Although she had never visited the City of Lights, “McLain has written a beautiful portrait of being in Paris in the glittering 1920s,” raved Entertainment Weekly.

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wit and wisdom

david sedaris In partnership with

sunday, april 22, 7:30 p.m. mcfarlin memorial auditorium southern methodist university 6405 boaz lane, dallas, texas 75275

anne fishbein

Bestselling author and satirist David Sedaris will return to Dallas with new and unpublished material for a fourth consecutive year. Known as the rock star of writers as well as one of the most prolific comedic authors of today, his speaking engagements around the world are consistently sold out. With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, Sedaris has become one of America’s preeminent humor writers.

Sedaris easily finds humor in the imperfection of the human condition, making his work both relevant and relatable. His ability to hit a main artery of truth shows how life is—well, just funny sometimes.

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David Sedaris has been making America laugh for the past twenty years with books such as Barrel Fever, Holidays on Ice, Naked, and Me Talk Pretty One Day. Sedaris’s pieces appear regularly in the New Yorker and have twice been included in The Best American Essays.

His latest book, a collection of fables entitled Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Wicked Bestiary (with illustrations

by Ian Falconer), immediately hit the New York Times bestseller list in fiction.

Booklist raved about Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, saying, “The ancient Greeks had Aesop, seventeenth-century French people read the fables of La Fontaine, and now we, jaded inhabitants of the modern era, possess the distinct privilege to enjoy the beloved Sedaris’ first collection of short animal tales.”

“The preeminent humorist of his generation. . . . His reluctant charm and talent for observing every inch of the human condition remain intact.”

—Entertainment Weekly

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texas bound

texas bound iii: friday night lights monday, may 7, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Join us for this special Texas Bound program celebrating the groundbreaking series Friday Night Lights. Travel back to high school as we feature stories about football, family relationships, and the joys and sorrows of high school, using the show as thematic inspiration.

Brad Leland reads T. C. Boyle’s 56–0 Steven Walters reads Sarah Vowell’s Music Lessons Final actor and story to be announced About the actors: Brad Leland stepped onto the stage for the first time as a 5-year-old audience volunteer at the Crazy Horse Saloon at Disneyland and hasn’t veered far from the footlights ever since.

Film and television credits include Dallas, In the Heat of the Night, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Born on the Fourth of July. He continues to produce various shows and events in Texas as owner of Turnkey Productions. He played Buddy Garrity in the film version of Friday Night Lights and in the series for five seasons.

Steven Walters is a member of the Brierley Resident Acting Company at the Dallas Theater Center and co-founder of

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Second Thought Theatre. Theatrical credits at the DTC include Henry IV, The Beauty Plays, and The Good Negro. Other local

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theatrical credits include Thom Pain (based on nothing); King Ubu;

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Humpty Dumpty at Second Thought Theatre; as well as Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare Dallas.

Television credits include Chase, My Generation, Trauma, and Prison Break. He played Glenn Reed on Friday Night Lights.

Raphael Parry is the Director and host of Texas Bound. He also serves as Executive and Artistic Director of Shakespeare Dallas and Founder of Project X, a host company for the development of new work by artists throughout North Texas.

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wit and wisdom

h. w. brands and mark k. updegrove wednesday, may 9, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium As the author of twenty-two works of nonfiction, it seems there is little that H. W. Brands doesn’t know about our country’s history. Two of his books, Traitor to His Class and The First American, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Brands’ newest book, The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr, is the second in his American Portraits series, a collection of books that “take moments and individuals who have interesting stories on their own, stories that are gripping in their own right, and use them to illuminate certain themes in American history.” The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr tells the story of Burr after his famous duel with Alexander Hamilton: of his exile, his devotion to his daughter, and his return to the United States. Brands currently teaches American History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Born in Philadelphia, Mark K. Updegrove has loved

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presidential history ever since he attended the United States bicentennial celebration in 1976. It wasn’t long before he was collecting presidential autographs with the same passion his friends sought the signatures of professional athletes. He is the author of Second Acts: Presidential Lives and Legacies After the White House and Baptism by Fire: Eight Presidents Who Took Office in Times of Crisis. In 2009 he became the Director of the LBJ Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, the fourth director since its opening in 1971. His newest book is Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency. Updegrove’s enthusiasm for presidential history is evident in this comprehensive oral history of LBJ, which he hopes will burnish the legacy of a president he considers underrated and underappreciated.

“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.” —Harry S. Truman

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distinguished writers

john irving tuesday, may 15, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium John Irving has created a body of fiction of extraordinary range, moving with ease from romance to fairytale to thriller. His first bestseller, The World According to Garp, introduced readers to his inventive style, memorable characters, and masterfully woven stories-within-stories. It won a National Book Award and was made into a film starring Robin Williams.

Since Garp’s release, all of Irving’s novels (including A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Son of the Circus, and A Widow for One Year) have been bestsellers and have sold tens of millions of copies. In 2000 he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the adaptation of his novel The Cider House Rules. Irving has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Irving will participate in a moderated onstage conversation to share insights about his creative process, the body of his work, and his new novel, In One Person.

An absorbing novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love and a passionate celebration of our sexual differences.

Irving’s most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, In One Person is a tender portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself worthwhile.

“Irving’s writing has a sense of myth and time and weight and resonance. He’s probably the great storyteller of American literature today.”

—author Peter Matthiessen

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fresh ink

ben fountain and alexander maksik

pascale brevet

liliana castillo

friday, may 18, 7:00 p.m. horchow auditorium

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Ben Fountain received a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and a PEN/Hemingway Award for his story collection Brief Encounters with Che Guevara.

His new novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, is a satire about a reluctant Iraq War hero who finds himself the guest of honor at a Dallas Cowboys football game.

Alexander Maksik’s novel You Deserve Nothing was featured in Publishers Weekly as one of ten promising debuts. Set in Paris at an international high school, You Deserve Nothing is a gripping story of power, idealism, and morality.

artful musings

jean lightman

alan lightman

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sunday, may 20, 7:30 p.m. first presbyterian church of dallas Situated at the intersection of art and science, Alan Lightman’s work boldly bridges the gap between these two very different but similar worlds. A theoretical physicist at MIT and Harvard, Lightman is also an award-winning novelist. His provocative bestseller, Einstein’s Dreams, envisions a series of fables that Einstein might have dreamt while putting the final touches on his theory of relativity. The Los Angeles Times praised the book saying, “Lightman is an artist who paints with the notion of time.”

His forthcoming novel, Mr. g, is the story of creation as narrated by God. It is a stunningly imaginative work that celebrates the tragic and joyous nature of existence on the grandest possible scale.

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