Friday, March 28, 2025 7:30 pm PST
Emma Donoghue, the “soul-stirring” (Oprah Daily) nationally bestselling author of Room, returns with a sweeping historical novel about an infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station. From an author whose “writing is superb alchemy” (Audrey Niffenegger), The Paris Express is an evocative masterpiece that effortlessly captures the politics, glamour, chaos, and speed that marked the end of the nineteenth century.
Una Roulston
Friday, March 21, 2025
Fundraisers
The event will feature a lively reception and delicious multi-course dinner, an engaging program featuring a special guest author and youth poet, and a live and online silent auction of unique literary experiences and treasures.
Friday, March 28, 2025
Literary Arts
Emma Donoghue, the “soul-stirring” (Oprah Daily) nationally bestselling author of Room, returns with a sweeping historical novel about an infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Meet Cute
Abby Jimenez, “full of fierce humor and fiercer heart,” (Casey McQuiston) is the bestselling author of seven wildly popular, laugh-out-loud, pull-at-your-heartstrings romantic novels, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Just for the Summer, The Friend Zone, The Happy Ever After Playlist, and the forthcoming Say You’ll Remember Me. Q&A with Amber Flame.
Monday, April 7, 2025
SAL Presents
Join SAL for a conversation with Bonnie Garmus, author of one of the greatest literary phenomena in recent years!
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Encore
Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball growing up in Columbus, Ohio, one which inspired the writing in his memoir, There’s Always This Year—a triumph, which is brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Literary Arts
C Pam Zhang has stunned audiences with her rapturous and revelatory storytelling in her acclaimed bestselling novel Land of Milk and Honey.
Seattle Arts & Lectures cultivates transformative experiences through story and language with readers and writers of all generations.
This winter, consider an End of Year gift to SAL to help us continue bringing our community together – people of all ages and backgrounds – to read and write, to listen deeply, and to bring forward the voices we all need to hear. More than sixty percent of our annual revenue comes from charitable donations. We hope you will join us with a gift that powers another year of inspiration, conversation, and community.
Community
Every summer, we partner with The Seattle Public Library to create a Summer Book Bingo card as part of our free summer reading program. Adults, teens, and kids play along from May – September to be entered in a chance to win fabulous prizes.
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