
Events at SAL
Upcoming Events

Madeline Miller: Online
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Literary Arts
Madeline Miller is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, The Song of Achilles (2012), a reimagining of The Iliad, and Circe (2018), a feminist inversion of The Odyssey. In each book, Miller brings a fresh perspective to ancient tales, re-centering these stories on characters whose voices have been excluded from the narrative for thousands of years. This event will be presented live with a Q&A moderated by Kristen Millares Young, author of the novel Subduction.

Gabrielle Hamilton: Online
Friday, February 5, 2021
Women You Need to Know
Gabrielle Hamilton is the chef/owner of Prune restaurant in New York’s East Village and the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef. Anthony Bourdain called Blood, Bones & Butter “simply the best memoir by a chef. Ever.” Hamilton also writes for the New York Times on food, memory, and the restaurant industry. Q&A with Molly Wizenberg, author of The Fixed Stars.

Lawrence Wright: Online
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Journalism
Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker. At the magazine, Wright has written “some of the most astonishing journalism of our time,” according to journalist David Remnick, including reporting on al-Qaeda that shaped his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Looming Tower. Now, Wright presents the pandemic thriller The End of October, as packed with suspense as it is with the fascinating history of viral diseases.

Bill Gates: In Conversation with Anderson Cooper—Online
Thursday, February 18, 2021
SAL Presents
In the urgent, authoritative book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical–and accessible–plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. This event will be pre-recorded, and Gates will be in conversation with Anderson Cooper.

Bill Bryson: Online
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Literary Arts
Coming from Des Moines, Iowa – because, as he notes, “somebody had to” – bestselling Anglo-American author Bill Bryson has transformed narrative non-fiction for a generation with his witty, laugh-aloud-funny, observational writing. He has explored far-flung places from the Australian outback to the beginning of the universe itself. This time, in his latest book, The Body: A Guide for Occupants (2019), he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functions, and its remarkable ability to heal itself.

Toi Derricotte: Online
Friday, February 26, 2021
Poetry
Award-winning poet, educator, and Cave Canem co-founder Toi Derricotte bravely tackles difficult and universal subject matter such as violence, racism, motherhood, and identity through an autobiographical lens. Q&A with Anastacia-Reneé.

Maira Kalman: Online
Monday, March 15, 2021
SAL Presents
The illustrator, author, and designer behind The Principles of Uncertainty, And the Pursuit of Happiness, and many a New Yorker illustration, Maira Kalman’s multi-faceted projects are filled with a sense of wonder, humor, and beauty.

Local Voices: Online
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Free Events
Now in a digital format, Local Voices presents a unique opportunity to eavesdrop on the works of SAL’s Writers in the Schools resident writers. View the event as a Zoom Webinar on March 23 at 7:00 p.m, or catch it streaming on Facebook Live! Click “Learn More” to see the line-up of readers.

A Talk by Douglas Kearney: Online
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Poetry
The dynamic Douglas Kearney is a poet, performer, and librettist whose six books bridge thematic concerns such as politics, African American culture, the Trickster figure, and contemporary music. The format for this event will be a talk by Kearney, co-presented with the Bagley Wright Lecture Series. Q&A with WITS Writer-in-Residence Daemond Arrindell.

Ibram X. Kendi
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Literary Arts
The author of How to Be an Antiracist and Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi is one of America’s foremost historians and leading antiracist voices. He is a #1 New York Times best-selling author and the Founding Director of the Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University in Washington, D.C.

Robin Wall Kimmerer
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Women You Need to Know
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).

Words Matter 2021 Virtual Benefit Gala & Literary Auction
Friday, April 23, 2021
Fundraisers
Please join us for an online evening of delights and inspiration at Words Matter 2021 to ensure that Seattle Arts & Lectures can continue to cultivate transformative experiences through story and language with readers and writers of all generations.

Natalie Diaz
Friday, April 30, 2021
SAL Presents
Natalie Diaz is the author of two poetry collections: When My Brother Was an Aztec and Postcolonial Love Poem. The New York Times Book Review called her most recent work “no doubt one of the most important poetry releases in years, one to applaud for its considerable demonstration of skill, its resistance to dominant perspectives and its light wrought of desire.”

Mary Roach
Sunday, May 9, 2021
Literary Arts
“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post), the ever-curious and darkly irresistible Mary Roach is the author of books like Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, books that are about human beings as much as they are about the human body. Her forthcoming book is about the often fraught encounters between animals and people.

Patrick Radden Keefe
Monday, May 10, 2021
Journalism
New Yorker staffer and investigative writer, Patrick Radden Keefe is the author of three books including the New York Times best-selling book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. The book is a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and its devastating repercussions. Keefe is also behind the new podcast, Wind of Change, about the wild story behind the classic metal ballad.

Local Voices: Online
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Free Events
Now in a digital format, Local Voices presents a unique opportunity to eavesdrop on the works of SAL’s Writers in the Schools resident writers. View the event as a Zoom Webinar on May 12th at 7:00 p.m, or catch it streaming on Facebook Live! Click “Learn More” to see the line-up of readers.

The Moth Mainstage
Friday, May 21, 2021
SAL Presents
One of our most popular events of the year, each Moth Mainstage features simple, old-fashioned storytelling, by five wildly divergent raconteurs who develop and shape their stories with The Moth’s directors. Theme, host, and storytellers to be announced in spring!

Alberto Ríos
Friday, May 28, 2021
Poetry
Alberto Ríos is the author of fourteen books and chapbooks of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir. He has garnered acclaim as a writer who uses language in lyrical and unexpected ways, containing elements of magical realism, to reflect on his Chicano heritage.

Ocean Vuong
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Literary Arts
Ocean Vuong is a poet and fiction writer whose work considers class, queerness, family, and identity. His epistolary novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019), was an immediate and enduring bestseller described by the Los Angeles Times as a “series of high notes that trembles exquisitely almost without break.”
Archive

Maggie Smith: Online
January 22, 2021

SAL & CD Forum Present: Black Futures with Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham
December 2, 2020

Yaa Gyasi: Online
November 16, 2020

Yamiche Alcindor: Online
November 10, 2020

Tana French in Conversation with Ruth Ware: Online
October 12, 2020

Claudia Rankine: Online
September 25, 2020

Margaret Atwood: Online
September 9, 2020

David Mitchell: Online
July 23, 2020

Carol Anderson: Online
June 21, 2020

Min Jin Lee: Online
June 15, 2020

Launched: Corinne Manning, Kristen Millares Young, & E.J. Koh
May 28, 2020

Luis Alberto Urrea: Online
May 20, 2020

Rick Barot: Online
May 15, 2020

Elizabeth Kolbert: Online
April 22, 2020

Paisley Rekdal
February 6, 2020

Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
February 5, 2020

Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
January 29, 2020

Carmen Maria Machado
January 24, 2020

Adam Davidson
January 22, 2020

Lindy West
November 26, 2019

Mary Ruefle
November 21, 2019

Amor Towles
November 12, 2019

Hanif Abdurraqib
October 23, 2019

A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates
October 20, 2019

Richard Kenney
October 17, 2019

Rachel Maddow
October 11, 2019

An Evening with Patti Smith
October 6, 2019

Malcolm Gladwell
September 23, 2019

Naomi Shihab Nye
September 19, 2019

Imbolo Mbue
June 7, 2019

Solmaz Sharif
June 3, 2019

The Moth Mainstage
May 23, 2019

Jericho Brown
May 21, 2019

Tayari Jones
May 14, 2019

A Conversation with Melinda Gates
May 9, 2019

Kara Swisher
May 7, 2019

Anthony Ray Hinton
April 30, 2019

HERE: Poems for the Planet, featuring Francisco Aragón & Kimiko Hahn
April 25, 2019

Valeria Luiselli
April 17, 2019

Tara Westover
April 14, 2019

Ilya Kaminsky
April 1, 2019

An Evening with Dean Baquet & Jim Rainey
March 5, 2019

A Conversation with Zadie Smith
February 27, 2019

Soraya Chemaly
January 31, 2019

Katherine Boo
January 28, 2019

Danez Smith
November 26, 2018

Pete Souza
November 11, 2018

Barbara Kingsolver
October 25, 2018

Phoebe Robinson
October 19, 2018

Jill Lepore
October 12, 2018

Van Jones
October 10, 2018

Alice Walker
October 4, 2018

Doris Kearns Goodwin
October 1, 2018

Aimee Nezhukumatathil
May 21, 2018

Ariel Levy
May 15, 2018

Viet Thanh Nguyen
May 7, 2018

An Evening with Jenny Han & Nicola Yoon
May 4, 2018

Of an Impossible Country: Rachel McKibbens, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, and Javier Zamora
April 27, 2018

Madeleine Albright
April 24, 2018

Questlove on Creativity
April 20, 2018

A Conversation with Lidia Bastianich
April 13, 2018

Laura Lippman & David Simon
March 30, 2018

Daniel Pink
March 5, 2018

Tyehimba Jess
March 4, 2018

Colson Whitehead
February 15, 2018

Gregory Orr
February 7, 2018

An Evening with Terese Mailhot, Tommy Orange, & Swil Kanim
February 2, 2018

Ijeoma Oluo
January 25, 2018

Jesmyn Ward
January 17, 2018

Nikki Giovanni
January 16, 2018

Tom Hanks
December 6, 2017

Kevin Young
November 30, 2017

Isabel Allende
November 28, 2017

Reza Aslan
November 14, 2017

A.E. Stallings
November 13, 2017

Ta-Nehisi Coates
November 5, 2017

Ron Chernow
October 18, 2017

Stephanie Burt
October 9, 2017

Janet Mock
October 4, 2017

A Conversation with Jeffrey Tambor
May 23, 2017

The Moth Mainstage
May 17, 2017

First Loves Debut Novelists: Patricia Park, Ariel Schrag, & Sunil Yapa
May 11, 2017

Emily Nussbaum
May 4, 2017

Carl Phillips
May 2, 2017

Helen Oyeyemi
April 25, 2017

Alec Baldwin
April 14, 2017

Alice Notley
April 5, 2017

Bryan Stevenson
March 28, 2017

Ben Fountain
March 1, 2017

Ellen Bass
February 28, 2017

Roxane Gay
February 22, 2017

A Tiny Sense of Accomplishment: Karen Russell
February 17, 2017

Sybrina Fulton & Tracy Martin: A Conversation with Trayvon Martin’s Parents
February 15, 2017

Ross Gay
February 7, 2017

Helen Macdonald
February 1, 2017

Emily St. John Mandel
November 23, 2016

Marina Abramović
November 18, 2016

Rachel Zucker
November 14, 2016

Nick Offerman
October 28, 2016

Timothy Egan
October 26, 2016

Bryan Cranston
October 16, 2016

Ada Limón
October 5, 2016

Ann Patchett
September 19, 2016

Annie Proulx
June 23, 2016

The Moth Mainstage
May 18, 2016

Claudia Rankine
May 13, 2016

Teju Cole
April 21, 2016

Pablo Neruda’s Lost Poems: A Book Launch Featuring Forrest Gander and Friends
April 19, 2016

Jacqueline Woodson
April 12, 2016

Joshua Roman & Tracy K. Smith
February 25, 2016

Amber Tamblyn
February 10, 2016

Geraldine Brooks
January 28, 2016

Srikanth Reddy
December 1, 2015

A Lecture by Timothy Donnelly
November 19, 2015

Anthony Doerr
November 18, 2015

Linda Pastan
November 10, 2015

James McBride and The Good Lord Bird Band
November 9, 2015

Drew Barrymore
November 7, 2015

Ta-Nehisi Coates
October 29, 2015

Alison Bechdel
October 22, 2015

Elizabeth Gilbert
October 6, 2015

Mary Szybist & Robert Wrigley
September 29, 2015

Saul Williams
September 24, 2015

The Moth Mainstage
June 2, 2015

A Lecture by Terrance Hayes
May 5, 2015

Frank Bruni
May 1, 2015

Lucie Brock-Broido
April 23, 2015

An Evening with Ann Hamilton
March 30, 2015

Cheryl Strayed
March 5, 2015

Sheri Fink
February 10, 2015

Sherman Alexie
February 4, 2015

Patton Oswalt: Off the Page
January 31, 2015

Ruth Ozeki
November 20, 2014

Matthea Harvey
November 7, 2014

Colm Tóibín
November 3, 2014

James McBride
October 15, 2014

An Evening with Nicholas Kristof
October 6, 2014

Ted Kooser
October 2, 2014

In Conversation with John Darnielle
September 26, 2014

Rebecca Solnit
June 5, 2014

Juan Felipe Herrera
June 2, 2014

An Evening with Timothy F. Geithner
May 16, 2014

Anne Carson & Robert Currie in Performance
May 13, 2014

Gillian Flynn
April 17, 2014

George Saunders
March 24, 2014

Christine Deavel & J.W. Marshall
March 19, 2014

Chip Kidd & Chris Ware
February 19, 2014

Bob Hicok
February 13, 2014

Dorothea Lasky
November 21, 2013

Madhur Jaffrey
November 19, 2013

Stephen Dunn
October 16, 2013

Malcolm Gladwell
October 11, 2013

Jorie Graham
September 17, 2013

Amy Tan
June 5, 2013

Susan Orlean
May 14, 2013

Nikky Finney
April 25, 2013

Karen Russell
April 3, 2013

Stanley Plumly on John Keats
March 19, 2013

Stephen Greenblatt on “The Survival of Dangerous Ideas”
March 4, 2013

Al Gore
February 14, 2013

Nick Flynn: The Intersection of Poetry & Memoir
February 13, 2013

Julie Otsuka
January 29, 2013

Amy Wilentz
January 23, 2013

David Wagoner: Northwest Master
January 16, 2013

Miranda July
December 5, 2012

Eileen Myles & Maggie Nelson: Poets on Painters
November 15, 2012

Hari Kunzru
October 23, 2012

Louise Erdrich
October 15, 2012

Jeffrey Toobin
October 10, 2012

Dean Young
October 2, 2012

T.C. Boyle
September 24, 2012

Mark Bittman
September 19, 2012

Colum McCann
May 24, 2012

Matthew Dickman & Michael Dickman
May 15, 2012

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
May 2, 2012

Etgar Keret
April 25, 2012

Delia Ephron
April 18, 2012

Troy Jollimore & John Koethe
April 4, 2012

Alain de Botton
March 16, 2012

Louise Glück
March 15, 2012

Amanda Hesser
March 8, 2012

Albert Goldbarth
February 9, 2012

Jennifer Egan
February 1, 2012

Pico Iyer
January 25, 2012

Terrance Hayes
December 8, 2011

Tom Brokaw
November 30, 2011

Dennis Lehane
November 15, 2011

David Grossman
November 10, 2011

Chris Matthews
November 7, 2011

Translators on Translation: Peter Cole, Bill Porter (Red Pine), & Nikolai Popov
November 6, 2011

Stacy Schiff
October 26, 2011

Amitav Ghosh
October 17, 2011

Khaled Hosseini
October 11, 2011

Dorianne Laux
October 5, 2011

Ann Patchett
June 16, 2011

Oscar Hijuielos
June 13, 2011

Roy Blount Jr.
May 25, 2011

Wendell Berry
May 24, 2011

Billy Collins
May 22, 2011

Richard Ford
May 10, 2011

Joyce Carol Oates
April 18, 2011

Brian Turner, Major Jackson, & Susan Rich
April 14, 2011

Marie Howe
March 15, 2011

Tracy Kidder
March 2, 2011

Dambisa Moyo
February 18, 2011

Patricia Smith
February 15, 2011

Nell Irvin Painter
February 8, 2011

Elizabeth Strout
January 24, 2011

Lucia Perillo
January 20, 2011

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee
January 12, 2011

John Richardson & Gijs van Hensbergen
December 8, 2010

Nora Ephron
November 18, 2010

Daniel Handler
November 9, 2010

Robert Hass
October 28, 2010

Sara Paretsky
October 19, 2010

Robert Pinsky
October 15, 2010

T.R. Reid
October 5, 2010

Jonathan Franzen
September 14, 2010

Rita Dove
May 13, 2010

Laila Lalami
May 10, 2010

Dr. Atul Gawande
May 3, 2010

Elaine Pagels
April 30, 2010

David Remnick
April 19, 2010

Sharon Olds
April 18, 2010

Barry Lopez
April 7, 2010

Arundhati Roy
March 29, 2010

Linda Gregg
March 25, 2010

Michael Chabon
March 9, 2010

Mark Doty
February 26, 2010

Dr. Abraham Verghese
February 10, 2010

Patti Smith
January 25, 2010

Kim Addonizio with Gary Lilley
January 21, 2010

Jane & Michael Stern
January 12, 2010

Richard Price
December 1, 2009

Isabella Rossellini
November 18, 2009

Tomaž Šalamun with Matthew Zapruder
November 14, 2009

Lydia Davis
November 4, 2009

Martín Espada
October 23, 2009

Annie Proulx
October 7, 2009

Gary Snyder
May 27, 2009

Shirin Ebadi
May 19, 2009

Naomi Shihab Nye
May 7, 2009

Mira Nair
April 28, 2009

Simon Armitage
April 21, 2009

Yusef Komunyakaa
March 26, 2009

Scott Simon
March 18, 2009

Jane Hirshfield
March 12, 2009

Junot Díaz
February 24, 2009

Donald Hall
February 17, 2009

Michael Pollan
January 12, 2009

Annie Leibovitz
November 19, 2008

John Updike
November 12, 2008

W.S. Merwin
November 7, 2008

Terry Tempest Williams
October 7, 2008

Richard Russo
September 17, 2008

John Waters
June 3, 2008

Pico Iyer
April 29, 2008

Edward Hirsch
April 21, 2008

Lucille Clifton
April 7, 2008

Lois Lowry
March 15, 2008

Richard Powers
March 5, 2008

Eavan Boland
March 3, 2008

Li-Young Lee
February 19, 2008

Mary Oliver
February 4, 2008

Colson Whitehead
January 14, 2008

Diane Ackerman
November 19, 2007

Orhan Pamuk
October 15, 2007

Wangari Maathai
September 19, 2007

Jonathan Lethem
April 18, 2007

Charles Simic
April 10, 2007

Carolyn Forché
March 26, 2007

Kevin Young
March 13, 2007

Art Spiegelman
March 5, 2007

Mark Strand
February 27, 2007

Suzan-Lori Parks
February 7, 2007

Edwidge Danticat
January 8, 2007

Elizabeth Kolbert on Climate Change
December 5, 2006

Frank McCourt
November 21, 2006

Stephen King
November 1, 2006

Eric Carle
October 21, 2006

Frank Rich
October 9, 2006

Peter Matthiessen
April 25, 2006

Peter Gizzi, Tyehimba Jess, and Mary Ruefle
April 10, 2006

Tony Hoagland
April 4, 2006

Adrienne Rich
March 22, 2006

Robert Bly
March 6, 2006

Azar Nafisi
February 28, 2006

Paul Auster & Siri Hustvedt
January 23, 2006

Subhankar Banerjee, Terry Tempest Williams, & David Allen Sibley: Wilderness & Imagination
December 6, 2005

Alexander McCall Smith
November 14, 2005

Charles Jencks
November 2, 2005

Simon Winchester
October 19, 2005

Cynthia Ozick
September 21, 2005

Suheir Hammad, Alia Mamdouh, and Fadia Faqir: Women Writers of the Arab World on Art & Identity
May 10, 2005

Edward P. Jones
April 20, 2005

Maxine Kumin
April 11, 2005

W.S. Merwin
March 28, 2005

Ted Kooser
March 16, 2005

Adam Gopnik
March 2, 2005

Kay Ryan
February 16, 2005

Tracy Chevalier
February 9, 2005

Terrence McNally
January 24, 2005

Oliver Sacks
December 1, 2004

Chris Van Allsburg
November 21, 2004

Roddy Doyle
November 15, 2004

T.C. Boyle
October 5, 2004

Zelda, Scott, and Ernest: featuring Robert Stone, Calvin Trillin, and Mary Karr
May 9, 2004

Anne Fadiman
April 27, 2004

Carol Muske-Dukes
April 20, 2004

Paul Theroux
April 8, 2004

Ian McEwan
March 31, 2004

Charles Wright
March 30, 2004

Paul Muldoon
March 15, 2004

Ellen Bryan Voigt
February 23, 2004

Billy Collins
January 13, 2004

Garry Willis
December 1, 2003

Sandra Cisneros
October 27, 2003

Jeffrey Eugenides
September 29, 2003

Ira Glass
September 24, 2003

David Mamet
April 1, 2003

Andrea Barrett
March 11, 2003

Francine Prose
February 18, 2003

George Plimpton
January 21, 2003

Zadie Smith
November 12, 2002

Tim O’Brien
November 4, 2002

Seamus Heaney
October 7, 2002

Ursula K. Le Guin
April 8, 2002

Jorie Graham
April 1, 2002

Heather McHugh
March 25, 2002

Robert Creely
March 11, 2002

J. M. Coetzee
March 3, 2002

Cornelius Eady
February 25, 2002

Anchee Min
February 4, 2002

Writers on Writers: An Evening of Biography with James Atlas, Francine du Plessix Gray, and Edmund White
January 15, 2002

Edna O’Brien
November 27, 2001

Edward Albee
October 30, 2001

Stephen Jay Gould
October 3, 2001

Joan Didion
September 25, 2001

Sharon Olds
May 15, 2001

Terry Gross
April 24, 2001

Greil Marcus
April 2, 2001

Adam Zagajewski
March 21, 2001

Claudia Rankine & Matthew Rohrer
March 13, 2001

Gao Xingjian
February 24, 2001

Peter Carey
February 13, 2001

Marilynne Robinson
January 8, 2001

John Ridley
November 8, 2000

Jeanette Winterson
November 8, 2000

Ira Glass
October 28, 2000

Reynolds Price
October 2, 2000

Michael Ondaatje
May 22, 2000

Frank O. Gehry
May 15, 2000

The Century in Poems: Robert Hass, Linda Bierds, Richard L. Kenney, Alan Chong Lau, Colleen McElroy, and music by Brian Butler
April 23, 2000

Nathan Englander
April 12, 2000

Michael Cunningham & Amy Bloom
April 10, 2000

Frank Bidart
March 21, 2000

Susan Sontag
March 14, 2000

Ron Chernow
March 7, 2000

Anne Carson
March 6, 2000

Philip Levine
February 28, 2000

C.K. Williams
January 29, 2000

Elizabeth McCracken & Ann Patchett
January 10, 2000

Wole Soyinka
December 6, 1999

Jamaica Kincaid
November 15, 1999

Ursula Hegi
November 1, 1999

James Fenton
October 4, 1999

John le Carré
March 23, 1999

Barbara Kopple
January 5, 1999

Richard Ford
October 26, 1998

Ursula K. LeGuin
October 22, 1998

Charles Frazier & Kaye Gibbons
September 14, 1998

Chinua Achebe & Robert Lyons
May 11, 1998

Jules Feiffer
April 6, 1998

Frank McCourt & Mary Gordon
March 9, 1998

Julia Alvarez
February 19, 1998

Sherman Alexie, Cristina García, Gish Jen, & David Foster Wallace
February 2, 1998

The Poets Among Us: Sherman Alexie
February 2, 1998

Amos Oz
January 5, 1998

Orville Schell
December 8, 1997

Grace Paley & Anne Lamott
November 17, 1997

Don DeLillo
October 20, 1997

Elaine May
September 23, 1997

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
May 1, 1997

Maya Lin
April 14, 1997

Jim Harrison
March 3, 1997

Michael Ondaatje
January 9, 1997

Mary Karr
December 9, 1996

Antonia Fraser
October 28, 1996

Elmore Leonard
September 30, 1996

Edward O. Wilson
May 14, 1996

John Fowles
April 22, 1996

Salman Rushdie
January 23, 1996

Tim O’Brien
January 9, 1996

Anna Deavere Smith
December 11, 1995

Paul Theroux
October 25, 1995

Kazuo Ishiguro
October 16, 1995

David Sedaris
June 12, 1995

Bailey White
June 12, 1995

Nicholson Baker
May 8, 1995

Patrick O’Brian
April 25, 1995

A. S. Byatt
April 11, 1995

Edward Said
March 6, 1995

Robertson Davies
January 17, 1995

Lorrie Moore
December 12, 1994

Tony Hillerman
October 5, 1994

Saul Bellow
April 20, 1994

Tony Kushner
February 22, 1994

Margaret Atwood
February 3, 1994

Terry McMillan & John Edgar Wideman
January 11, 1994

Robert Hass
December 1, 1993

Czeslaw Milosz
December 1, 1993

Jan Morrison
October 20, 1993

Robert Hughes
May 7, 1993

Charles Johnson
April 13, 1993

Bill Buford
February 23, 1993

James Fenton
February 23, 1993

Hanif Kureishi
January 5, 1993

Dave Barry
November 17, 1992

Doris Lessing
November 10, 1992

Philip Roth
October 21, 1992

Joan Didion
September 21, 1992

John Gregory Dunne
September 21, 1992

Carolyn Heilburn
May 13, 1992

Jamaica Kincaid
May 5, 1992

Annie Dillard
April 28, 1992

Robert Coles
April 24, 1992

Toni Morrison
March 18, 1992

Maxine Hong Kingston
January 8, 1992

V. S. Naipaul
December 29, 1991

Garry Trudeau
November 19, 1991

William Styron
October 8, 1991

Jane Smiley
May 8, 1991

Eduardo Galeano
April 16, 1991

E. L. Doctorow
March 12, 1991

Jonathan Miller
February 28, 1991

Henry Louis Gates Jr.
February 12, 1991

Amy Tan
January 9, 1991

Wallace Stegner
November 28, 1990

August Wilson
October 3, 1990

Richard Ford & Tobias Wolff
May 31, 1990

Wendy Wasserstein
May 2, 1990

May Sarton
March 28, 1990

Andre Dubus
March 14, 1990

Brendan Gill
February 13, 1990

Peter Gay
January 10, 1990

Joyce Carol Oates
November 2, 1989

John McPhee
October 13, 1989

Rosamond Bernier
May 24, 1989

Louise Erdrich & Michael Dorris
April 12, 1989

Isabel Allende
March 14, 1989

Donald Barthelme
February 7, 1989

Calvin Trillin
January 11, 1989

John Updike
November 16, 1988