Ta-Nehisi Coates, Malcolm Gladwell among Seattle Arts & Lectures speakers in 2019-20 season—The Seattle Times
May 15, 2019
Seattle Arts & Lectures has announced its 2019-20 season, which features names like Malcolm Gladwell, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Min Jin Lee and Amor Towles. Gladwell’s Sept. 23 appearance, with his new book “Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know,” will kick off the Literary Arts series, which also features Towles (“A Gentleman in Moscow,” speaking Nov. 12); Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, who broke the Harvey Weinstein story (Jan. 29, 2020); Lee (“Pachinko,” March 17); Carol Anderson (“White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide,” April 15); and Luis Alberto Urrea (“The House of Broken Angels,” May 20).