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Category: Elizabeth Gilbert

“Light,” by WITS Student Jaeden Caldwell

November 5, 2015

Light My mind is like a light bulb getting switched on and off. When I get turned on my mind explodes with ideas, all filling my brain with different things to do, write, play. It is a magical thing, a feeling that can’t be compared with any other, my thoughts lighting up as if there […]

Introductions: Elizabeth Gilbert

November 3, 2015

On October 5 at Benaroya Hall, SAL Executive Director Ruth Dickey introduced and interviewed Elizabeth Gilbert, the first author in SAL’s 2015/16 Literary Arts Series. In Elizabeth Gilbert’s first novel, Stern Men, she writes of lobstermen off the coast of Maine, and about how what we pursue affects us. She writes, “Dairy farming makes men […]

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WITS Student Zia Agarwala wrote a poem called “Words to Remember” while attending Hamilton International Middle School with WITS Writer-in-Residence Sara Brickman. Last night Zia her beautiful poem to open for Billie Jean King. Read it on the SAL/ON blog: http://ow.ly/170b50Gc6bo

"Doerr’s excited by the prospect of speaking to a live audience when he comes to Seattle; it’s something he hasn’t done since February 2020. “I’m pretty sure I’ll cry,” he said, laughing." We're with you, Tony. Get your tissues, everyone!

https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/pulitzer-winner-anthony-doerr-discusses-his-new-novel-the-timeless-power-of-books-and-more/

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On 9/28, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Anthony Doerr returns to SAL to talk about "Cloud Cuckoo Land," a novel about children on the cusp of adulthood searching for hope in a broken world. #SALDoerr
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