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Start: 7:00 pm
A southern California native who is very much in place there today as president of Pitzer College in Claremont, Laura Skandera Trombley is one of the most highly regarded scholars with regard to the life and work of Mark Twain. Her third book on Samuel Clemens as subject matter is Mark Twain's Other Woman: The Hidden Story of His Final Years (Knopf). "This book is a revelation. Thanks to hitherto unpublished letters and diaries of a witness who was snubbed and excluded in previous works, we now have a first-rate account of Mark Twain's last decade. This account gives us a candid look at the crosscurrents of wit, charm, and irrational angers that marked and marred the great man's final years. Trombley's discoveries make for an illuminating portrait and essential reading." - Meryle Secrest. "A riveting tale of the vortex of ambition, desire, jealousy, and obsession swirling round one Great Man." - Emma Donoghue. Another subject of Laura Skandera Trombley's work has been the writing of Maxine Hong Kingston.
Start: 7:30 pm
Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. Juliet B. Schor, a scholar (professor at Boston College), economist, and author of books that have helped articulate some major demographic and social shifts, makes this Town Hall visit for her newest book, Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth (Penguin Press). The author of such books as Born to Buy, The Overworked American, and The Overspent American, she argues for a more accurate measure of what economics should encompass—including natural resources, processes, cycles, and costs that heretofore conventional economics overlooks. $5 tickets are available at the door starting at 6:30 p.m. or via www.brownpapertickets.com (or 1-800-838-3006). Preferred seating for Town Hall members. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, Town Hall at (206) 652-4255, or see www.townhallseattle.org.
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