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Start: 7:00 pm
A welcome Elliott Bay return is made this evening by fiction writer Lan Samantha Chang, who now serves as director of the renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop, in addition to writing superb books. She follows Hunger and Inheritance with her new novel, All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost (W.W. Norton). "Among the many threads Chang elegantly pursues—the fraught relationships between mentors and students, the value of poetry, the price of ambition—it is her indelible portrait of the loneliness of artistic endeavor that will haunt readers the most in this exquisitely written novel about the poet's lot." - Booklist. "All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost offers a starkly honest portrait of people caught up in the drive to write and of the personal bargains and self-deceptions that such an ambition can entail. Lan Samantha Chang was brave to write this book, to turn her novelist's eye onto a world she knows intimately, and her bravery pays off." - Adam Haslett.
Start: 7:30 pm
Presented by the CENTRAL DISTRICT FORUM FOR ARTS & IDEAS in association with ELLIOTT BAY BOOK COMPANY, KUOW 94.9 and KPLU 88.5. Also in early October is this evening with award-winning National Public Radio journalist Michele Norris. Co-host of NPR's All Things Considered and recipient of the National Association of Black Journalists' 2009 Journalist of the Year Award, among other honors, Ms. Norris is here with a much-anticipated first book, The Grace of Silence: A Memoir (Pantheon). With her, in conversation, will be Seattle Times editorial columnist Lynne Varner. "The Grace of Silence is a riveting, inspiring memoir of an at once singular and representative American family. From Minnesota to Alabama, Norris takes us on a painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. She relies on her formidable skills as an investigative reporter to unearth shocking family secrets kept from her by her father and mother ... Feeling hurt and betrayed, she learns that their lack of forthrightness allowed her to rise in a country haunted by its racial past. Powerful and tender, The Grace of Silence reveals our human complexity in exemplary fashion." - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. $10 tickets are available via www.brownpapertickets.com (1-800-838-3006). Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information on this evening, please see www.cdforum.org, call (206) 323-4032, or call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600.
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