TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS
Tuesday, October 7 at 7:30 p.m. at Benaroya Hall, 200 University Street

Presented by SEATTLE ARTS & LECTURES. Appearing second in Seattle Arts & Lectures' 2008-09 Literary Lecture Series is a writer whose work and presence is near and dear to many here, and elsewhere, over the decades. A visit and appearance by Terry Tempest Williams would be welcome at any time, but it so happens that this comes with a remarkable new book in hand, Finding Beauty in a Broken World (Pantheon). Taking nothing away from the vital, wonderful books she has written of late (Leap, Red, The Open Space of Democracy), this feels like her largest, most searching book since Refuge. "Williams travels to Ravenna, Italy ... 'to learn a new language with my hands.' Back home in Utah, Williams views the lives of a clan of endangered prairie dogs—a species essential to the ecological mosaic of the grasslands ... through the rules of Italian mosaics ... The book, itself a skilled, nuanced mosaic uses this 'way of thinking about the world' to convincingly 'make the connection between racism and specism' and sensitively argues for respect for life in all its myriad forms." – Publishers Weekly. Terry Tempest Williams is also presently Annie Clark Tanner Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah. For tickets/information about this evening, please call Seattle Arts & Lectures at (206) 621-2230 and/or see www.lectures.org. Elliott Bay will be on hand with her books, including pre-signed copies of Finding Beauty in a Broken World.

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