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Tickets are nonrefundable. Ticket holders receive half-price parking in the DMA's garage. For information on venues, parking, dining, services for the hearing impaired, and the DMA Store, visit DMA.org. “I have been attending Arts & Check DMA.org/ALL for more details and newly added events. Letters Live events for 15–20 years and have yet to be STAFF Director of Arts & Letters Live: Carolyn Bess; Program Managers: disappointed by listening to Michelle Witcher and Jessica Laskey; Audience Relations Coordinator: an author speak. Excellent Jennifer Krogsdale; Administrative Coordinator: Carolyn Hartley; and TIMELY program.” Volunteer Coordinator: Andi Orkin; McDermott Intern: Lillie Burrow 2 DMA.org/ALL DMA.org/ALL 3 —Arts & Letters Live attendee BOOK CLUB MODERATORS Dr. Jaina Sanga is the author of three works of fiction: a novel titled Silk Fish Opium; a book of short stories, Train to Bombay; and a book of novellas, Tourist Season. She is also a literary scholar and has published a book on Salman Rushdie. Sanga serves on the Board of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture and is also a Fellow of the Institute. She is currently working BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH CONVERSATION on her fourth book of fiction, a detective novel set in India. 11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Each session: $40 public; $35 DMA Member/Educator/Student Dr. Randi Tanglen is Associate Professor of English, Director Join fellow bibliophiles for lunch in the DMA's Cook Boardroom (unless of the Gender Studies program, and Director of the Robert and Joyce Johnson Center for Faculty Development and otherwise noted) as you enjoy the opportunity to delve more deeply into a Excellence in Teaching at Austin College in Sherman. She featured book. By reading and sharing insights together before or after hearing teaches classes on women writers, protest literature, and the author speak, we hope your experience will be even richer and more 19th-century American literature. In 2012, she was named one of the Princeton Review’s “Top 300 Professors.” meaningful. Please note that these are book discussions, not author events. Executive Director Amy Lewis Hofland leads the Crow Museum of Asian Art of the University of Texas at Dallas, Quichotte Autumn Light the preeminent museum in the southern United States by Salman Rushdie by Pico Iyer dedicated to the arts and cultures of Asia. Hofland is a life- Wednesday, Wednesday, long student, devoted to her work at the museum and to September 11 November 6 creating a more compassionate society. She recently led the Dallas Arts District’s signing of the International Charter for Conversation Conversation Compassion and she Chairs the Dallas Arts District Board. facilitated by facilitated by Dr. Jaina Sanga Amy Hofland The Testaments by Margaret Atwood Friday, October 11 Conversation facilitated by Dr. Randi Tanglen "When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humor and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book." Visit DMA.org/ALL for updates and other details. —Christopher Morley 4 DMA.org/ALL DMA.org/ALL 5 DISTINGUISHED WRITERS DISTINGUISHED WRITERS SALMAN RUSHDIE TRACY CHEVALIER In conversation with author Jaina Sanga tuesday, september 17, 7:30 pm horchow auditorium thursday, september 5, 7:30 pm moody performance hall Tracy Chevalier is the New York Times bestselling Internationally bestselling author Salman author of nine previous novels, including Girl Rushdie delivers Quichotte, a dazzling Don with a Pearl Earring, which has been translated Quixote for the modern age—a tour de force that into 39 languages and made into an Oscar- is as much an homage to an immortal work of nominated film starring Colin Firth and Scarlett literature as it is to the quest for love and family. Johansson. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam Chevalier's tenth and newest novel, A Single DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, Thread, is an immersive, moving story of a creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman woman coming into her own at the dawn of who falls impossibly in love with a television the Second World War. After the Great War star. He sets off with his imaginary son Sancho took her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet on a picaresque quest across America to prove Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one himself worthy of her hand. Just as Cervantes of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood wrote Don Quixote to satirize the culture of his after the war killed so many young men. Yet time, Rushdie uses his trademark storytelling Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent TICKET PRICES TICKET PRICES Hardcover book included magic to take the reader on a wild ride through caring for her grieving, embittered mother. She a country on the verge of moral and spiritual Public: $40 VIP Experience (limited quantity) Member/Educator: $30 finally saves enough to move out of her mother's Includes reserved front collapse, rendering a wickedly entertaining Student: $20 place and into the town of Winchester, home section seating and a portrait of an age in which fact is so often signed hardcover copy of to one of England's grandest cathedrals, where Quichotte indiscernible from fiction. she is drawn into a society of broderers—women Public: $80 who embroider kneelers for the cathedral, Member: $70 Salman Rushdie is the author of 13 previous novels, including Midnight’s Children, for which carrying on a centuries-long tradition of One ticket + one book he won the Booker Prize and Best of the Booker; bringing comfort to worshippers. Violet finds Public: $60 a sense of community, fulfillment in the work Member/Educator: $55 one collection of short stories; and four works of Student: $50 nonfiction, and has co-edited two anthologies. they create, and even a growing friendship. But He is a member of the American Academy of when forces threaten her new independence Two tickets + one book and another war appears on the horizon, Violet Public: $80 Arts and Letters and is currently a Distinguished Member/Educator: $75 Writer in Residence at New York University. must fight to put down roots. Told in Chevalier's Student: $70 glorious prose, A Single Thread is a timeless story A former president of PEN American Center, There will not be a book Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to of friendship, love, and a woman crafting her signing following this event. literature. own life. “A glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual “Chevalier is a master at foregrounding the small, dramatic stories resources, a master of perpetual storytelling.” of overlooked people from the past.” 6 DMA.org/ALL —The New Yorker —Geraldine Brooks DMA.org/ALL 7 SPECIAL EVENT ARTFUL MUSINGS JIM MATTIS BEN FOLDS In conversation with Ryan Taylor of Minnesota Opera In conversation with Jim Falk of saturday, september 21, 7:30 pm friday, september 20, 7:30 pm horchow auditorium dallas baptist university, pilgrim chapel Ben Folds is widely regarded as one of the major In partnership with World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth and music influencers of our generation. He has Dallas Baptist University created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes albums with Ben Folds Five, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead by retired Marine multiple solo albums, a classical piano concerto, general and the 26th United States Secretary of and collaborations with artists ranging from Defense Jim Mattis—one of the most formidable Sara Bareilles to William Shatner. Featured for strategic thinkers and most revered military five seasons as a judge on NBC's acclaimed leaders of our time—is a clear-eyed account of a cappella show The Sing Off, Folds is also an avid learning how to lead in a chaotic world. photographer and an outspoken champion Mattis will discuss his storied career over four for arts education and music therapy in public decades, from wide-ranging leadership roles schools. in three wars to ultimately commanding a A celebrated singer-songwriter, beloved for quarter of a million troops across the Middle songs such as “Brick” and “You Don’t Know TICKET PRICES East. Recounting his foundational experiences Me,” and the former frontman of the band Ben as a leader, Mattis extracts the lessons he has TICKET PRICES VIP Experience (limited quantity) Folds Five, he will be the first to tell you he’s Includes reserved front learned about the nature of warfighting and VIP Experience (limited quantity) an unconventional icon. In his first book and section seating and a peacemaking, the importance of allies, and the Includes reserved front signed hardcover copy of section seating, a hardcover memoir, A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of strategic dilemmas now facing our nation.