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mary karr & Ideas mary-louise parker eric weiner monday, january 11, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium thursday, january 14, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium

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Promotional Partner: World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth Ticket Prices Public: $35; Member: $30; Student: $15 VIP Experience includes priority seating and booksigning access as well as a hardcover book of your choice Eric Weiner can’t keep away from life’s big questions. His New York Times Public: $75; Member: $70 bestseller The Geography of Bliss was about happiness; next came Man Seeks God. He has the special ability to take these timeless questions and make Mary Karr is an award-winning poet and New York Times–bestselling them personal, writing from an “everyman’s perspective”—full of humor, memoirist. The author of The Liars’ Club, Cherry, and Lit returns by popular insight, and even self-doubt. demand to share insights into her latest book, The Art of Memoir, a mas- Now this acclaimed travel writer seeks to answer the question of how cre- ter class on the fastest-growing literary genre. In it, she synthesizes her ative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times. In The Geography expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, of Genius, he explores the history of places, from ancient Athens to Renais- recovered alcoholic and “black belt sinner.” Cheryl Strayed hailed it as sance Florence to modern day Silicon Valley, examining the connection “astonishingly perceptive, wildly entertaining, and profoundly honest. . . . between our surroundings and our most innovative ideas. His reevalua- the definitive book on reading and writing memoir for years to come.” tion of the importance of culture in nurturing creativity is an informed Mary-Louise Parker is a Tony and Emmy award–winning actress, - romp through history that will surely jumpstart a national conversation. ring in Weeds, Angels in America, and Showtime’s forthcoming series Lit, in A former correspondent for NPR and , Weiner has re- which she plays Mary Karr. An extraordinary literary debut, Dear Mr. You ported from more than three dozen countries. is a memoir in letters composed to the men, real and hypothetical, who have informed the person Parker is today. Beginning with the grandfather “The Geography of Genius is witty, informative, and compulsively readable. she never knew, the letters include a missive to the beloved priest from her Whether you’re getting genius tips from Freud in Vienna or hearing the secrets of childhood, remembrances of former lovers, and an homage to a firefighter high-tech powerhouses in Silicon Valley, you’ll emerge smarter after reading this she encountered on 9/11. Mary Karr called it a “pants-pissingly funny, delightful travelogue of ingenuity.” —Daniel H. Pink

gut-wrenching meditation. . . . I drank it down in one gulp, then started 6:30 p.m. Enjoy a pre-event tour of collection highlights that dovetail back at page one again.” with the cultures and time periods featured in The Geography of Genius.

4 DMA.org/tickets distinguished writers artful musings DMA.org/tickets 5 - From Chanel Inspired to Reves

Tales olivier meslay & helen ellis rhonda k. garelick wednesday, january 20, 7:30 p.m. friday, january 15, 7:00 p.m. horchow auditorium horchow auditorium

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Ticket Prices Public: $35; Member: $30; Student: $15 Meet Helen Ellis—acclaimed author of Eating the Cheshire Cat, competitive VIP Experience includes priority seating and booksigning access, your choice of one book, and three-course dinner at 6:00 p.m. in the Founders Room featuring a French menu and wine. poker player, and charming Upper East Side housewife. Her latest book, Public: $150; Member: $125 American Housewife: Stories, was inspired by her hilarious but anonymous “American Housewife” Twitter account (@WhatIDoAllDay). With sharp wit Join us for a French Riviera fête celebrating the connections between and humor, Ellis probes the dark world of domesticity. Women in these Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel and the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection. stories wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it’s cloudy. They How did a poor orphan become a global icon of both luxury and everyday make casseroles. They pump the salad spinner like it’s a CPR dummy. style? How are the personal, professional, and political interwoven in her And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to life? Rhonda K. Garelick unravels these mysteries in her bestselling pull cookies out of the oven. If you enjoy books by Amy Sedaris and Maria biography Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History. Judith Thurman Semple, you’ll love American Housewife. says, “This is the definitive biography of Chanel. It is gripping, astute, These twelve stories range from a haunted prewar Manhattan apartment and elegantly written.” A Guggenheim fellow and professor, Garelick writes building to the set of a rigged reality television show, from the unique on fashion, design, performance, art, literature, and cultural politics. initiation ritual of a book club to the getaway car of a pageant princess on In 1953, Emery Reves purchased Villa La Pausa from Chanel. Chanel built the lam, from the gallery opening of a tinfoil artist to the fitting room of it and was responsible for most of the decoration, ornamental details, and a legendary lingerie shop. furniture. By an extraordinary coincidence, the DMA became the major “Hilarious and moving, terrifying and shockingly strange. . . . stories of infidelity and repository of objects that had once belonged to Chanel. Olivier Meslay infertility, of decorators and doormen, of love and failure and friendship and hope. and Martha MacLeod have uncovered layers of rich history and published This book is feminism with teeth and a southern drawl.” —Hannah Tinti a beautifully illustrated catalogue, From Chanel to Reves: La Pausa and Its Collections at the Dallas Museum of Art.

6 DMA.org/tickets fresh ink artful musings DMA.org/tickets 7 late night Fast-Paced Bound I Fun Reads human foibles chris grabenstein & hijinks sunday, january 31, 3:00 p.m. horchow auditorium monday, january 25, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium

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octavio solis Promotional Partners: reads his story Last Gallantry of a Badass Friends of the Dallas Public Library and Dallas Public Library owen egerton Chris Grabenstein delights readers with the much-anticipated puzzle- reads his story The Martyrs of Mountain Peak packed sequel to the New York Times–bestselling, award-winning Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library, described as “part Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, part chris hury A Night in the Museum, and a whole lot of fun.” In Mr. Lemoncello’s Library reads Elk by Rick Bass Olympics, Kyle and his teammates are back, and world-famous game maker Luigi Lemoncello is at it again. This time Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS. g. w. bailey reads Waffle by Owen Egerton But something suspicious is going on . . . books are missing from Mr. Lemoncello’s library. Is someone trying to CENSOR what the kids are Octavio Solis is a playwright whose plays have been produced in Dallas and across the country. reading? In between figuring out mind-boggling challenges, the kids will His works have been published in the Chicago Quarterly Review, Eleven Eleven, and Zyzzyva. His new story have to band together to get to the bottom of this mystery. Now it’s not Mundo Means World will be published in January 2016 in the Catamaran Literary Reader. just a game—can Mr. Lemoncello find the real defenders of books and cham- Owen Egerton is a novelist, performer, and filmmaker. He is the author of several books, including How Best to Avoid Dying. He’s the writer-director of the psychological horror film Follow and has written pions of libraries? Let the games begin! for Disney, Warner Brothers, and Fox studios. Egerton also hosts a monthly podcast for KUT, an NPR Currently nominated for thirty-four different state book awards, Escape from affiliate, called The Write Up. Mr. Lemoncello’s Library has spent thirty-eight weeks on the New York Times Middle Chris Hury has worked on stage extensively in North Texas over the past few years, most recently as Grades bestseller list, and Nickelodeon has optioned the book to become a Jason in the Dallas Theater Center’s production of Medea and as Dr. Bayliss in Water Tower Theater’s production of All My Sons. He can be seen as Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet at the Dallas Theater Center movie. Grabenstein is also the author of The Island of Dr. Libris and co-author starting January 27. with James Patterson of the #1 bestselling I Funny, Treasure Hunters, and House G. W. Bailey is perhaps best known for his roles as Sergeant Rizzo in M*A*S*H, Lieutenant Harris in of Robots series. He’s a playwright and screenwriter, not to mention a former The Police Academy films, and, most recently, Detective Provenza on TNT’s Major Crimes. He is also the advertising executive and improvisational comedian. His dog, Fred, has even Executive Director of the Sunshine Kids Foundation, which provides trips for young cancer patients. better credits—he starred on Broadway in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

8 DMA.org/tickets texas bound booksmart DMA.org/tickets 9 Capote’s Pollock Capers in Motion melanie world premiere

benjamin DMA Members and TBT subscribers only: tuesday, february 9, 7:30 p.m. tuesday, february 2, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium General public: wednesday, february 10, 7:30 p.m.

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Publishers Weekly raves, “Talented historical novelist Melanie Benjamin has a Inspired by the DMA’s two masterpieces by Jackson Pollock and the Blind knack for picking intriguing, if somewhat obscure, women in history Spots exhibition (on view through March 20), Arts & Letters Live has com- and making them utterly unforgettable.” She is the New York Times bestselling missioned the world-class Texas Ballet Theater to create a new suite of five author of The Aviator’s Wife, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb, and Alice I dances resonant with his art, particularly his black paintings of 1951–1953. Have Been. Jackson Pollock—widely considered the most influential American painter In the dazzling high society of 1950s Manhattan, gossip and rumors swirled of the 20th century—used house paint instead of traditional artist’s paint to around a heart-wrenching and scandalous relationship between Babe Paley, create a radical technique that revolutionized the art world in the 1950s. “It a Manhattan socialite, and , a literary genius. Melanie doesn’t make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something Benjamin’s newest book, The Swans of Fifth Avenue (to be released January 26), has been said,” expressed Pollock. “Technique is just a means of arriving at seduces readers with this legendary romance, opening the doors to the a statement. I control the flow of the paint. There is no accident.” private parlors of the rich and famous and the secrets whispered therein. Gavin Delahunty, Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art and Babe Paley was dubbed “the Goddess of Beauty” and seemed to have it all. But curator of Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots, will share insights into Pollock’s oft- beneath this elegantly composed exterior was a woman longing for true love underexplored work and the significance of assembling these thirty-three and connection. Truman Capote, a diminutive golden-haired genius with a works of art, which will likely not be reunited again in our lifetime; the larger-than-life personality, exploded onto the social scene, setting Babe and Guardian hailed this exhibition as “sensational” and “exhilarating.” her circle of “Swans” aflutter. Frank Sinatra, Andy Warhol, Lauren Bacall, Texas Ballet Theater Artistic Director Ben Stevenson, O.B.E., choreo- and Rose Kennedy make cameo appearances in the book. graphed the new dances and calls them Reflections of an Iconic Artist. He says, Before the event: Enjoy craft cocktails inspired by Truman Capote and “In no way have I tried to reflect the brilliant work of Jackson Pollock, but Babe Paley in the DMA Cafe, and 6:30 p.m.“high society” tours of have instead gone with the title of his works. [Pollock’s] vision of the title is collection highlights. on the canvas; my vision of his title is with the dancers.”

10 DMA.org/tickets special event artful musings DMA.org/tickets 11 Stumbling Selected in the Dark Shorts

sarah hepola art & artists friday, february 19, 7:00 p.m. saturday, february 27, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium horchow auditorium

Members FREE Ticket Prices Public: $35, Member: $30, Student: $15 Public: Included in Late Night ticket

Not ticketed in advance; DMA Members will be seated first. reads How to Become A Writer by Lorrie Moore

The theme for this month’s Late Night is “Virtues and Vices,” and this book john benjamin hickey reads Weber’s Head by J. Robert Lennon explores both. For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was “the gasoline of all adventure.” She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly stayed till last call. To her, drinking felt like the birthright of a strong, en- denis o’hare reads The Color Master by Aimee Bender lightened woman. But there was a price. She often blacked out, waking up with a blank space where four hours should be. She apologized for things she couldn’t remember doing, as though she were cleaning up after an evil Blythe Danner has appeared on Broadway in Butterflies Are Free, for which she earned a Tony Award; Betrayal; A Streetcar Named Desire; and, most recently, The Country House. Her films include Meet the Parents, twin. Publicly, she covered her shame with self-deprecating jokes, and her The Prince of Tides, The Great Santini, 1776, and the forthcoming Tumbledown. Her television credits include career flourished; but as the blackouts accumulated, she could no longer We Were the Mulvaneys, St. Elsewhere, Will & Grace, and Huff, for which she earned two .

avoid a sinking truth. The fuel she thought she needed was draining her John Benjamin Hickey won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in spirit instead. . His other Broadway credits include Mary Stuart, , and . He has a recurring role as Neil Gross on , and appeared for four seasons on Showtime’s The Big C, for A memoir of unflinching honesty and poignant, laugh-out-loud humor, which he received an Emmy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He has appeared in films Sarah Hepola’s Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget tells the story such as , Flags of Our Fathers, and the upcoming Tallulah. He currently stars in the original of a woman stumbling into a new kind of adventure—the sober life she never WGN television series Manhattan. wanted. Shining a light into her blackouts, she discovers the person she Denis O’Hare has appeared in such films as Milk, for which he won the Critics Choice Award for Best Acting Ensemble; A Mighty Heart; Michael Clayton; Duplicity; 21 Grams; Garden State; and Changeling. He won buried, as well as the confidence, intimacy, and creativity she once believed a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Take Me Out and came only from a bottle. This is a story about giving up the thing you cherish a for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for his role in Sweet Charity. Recent most—but getting yourself back in return. television appearances include , True Blood, and The Good Wife.

“Razor-sharp . . . modern, raw, and painfully real— and even hilarious . . . Hepola moves Selected Shorts on KERA 90.1 beyond the analysis of her addiction, making this the story of every woman’s fight to be seen On Saturdays at 7:00 p.m., tune in to the award-winning public radio for who she really is.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) series featuring classic and bold new stories read by acclaimed actors.

12 DMA.org/tickets fresh ink texas bound DMA.org/tickets 13 late night Brontë The Aca-Perfect Bicentennial Concert claire harman Experience monday, february 29, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium vocalosity wednesday, march 2, 7:30 p.m. mcfarlin memorial auditorium, smu Ticket Prices Public: $35 Member: $30 Student: $15 In partnership with

Ticket Prices $25–$45 based on seat location Order online at attpac.org or call 214-880-0202. Claire Harman’s Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart marks the bicentennial of the iconic author’s birth and has been hailed as the literary biography of 2016. Vocalosity is the all-new live concert event from the creative mind of music Drawing on correspondence unavailable to previous biographers, Harman director and artistic producer Deke Sharon (Pitch Perfect, The Sing-Off) that takes reveals that Charlotte’s life contained all the drama and tragedy of the great to a whole new level. This fast-paced production features twelve Gothic novels. Raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors and sent away dynamic voices some of today’s chart-topping hits in brand-new to a brutally strict boarding school, Charlotte also endured the deaths of all too incredible to miss. No genre of music is off limits in the five of her beloved siblings. As an adult, she was haunted by a great world of a cappella and Vocalosity will explore them all—from 10th-century and unrequited love—one that tortured her but also inspired some of the Gregorian chant to bouncing doo-wop, all the way to The Beatles and Bruno most moving, intense, and revolutionary novels ever written in the Mars. Combine that with movement and choreography from Sean Curran English language. (Stomp original cast member) and you have an exhilarating evening of song

A literary visionary and feminist trailblazer, Charlotte was the driving force unlike anything you’ve ever seen or heard, live on stage. behind the Brontë family. A bestselling female author in a world still domi- Vocalosity came together through the passion of Deke Sharon, who has built nated by men, she wrote books featuring heroines inspired by herself and her a career in a cappella as a singer, arranger, director, and producer; it is his life, fiercely intelligent women burning with hidden passions. Charlotte Brontë: arrangements you’ll hear performed. Universal Music Classics will release a A Fiery Heart provides uniquely intimate and complex insights into one of CD in conjunction with Vocalosity’s national tour, which will be available for history’s best-loved writers. purchase at the event.

Claire Harman has taught English at Oxford University and creative “They’re all a team, which creates an immediate chemistry and an immediate connection writing at Columbia University. Her bestselling book Jane’s Fame: How Jane between the people and their voices. . . . And you hear that when they sing together live.” Austen Conquered the World is a remarkable biography of the writer’s lasting —Deke Sharon cultural influence. Submit your 90-second a cappella video in advance and enter to win a spot as one of three performers in the opening act. Visit the ticketing site for details.

14 DMA.org/tickets distinguished writers special event DMA.org/tickets 15 Texas Poetry, Place, Bound II & Race

in hindsight tracy k. smith & monday, march 14, 7:30 p.m. kevin young horchow auditorium thursday, march 17, 7:30 p.m. Ticket Prices horchow auditorium Public: $35; Member: $30; Student: $15

doris roberts reads The Ship That Has Sailed by Will Clarke and A Fine Monument by Betty Wiesepape

jeffrey schmidt reads Colonel Fandango Ticket Prices and the Fredericksburg Duck Irons by Doug Dorst and Public: $35; Member:$30; Student: $15 Outside the Toy Store by Bret Anthony Johnston

Tracy K. Smith won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Life on Mars. Her stephen tobolowsky reads his story critically acclaimed memoir Ordinary Light is shortlisted for the 2015 National The Dangerous Animals Club Book Award in Nonfiction. The youngest of five children, she was raised with limitless affection and a firm belief in God by a stay-at-home mother and an Doris Roberts was a twenty-year veteran of the Broadway stage before making regular appearances in the Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and Angie. Her career highlights include many films and engineer father. But after spending a summer in Alabama at her grandmoth- television shows, including Grey’s Anatomy and Melissa & Joey, but Roberts is best known for her role as er’s house, Smith returned to with a new sense of what it means the indomitable matriarch, Marie, on . The show became one of the best-loved to be black. Booklist calls Ordinary Light “a gracefully nuanced yet strikingly sitcoms in history, garnering Roberts seven Emmy nominations and four wins for her colorful role. candid memoir about family, faith, race, and literature,” and BBC’s Between Jeffrey Schmidt is an actor, director, and designer with a twenty-year history in theater, film, the Lines says, “It is a lament, an homage, a discovery, a blessing.” Smith is and television. He scenic designed The Arsonists for Kitchen Dog Theater and performed in The Book Club Play for Dallas Theater Center as well as the feature films Parkland and DV Short, written and directed currently the Director of Princeton University’s Creative Writing Program. by Francis Ford Coppola. Kevin Young is widely regarded as one of the leading poets of his generation, Stephen Tobolowsky has appeared in over two hundred movies and television shows, including one who finds inspiration in African American music, particularly the blues, Groundhog Day, Freaky Friday, Memento, , , Californication, and Comedy Central’s new series and in the bittersweet history of Black America. Billy Collins praised him as Big Time in , Florida. His first book of memoiristic short stories, The Dangerous Animals Club, was published in 2012, and My Adventures with God was released in 2015. “tender, sassy, and just plain cool.” The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Book Award. Young’s latest compendium, Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995–2015, draws from all nine of his previous collections and includes new poems as well.

16 DMA.org/tickets texas bound distinguished writers DMA.org/tickets 17 Quirks, Tragedy & Comedy, & Transcendence Creativity hanya yanagihara in conversation with Krys Boyd

saturday, march 19, 7:30 p.m. tuesday, march 22, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium horchow auditorium

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One of the most talked about books of the year and winner of the 2015 For nine seasons, Rainn Wilson made his name playing obnoxious Dwight Kirkus Prize for Fiction, Hanya Yanagihara’s novel A Little Life follows four Schrute, everyone’s favorite work nemesis and beet farmer, on the hit televi- college friends living in New York as young adults: Malcolm is an architect; sion series The Office. Now, he’s ready to explain how he came up with his Willem an actor; JB a painter; and the fourth, Jude, is a litigator with a dark, unique sense of humor and share his socially awkward climb to stardom in painful past that remains a secret to those who love him. Despite enormous his memoir, The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy. professional success and strong personal relationships, Jude can’t shake Wilson describes how he grew up “bone-numbingly nerdy before there was the destructive self-loathing endemic to his childhood abandonment and even a modicum of cool attached to the word.” He also charts his years of mild abuse. Tackling the issues of depression, sexual abuse, and self-harm, debauchery as a young actor in New York, his many adventures and insights Yanagihara examines the ways that friends can help remake a life that has about The Office, and finally, his achievement of success and satisfaction, both been destroyed, and the limits to their influence. Insightful, devastating, in his career and spiritually by reconnecting with the artistic and creative and hopeful, A Little Life pushes the limits of human cruelty while examining values of the Bahá’í faith of his childhood. the restorative power of love.

Long celebrated for his quirky comedic talent, Wilson is also known for A National Book Award Finalist, A Little Life also garnered a spot on the 2015 being a co-creator of the popular philosophy website and media company Man Booker Prize Short-List for Fiction. Her first novel, The People in the Trees, SoulPancake.com, which went on to become the bestselling book SoulPancake: was shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Chew on Life’s Big Questions. Among many of the site’s accomplishments, Soul- “Yanagihara’s immense new book, A Little Life, announces her . . . as a major Pancake discovered and nurtured the Internet phenomenon “Kid President.” American novelist. Here is an epic study of trauma and friendship written with such “As if the bassoon, xylophone and science fiction obsession wasn’t enough, I then took up intelligence and depth of perception that it will be one of the benchmarks against which an interest in chess. It’s as if the sirens of dweebdom lured me inexorably into their pimply all other novels that broach those subjects (and they are legion) will be measured.” lair, from which I never really returned.” —from The Bassoon King —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal

18 DMA.org/tickets wit & wisdom distinguished writers DMA.org/tickets 19 A Fatal Dutch Voyage Masters & Deceit erik larson thursday, march 31, 7:30 p.m. dominic smith first united methodist church tuesday, april 5, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium

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Erik Larson returns with the enthralling story of the sinking of the British ocean-liner RMS Lusitania. The publication of Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania coincides with the 100th anniversary of the fatal event that re- In Dominic Smith’s spellbinding new novel, The Last Painting of Sara De Vos, sulted in the deaths of more than one thousand passengers and crew. Larson one 17th-century painting changes the course of three lives: the woman renders a thrilling account of the Lusitania and a German U-boat making their who paints it, the lawyer who inherits it, and the art history student who way toward Liverpool, and the array of forces—hubris, a chance fog, a closely forges it. This event serves as the launch party for the novel. guarded secret, and more—that all converged to produce one of the great In 1631, Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master disasters of history. Switching between the hunter and the hunted, Larson painter to the Guild of St. Luke in Holland. Strict rules at the time allowed captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster that strongly women to paint only still lifes, never landscapes. And yet, three hundred influenced America’s eventual declaration of war two years later in 1917. years later, her only known remaining work is a landscape. It hangs in the

Larson is the author of five New York Times bestsellers; The Devil in the White City bedroom of a wealthy Manhattanite, a descendant of the original owner. stayed on the Times’ hardcover and paperback lists for a combined total of over In Brooklyn, an Australian graduate student struggling to stay afloat agrees five years and was a National Book Award finalist. In the Garden of Beasts, Thun- to paint a forgery of the landscape for a dicey art dealer. This decision will derstruck, and Isaac’s Storm have also graced the bestseller list, and Dead Wake: shape her life and one day threaten to unravel it entirely. Half a century The Last Crossing of the Lusitania hit #1 on the list soon after its launch. later, she’s a prominent curator, mounting an exhibition—and both ver- sions of the landscape are en route to her museum. “In his gripping new examination of the last days of what was then the fastest cruise ship in the world, Larson brings the past stingingly alive. . . . He draws upon telegrams, war Author Ben Fountain praised it, saying it is “quite simply, one of the best logs, love letters, and survivor depositions to provide the intriguing details, things I didn’t novels I have ever read, and as close to perfect as any book I’m likely to know I wanted to know. . . . Thrilling, dramatic and powerful.” —NPR encounter in my reading life.” Ben Fountain and DMA Chief Conservator Mark Leonard will join Smith on-stage in conversation. The author of three Before the event: Enjoy dinner in the DMA Cafe featuring a menu actually previous novels and the recipient of Dobie Paisano and Michener fellow- served on the Lusitania. ships, Dominic Smith grew up in Australia and now lives in Austin.

20 DMA.org/tickets distinguished writers artful musings DMA.org/tickets 21 Food & Guts Family & Glory padma lakshmi daniel james friday, april 8, 7:30 p.m. brown first united methodist church tuesday, april 12, 7:30 p.m. first united methodist church

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Long before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television set, she learned Author David Laskin says of Daniel ’s The Boys in the Boat, “I really that how we eat is an extension of how we love, how we comfort, how we can’t rave enough about this book . . . dazzling . . . novelistic . . . cinematic. forge a sense of home, and how we taste the world as we navigate our way I read the last fifty pages with white knuckles, and the last twenty-five with through it. Shuttling between continents as a child, she lived a life of disloca- tears in my eyes. History, sports, human interest, weather, suspense, design, tion, never quite at home in the world. And yet, through all her travels, her physics, oppression and inspiration. . . . This isChariots of Fire with oars.” favorite food remained the simple rice she first ate sitting on the cool floor of This longtime #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2014 her grandmother’s kitchen in South India. A vivid memoir of food and family, Nonfiction Book of the Year by the American Booksellers Association survival and triumph, that is punctuated with recipes, Love, Loss, and What We chronicles the journey of the 1936 University of Washington men’s crew Ate traces Lakshmi’s extraordinary journey from that humble kitchen to the team, who beat their California rivals, defeated the Ivy League’s top oarsmen, judges’ table of Top Chef and beyond. It’s a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl’s and ultimately stunned the world and upstaged Hitler at the Berlin Olympics. Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron’s Heartburn. Against the grim backdrop of the Great Depression, these nine boys— sons Padma Lakshmi is the host of the Emmy Award–winning, top-rated Bravo of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers—reaffirmed the American notion series Top Chef and the author of two cookbooks: the award-winning Easy Exotic that merit, in the end, trumps birthright. This is a heartwarming story of and Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet. She is the first internationally successful Indian one young man in particular. Abandoned by his family at an early age, Joe supermodel and has walked the runway for designers Ralph Lauren, Emanuel Rantz rows not just for glory, but to regain his shattered self-image, to regain Ungaro, and Roberto Cavalli. his trust in others, and to find his way back to a place he can call home.

6:00 p.m. Enjoy a special dinner with Padma Lakshmi in the Founders Room This is the ultimate underdog story that appeals to everyone. A young reader’s inspired by her favorite recipes and the DMA’s global collection. Limited VIP edition for ages 10 and older was released in fall 2015; this is a story that de- tickets include a three-course dinner with wine, ticket, and hardcover book. serves sharing with the next generation. Public: $165; Member: $130

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America’s Belly First Serial Laughs Killer david sedaris wednesday, april 27, 7:30 p.m. skip thursday, april 28, 7:30 p.m. hollandsworth friday, april 29, 7:30 p.m. dallas city performance hall tuesday, april 19, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Ticket Prices $32–$75 depending on seat location

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Beloved satirist David Sedaris returns to Dallas for the seventh consecutive year to read new and unpublished material, imparting his incisive social Skip Hollandsworth, award-winning journalist, executive editor for Texas critiques and sharing his sardonic wit with his devoted fans. Hailed as the Monthly, and screenwriter of the acclaimed filmBernie , can now add author to “rock star of writers,” Sedaris has become one of America’s preeminent humor his impressive resume. This event celebrates the release of his first book, writers, with bestselling books such as Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice, as well as The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer. collections of personal essays, including Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Set in 1884, when Austin was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated west- Family in Corduroy and Denim, and When You Are Engulfed in Flames. The audio version ern outpost into a true cosmopolitan metropolis, the book follows a vicious of Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls was a 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominee killer who stalked the streets of the city for an entire year, striking on moonlit for Best Spoken Word Album. Sedaris’s pieces appear regularly in the New nights and attacking women from every race and class. Before it was all over, Yorker and on the public radio show This American Life, and have twice been in- the crimes would expose what a newspaper called “the most extensive cluded in The Best American Essays. Seven million copies of his books are in print, and profound scandal ever known in Austin.” Hampton Sides says, “Skip and they have been translated into twenty-nine languages. Fans eagerly Hollandsworth has a bloodhound’s nose for a great tale.” The Midnight Assassin await the publication of his next book, slated for summer 2017, a collection of is a scrupulously researched, riveting depiction of one of the most chilling his diary entries entitled Theft by Finding. and little-known events in Texas history. David and his sister Amy Sedaris have collaborated under the name “The “Skip Hollandsworth is not just a Lone Star treasure, but a national treasure. . . . Whether Talent Family” to write half-a-dozen plays, which have been produced at La you love true crime, history, or Texana, The Midnight Assassin is bursting at the Mama, Lincoln Center, and The Drama Department in . seams with everything you want in a great book; a spellbinding mix of mystery, horror and “Compared to Twain and Hawthorne, David Sedaris has become one of the best-loved humor- historical detective work.” —Bryan Burrough ists of our time, writing with perfect pitch about the ludicrousness of our age.” —The New Yorker

24 DMA.org/tickets special event wit & wisdom DMA.org/tickets 25 Purpose Creative & Passion Living dave isay elizabeth in conversation with Krys Boyd gilbert tuesday, may 3, 7:30 p.m. tuesday, may 10, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium charles w. eisemann center

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StoryCorps founder Dave Isay’s latest book, Callings: The Purpose and Passion of In Elizabeth Gilbert’s #1 New York Times bestseller Big Magic, she digs deep into Work, presents unforgettable stories from people doing what they love. Some her own generative process to share wisdom and a unique perspective about are paid well for their work, others not at all; some found their paths at a very creativity. With empathy and generosity, she offers potent insights into the young age, others later in life; many overcame great odds or upturned their mysterious nature of inspiration, illustrating how to embrace curiosity and lives in order to pursue what matters to them. In Isay’s book, we meet a man how to tackle what we most love while facing down what we most fear. She from the barrios of Texas whose harrowing experiences in a family of migrant discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits needed in order to live a cre- farmers inspired him to become a public defender. We meet a young man on ative life. With soulful spirituality and cheerful pragmatism, Gilbert encour- the South Side of Chicago who became in order to help at-risk teen- ages the discovery of “strange jewels” that are hidden within each person. agers, like the ones who killed his father, get on the right track. We meet a Whether you’re looking to write a book, make art, embark on a dream long woman who volunteers to help former inmates gain the skills and confidence deferred, or simply infuse everyday life with more mindfulness and passion, they need to rejoin the workforce. Together these stories demonstrate how Big Magic cracks open a world of wonder and joy. work can be about much more than just making a living. An essential contri- Gilbert is the bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and has been a finalist for the bution to the beloved StoryCorps collection, Callings is an inspiring tribute to PEN/Hemingway Award, the National Book Award, and the National Book rewarding work and the American pursuit of happiness. Critics Circle Award. Her novel, The Signature of All Things, was named a Best Dave Isay is the recipient of six Peabody Awards, a MacArthur “Genius” Book of 2013 by the New York Times, O Magazine, and the New Yorker. Fellowship, and the 2015 TED Prize. He is the author-editor of numerous “Elizabeth Gilbert is my new spirit animal. . . . I have profoundly changed my approach to books that grew out of his public radio documentary work, including four creating since I read this book.” —Huffington Post StoryCorps books that are all New York Times bestsellers.

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tuesday, may 17, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Ticket Prices Public: $20 Member: $15 Student: $10 Ticket Prices Public: $35 Promotional Partner: Member: $30 DaVerse Lounge – A Big Thought and Student: $15 Journeyman Ink Program

While researching a character for her bestselling book The Drunken Botanist, Award-winning poet and performer Kate Tempest’s electrifying debut novel, Amy Stewart discovered a story that had been lost to time. In 1915, a man The Bricks That Built the Houses, takes us into the beating heart of London in a named Henry Kaufman ran his car into a horse-drawn carriage driven by multi-generational tale of youth, desire, and belonging. Young Londoners three sisters: Constance, Norma, and Fleurette Kopp. They got into a con- Becky, Harry, and Leon are leaving the city in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina flict over payment for the damages, and it escalated from there. The sisters with a suitcase full of money. They are also leaving behind Pete, Becky’s boy- received kidnapping threats, shots were fired at their house, and they were friend, at his surprise birthday party. Moving back in time, the novel explores generally tormented for almost a year. When the sheriff enlists Constance’s a cross-section of contemporary urban life with a powerful moral microscope, help in convicting the men, she is forced to confront her past and defend giving us intimate stories of hidden lives and loves, and showing us that good her family—and she does it in a way that few women of that era would intentions don’t always lead to the right decisions. Taking us into the homes have dared. and hearts of ordinary people, their families and their communities, Kate Tempest exposes moments of beauty, disappointment, ambition, and failure. Amy Stewart’s novel Girl Waits with Gun is based on the true story of one of the nation’s first female deputy sheriffs, a story that has largely been forgot- Kate Tempest grew up in southeast London and is widely regarded as the ten until now. It is the first book in a series that will re-tell the entire life UK’s leading spoken word poet. Her long poem Brand New Ancients, conceived story of Constance, including her intelligence work during World War I and as a performance piece, won the Ted Hughes Award for Poetry in 2013. Her the detective agency she started and ran with her sisters. album Everybody Down was shortlisted for the 2014 Mercury Prize, and each track corresponds to a chapter in The Bricks That Built the Houses. Stewart is also the author of six previous works of nonfiction, including four New York Times bestsellers—The Drunken Botanist, Wicked Bugs, Wicked Plants, and “Citing both the poet William Blake and the rapper RZA among her influences, she is Flower Confidential. She and her husband also run an independent bookstore a powerful mix of innocence and experience with a growing, and fervent, following. . . . called Eureka Books in Eureka, California. Ms. Tempest’s work jumps boundaries.” —The New York Times Before the talk: Enjoy Amy Stewart’s cocktail created for Girl Waits with Gun in the Atrium.

28 DMA.org/tickets artful musings special event DMA.org/tickets 29 Colorful Survival of Characters the Kindest drew daywalt dacher keltner sunday, may 22, 3:00 p.m. tuesday, may 31, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium dallas city performance hall

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One day while brainstorming book ideas, Drew Daywalt stared at a box of Dacher Keltner, Professor of Psychology at the University of California at crayons on his desk and couldn’t help but notice how uneven they were. What Berkeley, served as the scientific consultant for the highly acclaimed Pixar would they say if they could say anything they wanted? Blue and red were nubs, film Inside Out. He helped revise the story, emphasizing the neuropsychologi- pink was untouched, peach had had its wrapper torn off. . . . Drew Daywalt cal findings that human emotions are mirrored in interpersonal relationships gave voice to these crayons in the New York Times bestseller The Day the Crayons Quit. and can be significantly moderated by them. At this event, he will highlight And now the highly anticipated sequel, The Day the Crayons Came Home, presents key insights from that science and how they play out in the film, showing a whole new group of crayons. From Maroon Crayon, who was lost beneath film clips as illustrations. He will also focus on five practices that elevate the sofa cushions; to Burnt Sienna, who was chewed up and spit back out by compassion, increasing our well-being and life expectancy. ; to poor Turquoise, whose head is now stuck to a sock after they both Keltner is the author of the bestseller Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful ended up in the dryer together; to Pea Green, who knows darn well that no kid Life and The Compassionate Instinct, as well as the forthcoming book The Power likes peas—in this delightfully quirky sequel, every crayon has a woeful tale to Paradox (May 2016). He has written for the New York Times Magazine, and his tell. research has been covered in Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the New Illustrated by the brilliant Oliver Jeffers, says, “By telling stories York Times, CNN, NPR, and the BBC. He has also collaborated on projects at from the points of view of crayons, giving voices to the small and ignored, Facebook and Google. Daywalt and Jeffers have created two books that offer plenty of charm and fun, Keltner is Director of the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab, and serves as the but also make children feel deeply understood.” Faculty Director of the Berkeley Greater Good Science Center. His research Come early with your family and pick up an Art to Go family tote bag focuses on the biological and evolutionary origins of compassion, awe, love, themed on color. These bags are filled with games, hands-on activities, and and beauty, as well as power, social class, and inequality. conversation starters that can be used in fun ways to explore the galleries. “Dacher Keltner speaks about our emotional lives with scientific precision and in the most fascinating way. Born to Be Good offers us a fact-filled, fun, and enlightening peek into our minds and hearts.” —Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence

30 DMA.org/tickets booksmart wit & wisdom DMA.org/tickets 31 The Power Literary of a Name Super sherman alexie Thrillers saturday, june 4, 11:30 a.m. horchow auditorium justin cronin friday, june 10, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium Ticket Prices Public: $15 Member: $10 Student: $7 Ticket Prices Public: $35 Member: $30 Student: $15

Thunder Boy Jr. is named after his dad, but he wants a name that’s all his own. Just because people call his dad Big Thunder doesn’t mean he wants to be Little Thunder. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he’s done, The first novel in Justin Cronin’s series, The Passage, generated a bidding like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder. war among publishers and became an instant bestseller. Film rights were But just when Thunder Boy Jr. thinks all hope is lost, he and his dad pick the snapped up reportedly for seven figures, and an apocalypse trilogy was born. perfect name . . . a name that is sure to light up the sky. Author Jennifer Egan hailed it as “a wildly headlong, sweeping extravaganza of a novel. . . . a bona fide thriller that is sharply written, deeply human, In Thunder Boy Jr., Sherman Alexie’s lyrical text and Caldecott Honor–winner ablaze with big ideas, and absolutely impossible to put down.” The first two Yuyi Morales’s striking and beautiful illustrations celebrate the special rela- novels in the series, The Passage and The Twelve, depict the fall of civilization and tionship between father and son. humanity’s desperate fight to survive. A National Book Award–winning author, poet, and filmmaker, Alexie has At last, this bestselling series races to its breathtaking finale with The City of been named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists and has been Mirrors (to be released May 24), which begins with quiet calm on the horizon lauded by the Boston Globe as “an important voice in American literature.” He is and challenges the reader to determine if the silence indicates the night- one of the most well known and beloved literary writers of his generation and mare’s end or the second coming of unspeakable darkness. Cronin has said has received numerous awards and citations, including the PEN/Malamud that the themes in the series are those that engage him as a person and a Award for Fiction and the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award. Thunder Boy Jr. is writer—love, sacrifice, friendship, loyalty, and courage. He delves into the his first picture book. bonds between people, especially parents and children, while examining the 2:30 p.m. Teen writing workshop (ages 12–18) led by Sherman Alexie using pull of history, and the power of place and landscape to shape experience. works of art as inspiration: $15. Advance reservations strongly recommended Cronin has won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Stephen Crane Prize, and as space is limited. the Whiting Writer’s Award, and received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Cronin earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is now a Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Rice University.

32 DMA.org/tickets booksmart special event DMA.org/tickets 33 Rescue to Hope & Art Redemption After the Apocalypse vinh chung monday, june 20, 7:30 p.m. horchow auditorium emily st. john mandel friday, june 24, 7:30 p.m. Ticket Prices Public: $35 horchow auditorium Member: $30 Student: $15

In honor of World Refugee Awareness Day Ticket Prices Public: $35 Member: $30 Student: $15 Vinh Chung’s powerful and poignant memoir Where the Wind Leads has gar- nered more than 250 five-star reviews on Amazon.com. He opens with: “This is a story that spans two continents, ten decades, and eleven thousand miles. When I was three

and a half years old, my family was forced to flee Vietnam. . . . Several weeks later my family lay Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling novel Station Eleven centers on a Holly- half-dead from dehydration in a derelict fishing boat jammed with ninety-three refugees lost in wood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors and musicians the middle of the South China Sea. We arrived in the United States with nothing but the clothes roaming a post-apocalyptic North America in the aftermath of a flu pandemic. on our backs and unable to speak a single word of English. Today my family holds twenty-one Nostalgic for their world “before the collapse,” the Traveling Symphony moves university degrees. How we got from there to here is quite a story.” in horse-drawn wagons from town to town and risks everything for the sake Thai pirates attacked the Chungs’ boat twice, but then a World Vision mercy of preserving art and humanity, striving to live honorably in a damaged ship stumbled across their boat and rescued them. His family eventually relo- world. One of the Symphony musicians explains that they perform mostly cated to Fort Smith, Arkansas, where they faced poverty, ethnic discrimina- Shakespeare plays for the few remaining survivors because “people want tion, and an almost insurmountable language barrier. From one dream and what was best about the world.”

a series of providential encounters, to a life of perseverance, sacrifice, and A 2014 National Book Award Finalist, Station Eleven contemplates ambition, a new faith in God, Chung excelled and eventually graduated from Harvard the power of memory, and the relationships that sustain us, as well as the Medical School. He and his wife, Leisle, currently run a successful dermatol- fleeting nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it. Mandel’s ogy practice and have four children. Where the Wind Leads is Chung’s tribute to dazzling and suspenseful novel spans decades, vividly portraying life before the courage and sacrifice of his parents, a testimony to his family’s faith, and after the pandemic. Equal parts mystery novel and post-apocalyptic tale, and a reminder to people everywhere that the American dream, while still the characters’ passionate pursuit of preserving art and humanity infuses the possible, carries with it a greater responsibility. All author royalties from story with hope. book sales support World Vision’s relief efforts. “A superb novel . . . [that] leaves us not fearful for the end of the world but appreciative of the grace of everyday existence.” —San Francisco Chronicle

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