Alexis Nikole Nelson, Emily St. John Mandel, Ke Huy Quan and George Saunders are the featured speakers for September’s Seattle Arts & Lectures Series.
Virtual attendance at these livestreamed events is FREE for Lopez Library Card Holders, thanks to the financial support of the Friends of the Lopez Library. You must have a valid library card to register.
Monday, September 14: Alexis Nikole Nelson
Register HERE by September 11
The internet’s favorite forager is coming to a stage near you. Join Alexis Nikole Nelson—known to millions as Black Forager—for a joyful, wildly informative conversation about her debut book Happy Snacking, Don’t Die!, and the wild foods growing in your own backyard.
Tuesday, September 22: Emily St. Jon Mandel
Register HERE by September 19
The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with Exit Party, a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman—a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State—searches for answers.
Thursday, September 24: Ke Huy Quan
Register HERE by September 21
In this stunning and compulsively readable memoir, Never Say Die, the Oscar-winning star of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Goonies, and Everything Everywhere All at Once tells the story of his journey from Vietnamese refugee to 80s child star to the most inspiring comeback in Hollywood history.
Monday, September 28: George Saunders
Register HERE by September 25
An electric, new novel, Vigil, from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO, in the twilight hours of his life, as he is ferried from this world into the next.