Our THREE remaining speakers this season include CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, RUTH REICHL, and EDWIDGE DANTICAT.

Subscription packages to the 2009-2010 season have SOLD OUT.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS – SOLD OUT
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Christopher Hitchens is an outspoken and controversial journalist and literary critic. His most recent book, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2008), was called “a provocative, challenging, and passionate work.” His books include the bestseller No One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family (1999), The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (1997), and Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001). His work has appeared in Vanity Fair and The Nation, and The Village Literary Supplement has said, “Christopher Hitchens has no equal in American journalism.” more

RUTH REICHL – limited seating still available at Ticketmaster
Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. NEW DATE
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Reichl is a long time editor-in-chief of Gourmet Magazine and the former food critic for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. She is also the author of three critically acclaimed memoirs, including Tender at the Bone, Garlic and Sapphires, and most recently, Not Becoming My Mother. Reichl believes food tells us a great deal about ourselves and our society. The Los Angeles Times has written, “Ruth Reichl is a commanding and daunting figure in American culture.” more

EDWIDGE DANTICAT – limited seating still available at Ticketmaster
Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Danticat is considered one of the most accomplished young writers at work in the United States today. Her novels include Breath, Eyes, Memory, and The Dew Breaker, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Her most recent book, the memoir Brother, I’m Dying, won the National Book Critics Circle Awards for Autobiography. Her work explores the wonder, terror and heartache of her native Haiti, and her family’s multigenerational saga of exile and immigration, an American story both old and new. more

PAST EVENTS FROM THE 2009-2010 SEASON INCLUDE:

WALLY LAMB – Event Date Past
Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Wally Lamb is a best-selling novelist. His first two novels, She’s Come Undone (1997) and I Know This Much is True (1998), sold over six million copies. His third novel, The Hour I First Believed (2008) focuses on “among other themes” the Columbine School shooting. The New York Times has called him, “a modern-day Dostoevsky with a pop sensibility.” more

LYDIA DAVIS Event Date Past
Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Single event tickets are available to Lydia Davis! Click here for single event tickets to Lydia Davis’s event.

Lydia Davis is a fiction writer, poet, and translator. She is an innovator of the short story form and her most recent collection, Varieties of Disturbances (2007), was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is also well known as a translator of many works of French literature, including Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust (2003), which received the French-American Foundation Annual Translation Prize. The Los Angeles Times has said, “Lydia Davis is one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction.” more