Portland Arts & Lectures 2011/12 Season!
This year’s writers are among the most influential at work in the English language. They are novelists, biographers, and journalists who have won the most prestigious awards in their profession: the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships and more. Each of the speakers adds something unique to the series: a startling point of view, a unique experience, an arresting imagination, or a hilarious way of looking at the world.
Portland Arts & Lectures is sold by subscription only. The remaining THREE lectures include: Sebastian Junger, Abraham Verghese, & Chimamanda Adichie.
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Annie Proulx – PAST EVENT
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and possibly the most important chronicler of the
modern American West, she is the author of eight critically acclaimed books,
including The Shipping News and the memoir Bird Cloud. Proulx’s story “Brokeback Mountain” was adapted as an Academy Award-winning movie. Read more here.
Stacy Schiff – PAST EVENT
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), she also wrote the best-selling Cleopatra. Michael Korda wrote in The Daily Beast, “Stacy Schiff has managed to create a masterpiece: both a hugely readable portrait of a fascinating, unscrupulous and powerful woman, and a brilliant explanation of the politics that lay behind her actions.” Read more here.
Sebastian Junger
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
Journalist and filmmaker, his books include A Perfect Storm and War. Junger’s
documentary Restrepo is about a forward operating Marine base in Afghanistan; it was an Academy Award nominee and the Sundance Film Festival called it “one of the most experiential and visceral war films you’ll ever see.” Read more here.
Abraham Verghese
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
Best-selling author of the novel Cutting for Stone and the nonfiction books My Own Country and The Tennis Partner, which was a New York Times notable book, Verghese is an acclaimed physician and professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Read more here.
Chimamanda Adichie
Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
Named this year by The New Yorker as one of the 20 best writers under 40, Adichie’s books include Half of a Yellow Sun, Purple Hibiscus and The Thing Around Your Neck. In 2008 the MacArthur Foundation awarded her their acclaimed “Genius Grant,” saying, “Adichie’s powerful rendering of the Nigerian experience is enlightening audiences both in her homeland and around the world.” Read more here.
Q&A With A Few of Next Year’s Speakers
You’ve seen this year’s lineup. Now, take a little time to get to know a few of the speakers. CLICK HERE to read some short Q&As with Sebastian Junger, Stacy Schiff and Annie Proulx.
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