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“I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.” — Sandra Cisneros Two of America’s funniest actors and humorists take the stage in downtown Los Angeles for a rare joint appearance. Both are winners of the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American humor named to honor America’s — and the world’s — greatest humorists. Martin interviews Fey on her new book, Bossypants. This will be funny, we promise!Past Events
An Evening with T.C. Boyle
‘One of the most inventive and verbally exuberant writers of his generation.” — New York Times
”Boyle is a marvel at descriptive prose.” — Washington Post Book World
”Boyle may be the most entertaining writer in America.” –Boston Globe
Anne Rice in conversation with Christopher Rice
On writing, my advice is the same to all. If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write…..Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write the book you have been trying to find but have not found. But write.” – Anne Rice
An Evening with Roger McGuinn
“Everybody knows who the Byrds are, right? They are the rock and roll group that more or less provided our answer to the Beatles back when an American answer to the Beatles was necessary, and they were the group that introduced folk-rock, … and they were the testing grounds for so many of today’s top musicians, and they are the ones who started off the country craze. And, well, they’re Roger McGuinn, mostly.” — Rolling Stone Magazine
Simon Winchester in conversation with Patt Morrison
Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and lore, Simon Winchester, the New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa, The Professor and the Madman and The Man Who Loved China delivers a magisterial saga of the Atlantic Ocean and humankind’s evolving relationship with it
Lewis Black in conversation with Craig Ferguson
For most people, Christmas is a time of peace and goodwill. But most people are not Lewis Black. Black says Humbug! to carols, holiday dinners, Christmas trees, decked halls, and boughs of holly. In I’m Dreaming of a Black Christmas, he dares to celebrate the holiday season the only way he knows how: by letting loose on all things Yule.
Sir Michael Caine in conversation with Sharon Waxman
“There aren’t many actors whose career has spanned nearly fifty years of movie-making – from Zulu to The Dark Knight – and there aren’t many actors who have had Happy Birthday sung huskily and Marilyn-like into their ear by both Carly Simon and Scarlett Johansson, twenty years apart.” – Michael Caine
P.J. O’Rourke in conversation with Judy Muller
“You can remove morality from politics like you can remove the head from a chicken, and they’ll both keep going—politics much longer than the chicken.” —P.J. O’Rourke
Ken Follett in conversation with Karen Grigsby Bates
Ken Follett returns to the epic form with a historical trilogy that is his most ambitious and provocative work to date: FALL OF GIANTS: Book One of The Century Trilogy.