Past Events
Past Events
An Evening with Hal Holbrook in conversation with Robert Patrick
For 50 years, acclaimed actor Hal Holbrook has vividly brought characters to life on the stage and screen (Mark Twain, All the President’s Men, Wall Street, Into the Wild). Join us as he discusses his memoir, Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain with Robert Patrick.
Ann Patchett in conversation with Maile Meloy
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett returns with a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest. Infusing the narrative with the same ingenuity and emotional urgency that pervaded her acclaimed previous novels. Patchett delivers an enthrallingly innovative tale of aspiration, exploration, and attachment in State of Wonder—a gripping adventure story and a profound look at the difficult choices we make in the name of discovery and love.
Bob Neuwirth in conversation with David Felton
“All art is visual for me, whether I’m painting or trying to write a good song,” says Bob Neuwirth who joins us for this special event in conjunction with a retrospective of his work at Track 16 Gallery. He will be in conversation with David Felton, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and writer.
An Evening of 1000 Voices with Billy West(Futurama) and Tom Kenny(SpongeBob)
An Evening of 1000 Voices with Billy West (Futurama) and Tom Kenny (Sponge Bob)
An Evening with Sandra Cisneros in conversation with Cheech Marin
“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
An Evening with Tina Fey in conversation with Steve Martin
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!
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