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Location: Horchow Auditorium
Edgar-nominated writer Kathleen Kent presents Black Wolf, a Russian spy thriller about a female CIA agent whose extraordinary powers of facial recognition lead her into the dangerous heart of the Soviet Union. Based in part on Kent’s experiences as a US Department of Defense contractor, Black Wolf probes the divide between two nations and a woman pushed to her breaking point. David McCloskey, author of the spy thriller Damascus Station, is a former CIA officer.
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In conversation with Ben Fountain
I Have Some Questions for You by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Rebecca Makkai is both a transfixing mystery and a deeply felt examination of one woman's reckoning with her past. When successful film professor and podcaster Bodie Kane's alma mater invites her back to teach a two-week course, she finds herself inexorably drawn to a case involving the 1995 murder of a classmate and its increasingly apparent flaws.
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Location: McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall at Southern Methodist University
FREE EVENT: Advanced registration is strongly encouraged.
Join Arts & Letters Live and the Dallas Literary Festival for a free event featuring a panel discussion and book signing with authors Deborah Crombie, Brendan Slocumb, and Rosalyn Story.
New York Times bestseller Deborah Crombie returns with a new novel, The Killing of Innocents, featuring Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James as they race to solve the shocking murder of a young woman before panic spreads across London.
Brendan Slocumb’s novel, The Violin Conspiracy, A Good Morning America GMA Book Club Pick, tells the story of Ray McMillian, a Black classical musician on the rise—undeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music world—when a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world.
Sing Her Name follows two musically gifted women whose lives overlap across the boundaries of time. This third novel by Rosalyn Story, whose critically acclaimed books address the central role of Black people in American music, is her best and most rewarding yet.
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Location: Horchow Auditorium
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune has been described as A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place. Klune’s signature warmth, humor, and empathy is on full display in this moving story about a man who discovers the joys of living after he is dead. Klune is the Lambda Award–winning author of numerous books, including the New York Times bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea.
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Adam Gopnik, three-time National Magazine Award–winning critic of art, food, France, and more, recently became obsessed with wondering how the people he was writing about learned their outlandish skill, whether it was drawing a nude or baking a sourdough loaf. In The Real Work, Gopnik apprentices himself to an artist, a dancer, a boxer, and even a driving instructor, to try his hand at things he assumed were beyond him.
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Location: Horchow Auditorium
“One of the most compulsive and captivating novels in recent memory” (The Washington Post), The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab follows the eponymous lead, born in 18th-century France, who makes a Faustian bargain to live forever—and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. She traverses continents, centuries, and moments in history and art as a woman striving to make her mark, but whom no one remembers.
Books purchased as part of an optional ticket/book bundle can be picked up the night of the event.
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Location: McFarlin Auditorium, SMU
Promotional Partner: KERA
Master of satire David Sedaris returns for the 12th year to read new and unpublished material. Sedaris is beloved for his personal essays and short stories, with more than 16 million copies of his books in print, including A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003–2020) and his latest collection, Happy-Go-Lucky. In 2020 the New York Public Library voted Me Talk Pretty One Day one of the 125 most important books of the last 125 years.
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author David Grann comes The Wager, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. With the twists and turns of a thriller, Grann unearths the deeper meaning of the historical events aboard the Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire. David Grann is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Killers of the Flower Moon, a finalist for the National Book Award, and The Lost City of Z.
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Location: Horchow Auditorium
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese, author of the global sensation Cutting for Stone, is a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine. In this latest masterpiece, Verghese, a renowned Stanford physician and National Humanities recipient, tells the story of India’s path to modernity through a single family living in Kerala from 1900 to the 1970s, moving through joy, tragedy, love, and marriage as the country around them shifts and turns.
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Author of His Only Wife, Peace Adzo Medie’s latest novel, Nightbloom, examines the unbreakable power of female friendship. After two inseparable young friends in Ghana become estranged, only a crisis can bring them back together and reconnect their bond. A riveting depiction of life, class, and family in Ghana, Nightbloom is above all a powerful depiction of the strength of female bonds in the face of societies that would silence them.
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A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Geraldine Brooks braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history in her latest novel, Horse. Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, this riveting tale weaves together art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.