Experience the breadth of today’s literary landscape at the 20th Anniversary Winter Words series. The featured authors will take audience members from the banks of the Colorado River, to New York City’s 1980’s art scene, to 18th century Ghana, and many unexpected places in-between.
January-April 2017
There is perhaps no one more qualified to speak about the transformative power of literature than Azar Nafisi, whose million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, told the story of a teacher’s mission to share the literary classics with students in revolutionary Iran. Her follow-up book, The Republic of Imagination, is a meditation on the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society.