This virtual event is available for ticket holders to replay for one week
SUMMARY
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UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Ann Patchett
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in Conversation with Lily King, Author of Writers & Lovers
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Patchett is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including England’s Orange Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship
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Patchett opened Parnassus Books in 2011 and has been named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World
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This conversation with Lily King, author of The New York Times Book Club pick Writers & Lovers, will be followed by a Q&A
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Part of UCSB Arts & Lectures’ Winter 2021 House Calls series
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Ticket holders will be able to replay this event for one week
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Sun., March 7 / 11 a.m. Pacific / Virtual
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$10 General Public and FREE for UCSB Students (registration required)
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Tickets/Info: (805) 893-3535, www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
“Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett’s fiction.”
The New York Times
UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Ann Patchett in Conversation with Lily King, Author of Writers & Loverson Sun., March 7 at 11 a.m. Pacific. Patchett is a celebrated author, devoted reader and a champion of literary culture. She has written 13 books and has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including England’s Orange Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Patchett opened Parnassus Books in 2011 and has been named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World for her efforts on behalf of independent booksellers, books and bookstores. Patchett’s most recent novel, The Dutch House, was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. She’ll join the conversation from “the happiest place in Nashville” (The New York Times), Parnassus Books.
This conversation with Lily King, author of The New York Times Book Club pick Writers & Lovers, will be followed by a Q&A.
This virtual event is a part of UCSB Arts & Lectures’ Winter 2021 House Calls series.
ABOUT
ANN PATCHETT
In 2011, when the last of Nashville’s bookstores had been shuttered, author and literary champion Ann Patchett declared “I have no interest in living in a city without a bookstore.” And so, in November of that year she opened Parnassus Books and has since become a spokesperson for independent booksellers. In 2012, TIME named Patchett one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World for her efforts on behalf of the literary community. On the occasion of that event, novelist Elizabeth Gilbert described Patchett as “a woman of wisdom, determination, generosity and courage.”
Patchett published her first story in The Paris Review while still a student at Sarah Lawrence College. Her novel, Bel Canto, was awarded the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. The world-renowned Lyric Opera Company of Chicago commissioned a production based on the novel that The Chicago Tribune called “a thought-provoking production worthy of a world-class opera company.” In 2016, Patchett released her seventh novel, Commonwealth. It was selected as a New York Times Best Book of the Year, a TIME Magazine Top 10 Selection and was a NBCC Award Finalist. In 2019, she published her first children’s book, Lambslide, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. Her newest novel, The Dutch House, was also released in 2019 and received high praise. NPR writes, “…you won’t want to put down this engrossing, warmhearted book even after you’ve read the last page.”
There’s a pink brick home in Nashville, Tennessee with a wide porch surrounded by old trees. It’s Ann Patchett’s favorite place and it’s where she lives with her husband Karl, their dog Sparky and lots of books.
LILY KING
Lily King is the award-winning author of five novels. Her most recent novel, Writers & Lovers, was published on March 3rd, 2020. Her 2014 novel Euphoria won the Kirkus Award, The New England Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award. Euphoria was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by The New York Times Book Review. It was included in TIME’s Top 10 Fiction Books of 2014, as well as on Amazon, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly and Salon’s Best Books of 2014. The New York Times Book Review called Euphoria, “a taut, witty, fiercely intelligent tale of competing egos and desires in a landscape of exotic menace.” It has been optioned by the BBC as a limited series.
King grew up in Massachusetts and received her B.A. in English Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her M.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. After grad school she took a job as a high school English teacher in Valencia, Spain and began writing her first novel. Eight years, ten more moves all over the U.S., and many bookstore, restaurant and teaching jobs later, that novel was published as The Pleasing Hour in 1999, which was a New York Times Notable Book and an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award. It was followed by The English Teacher (2005), a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, and Father of the Rain (2010), winner of both the New England Book Award for Fiction and the Maine Fiction Award.
HOUSE CALLS
House Calls: delivers performance, conversation, thoughtful analysis and witty commentary streaming right to your living room. Featuring the creative thinkers and doers that you’ve come to expect on the A&L stage – environmentalists, musicians, novelists, chefs, humanitarians, Grammy winners and more – most programs are 60-minutes, combining what our guests excel at with an informal talk back session and other elements that would rarely happen on stage. It’s better than front row seats!
UCSB ARTS & LECTURES
Founded in 1959, UCSB Arts & Lectures is the largest and most influential arts and lectures organization between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Arts & Lectures annually presents more than a hundred events, from critically acclaimed concerts and dance performances by world-renowned artists to talks by groundbreaking authors and film series at UCSB and Santa Barbara-area venues. With a mission to “educate, entertain and inspire,” A&L also oversees an outreach program that brings visiting artists and speakers into local classrooms and other venues for master classes, open rehearsals, discussions and more, serving K-12 students, college students and the general public.
Ann Patchett in Conversation with Lily King is presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures. Part of the House Calls series.
House Calls Media Sponsors: Santa Barbara Independent, KCRW, Voice Magazine, Noozhawk.
Most House Calls events are hour-long programs. This conversation with Lily King, author of The New York Times Book Club pick Writers & Lovers, will be followed by a Q&A.
Tickets are $10 for the general public and FREE for UCSB students (registration required).
For tickets and more information, call UCSB Arts & Lectures at (805) 893-3535 or visitwww.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.
UCSB Arts & Lectures gratefully acknowledges our Community Partners the Natalie Orfalea Foundation & Lou Buglioli for their generous support of the 2020-2021 season.
