Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures’ 2022/23 roster of critically acclaimed authors for their Ten Evenings mainstage series were announced Monday, May 9th at 7:30 pm live from the Carnegie Music Hall by Executive Director Stephanie Flom.
Said Flom, “Two years of virtual programming brought an incredible response from community members who relayed, loud and clear, their message of the importance of the lectures in their lives and their gratitude for being able to engage virtually. This response has forever changed our approach to our programming platforms. So, while we are over-the-moon with excitement to return to gathering in the Music Hall, we will continue to make virtual participation available. This decision speaks to our core values as an organization. Everyone is welcome to participate!
With a drum roll please… I am honored to announce the slate of extraordinary authors, whose voices will transform our community as they generously share their profound humanity, creativity, and brilliance with us.”
Thursday, September 15, 2022 / Abdulrazak Gurnah / Afterlives
Winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Afterlives is a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa. “A novel, that gathers … those … meant to be forgotten, and refuses their erasure.”
Monday, October 3, 2022 / Anthony Doerr / Cloud Cuckoo Land
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr follows All the Light We Cannot See with Cloud Cuckoo Land—a triumph of imagination and compassion called a “wildly inventive, humane and uplifting book for adults that’s infused with the magic of childhood reading experiences.”
Monday, October 24, 2022 / Candice Millard / Rivers of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
New York Times bestselling historian, Candice Millard, reveals the harrowing exploration of the Nile River and its complicated legacy. Rivers of the Gods is a peerless adventure story, set against the backdrop of the colonialist powers’ race to exploit the African continent.
Monday, November 7, 2022 / Clint Smith / How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
National Book Critics Circle Award-winner, #1 New York Times bestseller, and Ten Best Books of 2021 list maker, Clint Smith examines the legacy of slavery in America and how history and memory shape our lives in his landmark work of scholarship brought to life through story.
Monday, December 12, 2022 / Patrick Radden Keefe / Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
Prize-winning New Yorker journalist and bestselling author of Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe, provides meticulously reported, hypnotically engaging profiles on the many ways people behave badly—a deeply human portrait of the complexities of crime and corruption.
Monday, February 20, 2023 / Patricia Lockwood / No One Is Talking About This
From the singular voice of Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This is a Booker Prize finalist and a NYTimes Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2021—a love letter to the endless scroll of social media and a profound, modern meditation on love, language, and human connection.
Monday, March 13, 2023 / Ruth Ozeki / The Book of Form and Emptiness
Booker Prize-finalist Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. With its blend of sympathetic characters, riveting plot, and vibrant engaging subjects, her brilliantly inventive The Book of Form and Emptiness is bold, wise, poignant, playful, humane, and heartbreaking.
Monday, March 27, 2023 / Joy Harjo / Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light is a selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s fifty years as a poet. She is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the author of nine poetry collections and two memoirs, most recently Poet Warrior.
Monday, April 17, 2023 / Hanif Abdurraqib / A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib is an award-winning poet, essayist, and cultural critic. A Little Devil in America, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and a National Book Award finalist, is a sweeping “masterpiece” exploring Black art, music, and culture in all their glory and complexity.
Monday, May 8, 2023 / Hanya Yanagihara / To Paradise
Hanya Yanagihara follows her critically-acclaimed A Little Life with the #1 New York Times bestseller To Paradise, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment. “A Tour de force that changes the novel landscape.”
All programs will be presented in person and livestreamed at 7:30 pm in Oakland’s historic Carnegie Music Hall. Audience members will have access to the recorded livestreamed lecture for one week following the event.
For information about subscriptions and single tickets, visit pittsburghlectures.org or email info@pittsburghlectures.org.
The mission of Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures is to connect celebrated authors with the community, elevate civic discourse, and inspire creativity and a passion for the literary arts. Our commitment to knowledge, learning, integrity, and artistic excellence guides and informs our work. We endeavor to inspire members of diverse communities by providing opportunities to experience authors who speak on issues that reflect our values such as justice, compassion, civic responsibility, acceptance, courage, and equity.
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