I finally made it to one of the 2006-2007 season events for the Seattle Arts & Lectures series. Tonight Edwidge Danticat was the featured author. Unlike the other authors I saw last season, she didn't do a prepared talk, but was instead interviewed on stage. The interview questions were the fairly typical sorts of questions: How did achieving success at writing at such a young age affect you? Do you write also in French or just English? and etc. Danticat was a much less polished speaker than the authors who I saw last year (especially Simon Winchester and Alexander McCall Smith), but I'm interested to read some of her books now. I picked up Krik? Krak! on Saturday in preparation but haven't started it yet.
posted by Kristin Buxton at 10:15 PM