Événement

Elizabeth Strout in conversation with Scott Hutchins

Presented by Kepler's Literary Foundation

Thursday, May 11, 2017
7:30pm - Seating Area opens at 6:30pm
Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025

ONLINE SALES HAVE ENDED. TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR!

As I was writing My Name Is Lucy Barton, it came to me that all the characters Lucy and her mother talked about had their own stories of course! and so the unfolding of their lives became tremendously important to me. --Elizabeth Strout

Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout presents: "Anything is Possible." A latticework of fiction, drawing on the small-town characters evoked in her critically-acclaimed novel My Name is Lucy Barton, this new collection shows Strout at her most inventive yet. Don't miss one of the great storytellers of our time as she discusses her work and the lives of her all-too-real characters.

Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of "Olive Kitteridge," the #1 New York Times bestseller "My Name Is Lucy Barton," and "The Burgess Boys," She has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. Elizabeth Strout lives in New York City.

Strout will be joined in conversation by Scott Hutchins.
Hutchins is a former Truman Capote fellow in the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford University. His work has appeared in StoryQuarterly, Catamaran, Five Chapters, The Owls, The Rumpus, The New York Times, San Francisco Magazine and Esquire, and has been set to improvisational jazz. His novel A Working Theory of Love was a San Francisco Chronicle and Salon Best Book of 2012 and has been translated into nine languages.

Ticket Information:

$40.00 -- Premier: Premier seating area, includes hardcover copy of "Anything Is Possible" and priority in the signing line.

$20.00 -- General: General seating area, no book.

$10.00 -- Student: General seating area, no book; must show student ID.

Note: If you wish to sit together, please purchase tickets in the same seating area.

The book will be available for pickup, and for sale, at the event.