Fresh Ink
New work by acclaimed and emerging writers on Late Nights at the DMA
Amor Towles & Richard Mason, February 17, 7:00 p.m.
Laura Numeroff, March 16, 7:00 p.m.
Paula McLain, April 20, 8:15 p.m.
Ben Fountain & Alexander Maksik, May 18, 7:00 p.m.
    Richard Mason & Amor Towles Friday, February 17, 7:00 p.m.
Horchow AuditoriumCommunity Partner:  South African–born writer Richard Mason published his first book, The Drowning People, while he was still a student at the New College Oxford. His debut was highly acclaimed and sold five million copies around the world. Mason’s fourth novel, History of a Pleasure Seeker, is set at the height of Europe’s Belle Époque in bourgeois Amsterdam. He tells the story of Piet Barol, a handsome young man in his twenties who secures a position as a tutor in a prominent household, and his entry into a world of moneyed glamour and dangerous temptations. Longtime New Yorker Amor Towles has spent the last decade living a double life: investment professional by day, writer and father by night. His first novel, Rules of Civility, begins in the final hours of 1937 on New Year’s Eve, with everyone hoping for a better year than the last. Towles’ heroine, Katey Kontent, and her boardinghouse roommate, Eve, are stretching their last few dollars in a Greenwich Village jazz club when they meet Theodore “Tinker” Grey. This chance encounter will change the girls’ stations in life and test their social mores. “There are authors who gain creative strength from drawing on their own experience but I find that I gain artistic strength from putting myself in a different set of shoes.” —Amor Towles Ticket Prices DMA Members: FREE
Adults: $10
Seniors 65+/Military: $7
Students: $5
Children under 12: FREE Tickets to Fresh Ink programs include general admission to the Museum. Purchase tickets online or call 214-922-1818.
  
Laura NumeroffFriday, March 16, 7:00 p.m.
Horchow Auditorium Growing up, Laura Numeroff’s favorite possessions were a microscope, a box of sixty-four crayons, and her library card. Today, Numeroff is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling If You Give . . . series, illustrated by Felicia Bond, which has sold over 4.5 million copies, been printed in fourteen languages, and won the prestigious Quill Award. Favorites of both children and parents, the books help kids learn valuable lessons about cause and effect. Titles in the series include If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, and If You Give a Pig a Pancake, which was recommended by Oprah’s first kids’ book club, and noted as Oprah’s favorite children’s book of the year. Numeroff will discuss her latest book, The Jellybeans and the Big Art Adventure. The Jellybeans are back and ready for an art adventure in the latest book in this beloved series. Bitsy enlists the other girls to help her paint a mural at their favorite place: the candy shop! After a fun trip to the museum to learn about art, the four Jellybeans use their different strengths and talents to work together to create a colorful success. This fourth book in the successful, New York Times bestselling series once again shows, whether readers are bookworms, artists, or tomboys, that there is a Jellybean for everyone! “I have no idea sometimes how I come up with ideas, but that’s the most fun of being a writer.”
—Laura Numeroff Ticket Prices DMA Members: FREE
Adults: $10
Seniors 65+/Military: $7
Students: $5
Children under 12: FREE This event is also listed in the BooksmART section of the Arts & Letters Live website. Tickets to Fresh Ink programs include general admission to the Museum. Purchase tickets online or call 214-922-1818.
 
Paula McLain Friday, April 20, 8:15 p.m.
Horchow Auditorium and C3 TheaterIn conjunction with the exhibition Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties
Paula McLain met Hadley Richardson, Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, in the pages of his classic memoir, A Moveable Feast. Inspiration to write the book from Hadley’s point of view struck while she was driving, and the pull was so great that McLain drove straight to the library to begin her research. McLain says she felt as if she were strapped to a rocket. “I was just electrified,” she said. “Nothing else mattered. Hadley’s voice was like magic string. She is a really good writer—colorful, sassy as hell.” McLain immersed herself in the intoxicating world of Paris in the 1920s and wrote The Paris Wife on Hadley and Ernest’s experiences and acquaintances. The Paris Wife was an instant New York Times bestseller and has been a favorite among readers and critics alike. Although she had never visited the City of Lights, “McLain has written a beautiful portrait of being in Paris in the glittering 1920s,” raved Entertainment Weekly. Born in Fresno, California, Paula McLain was soon abandoned by her parents, and for fourteen years she moved in and out of numerous foster homes. She is the author of Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses, a memoir on living in foster care in the 1970s; several books of poetry; and the novel A Ticket to Ride. “Beginning to truly hear a character’s voice is like finding a piece of magic string. It pulls you inside their consciousness, and helps you see the world through their very particular point of view, unfolding the story only they can tell.” —Paula McLain
Seating in Horchow Auditorium is currently ; however, there will be a live simulcast of the event in the C3 Theater at the Museum. Simulcast ticketholders will view the presentation on in the theater and will be able to participate in the question-and-answer session with the author. After the event, all ticketholders are invited to the book signing. Upgrades to Horchow Auditorium may be available the night of the event. To get on the upgrade list, visit the Will Call table anytime before the event begins. Will Call will open at 7:00 p.m. and we will begin taking names then. Ticket Prices DMA Members: FREE
Adults: $10
Seniors 65+/Military: $7
Students: $5
Children under 12: FREE Tickets to Fresh Ink programs include general admission to the Museum. Purchase tickets online or call 214-922-1818.
   
Ben Fountain & Alexander Maksik Friday, May 18, 7:00 p.m.
Horchow AuditoriumCommunity Partner:  Discover two exciting new voices in contemporary literature. Though both debut novelists, they have each already earned incredible acclaim. Ben Fountain received a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and a PEN/Hemingway Award for his story collection Brief Encounters with Che Guevara. In 2007, Fountain was one of ten emerging writers to win the prestigious Whiting Writers' Award. His new novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, is a razor sharp satire about a young, reluctant Iraq War hero, home on leave, who finds himself the guest of honor at a Dallas Cowboys football game. Author Madison Smartt Bell lauded the book saying, "Ben Fountain's Halftime is as close to the Great American Novel as anyone is likely to come these days— an extraordinary work that captures and releases the unquiet spirit of our age, and is likely to be remembered as one of the important books of this decade.
Alexander Maksik is the recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship and a fellowship from the Iowa Writers Workshop. His first novel, You Deserve Nothing, was featured in Publishers Weekly as one of ten promising debuts. Set in Paris at an international high school, You Deserve Nothing is a gripping story of power, idealism, and morality. In Maksik's stylish prose, Paris is dazzling and dangerously seductive. It serves as a fitting backdrop for a dramatic tale about the tension between desire and action, and about the complex relationship that exists between our public and private selves.
In the Press: Ben Fountain
Ticket Prices DMA Members: FREE
Adults: $10
Seniors 65+/Military: $7
Students: $5
Children under 12: FREE Tickets to Fresh Ink programs include general admission to the Museum. Purchase tickets online or call 214-922-1818.
Arts & Letters Live is presented by  . Additional support provided by the Kay Cattarulla Endowment for the Literary and Performing Arts at the Dallas Museum of Art, TACA, The Hoglund Foundation, The Eugene McDermott Foundation, Annual Series Supporters, and Friends of the Dallas Public Library.
Air transportation provided in part by American Airlines. Hotel accommodations provided in part by The Adolphus. In-kind partners include ArtsDistrictDining.com and Einstein Printing. Promotional support is provided by  and
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