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Ah, how we love Lydia Davis.... We're so excited that she will be here in Seattle next week to speak on the subject of "A Beloved Duck Gets Cooked: The Influence of Innovative Forms." Yes, we know that this premise may sound strange, but if you've read her work, you understand--this woman is quite the odd duck herself, and we absolutely love her for it.

He won a Pulitzer for his first novel, The Brief Wondrous LIfe of Oscar Wao, but when Junot Diaz took to the lectern at Benaroya Hall last night, after what he called a "super-long introduction," he looked out into the crowd and said, "Guys, you should be up here. Super fucking scary." Diaz's spoken voice was straight from the page: super-fucking-compelling, laugh-your-ass-off funny, shit so true you don't even tell your homies.

John Updike has died of lung cancer. He was 76. He was just in town in mid-November for a talk at Seattle Arts & Lectures that we attended and wrote about. It was our first and last time seeing him in person. We feel very lucky to have had that chance, now, and so we repeat what we said then: "He mentioned that the name Updike is what happens when the Dutch name 'Op de Dijk' hits American shores. Maybe that’ll be our updated image of this writer who has never lost his boyish enthusiasm for fiction’s impossible task. There he is, in front of his earthworks, holding back the sea—though the sea of course will inevitably win."

Sorry to burst any bubbles, but if you don't have tickets to Michael Pollan's appearance at Benaroya tonight, as part of Seattle Arts & Lectures, you're out of luck: it sold out weeks ago. The author of apparently has no shortage of admirers.

Author John Updike was at Seattle Arts & Lectures this week. The upcoming SAL appearance of Annie Leibovitz (November 19) is sold out. Michael Pollan (January 12) is almost sold out.

The author of Empire Falls (Pulitzer Prize), Nobody's Fool and Bridge of Sighs, Richard Russo came to Benaroya Hall last night for a Seattle Arts & Lectures talk about, of all things, humor. He writes without a trace of condescension about life in small towns, about the gap between rich and poor, about the pleasures some people take in cruelty.

, Waters has been pushing the boundaries of the cinema for about 40 years, and has moved from the indie fringes to the mainstream with popular stage musicals of his classic films.

In preparation for his upcoming visit, Seattlest sat down and emailed four fairly inane questions to the novelist, essayist, and MacArthur genius Colson Whitehead. It's true: we could have tried asking Whitehead insightful questions about his brilliant novels , but we figured, everyone tries to do that and he winds up getting asked them same question over and over again. So instead, we asked him about Barack Obama, why people don't read, and why he seems to like Portland better than Seattle. Anyone wanting more insight into the great writer's work should get tickets to his Monday, Jan. 14 appearance at Benaroya for Seattle Arts & Lectures.