Spotlight: Oates joins 2013 lineup for Get Lit!
I think it’s fair to say that Joyce Carol Oates is the headliner of the headliners at this year’s Get Lit!
Oates, author of “We Were the Mulvaneys” and dozens of other works, will take the stage at the Bing Crosby Theater on April 12.
“We are tremendously excited to have her,” said Melissa Huggins, director of Get Lit! programs at Eastern Washington University.
“We’re very excited about all of the authors we have,” she said.
Huggins said Oates is teaching at Berkeley this term, which allowed her to come to Spokane for the festival.
Joining Oates on the stage will be Jaimy Gordon, author of “Bogeywoman” and “Lord of Misrule,” and David Shields, whose latest nonfiction work is “How Literature Saved my Life.”
That event won’t have a question-and-answer session, but Huggins said Oates will do a one-hour Q-and-A at a different location earlier in the day. The details are still being worked out.
Another event that will have large local appeal will be the reading and Q-and-A April 11 featuring Kim Barnes and Jonathan Evison, also at the Bing.
Barnes is a University of Idaho professor. Her most recent novel is “In the Kingdom of Men.”
Evison, author of the New York Times best-seller “West of Here,” has been part of Get Lit! before.
“He is hilarious, he is definitely a crowd-pleaser,” Huggins said. “It’ll be funny and light-hearted, a great Q-and-A with those two.”
On April 13, poets Major Jackson and Robert Wrigley will take the Bing stage.
The final ticketed event is a children’s author on April 14. Huggins said she hopes to be able to release that author’s name soon.
The festival also has many free events. More information will be posted at outreach.ewu.edu/getlit.
Festival tickets went on sale Friday. A festival pass is $45, and tickets to individual events cost $15.
Students from any regional high school or college get in free with current ID at the door. Tickets will be available at college bookstores two weeks before the festival.
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