Just Buffalo Literary Center’s BABEL author series for 2023-24 will feature Jhumpa Lahiri, Michelle Zauner, John Irving and Kiese Laymon.
The first half of the season will kick-off with journalist and environmentalist Elizabeth Kolbert at Kleinhans Music Hall on Oct. 22, with novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad coming Nov. 10. The second half will feature novelist and short story writer Anthony Doerr on March 30, 2023, followed by journalist Isabel Wilkerson on April 26.
“We’re so excited for readers to delve into the works of these writers,” said Barbara Cole, Just Buffalo’s artistic director and curator of the BABEL series.
“On the surface, each one seems so different from the others. Lahiri’s writing is quiet and meditative, whereas Laymon’s is so rhythmic it almost reverberates off the page,” Cole said. “Irving is just a legend, having written so many beloved novels, whereas Zauner is a newcomer to many.
“But, once you dig down a little deeper, what you find is that all four of them are writing about life’s most universal experiences – love and loss, grief and fear – and how we find the courage to walk our own path.”
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