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Thursday, October 27 at 7:30 p.m. Presented in Association with Urban Harvest One of the top ten “New Thought Leaders” named byNewsweek, Michael Pollan is leading the American conversation about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, and gardens. He is the author of the bestsellers In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto and The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals which was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by The New York Times. In 2009, PBS broadcast a two-hour documentary based on another bestseller, The Botany of Desire.His most recent book, Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, was an immediate number one New York Times bestseller upon publication at the end of 2009. Pollan was the narrator of the Oscar nominated documentary, Food, Inc. He will sign books and greet fans at the end of the evening. Thanks to our generous sponsors: Garland Kerry and Jim Blackburn OHBA – Organic Horticulture Business Alliance San Jacinto Environmental Supplies About The Progressive Forum: Our purpose is to enrich our democracy and culture by presenting the great minds who we believe are advancing the success of the individual, our species, and life on the planet, great minds from all the fields of human endeavor, the sciences and humanities as well as politics and public affairs. Our progressive viewpoint is rooted in the mainstream constitutional, enlightenment, and egalitarian values that need continual affirmation. The Progressive Forum originated a new model for civic speaker organizations in Houston to create larger audiences and a higher quality experience by providing an evening theater event compared to traditional hotel luncheons. Operating like a performing arts company,the Forum uses the finest theaters, pays speaker fees to attract the top intellectual stars, and uses innovative box office services through its website so patrons can print tickets at their computer. The Progressive Forum is a nonpartisan, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization.
Wortham Center, Cullen Theater
Inprint presents the 2011/2012 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series.Wednesday, October26 the series features Jeffrey Eugenides, in the Cullen Theater, Wortham Center.
JEFFREY EUGENIDES, who is blessed with the storyteller’s most magical gift, the ability to transform the mundane into the extraordinary (The New York Times Book Review), received rave reviews in 1993 for his first novel, The Virgin Suicides, which became an international bestseller and was made into a feature film by Sophia Coppola. A decade later, Eugenides won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for his blockbuster novel Middlesex, a three generation family saga centered around an hermaphrodite of Greek descent. The New York Times Book Review described it as expansive and radiantly generous. . . deliriously American, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review called it a towering achievement. . . . [Eugenides] has emerged as the great American writer that many of us suspected him of being. Middlesex, considered one of the best books of 2002 by the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times Book Review, sold three million copies, won the Ambassador Award, and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Eugenides comes to Houston to read from his highly anticipated third novel, The Marriage Plot, coming out in October 2011. Playing off the theme of marriage as a plot device in Victorian literature, the novel centers on a contemporary romantic triangle, brilliantly and humorously explicating the joy and heartache of young love.
