Earlier this week, the Dallas Museum of Art revealed its lineup for the new season of its Arts & Letters Live program. The series brings authors in to discuss their works and meet with readers. The literary and performing arts series of the museum has often featured queer authors such as Steven Rowley and David Sedaris. The new season will launch with gay author Rabih Alameddine in conversaton with the DMA’s Maryam Baig.
From DMA.org:
Rabih Alameddine’s 2025 National Book Award-winning novel The True Story of Raja the Gullible features Raja, a 63-year-old beloved high school philosophy teacher and “the neighborhood homosexual,” who relishes books, meditative walks, and solitude. An invite to an all-expenses-paid writing residency in America offers Raja a well-timed opportunity for distance from his meddlesome, octogenarian mother with whom he shares a tiny apartment in Beirut. Told in Raja’s irresistible and wickedly funny voice, this is the unforgettable story of a singular life and its absurdities—a tale of mistakes, self-discovery, memory, and the unbreakable attachment of a son and his mother.
Rabih Alameddine is award-winning author of several novels, including The Wrong End of the Telescope, An Unnecessary Woman, and Koolaids. He has won the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He also received a Lannan Award in 2021.
His appearance is scheduled for Jan. 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Horchow Auditorium at the DMA. Tickets are available here.
The full schedule of the 35th season can be seen here.
–Rich Lopez