This event is now Sold Out Wednesday, November 18th at 7:00 p.m.
Fitzgerald Theatre, St. Paul, MN.  Tickets are together and they are in Section/Aisle B1L, Row/Box BB Please scroll down for seating arrangement charts.
The 10th anniversary season of Talking Volumes continues with Stephen
King and Audrey Niffenegger at the Fitzgerald Theater on Wednesday,
November 18th at 7:00 p.m. Two writers and friends, Stephen King and
Audrey Niffenegger, join Kerri Miller to discuss their new novels,
King’s Under the Dome and Niffenegger’s Her Fearful Symmetry. Stephen
King is one of the most prolific writers of our time and has sold over
300 million books. Niffenegger’s first novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife,
was a bestseller and her new novel has been eagerly anticipated.
Niffenegger is also an artist and graphic novelist.
Under the Dome takes place on an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in
Chester’s Mill, Maine, when the town is inexplicably and suddenly
sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field.
Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a
gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people
running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their
families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this
barrier is, where it came from, and when—or if—it will go away. Dale
Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with
a few intrepid citizens—town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a
physician’s assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave
kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at
nothing—even murder—to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is
keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is
the Dome itself. Because time isn’t just short, it’s running.
Her Fearful Symmetry begins when Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, and
leaves her London apartment to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina.
These two American girls never met their English aunt, only knew that
their mother, too, was a twin, and Elspeth her sister. Julia and
Valentina are semi-normal American teenagers -- with seemingly little
interest in college, finding jobs, or anything outside their cozy home
in the suburbs of Chicago, and with an abnormally intense attachment to
one another. The girls move to Elspeth's flat, which borders Highgate
Cemetery in London. They come to know the building's other residents.
There is Martin, a brilliant and charming crossword puzzle setter
suffering from crippling Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; Marjike,
Martin's devoted but trapped wife; and Robert, Elspeth's elusive lover,
a scholar of the cemetery. As the girls become embroiled in the fraying
lives of their aunt's neighbors, they also discover that much is still
alive in Highgate, including -- perhaps -- their aunt, who can't seem
to leave her old apartment and life behind.
Talking Volumes is a partnership of Minnesota Public Radio and The Star Tribune, in collaboration with The Loft Literary Center.
This event is SOLD OUT!
On the publication of his latest novel, “Under the Dome,” celebrated storyteller and best-selling author Stephen King (“Just After Sunset,” “Duma Key,” “The Stand,” “The Shining” and more than 50 other novels) talks about his career as a novelist, screenwriter and columnist and discusses his new work, a tour de force set in a Maine town and featuring more than 100 characters who encounter a supernatural element as baffling and chilling as any the author has ever conjured. Interviewed by New York Times book critic Janet Maslin.
 From the Scribner catalog: Under the Dome
“On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when—or if—it will go away.”
Featuring more than 100 characters facing a menacing supernatural element in their small Maine town, early reads are comparing Under the Dome to King’s classic epic, The Stand.
About the Fitzgerald
Built in 1910, the Fitzgerald Theater is Saint Paul's oldest surviving theater space. Originally named the Sam S. Shubert Theater, it was one of four memorial theaters erected by entertainment-industry leaders Lee and J. J. Shubert after the death of their brother Sam. In 1933, it became a movie house screening foreign films and was thus christened the World Theater. Minnesota Public Radio purchased the theater in 1980 and restored it in 1986 for the live radio program A Prairie Home Companion® with Garrison Keillor. The theater was again renamed in 1994, this time for author F. Scott Fitzgerald, a native of Saint Paul. The theater has, over the years, played host to Broadway musicals, vaudeville shows, film festivals, and concerts of all sorts. NO REFUNDS ON TICKET PURCHASES. ALL SALES ARE FINAL.
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