Good news for other Seattleites: the 2007 – 2008 Arts and Lectures Series schedule was announced a few days ago, with highlights on Oct 15—Orhan Pamuk, whose books I haven’t read but certainly will soon—and April 29 with John Banville.

Pamuk may be permanently in exile in the U.S., so us Americans may be seeing a lot more of him—to the detriment of Turkey, his homeland.