# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Barbara Kingsolver in conversation with WQED's Anna Singer
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 29 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: The story of a brief, passionate, life-changing love affair, wrapped up in what might be the greatest romance of all: our eternal human longing for art and beauty.

Livia Cable has made her peace with her marriage and modest livelihood in the farm country where she grew up, until a shocking phone call from an old lover shakes her to the core. Decades earlier, this man knew her as Livia Bohusz, a music conservatory student estranged from her home and family, uncertain of anything except her passion for music and promise as an extraordinary pianist. His request, now, to see her again stirs up ghosts she’s kept at bay for a lifetime.

Shifting between past and present, Livia’s decision to meet or reject the reunion means confronting step by step, in memories framed as musical dances, the experiences of childhood loss, abandonment, self-immolating passion, and perilous attachment to a man who broke her belief in love and ruptured the course of her life.

With razor-sharp acuity and deep affection, Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver’s unforgettable new novel reflects on class barriers, the risks of ambition, and the timeless, life-changing power of art.

Barbara Kingsolver is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including the novels Unsheltered, The Bean Trees, and The Poisonwood Bible, as well as books of poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, and Coyote’s Wild Home, a children’s book co-authored with Lily Kingsolver. She also collaborated with family members on the influential Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has earned a devoted readership at home and abroad. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has received numerous awards and honors including the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, Demon Copperhead, the National Humanities Medal, and most recently, the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lives with her husband on a farm in southern Appalachia.

Tickets for this event start at $39 (includes a copy of the book Partita)
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/pittsburgh/barbara-kingsolver-in-conversation-with-wqeds-anna-singer/200030392366509
- **Event Categories**: Art, Workshops, Music, literary-art, Entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 36

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Pittsburgh
- **state**: PA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Carnegie Music Hall
- **lat**: 40.442972843236
- **long**: -79.951528236511
- **full address**: Carnegie Music Hall, 271 Schenley Dr Ext, Pittsburgh, PA 15260-7302, United States

## Event gallery

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Barbara Kingsolver in conversation with WQED's Anna Singer being held?
  - **A:** Barbara Kingsolver in conversation with WQED's Anna Singer takes place on Thu, 29 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 29 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm at Carnegie Music Hall, 271 Schenley Dr Ext, Pittsburgh, PA 15260-7302, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Barbara Kingsolver in conversation with WQED's Anna Singer?
  - **A:** Barbara Kingsolver in conversation with WQED's Anna Singer is organized by Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures.

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