Award-winning author Salman Rushdie will open Eastern's 11th Annual Arts and Lecture Series on Oct. 4 in the Betty R. Tipton Room in the Student Center. The lecture begins at 7 p.m. Rushdie is the author of more than 10 fictional novels inspired by his homeland of India, as well as a book of stories, "East, West" and three works of nonfiction -- "Imaginary Homelands," "The Jaguar Smile" and "Step Across This Line."
Other Arts and Lecture events in 2011-12 include Actor Dan Lauria ("Lombardi" and "The Wonder Years"), who visits on Nov. 14; the U.S. Coast Guard Dixieland Jazz Band, which performs on Feb. 15; and Journalist Laura Ling, who will finish off the season on March 13. For more information, visit www.easternct.edu/artsandlecture.
(Rushdie photograph courtesy of Beowulf Sheehan, PEN American Center)
