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Maria Semple is our poet laureate of discomfort, a writer whose genius springs from the bad choices and outrageous circumstances that motivate her characters. Her breakout bestseller Where’d You Go, Bernadette tells the story of a brilliant but daffily neurotic architect who sets her family and upscale Seattle community abuzz when she mysteriously disappears. The New York Times described the book as “free-range hilarity,” and NPR praised the movie version, starring Cate Blanchett, as “delightful and eccentric.” Her novel Today Will Be Different follows a day in the life of a woman whose chaotic thoughts and actions make her young son seem like the grown-up in the room. Semple was a television writer for shows including Arrested Development and Mad About You before publishing her first novel, This One Is Mine, and her humor has seamlessly made the transition from TV to books. Her new novel Go Gentle, coming this April, tells the story of a woman who undergoes a midlife transformation by way of a steamy romance and black-market art. Semple will take the Liz Moore time slot on Saturday, May 16, at 2:30 p.m. She will be joined on stage by renowned broadcaster Georgina Godwin, books editor at Monocle Radio, who has interviewed hundreds of artists and authors, including Brian Eno, Sally Field, Ian McEwan, James Ellroy, and most Booker Prize winners since 2014.
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