# @pghartslectures on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Czo-2BFP8Di
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/13676706-pghartslectures-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-11-14T20:45:25.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures (@PghArtsLectures) — https://gondola.cc/PghArtsLectures

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“I’m a big believer in fiction. If you don’t have that experience of taking the little signals we call words on the page and using them to make a mental movie…a part of your brain will atrophy. If you read a lot of fiction, you’re really expanding your ability to be in the shoes of the other.”

- Abraham Verghese, speaking in Pittsburgh last night

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall and online for yesterday's Ten Evenings lecture with abraham.verghese.official, and to carnegiemellon, The Heinz Awards, and the Aurora Reading Club of Pittsburgh for supporting this event. 

Ticket-holders, you have until Monday, November 20 to watch this lecture! The link is in your inbox. 💌

Next: Rebecca Makkai takes the Ten Evenings stage on Monday, December 11 with her newest irresistible novel, I Have Some Questions for You. 📚

#AbrahamVerghese #Bookish #BookLove #Bookstagram #TBR #TBRlist #CurrentlyReading #ReadersOfInstagram #AuthorsOfInstagram #ThingsToDoInPittsburgh #WhatToDo412 #PittsburghLife

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