The Arik Korman Show

Matt Taibbi served as a contributing editor for Rolling Stone for ten years and is the author of five previous books, including New York Times bestsellers The Great Derangement and Griftopia. Matt’s latest book is The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap. He is here in the Northwest to speak at Town Hall Seattle, presented by Town Hall and University Book Store, as part of the Civics series.

Allen Leech is an Irish stage, television and film actor. Allen came to international attention as Marcus Agrippa on the HBO historical drama "Rome" and is best known for his role as Tom Branson in "Downton Abbey." Graham Moore is an American screenwriter and author best known for his New York Times Best Seller debut novel "The Sherlockian." Graham is also known for writing the #1 Black List screenplay of 2011 which is the basis for the new film "The Imitation Game" starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley and Allen Leech!

Cary Elwes is an English actor and best-selling author, known for his roles in Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Days of Thunder, Twister, Glory, and as Dr. Lawrence Gordon in Saw. But Cary is best known for his leading role as Westley in The Princess Bride, ranked by the American Film Institute as one of the top 100 Greatest Love Stories of all time. Cary’s new book is “As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride.” Cary Elwes is in Seattle for a book signing tonight at the University Bookstore in Seattle’s U-District. All the info at ubookstore.com

E. O. Wilson is an American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist, and author. Dr. Wilson is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and a New York Times bestseller for "The Social Conquest of Earth" and "Letters to a Young Scientist." Dr. Wilson’s latest book is The Meaning of Human Existence. He was in the Northwest to speak at Town Hall Seattle as part of The Seattle Science Lectures.

Shane Harris is an American journalist and Senior Correspondent at The Daily Beast, specializing in coverage of America's intelligence agencies. Shane's new book is @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex, about the impact of cyberspace as the American military's "fifth-domain" of war. Shane was in the Northwest to speak at Town Hall Seattle, presented by Town Hall and University Book Store.

Stand up mathematician Matt Parker is the author of “Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension.” Originally a math teacher from Australia, Matt now lives in London and works both as a stand-up comedian and the Public Engagement in Mathematics Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. Matt is in the Northwest to speak at Town Hall Seattle, Presented by Town Hall and University Book Store, as part of the Seattle Science Lectures, sponsored by Microsoft. Matt Parker’s website is standupmaths.com

Oscar-nominee Sebastian Junger is an American journalist, most famous for the best-selling book "The Perfect Storm" and his award-winning chronicle of the Afghanistan war in his documentary films "Restrepo" and "Korengal," and his book "War." In his latest film, "The Last Patrol," Sebastian Junger gathers a group of veterans - two longtime soldiers and a war photographer - for the first leg of a 300-mile trek from Washington, D.C. up the East Coast that he calls "The Last Patrol." It's the third of a four-part continuing series this fall with HBO Documentary Films in partnership with the Seattle International Film Festival. Info at SIFF.net

French Director Michel Hazanavicius is best known for his 2011 film "The Artist," which won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director. His wife, actor Berenice Bejo, is known in the US for playing Christiana in 2001's "A Knight's Tale" and Peppy Miller in "The Artist." Michel and Berenice's new film is "The Search." They were in Seattle for SIFF's annual French Cinema Now celebration. Info at SIFF.net

Valerie Plame is the CIA covert operative whose cover was exposed by several members of the Bush administration in 2003, ending her career as an undercover agent. Now she is writing a series of international thrillers, featuring undercover CIA agent Vanessa Pierson. “Blowback” was released last year and her new novel is “Burned.” Valerie Plame is in the Northwest to speak at Town Hall Seattle, presented by the University Bookstore.

Salon.com columnist Thomas Frank is a historian of culture and ideas… and analyzes trends in American electoral politics and propaganda, advertising, popular culture, mainstream journalism and economics. Tom is also founder of The Baffler, a magazine of cultural, political, and business criticism. Thomas Frank and current Baffler editor John Summers came to the Northwest to speak at Town Hall Seattle.