Escape a chilly November evening and enfold yourself in cozy conversation of the highest quality at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, as two Pacific Northwest literary giants meet at Eagle Harbor Book Company in downtown Winslow to chat about life, humor, writing — and whatever else happens to arise.

David James Duncan and Brian Doyle boast an awesome collection of awards and accolades between them.

Duncan became a regional icon with his debut novel, “The River Why,” first published in 1983.

He followed it with “The Brothers K,” “My Story as Told By Water,” “River Teeth,” and “God Laughs & Plays,” as well as two activist books, “Citizen’s Dissent” (with the peerless Wendell Berry) and “The Heart of the Monster” (with Rick Bass).

His work has won three Pacific Northwest Bookseller’s Awards, two Pushcart Awards, a Lannan Fellowship, the Western States Book Award, a National Book Award nomination and (with Berry) the American Library Association’s 2003 Award for the Preservation of Intellectual Freedom. Duncan’s work has also appeared in a multitude of magazines and in more than forty national anthologies, including “Best American Sports Writing,” “Best American Essays” (twice) and “Best American Spiritual Writing” (five times).

He lives with the sculptor Adrian Arleo in Montana, where he is wrapping up a reportedly massive novel titled “Sun House,” which fuses his loves for acoustic folk and blues music, grounded spirituality, Asian and Western wisdom traditions and the mountains, river valleys, wild creatures and people of the American West.

Doyle is the editor of Portland Magazine at the University of Portland — “the finest spiritual magazine in America,” according to Annie Dillard. He is the author of many books of essays and fiction, among them the renowned Northwest-set novels “Mink River” and “Martin Marten.” His newest books are the novel “Chicago” and “The Mighty Currawongs & Other Stories.”

Doyle’s breakout book, “Mink River,” is a perennial Eagle Harbor Books staff recommendation (as are several of his others) and a long-running favorite of book groups. His visits to Bainbridge are always raucous, well-attended events where both author and audience share laughter, tears and inspiration.

His essays have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Orion, the American Scholar, the Sun, the Georgia Review and in newspapers and magazines around the world, including the New York Times, the Times of London and The Age (in Australia). His essays have also been reprinted in the annual “Best American Essays,” “Best American Science & Nature Writing,” and “Best American Spiritual Writing” anthologies.

Among various honors for his work include a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Children and Other Wild Animals, a Catholic Book Award, three Pushcart Prizes, the John Burroughs Award for Nature Essays, Foreword Reviews’ Novel of the Year award, and even the 2008 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, whose previous recipients include Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, Flannery O’Connor and Mary Oliver.

A capacity crowd is expected for this one-hour conversation.