Literature Search
Gerard LaSalle
Fri May 31 at 6 pm.Reading
Widow Walk is a novel about the Pacific Northwest in the 19th century. Free.
Abigail Tarttelin
Fri May 31 at 7 pm.Reading
Tarttelin's Golden Boy is a novel about a beloved, seemingly perfect son who is secretly intersex. Free.
Emma Brockes
Fri May 31 at 7 pm.Reading
John Berendt calls She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me a "harrowing tale of murder and incest." Free.
Gianna Angelopoulos
Fri May 31 at 7 pm.Reading
My Greek Drama: Life, Love and One Woman's Olympic Effort to Bring Glory to Her Country is a book by the person in charge of the Olympic games in Athens. $5.
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief: A Year Spent Writing A Forum with Milton Fellow Kelly Foster
Fri May 31 at 7 pm.Reading
Kelly, who is a graduate of SPU, "will be reflecting on her fellowship year and on the writing life: on the psychological difficulties of writing even under the best circumstances, and on the redemptive power that the stories we have been given to tell can exercise in our lives as writers, even when we forget how to tell them or question our ability to do so." That's a lot to unpack. Free.
Jen Kirkman
Fri May 31 at 8 pm.Reading
Kirkman is a standup comedian whose new book is titled I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales from a Happy Life without Kids. This will be a standup routine and a book signing. $12 advance ticket, $15 at the door.
James Arthur, Natalie Diaz, Tomas Q. Morin
Sat June 1 at 7:30 pm.Reading
Here's the beginning of a poem by Arthur: "I was there, and saw the half-ton rope/of human hair coiled like a python,/glinting." Diaz writes "Angels don't come to the reservation./Bats, maybe, or owls, boxy mottled things./Coyotes, too. They all mean the same thing—/death." And here's Morín: "It shouldn’t have surprised me while reading /Gorky’s remembrance of Tolstoy and/devouring chicken/on a blanket in view of the muddy waters/that I should see a parakeet misnamed/the Quaker parrot." Free.
Barbara Sjoholm
Sat June 1 at 2 pm.Reading
This is a reading of the book which Sjoholm has translated into English, which is titled With the Lapps in the High Mountains: A Woman Among the Sami 1907 – 1908. Free.
Kevin O'Brien
Sat June 1 at 7 pm.Reading
Unspeakable is about a series of seemingly connected terrible crimes separated by decades. Free.
Ivy Manning: Crackers and Dips
Sun June 2 at 11 am.Reading
Have you ever thought about making homemade crackers? Because that's kind of weird. Anyway, the author of Crackers and Dips probably wants to talk to you about it. Free.
Dick Falkenbury
Mon June 3 at 6 pm.Reading
Falkenbury is a former cab driver who wrote the initiative to create a monorail transit system in Seattle. Rise Above It All is his account of that process, which—spoiler alert—ultimately failed. $5.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Mon June 3 at 7 pm.Reading
Aidichie is a celebrated novelist whose previous book, Half of a Yellow Sun, was praised by many. Her new novel is titled Americanah, and it's already starting to get very good reviews. Free.
Daniel James Brown
Tues June 4 at 6:30 pm.Reading
"In 1936, University of Washington's eight-oar crew went to Berlin on a quest for Olympic gold," press materials tell us. This is the story of Brown's non-fiction book, The Boys in the Boat. This event will feature a multi-media presentation and descendants of the rowers who star in the book. Free.
Dan Kennedy
Tues June 4 at 7 pm.Reading
Kennedy is the brilliant man behind storytelling sensation The Moth. American Spirit is his novel. Free.
Ruth Ozeki, Karen Joy Fowler
Tues June 4 at 7 pm.Reading
Ozeki's newest book is A Tale for the Time Being and Fowler’s new book is titled We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. The writers are here to celebrate those books and the great local women's writing program Hedgebrook. Free.
Khaled Hosseini
Tues June 4 at 7 pm.Reading
The author of the very bookclub-friendly The Kite Runner returns with his new book And the Mountains Echoed, which is about Afghanistan and America and families. $5.
Richelle Mead
Tues June 4 at 7 pm.Reading
Gameboard of the Gods is the first book in a new series set in "a future world nearly destroyed by religious extremism." Free.
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Shane Lopez
Tues June 4 at 7:30 pm.Reading
Making Hope Happen is a book that purports to be about the science of hope. $5.
Joan Didion
Wed June 5 at 7:30 pm.Reading
Do you really need me to tell you why you should attend a reading by Joan Didion? Come on. $15-$50.
Amber Dawn, Mattilda Sycamore Bernstein
Thurs June 6 at 6 pm.Reading
Dawn's new memoir is How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir. Bernstein Sycamore's memoir is titled The End of San Francisco. Gay City is a great place. Free.
Siren Songs: Fine Wine and Writing
Thurs June 6 at 7 pm.Reading
Readings from Stacey Levine, Nicole Hardy, Kevin Craft, and Kenyon Brown are paired with fine wines. $15/$10 for Hugo House members.
Bernadette Pajer
Thurs June 6 at 7 pm.Reading
Capacity for Murder: A Professor Bradshaw Mystery is a novel about a Seattle institution at the turn of the last century that features "restorative rest cures, fermented diets, and Dr. Hornsby’s electrotherapeutics." Free.
Laurie Bauner, Donna Miscolta, Matt Briggs
Thurs June 6 at 7 pm.Reading
Bauner is the author of a novel titled The Bohemians and a chapbook titled Figments (& other occurrences). Novelist (and Stranger Genius) Matt Briggs will also read, along with Donna Miscolta. Free.
Wendy Jehanara Tremayne
Thurs June 6 at 7 pm.Reading
The author skipped out on her "high-pressure life" and wants to talk to you about how you can do the same in Good Life Lab: Radical Experiments in Hands-On Living. Free.
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