Literature Search
Steve Keen & Gerard Fitzpatrick: Money, Monetary Policy, and Financial Repression
Thurs May 23 at 11:30 am.Reading
A pair of economists embark on a "lunchtime discussion of Federal Reserve monetary policy." $29/$24 for Town Hall members/$14 for students.
Steve Keen
Thurs May 23 at 6 pm.Reading
Keen "most accurately predicted the great financial crisis," which means you should pay attention to his new book, Debunking Economics. $5.
Luis Negrón
Thurs May 23 at 7 pm.Reading
Negrón, who is an "acclaimed Spanish-language writer and queer activist," will read from his new collection of stories, Mundo Cruel. Free.
Nancy Bartley
Thurs May 23 at 7 pm.Reading
The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff: The Redemption of Herbert Niccolls Jr is the real-life story of the 12-year-old boy who killed the sheriff of a small Washington town. Free.
Brian Switek
Thurs May 23 at 7:30 pm.Reading
Press materials say that Switek is a dinosaur fanatic. The title of his new book, My Beloved Brontosaurus, seems to indicate that this is a true statement. He'll talk about dinosaurs and feathers and other dinosaur-nerdy things. $5.
Marivi Soliven
Thurs May 23 at 5 pm.Reading
The Mango Bride is a novel about "two Filipinas, one banished by her wealthy family, the other a mail order bride." Free.
A Conversation with Andrew Lam
Thurs May 23 at 5:30 pm.Reading
Birds of Paradise Lost is Lam's new collection of short stories. He will also be the focal point in a "cross-cultural dialogue about connections to Vietnam," because he has written non-fiction books on Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora. Free.
Dr. Magdalena Zaborowska
Thurs May 23 at 6 pm.Reading
This is a talk titled "James Baldwin as Theater Director: Staging Queerness in Istanbul." $6/free for museum members.
Claude M. Steele
Thurs May 23 at 7 pm.Reading
Whistling Vivaldi is about "how pervasive American stereotypes can influence behavior and performance." Steele is provost of Columbia University. Free.
Raymond Feist
Thurs May 23 at 7 pm.Reading
Magician's End is the 29th and, reportedly final, book in Feist's sci-fi epic Riftwar Cycle. Free.
Jack Straw Writers at NW Folklife Festival
Fri May 24 at 6:30 pm.Reading
Jack Straw authors Peter Munro, Jay McAleer, Larry Crist, Kate Carroll De Gutes, Josephine Ensign, and Corry Venema-Weiss read at Folklife, along with our state's poet laureate, Kathleen Flenniken. Free.
Literary Fiction 1st and 2nd Year Class, UW Continuing and Professional Education
Fri May 24 at 6:30 pm.Reading
This is the culmination of a literary fiction-writing class at the University of Washington. Free.
Marivi Soliven, Donna Miscolta
Fri May 24 at 7 pm.Reading
The Mango Bride is a novel about "two Filipinas, one banished by her wealthy family, the other a mail order bride." Free.
Robert Wrigley
Fri May 24 at 7:30 pm.Reading
Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems is Wrigley's ninth book of poems. One of the poems is about a cow. Free.
Lucas Mann
Sat May 25 at 4 pm.Reading
Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere is a story about a system of baseball farm teams. Free.
Dennis Caswell, Jodie Marion
Sat May 25 at 7 pm.Reading
Marion's chapbook Exile on the 45th Parallel is "winner of Floating Bridge's 2012 Chapbook Award." Caswell's first poetry collection is titled Phlogiston. Free.
Laura Read, Maya Jewell Zeller
Sun May 26 at 3 pm.Reading
Read has written a poem titled "This Time We'll Go to Kentucky Fried Chicken." Zeller's "I Give You Ten Reasons Why We Can’t Use Roundup on Our Lawn" begins: "As a girl the black-branched plums/behind the far fence were mine because/a giant row of nettle and snowberry/blocked them from the cows." Free.
Jack Skillingstead, Ted Kosmatka
Tues May 28 at 7 pm.Reading
Skillingstead's Seattle-based sci-fi novel is titled Life on the Preservation. Kosmatka's Prophet of Bones is a sci-fi novel about an archaeologist who discovers the world is more than six thousand years old. Free.
Matthew Simmons
Tues May 28 at 7 pm.Reading
If you’ve attended his readings, you know Matthew Simmons is one of Seattle’s best short-story writers. Problem is, his published output has been slim—just one excellent novella and a tiny chapbook of stories about one-man death metal bands—but today that all changes with the publication of a collection titled Happy Rock. Any chance to hear Simmons read his own funny, intelligent stories about awkward lonely people and the roadside attractions they love is cause for celebration, so this launch party for Happy Rock ought to be a goddamned citywide holiday. Free.
Ryan McIlvain
Tues May 28 at 7 pm.Reading
Elders is a novel about Mormons by an author who resigned the Mormon church. Free.
Heather Christo
Tues May 28 at 7 pm.Reading
Heather Christo's Generous Table is a book about cooking for lots of people. Free.
Qais Akbar Omar
Tues May 28 at 7 pm.Reading
Omar's new memoir is titled A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story. Free.
Liner Notes 9 Marvin Gaye-What's Going On with featured poet Paulie Lipman
Wed May 29 at 8 pm.Reading
Nine poets were each assigned a song poets from Marvin Gaye's album What's Going On. Tonight, they'll perform new work in response to those songs. This is a neat idea for a reading. $5.
Sherri Brooks Vinton
Wed May 29 at 6 pm.Reading
Put 'em Up! Fruit: A Preserving Guide and Cookbook has 80 recipes in it. Free.
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