Literature Search
Ethan Rutherford
Tues May 21 at 7 pm.Reading
Rutherford, who is from Seattle originally, reads from his much-praised new book, The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories. Free.
Writers Get to the PowerPoint
Tues May 21 at 7 pm.Reading
A bunch of writers including Kathleen Flenniken, Rachel Kessler, Sierra Nelson, David Schmader, and Greg Stump will perform new work via PowerPoint presentations. Free.
Nathaniel Philbrick
Tues May 21 at 7:30 pm.Reading
Philbrick's newest historical account is titled Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution. $5.
Eli Hastings
Tues May 21 at 7 pm.Reading
Clearly Now, The Rain: A Memoir of Love and Other Trips is about a decade-long relationship. Free.
Urban Waite
Tues May 21 at 7 pm.Reading
The Carrion Birds is thriller by the local author. I didn't enjoy it at all. Free.
Annalee Newitz
Wed May 22 at 7:30 pm.Reading
Newitz is a writer for sci-fi blog iO9. Her new book is titled Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, and it's reportedly an optimistic non-fiction book about the apocalypse. Free.
UW Science Now: Megan F. Gambs, Adam Campbell
Wed May 22 at 6 pm.Reading
This is a discussion of glaciers and what the Earth was like when it was covered with ice. $5.
Dorine White
Wed May 22 at 7 pm.Reading
The Emerald Ring: Cleopatra's Legacy is about a woman who finds a magical ring that used to belong to Cleopatra. Free.
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.
Jon Talton
Thurs May 23, noon.Signing
The Night Detectives is about a private detective agency out to prove that a suicide wasn't a suicide. Free.
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.
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