Literature Search
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.
Anchee Min
Thurs May 30 at 7 pm.Reading
Red Azalea was Min's breakout memoir. It's a book that is loved by many. Her followup memoir, The Cooked Seed, has a steep hill to climb. It's about her arrival in America and what happened after. 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.
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.
BOOST: Poetry to Uplift Your Spirits (A Benefit for Tara Hardy)
Fri May 31 at 7 pm.Reading
Beloved local author Tara Hardy is suffering from a medical condition that requires "a rigorous two-year treatment, the cost of which, not covered by health insurance is $18,000 per year." So this fundraiser features local authors Cedar Adison Smith, Sara Brickman, Karen Finneyfrock, Dorothy Kent, Lisa Slater, and Casey Tonnelly, among others. If we had a single payer health plan in this country, we wouldn't need to throw events like this. But we don't, and so we do. $15 advance, $20 door, $100 reserved seat.
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.
Carlos Lara, John Duvernoy
Wed June 12 at 7 pm.Reading
Lara has recently published a book of automatic writing. Duvernoy is the author a chapbook. Together, the two will read poetry. Free.
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.
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.
Colum McCann
Mon June 17 at 7:30 pm.Reading
Let the Great World Spin was a novel that seemed to take the world by storm. McCann's followup novel, TransAtlantic, is set during three important periods in American and/or Irish history, and it stars Frederick Douglass, a pair of famous aviators, and Senator George Mitchell. $5.
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.
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.
David Lasky, Frank Young
Mon May 20 at 6:30 pm.Reading
The creators of The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song will give a multimedia presentation about their book, which is great. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Eli Hastings
Sat June 22 at 7 pm.Reading
Clearly Now, The Rain: A Memoir of Love and Other Trips is about a decade-long relationship. Free.
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.
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.
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.
Gerard LaSalle
Fri May 31 at 6 pm.Reading
Widow Walk is a novel about the Pacific Northwest in the 19th century. Free.
Hugo Works in Progress
7 pmOpen Mic
An evening designed to give writers a chance to share what they have been working on in front of fellow writers. Sign-up at 6:30. Free.
Jaron Lanier
Thurs May 30 at 7:30 pm.Reading
If you missed Jaron Lanier’s manifesto You Are Not a Gadget, you really have some catching up to do. The book, which imagines a more humane internet, was praised by people as diverse as engineers, software designers, Zadie Smith, and me. Now Lanier has returned with a new book titled Who Owns the Future?, and he’s giving a talk about how digital technology can save our economy. This one is not to be missed. $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.
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