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Upcoming Literary Events

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Green star Annual Haiku D’ETAT with featured poet Blair

Wed Nov 25 at 8 pm.
322-7030
This is a battle using haiku. Since it the name is a play on "coup d'etat," I will assume that single-named poet Blair is the President of Haiku.
Richard Hugo House
206-322-7030
1634 11th Ave
Seattle (Capitol Hill)
Mon-Fri 9-9, Sat noon-5
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Friday, November 27, 2009

Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan

Fri Nov 27 at 7 pm.
652-4255
Breaking the Sound Barrier contains Goodman's "most piquant articles of the last few years." How many anti-Bush rounds of applause do you think there will be at this reading?
Town Hall
206-652-4255
1119 Eighth Ave
Seattle (Downtown)
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Saturday, November 28, 2009

Green star Greg Bear

Sat Nov 28, noon.
587-5737
Free
Mariposa is the newest book by the great Seattle sci-fi author.
Seattle Mystery Bookshop
206-587-5737
117 Cherry St
Seattle (Downtown)
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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Chef Daniel Orr

Sun Nov 29 at 2 pm.
684-4089
Free
Orr, who is some sort of celebrity chef, reads from his new book FARMFood: Green Living with Chef Daniel Orr.
Seattle Public Library, Ballard Branch
206-684-4089
5614 22nd Ave NW
Seattle (Ballard)
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Little Red Studio Open Mic

6:30 pm
328-4758
Free
Everyone gets five minutes on an open mic in "a very relaxed supportive atmosphere"
Little Red Studio
328-4758
400 Dexter Ave N
Seattle (Downtown)
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Monday, November 30, 2009

JA Jance

Mon Nov 30, noon.
587-5737
Free
Trial by Fire is a mystery by a local author that is not set locally.
Seattle Mystery Bookshop
206-587-5737
117 Cherry St
Seattle (Downtown)
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Green star Chef Daniel Orr

Mon Nov 30 at 7 pm.
624-6600
FARMfood: Green Living with Chef Daniel Orr, is a cookbook with environmental undertones. Tickets include dinner.
Elliott Bay Book Company
206-624-6600
101 S Main St
Seattle (Pioneer Square)
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Caitlin Kittredge

Tues Dec 1, noon.
587-5737
Free
Someone named Jack Winter sold his soul. In Demon Bound, he learns, shockingly, that that was probably a mistake.
Seattle Mystery Bookshop
206-587-5737
117 Cherry St
Seattle (Downtown)
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JA Jance

Tues Dec 1 at 7 pm.
366-3333
Free
An ex-TV journalist works for the PR department of a police station in Trial by Fire.
Third Place Books
206-366-3333
17171 Bothell Way NE
Lake Forest Park (Out of Town)
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Green star Katharine Harmon

Tues Dec 1 at 7 pm.
634-3400
Free
It's time to look at maps in a different (possibly sexual) light in The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography.
University Book Store
206-634-3400
4326 University Way NE
Seattle (University District)
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Green star Alan Boyle

7:30 pm
652-4255
The Case for Pluto: How a Little Planet Made a Big Difference is all about how Boyle believes that Pluto is a planet. People apparently feel very passionately about this.
Town Hall
206-652-4255
1119 Eighth Ave
Seattle (Downtown)
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Green star Richard Price

7:30 pm
621-2230
The author of Lush Life, and a writer of the so-great-all-your-friends-won't-ever-shut-up-about-it TV series The Wire, will discuss his writing.
Benaroya Hall
200 University St
Seattle (Downtown)
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Open Slam

Tues Dec 1 at 8 pm.
441-7966
Slam-a-rama-ding-dong.
Spitfire Grill
441-7966
2219 Fourth Ave
Seattle (Belltown)
Daily 9 am-2 am
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

C.E. Murphy

Wed Dec 2 at 7 pm.
634-3400
Free
"When the ancient Cauldron of Matholwch is stolen from a Seattle museum and a dark pall spreads over the city," a ghost whisperer is forced to fix things in Walking Dead (The Walker Papers, Book 4),
University Book Store
206-634-3400
4326 University Way NE
Seattle (University District)
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Jerry Brewer

Wed Dec 2 at 7 pm.
366-3333
Free
The author of Gloria's Miracle: A Young Girl, a Deadly Disease and an Enduring Lesson about the Power of Faith talks about a 7 year-old with terminal cancer, and about how her family was told by God that she would survive.
Third Place Books
206-366-3333
17171 Bothell Way NE
Lake Forest Park (Out of Town)
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Michael Meade

Wed Dec 2 at 7 pm.
255-3113
The World Behind the World: Living at the Ends of Time is a book by a "leading figure in the in the Mythopoetic branch of the Men's Movement."
Broadway Performance Hall
206-325-3113
1625 Broadway
Seattle (Capitol Hill)
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Green star On Creating The Adderall Diaries

Wed Dec 2 at 7 pm.
725-2625
Stephen Elliott teaches a class about memoir writing, using his recent, great book The Adderall Diaries as an object lesson. Ticket price includes a copy of the book.
826 Seattle
206-725-2625
8414 Greenwood Ave N
Seattle (Greenwood)
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Green star Seattle7Writers Reading to Benefit WITS

Wed Dec 2 at 7 pm.
634-3400
Three of the Seattle7Writers—Carol Cassella, author of Oxygen: A Novel; Jennie Shortridge, author of When She Flew; and Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain—will read as a benefit for Writers in the Schools.
University Book Store
206-634-3400
4326 University Way NE
Seattle (University District)
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Green star Elizabeth Grossman

Wed Dec 2 at 7:30 pm.
652-4255
Grossman writes about "a chemical revolution" in Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry. You'll have to pry that bottle of Diet Coke from my cold, dead hands.
Town Hall
206-652-4255
1119 Eighth Ave
Seattle (Downtown)
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Monday, December 7, 2009

Hugo Works in Progress

7 pm
322-7030
Free
An evening "designed to give writers a chance to share what they have been working on in front of fellow writers"
Richard Hugo House
206-322-7030
1634 11th Ave
Seattle (Capitol Hill)
Mon-Fri 9-9, Sat noon-5
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Friday, December 11, 2009

Take a Poem into Your Heart

Second Friday, Sat at 7 pm.
Free
An open mic with featured readers
Ugly Mug
206-772-3751
11425 Rainier Ave S
Seattle (Rainier Valley)
Daily 7 am-2 pm
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