This Thursday at the Hugo House at 5:30 pm, I’ll be hosting a combination swap meet/happy hour for book-lovers titled Two Books Enter, One Book Leaves. Here’s the deal: The admission price is two books. Bring a couple of novels you loved, but you know you’re never going to read again. Once you’re in, get yourself a drink from the Hugo House’s full bar (there’ll be drink specials) and wander around the tables of books we’ve set up in the cabaret space. Chat with some fellow book lovers. At the end of the night, pick one new-to-you book to bring home with you. All the remaining books will be donated to Friends of the Library; they’ll sell them at their next book sale to raise money for Seattle Public Library. If you show up early, you’ll even be able to chug a couple drinks, grab a bus downtown, and still make it in time for our Police Accountability Forum at City Hall. Everyone wins!
I’ll be bringing a lot of books to the event to prime the pump, so I can guarantee there’ll be some neat stuff there. The next Slog Happy won’t be until March—we’ve got some plans for that one—which makes Two Books Enter, One Book Leaves your best opportunity in February to hang out with fellow literate, Slog-minded folks over drinks. Books and booze make the perfect conversation starter, and that means this should be a fun, laid-back mixer for a good cause. I hope to see you there.
Do they have to be novels? I have a good copy of Tijuana Bibles I keep meaning to unload. Don’t any fellow literate Slog-minded folks want to see crudely drawn and misspelled X-rated comic panels of the early 20th century?
The next SLOG Happy clearly cannot wait until March.
SLOG Happy Regulars – ASSEMBLE!
i love this idea!! wish i was in town
Wait, the next Slog Happy is in March? Also, I love this idea.
Those Mercury jerks need to get some equivalent of this going on down here in portland.
What about a chapbook? Can I bring that?
We’ll also be putting out some good ones, too, including books from upcoming and past Hugo Literary Series authors Victor LaValle, Phillip Lopate and others. So come, drink and talk lit with us, Slog-folks.
Can you bring more than two books?
Now I’m missing Seattle more than ever.
i love this! but i have to ask as well – does this mean no slog happy next week? comte and the rest, let’s make it happen anyway like we did in january!
@1: No, they don’t have to be novels.
@8: You can absolutely bring more than two books.
I totally love this idea and would attend if not for the fact that it starts right when I am to get off work downtown. A++ on the concept and name, tho.