READINGS
THURSDAY 9/6
DAVID BANKS
Bill Gates is dead–long live Bill Gates! David Bank reads from and signs Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft. Bank, a Wall Street Journal reporter, uncovers an anguished struggle between Microsoft executives for the soul of the company! University Bookstore, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
DEEPAK CHOPRA
Wise Deepak Chopra will speak softly for 10 minutes, answer a few questions, and then sign copies of his books. Buy a book and receive a numbered ticket for the signing line! In his newest book, Grow Younger, Live Longer, he presents “10 practical steps that enable readers to re-set their biological age” by as much as 15 years! Jack London once wrote, “I will not waste my days trying to prolong them.” Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park Town Center, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3333, 7 pm, free.
* PHILIP GOUREVITCH
See Stranger Suggests. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 634-3400, 7:30 pm, free; call 624-6600 for details.
BRIAN HERBERT, JACK CADY
Award-winning authors discuss their lives and work. Seattle Writers Association, 6556 35th Ave NE, 860-5207, 7:30 pm, free for members, $4 for non-members.
FRIDAY 9/7
* PATRICIA AND ROBERTA WELLS, PETER STEKEL
Sisters Patricia and Roberta Wells harvested the best food scenes from over 140 mainstream detective novels, and then wrote a book–Food, Drink, and the Female Sleuth–about private investigators, cops, the food they eat, and the people who cook it. Also: award-winning author Peter Stekel tackles “botany and global arms-trading” in his new mystery thriller The Flower Lover, about a man named Richard Garcia who is investigating the disappearance of a rare orchid. Third Place Books, 6:30 pm, free.
JOSEPH GREEN
This poet and Lower Columbia College prof reads from his book, End of Forgiveness. Elliott Bay Book Company, 7:30 pm, free; call 624-6600 for details.
SATURDAY 9/8
KEVIN O’ MORRISON
Who is Kevin O’ Morrison? He is a prominent actor and playwright who just moved to Edmonds from the Big Apple (he had a role in Sleepless in Seattle). Today, he reads from his just-released first novel, The Dead File. Elliott Bay Book Company, 4 pm, free; call 624-6600 for details.
ALDO ALVAREZ
Aldo Alvarez reads from his new book, Interesting Monsters. Alvarez is gay, and writes gay experimental short fiction, but not the bad kind. He’s also Puerto Rican, and editor/publisher of the online zine Blithe House Quarterly. Elliott Bay Book Company, 7:30 pm, free; call 624-6600 for details.
JIM DAVES, TOM PORTER
The Glory of Washington: The People and Events that Shaped the Husky Athletic Tradition is the name of the book, and co-authors Jim Daves and W. Thomas Porter will co-sign it. University Bookstore, 10 am, free.
MONDAY 9/10
ALLEN KURZWEIL
Kurzweil is the noted younger novelist of a new work called The Grand Complication, about a reference librarian who becomes enmeshed in fascinating intrigues! Kurzweil’s debut novel, A Case of Curiosities, was highly acclaimed. Elliott Bay Book Company, 7:30 pm, free; call 624-6600 for details.
DAVID EMBLIDGE
This former college teacher and current editor-in-chief at The Mountaineers Books has now placed before the feet of the world a book of Eleanor Roosevelt’s newspaper columns. Emblidge’s book, which he edited, is called My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962. This is the first book in the history of our great civilization to present the columns of this great American woman, who is rumored to have cuckolded her wheelchair-bound husband. Elliott Bay Book Company, 7:30 pm, free; call 624-6600 for details.
TESS GERRITSEN
I think this event falls into the “people who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like” category. Tess Gerritsen writes medical thrillers that Stephen King apparently likes to read when he is not getting run over by cars. Her book is called The Surgeon (a chillingly simple title, yes?). Third Place Books, 5:30 pm, free.
LIZA DALBY
The Tale of Genji is certainly a great novel; The Tale of Murasaki is, at best, dubious. The author, Liza Dalby, is the only westerner (white woman) to have ever become a geisha (the Other). In her favor, Dalby has written two highly respected works of nonfiction, Geisha and Kimono. Third Place Books, 7 pm, free.
TUESDAY 9/11
CHARLES J. HANLEY, MARTHA MENDOZA
Charles J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza talk about and sign The Bridge at No Gun Ri. Co-authored with Sang-Hun Choe, a fellow AP reporter based in Seoul, the book reveals the untold story behind the massacre of Korean civilians by American soldiers during the Korean War. University Bookstore, 7 pm, free.
HANK LENTFER
Hank Lentfer is an Alaska resident and activist who co-wrote the book Arctic Refuge: A Circle of Testimony with author Carolyn Servid of Sitka, Alaska. The book is a collection of works from writers (and activists) trying to save the wilderness. (But why do we need to save the wilderness, or bears, or beavers? What we need is more concrete, more buildings, more bridges.) Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free; call 624-6600 for details.
GERALDINE BROOKS
Geraldine Brooks is a world traveler and correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Quick digression: Dear reader, do you recall “Geraldine” from The Flip Wilson Show? Just thinking about her makes my mind laugh out loud. Anyway, Geraldine Brooks is the author of Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. In her new book, Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, she goes back in time to the 17th century. Elliott Bay Book Company, 7:30 pm, free; call 624-6600 for details.
* BUFFY SANDERS
Buffy Sanders is the ultimate wife! She saved her husband from prostate cancer with delicious food. The Prostate Diet Cookbook: Cancer-Fighting Foods for a Healthy Prostate describes how she accomplished this amazing feat. Sanders will autograph copies of this very important book. Marlene’s Market and Deli, 31839 Gateway Center Blvd S, Federal Way, (253) 839-0933, 7 pm, free.
* KATHLEEN ALCALA and EMILY WHITE
Richard Hugo House introduces new Writers-in-Residence Kathleen Alcala and Emily White (former editor-in-chief of this paper). To inaugurate their terms, Acala and White will read from their excellent work. The public will then applaud and demand everything from these writers–especially their souls! Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, 322-7030, 7 pm, free.
WEDNESDAY 9/12
BOBBIE ANN MASON
When I hear the word “Kentucky,” I think “fried chicken.” Apparently, the K state also produces writers. Bobbie Ann Mason is from Kentucky and writes chicken (I mean fiction). Her new short-story collection is called Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail. Elliott Bay Book Company, 7:30 pm, free; call 624-6600 for details.
SEAN McFALLS
Sean McFalls is an Irish-American bard who lives in Port Angeles, WA, and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Tonight he reads from and signs 20 Poems. University Bookstore, 7 pm, free.
