Write to Live for the Week of October 11th

This week, Arts Crush and Richard Hugo House are hosting The Novel: LIVE!, a marathon write-in. Authors will be dropping by local bookstores to talk about their process, as well as writing (LIVE!), at Hugo House. Drop in between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. to heckle.

Hugo House also presents the first of its commissioned literary series on Friday, with Under the Influence, featuring Nancy Rawles, Jess Walter, and Ed Skoog.

10/11/10 10 a.m. Richard Hugo House
The Novel: LIVE!
Arts Crush Literary Week
36 Seattle authors in a six-day do or die writing marathon. Who will merely survive and who will triumph? It’s a no-holds-barred battle to the finish…[cue dramatic music] Who will be the weakest link?

10/11/10 5 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Sara Marcus
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
This reading will include a performance by Led to Sea.

10/11/10 6 p.m. Pilot Books
Writer’s Group
  “New exercises every week. Come prepared to write and discuss.” Aye, Cap’n!

10/11/10 6:30 p.m. Secret Garden Books
David Wiesner
Art and Max
Three time Caldecott Medal winner, Wiesner is finally back in town. His books are lovely. 

10/11/10 7 p.m. Town Hall Seattle
Bill Bryson
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Bryson explores how each room in his house has played a part in the evolution of private life, in his new book.

10/11/10 7 p.m. UW Bookstore
David Weber
Out of the Dark
The author of the Honor Harrington series (which mostly rocks, by the way) visits to promote a new novel that is not part of the HH series. Out of the Dark is based on a short story of the same name that was published in the Warriors anthology.

10/11/10 7 p.m. Seattle Public Library
Gail Collins
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
The very, very interesting 2010 A. Scott Bullitt Lecture in American History.

10/11/10 7 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Joseph O’Neill
Blood-Dark Track: A Family History
Seattle Times book editor Mary Ann Gwinn will be on hand to lead a discussion with O’Neill about his newly republished memoir.

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10/12/10 1 p.m. Barnes & Noble Downtown
Pen Farthing
One Dog at a Time: Saving the Strays of Afhanistan
The author’s tour of duty in Afghanistan took a surprising turn. A lovely, but heartbreaking read for animal lovers.

10/12/10 12 p.m. Seattle Mystery Bookshop
Stuart Neville & Henry Chang
Collusion / Red Jade
Author signings.

10/12/10 5:30 p.m. Sorrento Hotel
Rachel Botsman & Roo Rogers
What’s Mine is Yours: the Rise of Collaborative Consumption
A workshop and discussion of collaborative consumption.

10/12/10 6 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Benjamin Percy
The Wilding
Someone named Pam Houston claims this book is “[n]ot your father’s eco-novel.” I certainly hope not. My father thinks Glen Beck is a climate scientist of the first order.

10/12/10 6:30 p.m. Queen Anne Books
The Novel: LIVE!
Jennie Shortridge & Carol Cassella
The local authors visit Queen Anne as part of the citywide event.

10/12/10 7 p.m. UW Bookstore
Jennifer Donnelly
Revolution
“Devastated by the death of her younger brother, Andi Alpers is flunking out of her prep school and finds her only solace in playing guitar. Her father whisks her away to Paris, where she will be able to work on her senior thesis at a distance from her family’s tragedy, but there she instead finds a mystery about a young prince and a composer from the 18th Century.” – UW

10/12/10 7 p.m. Pilot Books
Joey Comeau
BAMWOOD Opening Ceremony
A reading and party. Pilot Books promises this event will be “wild”.

10/12/10 7:30 p.m. Town Hall Seattle
Alex Ross
Listen to This
The music critic and author of The Rest is Noise visits to skool us.

10/12/10 8 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Robert Michael Pyle
Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year
The Butterfly Guy is BACK!

10/13/10 12 p.m. Seattle Mystery Bookshop
P.L. Gaus
Blood of the Prodigal
First of a new series set in Amish country.

10/13/10 6 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Ted Rall
The Anti-American Manifesto
I’m vaguely surprised that America isn’t spelled with a K in the title of this book by the syndicated political cartoonist.

10/13/10 6 p.m. Hugo House
Write Time
A weekly drop-in writing circle for teens

10/13/10 7 p.m. Trinity Lutheran Church
Larry Colton
No Ordinary Joes: The Extraordinary True Story of Four Submariners in War and Love and Life
This book follows the lives of four guys who survived a Japanese attack on their sub, were imprisoned as POWs, and eventually came home. What happened to them? How did they process and move on? This should be interesting for WWII buffs.

10/13/10 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble U-Village
Mac Barnett
The Brixton Brothers: Ghostwriters Secret
The author reads and signs.

10/13/10 7 p.m. Secret Garden Books
Mary Nethery and Kirby Larson
Benefit for Best Friends Animal Society & Seattle Animal Shelter
The co-authors are teaming up wi
th Secret Garden to raise money for pets, not people.

10/13/10 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble Downtown
Page to Stage
The Scarlet Letter
Kathleen Maki of Intiman Theatre will lead a discussion and activities about the book.

10/13/10 7 p.m. Seattle Public Library
Ron Chernow
Washington: A Life
The award-winning biographer takes on The Big Dub. Someone ask him about the cherry tree story: I dare ya.

10/13/10 7 p.m. UW Bookstore
The Novel: LIVE!
Maria Dahvana Headley, Peter Mountford, & Erik Larson
Three of the writers will drop by UW Bookstore to discuss their part in The Novel: LIVE!

10/13/10 7:30 p.m. Town Hall Seattle
Jonathon Keats
Virtual Worlds
“Conceptual artist and Wired magazine ‘Jargon Watch’ columnist Jonathon Keats investigates the interplay between words and ideas in our fast-paced, tech-driven society, examining how such words get coined; what relationship they have to their subject matter; and why some (blog) succeed, while others (flog) fail.” – UW

10/13/10 7:30 p.m. Town Hall Seattle
Peter D. Ward
The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps
Ward is a NASA astrobiologist, who was originally scheduled to speak in June about the end of the world being nigh, but he had a wee car accident. He’s here now, to tell us all about how to avoid eating Granny. Soylent Green, man, I’m telling you.

10/13/10 7:30 p.m. Hugo House
Stage Fright
A weekly open mic night for teen writers.

10/13/10 8 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Thaddeus Russell
A Renegade History of the United States
“Thaddeus Russell has written the history of the American People Whom Historians Would Rather Forget: the whores, delinquents, roustabouts—the so-called bums and immoral minority who did more for our civil rights and personal freedoms than anyone could count—until now. There is no understanding of American feminism, sexual liberation, civil rights or dancing in the streets without this careful analysis that Russell has put before us.” – Susie Bright

10/14/10 4 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Tom Grimes
Mentor: A Memoir
Grimes examines his long and interesting relationship with Frank Conroy.

10/14/10 5 p.m. Hugo House
Graham Isaac
Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest
“Using photography, cartoon illustrations and prose, he grapples with themes of neighborhood pride, changing social landscapes and alienation from the familiar.” – Hugo House

10/14/10 6 p.m. Ballard Branch Library
It’s About Time
Reading Series
The 253rd (!!!) meeting of this author reading and open mike series.

10/14/10 6:45 p.m. 826 Seattle
Mac Barnett
The Brixton Brothers: Ghostwriters Secret
Barnett reads and signs his new Brixton Brothers YA mystery.

10/14/10 7 p.m. Pilot Books
Anselm Berrigan & Karen Weiser
Poetry reading.

10/14/10 7 p.m. UW Kane Hally, Room 210
Bill Carter
Fools Rush In: A True Story Of Love, War, And Redemption
“A startling portrait of life in a war zone, it demonstrates the extraordinary ability of humans to adapt to even the worst imaginable circumstances.” – UW

10/14/10 7 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Dave Zirin
Bad Sports: How Owners are Ruining the Games We Love
The author of A People’s History of Sports in the United States returns with more zing. He’ll also be making an appearance for 826 Seattle.

10/14/10 7 p.m. Northwest African American Museum
Eugene Robinson
Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America
The Pulitzer Prize winner discusses how the civil rights movement has deepened class divides among African Americans.

10/14/10 7 p.m. UW Kane Hally, Room 220
Jane Yolen
Spencer Shaw Lecture
The amazingly wonderful and prolific author of YA and children’s books graces us with her presence. Tots fab!

10/14/10 7 p.m. UW Bookstore
Tucker Max
Assholes Finish First
This is a signing, and only a signing. You will need to purchase a copy of the book to get a signing ticket. Then you will stand in the signing line to get your new purchase inscribed by the asshole. Then you must go.

10/14/10 7:30 p.m. Town Hall Seattle
Michael Cunningham
By Nightfall
I can’t hold it in anymore: How did this guy win a Pulitzer? No, really, I don’t get it. His books are decently written, but am I the only person who thinks they are kind of trite and banal? Yes? No?

10/15/10 10:30 a.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
T.A. Barron
Ultimate Magic
Barron is the author of over a dozen books. He’s here to read and sign the third book in his Merlin’s Dragon YA series.

10/15/10 11 a.m. Roosevelt High School
Robert Pinsky
Writers in the Schools
Pinsky visits Roosevelt as part of his SAL vist.

10/15/10 12:15 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Michael Cunningham
By Nightfall
The author of A Home at the End of the World and The Hours drops by for a nooner.

10/15/10 6:30 p.m. Queen Anne Books
Julianne, Kristen, & Kari Larsen
Liar, Liar
The sisters stop in to read and sign their joint mystery novel, featuring Cat DeLuca, owner of Pants on Fire Private Investigations.

10/15/10 7 p.m. UW Bookstore
Richard Kadrey
Kill the Dead
John Scalzi recently featured this novel as part of his The Big Idea series: LINKITY.

10/15/10 7:30 p.m. Town Hall Seattle
Edwidge Danticat
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at W
ork
Haitian native Danticat returns with a call to arms for artists, immigrants, and immigrant artists.

10/15/10 7:30 p.m. Hugo House
Hugo Literary Series
Under the Influence
Writers Nancy Rawles, Ed Skoog, and Jess Walter, along with musical ensemble The Board of Education present original work commissioned for Hugo House.

10/15/10 7:30 p.m. Town Hall Seattle
Robert Michael Pyle
Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year
The Butterfly Guy is BACK!

10/15/10 7:30 p.m. Benaroya Hall
Robert Pinsky
Seattle Arts & Lectures
Former three-term U.S. Poet Laureate, founder of the Favorite Poem Project, Washington Post columnist, and Slate editor, Pinksy visits to share his sparkling brilliance with the Emerald City.

10/16/10 9:30 a.m. SAAM
Gurcharan Das
The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma
Part of the Saturday University Sacred Sites of Asia Lecture Series. Das is a big deal in India, and so he should be. This lecture will examine the dialectic between self and society.

10/16/10 2 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Edwidge Danticat
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
She’s baaaaaack!

10/16/10 4 p.m. Green Lake Branch Library
PoetsWest
Open mic.

10/16/10 6 p.m. UW Bookstore
Creepy Tales!
StoryTime for Grown-ups
Every Saturday in October, UW Bookstore staff will read classic tales of terror. And yes, of course Shirley Jackson is on the list. Sheesh.

10/16/10 7 p.m. 826 Seattle
Dave Zirin
Bad Sports: How Owners are Ruining the Games We Love
The author will talk about “How to Write Sports for People Who Hate Sports.” I don’t hate sports. Really. I just think that pro sports are problematic and exploitative, and choose not to spend my money lining owner’s pockets.

10/16/10 7 p.m. Pilot Books
Joshua Baldwin
Poems and Fake Book Reviews
“The west coast launch of Poems and Fake Book Reviews (the innagural release on the new DEPress). The forty-​page, limited-​edition chap­book fea­tures a let­ter­press cover, teal end­pa­pers, and strik­ing illus­tra­tions by the author. Joshua Baldwin’s poems and real book reviews have appeared in Chicago Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Publishers Weekly, and other publications. His novella, The New York Sun: A Story of Los Angeles will be published by Turtle Point Press in the fall of 2011. He graduated from the college at the University of Chicago in 2006, lives in Brooklyn, and blogs regularly for digital emunction. The event was organized by fellow DE blogger Bobby Baird.” – Pilot Books

10/16/10 7:30 p.m. Town Hall Seattle
Rev. Dr. George Hunsinger
“Unfinished Business: Ending U.S. Torture Forever”
Theologian and justice activist, the Reverend Doctor presents food for thought in this lecture. He is the author of The Eucharist and Ecumenism: Let Us Keep the Feast and Disruptive Grace.

10/17/10 2 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
ReACT Theatre
Staged Play Reading Series
The season wraps up with Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang.

10/17/10 3 p.m. Open Books Poem Emporium
Kelli Russell Agodon
Letters From the Emily Dickenson Room
The Kingston, WA, poet reads from her prize-winning collection.