Did You Vote the Week of November 1, 2010?

Tomorrow is election day. Hopefully, you have already sent in your absentee ballot. If you haven’t, find a polling place and vote! Did you know that Australians have to vote, it’s the law? Do you want socialized-Australian-gay-anchor-baby-marriage ballots? Then you gotta vote, y’all! If you don’t vote, then I will sing, and no one wants that.

11/01/10 12 a.m. Seattle Public Library
Starting today, fines and fees for overdue items will increase, in an attempt to reduce tardiness and meet budget shortfalls. Ah, well.

11/01/10 4 p.m. UW Parrington Hall Common
Michael Edwards
Small Change: Why Business Won’t Save the World
Zeke Spier of Social Justice Fund, Adam Porsch of the Gates Foundation, and Cynthia Renfro of the Marguerite Casey Foundation join Edwards to discuss “philanthrocapitalism.”

11/01/10 5 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Robert Camuto
Palmento: A Sicilian Wine Odyssey
The author of Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country is in town to share his latest adventures in tippling. Tough life, no?

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11/01/10 6 p.m. Pilot Books
Writer’s Group
“New exercises every week. Come prepared to write and discuss.” Aye, Cap’n!

11/01/10 7 p.m. UW Bookstore
Ch’ŏn Un-yŏng & Hailji
Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture #2 and #3
Join the emerging writers for a reading and signing.

11/01/10 7 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Geoffrey Wolff
The Hard Way Around: The Passages of Joshua Slocum
“As one would expect from Geoffrey Wolff, The Hard Way Around is an engrossing and energetically written life of a very tricky and complex character. Slocum has at last met, in the author of The Duke of Deception, the biographer he has long deserved.” – Jonathan Raban.

11/01/10 7 p.m. Richard Hugo House
Works in Progress
Open mic.

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11/02/10 5:30 p.m. Town Hall Seattle
Election Night Special
Panel Discussion
Join C.R. Douglas, Knute Berger, and others, to watch the returns and hope against hope that the whack-jobs don’t get control of Congress. Beer and wine will be available for purchase, fortunately.

11/02/10 6 p.m. NE Branch Library
Holly Cupala
Tell Me a Secret
The author presents her debut novel about teen pregnancy.

11/02/10 7 p.m. UW Bookstore
David Martin
The Art of Richard Bennett
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of History and Industry, this book places Bennett’s work in the context of major American printmakers and illustrators and the changes in book production inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement.

11/02/10 7 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Rabbi Mark Glickman
Sacred Treasure: The Cairo Geneza: The Amazing Discoveries of Forgotten Jewish History in an Egyptian Synagogue
The Seattle Times columnist tells about the 1897 discovery of a metric shitload of medieval documents in a Cairo synagogue.

11/02/10 8 p.m. Richard Hugo House
Castalia Reading Series
UW creative writing program reading series featuring UW professor Andrew Feld, alumna Elissa Washuta, first year MFA poet Kori Linn, second year MFA fiction writer Rebecca Ainsley and first year MFA fiction writer Kristen Millares Young.

11/03/10 6 p.m. Richard Hugo House
Write Time
A weekly drop-in writing circle for teens

11/03/10 7 p.m. Richard Hugo House
Ann Teplick, et al
The Beauty of a Beet: Poems from the Bedside
New work on the theme of loss and grace with a bit of wit by Ann Teplick, Esther Altshul Helfgott, Courtney Putnam and Richard Gold.

11/03/10 7 p.m. UW Bookstore
S.G. Browne
Fated
If you missed him at ZomBCon, go see him now.

11/03/10 7 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Susan Straight
Take One Candle Light a Room
“A vivid portrait of a mixed-race family, proud yet haunted by the vagaries of the past, and of a woman and a boy trying to bridge two worlds.” – Library Journal

11/03/10 7:30 p.m. Town Hall Seattle
Alex Steffen
Carbon Neutral Cities
The co-founder of Worldchanging is back to discuss sustainability.

11/03/10 7:30 p.m. Town Hall Seattle
Ari Berman
Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics
Berman, political correspondent for The Nation, is joined by Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner New York Times commentator Tim Egan, and The Stranger’s associate editor, Eli Sanders, to talk about politics. Did you vote?

11/04/10 1 p.m. Seattle Public Library
Nikki McClure
How to Cook the Perfect Day
The Olympia artist discusses her latest book.

11/04/10 4 p.m. Green Lake Branch Library
PoetsWest
Poetry reading and open mic.

11/04/10 7 p.m. Palace Ballroom
Amanda Hesser
The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century
Join the NYT columnist for “Cocktails, Canapes, and Claiborne,” at $65 per head.

11/04/10 7 p.m. Richard Hugo House
Cheap Wine & Poetry
Poets Elissa Ball and Evan Peterson, and writers Sean O’Connor and Mary Purdy, close out the season.

11/04/10 7 p.m. UW Bookstore
Miriam Pawel
The Union of Their Dreams
A new look at the UFW that includes previously marginalized activists, and examines conflicts within the organization.

11/04/10 7 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Nicole Krauss
Great House
The author of A History of Love presents her NBA-nominated new novel.

11/04/10 7:30 p.m. Open Books Poem Emporium
Dorothea Lasky & Lewis Warsh
Black Life/A Place in the Sun
Two East Coast poets are in town, doing the reading thing.

11/04/10 7:30 p.m. Town Hall Seattle
Thomas Seeley
Honeybee Democracy
Remember the movie Singles, and the scene where Eddie Vedder and company are sitting around watching a documentary about bees? Maybe they weren’t just stoned stupid, but instead contemplating how bees are an example of collective democratic organization. Yeah.

11/05/10 1 p.m. Town Hall Seattle
John Gottman
Building Stronger Relationships
The Love Doctor is in.

11/05/10 7 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Shailja Patel
Migritude
“Illuminates with compelling artistry and eloquence the shameful secrets of Empire’s history.” – Howard Zinn

11/06/10 1 p.m. Capitol Hill Branch Library
Short Story Writer’s Toolbox
Workshop w/ Anne Leigh Parrish
Space is limited, so call ahead to pre-register.

11/06/10 11 a.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay
BOOKSIGNING! Get your tickets now! EBBC will be holding an archery contest and other events, to celebrate. Please note that Ms. Collins will only be signing copies of Mockingjay.

11/06/10 12 p.m. Richard Hugo House
NaNoWriMo Write-In
Work on your novel at Hugo House, in the company of like-minded lunatics. Every Saturday in November—except 11/13, which means it isn’t every Saturday, is it? Liars! [UPDATE: Brian from Hugo House explains: "The Write-ins are, in fact, every Saturday, but the one on the 13th is also a halfway party, so there will be prizes, etc., and it will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. rather than 12 to 5 p.m., like the other days."]

11/06/10 12 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Stephen Jay Schwartz
Beat
The second novel featuring LAPD detective Hayden Glass and his freaky sexual obsessions. Not that I’m judging, or anything, because that would be wrong and judgy.

11/06/10 4 p.m. Seattle Public Library
Margaret Wilson
Dance Lest We All Fall Down: Breaking Cycles of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond
The local author and anthropologist will discuss the creation of Brazil’s Bahia Street School.

11/06/10 7 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Anne Germanacos
In the Time of the Girls
“The beauty of this unconventional collection is in its details: each moment offers a glimpse at a larger story while giving the reader intimate, wry, and acute details about the narrator or her surrounding characters. This makes for a light and lively reading experience as each moment spins into the next.” – Publishers Weekly

11/06/10 9:30 a.m. SAAM
Boreth Ly
“Lives of Angkor Wat”
A Saturday University Sacred Sites of Asia lecture.

11/07/10 2 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Jack Straw Writers Program
Jack Straw Writers Anthology
Tara Roth, William Carty, Esther Helfgott, and Brian Barr read.