This weeks literary events include visits from Kat Von D of High Voltage Tattoo; the revered Armistead Maupin with his newest Tale of the City; and many people talking about food. What to eat, what not to eat, why one should or should not be vegan... screw 'em all and go have a burger. Moo!
11/08/10 6 p.m. Barnes & Noble U-Village
Kat Von D
Tattoo Chronicles
Best known to sofa surfers for the Miami Ink & L.A. Ink reality shows, Kat Von D is one of the finest portrait tattooists currently working. She's also funny as hell, has terrible taste in men, and is totally hot. Ahem.
11/08/10 6 p.m. Pilot Books
Writer's Group
"New exercises every week. Come prepared to write and discuss." Aye, Cap'n!
11/08/10 6:30 p.m. Secret Garden Books
Laurie Halse Anderson
Forge
The sequel to Chains.
11/08/10 7 p.m. Seattle Public Library
Andrew Lam
East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres
Mmmmm. Pho. I could totally go for some Pho, right now. Or fish ball noodle soup. That would be good. I really like the vegetarian Pho at Long Provincial, though. Pill Hill for fish balls or downtown for tofu and squid-on-a-stick? It's all so difficult.
11/08/10 7 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Mark Kurlansky
Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts
You know you want to go: "A delicious and delectable novel by an award-winning food writer that leaves you wanting more." - Kirkus Reviews
11/08/10 7 p.m. UW Bookstore
William Dietrich
The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest
Dietrich offers the shocking theory that national natural resource policy is messed up. No, really?
11/09/10 4 p.m. UW Suzallo Library, Peterson Room
Patricia Susan Hart
A Home For Every Child: The Washington Children's Home Society In The Progressive Era
I just adopted a kitten. She's real cute. Her ear bones are broken, so when she shakes her head, it rattles. I've named her "Maraca."
11/09/10 6 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Patrick F. McManus
The Huckleberry Murders
What does this mean: '"Bo Tully is a treat for readers who like some western flair and an old-fashioned approach to justice in their mysteries." - Library Journal.' My brain responds 'lynching,' which doesn't make me want to read these stories. I mean, it's Idaho. Mayberry in Idaho, no less.
11/09/10 6:30 p.m. UW Kane Hall, Room 130
Cary Fowler
Feeling the Heat: Food & Famine in a Finite World
End world hunger: eat the rich.
11/09/10 6:30 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Lierre Keith
The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
The Global Issues & Ethics Book Group meeting goes contrarian.
11/09/10 6:30 p.m. High Point Branch Library
Poetrybridge
Poetry Workshop
I already said...
11/09/10 7 p.m. UW Bookstore
Debbie Stoller
Stitch 'n Bitch Superstar Knitting: Go Beyond the Basics
The feminist knitter presents her new Stitch 'n Bitch book.
11/09/10 7 p.m. Arundel Books
Lissa Rankin
What's Up Down There: Questions You'd only Ask your Gynecologist if She Was Your Best Friend
Vagina dialogues.
11/09/10 7 p.m. Burke Museum
Ray Troll
Something Fishy This Way Comes: The Artwork of Ray Troll
You've seen his work on T-Shirts, cards, door mats, and Allah knows what else. Meet the man behind the fish.
11/09/10 7:30 p.m. Benaroya Hall
Daniel Handler, w/ Sherman Alexie
"Why Does Lemony Snicket Keep Following Me?"
Seattle Arts and Lectures presents a very strange man.
11/09/10 7:30 p.m. Good Shepherd Center
Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Heavenly Questions
The inaugural even of Open Books' new Open Elsewhere Series. The poet will read in the Chapel Performance Space.
11/10/10 8:30 a.m. Town Hall Seattle
Fierce Leadership
Susan Scott
A panel discussion about replacing best practices with superior practices.
11/10/10 12 p.m. Seattle Mystery Bookshop
Patrick F. McManus
The Huckleberry Murders
What does this mean: '"Bo Tully is a treat for readers who like some western flair and an old-fashioned approach to justice in their mysteries." - Library Journal.' My brain responds 'lynching,' which doesn't make me want to read these stories. I mean, it's Idaho. Mayberry in Idaho, no less.
11/10/10 6 p.m. Richard Hugo House
Write Time
Weekly
Weekly drop-in writing group for teens.
11/10/10 6:30 p.m. University Child Development School
Daniel Coyle
The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
Or, how to turn a perfectly normal kid into a neurotic spree shooter. Free!
11/10/10 7 p.m. UW Bookstore
Armistead Maupin
Mary Ann in Autumn: A Tales of the City Novel
Love him or hate him, Maupin brought "gay fiction" into the mainstream, and he's still going at it, after 30 years. Thank you, sir!
11/10/10 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble U-Village
Joanna Philbin
Daughters Break the Rules
Second title in the Daughters series.
11/10/10 7 p.m. Sorrento Hotel
Laurie David
The Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connect With Your Kids, One Meal at a Time
Warren Etheredge interviews the author.
11/10/10 7 p.m. Richard Hugo House
Stage Fright
Weekly
Open mic for teens.
CANCELED: 11/10/10 7 p.m. Seattle Public Library
Ursula LeGuin & Roger Dorbrand
Out Here: Poems and Images from Steens Mountain Country
This is worth not meeting your NaNoWriMo word count for, seriously. Ursula LeGuin! If you don't love her like cooked foods, then you are a sad and soulless person, and I pity you.
11/10/10 7:30 p.m. Barnes & Noble U-Village
Ted Kerasote
Pukka: The Pup After Merle
Pukka and Ted's excellent adventures.
11/11/10 2 p.m. Barnes & Noble Downtown
Jack De Yonge
Boom Town Boy: Coming of Age on Alaska's Lost Frontier
Tundra Tom Sawyer.
11/11/10 4 p.m. Inner Chapters Books
Milan Heger
The Art of Freedom
Local author.
11/11/10 6:30 p.m. Secret Garden Books
Jennifer Worick
Simple Gifts
Attendees will attempt to craft things under the influence. Friends don't let friends glue drunk.
11/11/10 7 p.m. Richard Hugo House
Band of Poets
Group Reading
"The music-poetry collective returns featuring Jed Myers, guitar; John Burgess, noise; Ted McMahon, drums; Melet Whinston, cello; and guest poet Venessa Pepoy. The evening's theme is "lyrical poetry and a song or two"—Emily Dickinson, Baudelaire, Patti Smith and the band's own writings, all loosely strung on the thread of what beauty only we mortals can know and feel." - Hugo House
11/11/10 7 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Michael Meade
Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of the Soul
"Carefully re-teaching us words we think we know: genius, destiny, fate, soul, gift, fame and infamy—Michael Meade introduces us to our own soul's interior meanings and our unique life's divinely imprinted designs. I love the thread of these teachings with stories from Meade's own remarkable life. It is a relief to witness the glory of an enlightened elder, here. There is brilliant medicine in this book." - Alice Walker
11/11/10 7 p.m. UW Bookstore
Peter Stekel
Final Flight: The Mystery of a WW II Plane Crash and the Frozen Airmen in the High Sierra
Mummies in the High Sierras.
11/12/10 6:30 p.m. Town Hall Seattle
BiLocal: Writers on Location
Group Reading
Seattle writers Molly Wizenberg, Alex Kuo, and Swil Kanim; New Orleans writers James Nolan, Dedra Johnson, and Jamar Travis; Seattle filmmaker Ben Kasulke; legendary Cajun musician/poet/activist Zachary Richard; and Seattle poet/host Denise Jolly explore the nature of community, not bisexuality. Bummer.
11/12/10 7 p.m. UW Bookstore
Jack Nisbet
The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest
A biography of a man who got a fir tree named after him.
11/12/10 7 p.m. Pilot Books
Les Figures Press
Group Reading
Jennifer Calkins, Matthew Timmons, and Doug Nufer
11/12/10 7 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Michael Fischman
Stumbling Into Infinity: An Ordinary Man in the Sphere of Enlightenment
"Michael Fischman's journey reveals how fears and negative emotions can be transformed into love, compassion, and higher consciousness when a student has an authentic relationship with a wise teacher." - Deepak Chopra
11/12/10 7 p.m. Richard Hugo House
Rose Alley Press
Group Reading
"Poets Robinson Bolkum, Nancy Dahlberg, Donald Kentop, Robert Lashley, Michael Spence, Joan Swift and others read from the anthology "Many Trails to the Summit," published by Rose Alley Press." - Hugo House
11/13/10 9:30 a.m. SAAM
Pam McClusky
"Australian Aboriginal Art as a Guide to Sacred Places"
Saturday University Sacred Sites of Asia Lecture Series. [Is Australia now in Asia? When did that happen? Why does no one tell me these things?]
11/13/10 10 a.m. Richard Hugo House
NanoWriMo Write-In
Halfway Party
Did you make 25K words? How's that carpal tunnel going?
11/13/10 12 p.m. Seattle Mystery Bookshop
Gary Alexander
Disappeared
Fictive "vanished" people reappear. Hijinks ensue.
11/13/10 1 p.m. Capitol Hill Branch Library
Flash Fiction
Jump In! Jump Out!
Workshop with Ann Teplick on very, very short fiction.
11/13/10 2 p.m. Seattle Public Library
Jack Straw Writers Program
Group Reading
Roberto Ascalon, Brian Barr, Katherine Grace Bond, Bill Carty, Martha Clarkson, Amber Flame, Esther Altshul Helfgott, Marjorie Manwaring, Denise Calvetti Michaels, Tara Roth, Louise Spiegler, and Michael Dylan Welch.
11/13/10 2 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Michelle Bates
Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity
BYO camera. Bates's work is currently on exhibit at the Photography Center NW, as part of "Picture Us."
11/13/10 4 p.m. Green Lake Branch Library
PoetsWest
Open mic.
11/13/10 4:30 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Harriet Fasenfest
A Householder's Guide to the Universe: A Monthly Guide on How to Get Back to Basics and Change the World
Every decade has a variation on the theme of "Back to Basics." Urban farming, progressive homemaking, whatever-- this is one of those.
11/13/10 6:30 p.m. Town Hall Seattle
BiLocal: Writers on Location
Group Reading
Seattle writers Molly Wizenberg, Alex Kuo, and Swil Kanim; New Orleans writers James Nolan, Dedra Johnson, and Jamar Travis; Seattle filmmaker Ben Kasulke; legendary Cajun musician/poet/activist Zachary Richard; and Seattle poet/host Denise Jolly explore the nature of community, not bisexuality. Bummer.
11/13/10 7 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Best American Poetry
Group Reading
Sonia Greenfield, Jerry Harp, Pat Hurshell, Julie Larios, Peter Pereira, Martha Silano, Mary Szybist, Molly Tenenbaum, David Wagoner, Cody Walker, Kary Wayson, and Carolyne Wright will read.
11/13/10 8 p.m. Richard Hugo House
David Schmader
Straight
'Schmader blends an essayist’s insight with the spark of stand-up comedy to face difficult questions, avoid easy answers and get to the bottom of just what it means to be “straight.”'- Hugo House
11/14/10 1 p.m. Capitol Hill Branch Library
Journal Writing
Workshop
Journal writing workshop.
11/14/10 2 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Joel Richard Paul
Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright and a Spy Saved the American Revolution
"Unlikely Allies is a nonfiction account, but reads like a Monty Python movies. You can tell it's nonfiction, though, because the bad guys prosper and most of the good characters stop having fun ... How they sinned, those revolutionaries we were taught to revere! What gigantic whoppers they told. (I was especially disillusioned by Tom Paine.) They lied and cheated and routinely went back on their word. They had a pretty good time, though, even Arthur Lee, until they got old and sick and died. The wonder is, our great country came out of such undignified scheming." - Washington Post Book World
11/14/10 4 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company
Douglas Starr
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
"Crime scene analysis, body decomposition studies and profile were all new approaches at this time and many of the issues, including the insanity defense, remain the same. Starr, co-director of Boston University's Center for Science and Medical Journalism, creates tension worthy of a thriller; in Lacassgne, he portrays a man determined to understand the 'how' behind some of humanity's most depraved acts, and perhaps takes us one step closer to the 'why.'" - Publishers Weekly
11/14/10 7 p.m. Richard Hugo House
David Schmader
Straight
'Schmader blends an essayist’s insight with the spark of stand-up comedy to face difficult questions, avoid easy answers and get to the bottom of just what it means to be “straight.”'- Hugo House
11/14/10 7 p.m. Town Hall Seattle
Union Gospel Mission
Songs for Sustenance
A fundraiser with Jason Dodson of the Maldives, Give It To Me Rusty, and Stenobot. $20 donation requested.
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