Speaking Tour: 3/12 - 3/18
Monday
LESS IS MORE: In Trance of Scarcity: Stop Holding Your Breath and Start Living Your Life, Victoria Castle asks why we feel that nothing is ever enough. Castle's book shows us how to escape this malaise and become more relaxed and alive. Hopefully it doesn't involve crisscrossing the U.S. on a book tour.
7pm // Third Place Books // FREE
NATURE WRITING: Robert Michael Pyle's Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place presents the story of Gray's River, one of the earliest settled communities near the Columbia River. Still isolated, Gray's River stays self-reliant and unspoiled. Nature writer Pyle's book is a love letter to its flora, fauna, and folks.
7pm // University Bookstore // FREE
ONE BRAIN'S STORY: Freeland journalist Dennis Cass's memoir, Head Case: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying to Understand My Brain, talks about his experiences with electric shock, stress tests, and mind-altering chemicals, but also tells the stories of researchers who study the brain, as well as his own family's histories of depression, drug addiction, and bipolar disorder. Sort of a trifecta, there.
7:30pm // Elliott Bay // FREE
Tuesday
SEATTLE ARTS & LECTURES: Kevin Young visits Seattle for the Poetry Series. "In just ten years since his debut, Young has become a leading poet of his generation," says Publishers Weekly, despite the fact that no one you know has ever heard of Kevin Young. Young is a self-avowed packrat, so if he signs a book for you, watch your pen.
7:30pm // Intiman Theatre // Tickets $20 adult/$10 student, under-25
SPIES IN THE HOUSE OF CROW: Curious to learn more about the culture of those noisy neighborhood crows? Co-authors of In the Company of Crows and Ravens, UW professor John Marzluff and artist Tony Angell examine exactly how the winged harbingers of doom are plotting to steal our Cheetos.
6:30-7:45pm // Seattle Public Library Montlake Branch // FREE
Wednesday
TWAIN IMPERSONATOR: In this authorial mugging of Mark Twain’s classic novel, Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literature’s most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn’s father, Pap.
7pm // Third Place Books // FREE
Thursday
SHIT, MEET FAN: The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth is a compelling chronicle of climate change by noted Australian scientist, explorer, and author Tim Flannery, the author of such acclaimed ecological histories as The Future Eaters and The Eternal Frontier.
8pm // Elliott Bay // FREE
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S HOUSE Grant Hildebrand, faculty member of the University of Washington, will speak about Frank Lloyd Wright´s famous Palmer House. Not entirely coincidentally, University of Washington Press has just published Hildebrand´s new book on Palmer House.
6:15-8pm // Seattle Central Public Library // FREE
DRUNKEN POETS: from the ground up presents "A Night of Cheap Wine and Poetry" with featured readers: Elizabeth Austen, Brian Cordell, Keri Healey, Rebecca Loudon, and David Schmader. Hosted by Charla Grenz. Wine: $1/glass. Epic hangover: priceless.
7pm // Hugo House // FREE
Friday
BI-PARTISAN POLITICS: A writer and activist, Jennifer Baumgardner's Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics uses her own life as an inquiry on identity and social change. Gloria Steinem says it's "a jaunty, fearless, personal and political look at bisexuality today... [s]he gives us a glimpse of a freer future in which sexuality is less about who is talking and more about what is said." Great, Gloria. Our glasses just steamed up.
7:30pm // Elliott Bay // FREE
Saturday
A RIVER GUIDE'S TALE: Michael Burke visits with a nonfiction narrative, The Same River Twice: A Boatman's Journey Home. The river in question is actually a series of remote B.C. rivers (the Chutine, Stikine, and Sheslay), which Burke traveled down during a time in his life that apparently cried out to be shared with us.
5pm // Elliott Bay // FREE
CISCOE ON GARDENING: Is your lawn looking lumpy? Is your azalea starting to puzzle ya? (We didn't write that.) Are you interested in thinking outside of the boxwood hedge box? Ciscoe Morris, Seattle’s gardening expert, answers your questions.
6:30pm // Third Place Books // FREE
Sunday
P-TOWN POETRY: Portland poet Paulann Petersen, a two-time Carolyn Kizer Award-winner, reads from A Bride of Narrow Escape. Lawson Inada says her poems "brim with the brilliance of discovery," "venture into the recesses of memory," and "explore the complexity of nature and human nature," but maybe it's worth a shot anyway.
2pm // Elliott Bay // FREE
LOCAL ZINES BENEFIT: Local Zinesters Read (LZR) is a benefit for Hugo House's Zine Archive and Publishing Project. Following a potluck at 6pm, seven local zinesters will read from their zany zines. Yes, the zany was just for alliteration.
7pm // Hugo House // $4-$8
