This Week in Lit: Naked with Food, Crushed Hearts, and Sketchy Portland
This week we have a little art, a little sexy food, and some first love gone wrong!
It's going to be an interesting week...
SEATTLE7 at Elliott Bay Book Co.:
It’s a reading tonight with SEATTLE7—the collective of Pacific Northwest authors who just finished their book project, Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices. This is just one in a series of readings for this group, though tonight features Dave Boling, Peter Mountford, Erica Bauermesiter, Kit Bakke, Matthew Amster-Burton, and Jennie Shortridge. They’ll be around to chat about their contribution to this project—and what other interesting things may be ahead. You’ve gotta love this group not only for their ingenuity, but also for the fact that sales of their book help local literary programs like “Writers in the Schools” and “Powerful Voices”. You can get more information at www.seattle7writers.org. Word.
Monday, 7 p.m. // Elliott Bay Book Co. // Free
Patricia Junker at Elliott Bay Book Co.:
Beauty and Bounty: American Art in an Age of Exploration is an exhibit currently showing at Seattle Art Museum. And tonight at Elliott Bay we have Patricia Junker—Curator of American Art at SAM—giving a talk about her book (with an incredibly long title) that is tied to the exhibit, Albert Bierstadt: Puget Sound on the Puget Coast: A Superb View of Dreamland. The book is all about Bierstad’s painting, “Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast”, and his travels in our area.
Wednesday, 7 p.m. // Elliott Bay Book Co. // Free
Tiberio Simone & Matt Freeman at Vermillion:
Food can be sexy! Or maybe it’s just that food strategically placed on naked bodies is sexy?
Regardless, Book It Northwest and Elliott Bay Book Co. present this evening with Tiberio Simone—James Beard Award-winning chef and foodie extraordinaire—and photographer Matt Freedman. The duo will be signing copies of their new book, La Figa: Visions of Food and Form—a book bursting with pictures of models wearing little more than Simone’s delicious creations. I hear there may even be some food available at the event…just please, try to keep your clothes on.
Thursday, 7 p.m. // Vermillion // Free
Kerry Cohen, Kevin Sampsell and Lidia Yuknavitch at University Book Store:
Oh, first love. It’s never really a pretty thing—often awkward and bittersweet…with a generally painful conclusion. But it’s always nice to know that you’re not alone—many of these experiences are universal, and with Crush: 26 Real-life Tale of First Love, you have an entire collection of these stories. Three of the many people who contributed to this book of essays will be on hand to share their real-life tales of first love—authors Kerry Cohen (of It’s Not You, It’s Me), author of A Common Pornography, Kevin Sampsell, and Lydia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water. Bravely sharing their own sordid tales of love—one can only assume that this will turn out to be an entertaining and nostalgic evening.
Thursday, 7 p.m. // University of Washington Book Store // Free
Robert C. Donnelly at Elliott Bay Book Co.:
We all know that our neighbors to the South can be a bit wild—and Gonzaga history professor Robert Donnelly backs this historically sketchy behavior up with Dark Rose: Organized Crime and Corruption in Portland. Delving into the Portland of the 1950s, we encounter corruption and deceit on all levels of government, and in all the nooks and crannies of the city. Of course Seattle’s history is far from perfect, but it’s always entertaining to learn about the dark secrets of others—enjoy!
Friday, 7 p.m. // Elliott Bay Book Co. // Free
