This Week in Lit: History or Hoax, Moving Memoirs and Live, Nude Ladies
This week we have some racey stuff (per usual), some meaningful stories, and damn good entertainment. Check out Seattle this week!
Laurie Notaro at University of Washington Book Store:
Everyone's felt this pain--the dress looks lovely, perfect on the mannequin, but somehow on your body it seems to be grabbing and hanging in all the wrong places. Life is unfair--but at least there are hilarious women like Notaro around to find the joy and entertainment in life's little mishaps with her new book It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy. She's done it before too with the Idiot Girl books, and the catchy I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies): True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl. Hang out with the Loudmouth and learn what a real woman acts like!
Monday, 7 p.m. // University of Washington Book Store // Free
Tim Brown at Elliott Bay Book Co.:
This historical novel, Second Acts, teeters between fiction and truth--and lets the reader's imagination go kind of nuts. The author was once a fixture in the Chicago literary scene (and publisher of poetry zine Tomorrow Magazine)--and now resides in New York City. But really, any comical novel that involves a mystical, transgender sidekick and a quick history lesson about the dynamic 1830s has already won me over.
Tuesday, 7 p.m. // Elliott Bay Book Co. // Free
Theo Pauline Nestor at Lake Forest Park Third Place Books:
The stories of ordinary people are often the most fascinating--and in We Came to Say: A Collection of Memoir, most of the participating writers have been part of Nestor's "Writing the Memoir" class at University of Washington. Take a second to appreciate remarkable experiences sprouting from the most unlikely sources.
Wednesday, 7 p.m. // Lake Forest Park Third Place Books // Free
Sheila McClear at Elliott Bay Book Co.:
Nudity! Ladies! New York City! In The Last of the Live Nude Girls Shella McClear brings us back to the days when Times Square was bursting with peep shows and naked ladies--a scene that she once thrived in after moving to NYC from a small town. But now she's moved on to writing for the New York Post and sharing the stories of the ladies who inhabit these wild places…not an event to miss out on.
Thursday, 7 p.m. // Elliott Bay Book Co. // Free
Gabrielle Donnelly at Seattle Public Library, University branch:
Not gonna lie--Little Women holds a special place in my little heart, and this novel that explores the lives of Jo March's descendants (AKA Winona Ryder for those who will admit to loving the movie) sounds promising. Covering the same themes of love, loss and family--The Little Women Letters is a modern continuation to a classic story.
Saturday, 2 p.m. // Seattle Public Library, University branch // Free
