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Start: 7:00 pm
In their new book, Imagination First: Unlocking the Power of Possibility (Jossey-Bass), Seattle's Eric Liu and co-author Scott Noppe-Brandon of the Lincoln Center Institute, do some education-, business-, and organization-related exploration on the vitality of culture where there is true creativity—and how it might be fostered. It offers both researched information and practical advice. "Imagination First offers a blueprint for tapping into the power of imagination, which is the core of innovation. To main our competitive edge, we need to balance instruction, encouraging our children to be creative and to develop their imaginations ... In today's economy, these skills are essential for success and continued world leadership in the 21st century." - John I. Wilson, National Education Association. Eric Liu's other books include the recent The True Patriot and Guiding Lights: How to Mentor.
Start: 7:00 pm
Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. In his writings over the decades—from magazines to liner notes to such books as Lipstick Traces, The Dustbin of History, The Shape of Things to Come, Mystery Train, and The Old, Weird America (see the Frye Museum's current exhibit derived from this)—Greil Marcus has long been one of our most astute, provocative cultural critics and historians, one discerning links and connecting threads long before the time these connections become considered commonplace. With Harvard professor and co-editor Werner Sollors, Greil Marcus has now shaped a veritable, certainly unprecedented, songbook of and to American literature with A New Literary History of America (Harvard University Press). Over two hundred original essays in over one-thousand pages—Walter Mosley on detective fiction, Gish Jen on The Catcher in the Rye, Paul Muldoon on Carl Sandburg, Jonathan Lethem on Thomas Edison, Gerald Early on Tarzan, and more. "The full national-literary character of the United States is on display in this mighty history and reference work for our time. Written by a distinguished team, under the sure-handed editorship of musicologist and historian Marcus and Sollors, this volume begins with America's first appearance on a map and concludes with the election of President Obama ... Overall, this is an astounding achievement in multiculturalism and American studies, which in the age of Google and the Internet, lights the way ..." - Publishers Weekly. Special thanks to the Seattle Public Library and The Seattle Times. Free admission. The Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison & Spring). Special $5 parking coupons for the Central Library garage are available on a limited basis for those attending. For more information, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, The Seattle Public Library at (206) 386-4636, or see www.spl.org.
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