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Nationally-syndicated editorial cartoonist Jeffrey Koterba visits with a compellingly written memoir, Inklings (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)—an account which has him growing up in Omaha with Tourette's Syndrome, his father also suffering from Tourette's, and being struck by lightning along the way. "Distinctive, poignant, genuine, innocent and absolutely captivating ... This is the opposite of a sentimental survivor memoir ... Koterba pays tribute to the raw materials of his childhood with an unerring eye and shows us how to make art, not in spite of adversity, but because of it." - Richard Dooling. Jeffrey Koterba is also a working musician—lead singer and songwriter for a swing and jump-blues band, the Prairie Cats.
Start: 7:00 pm
Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Long considered one of the most eminent media critics at work today, Ken Auletta has written "Annals of Communication" for The New Yorker since 1992, and ten books—including Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way, Greed and Glory on Wall Street, and World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies. He tackles a big one with his newest, Googled: The End of the World as We Know It (Penguin)—a book which is drawn from unprecedented inside access to Google's founders and executives. Stories big and small are told here. "While the Google phenomenon has spawned dozens of books, Auletta's years of research and firsthand access to insiders, critics, competitors, and commentators give readers a well-rounded perspective on the company and how it fits into the wilder milieu." - Library Journal. Free admission is on a first-come basis. The Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison & Spring). Special $5 parking coupons for the 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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