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Start: 6:30 pm
Each month, the Elliott Bay Book Club reads and discusses the best in contemporary fiction with the occasional classic thrown in for good measure. A bold and visionary work by one of our most celebrated writers, The Order of Good Cheer by Bill Gaston, tells two powerful stories separated by the breadth of a continent and exactly 400 years. The first follows legendary explorer and map-maker Samuel de Champlain and his companions, who struggle to endure the long, harsh winter of 1607 in the "new world". Bridging the divide across land and time is twenty-first-century blue-collar worker Andy Winslow, who lives in the Pacific Northwest and shares a hauntingly similar sense of the fragility, grandeur, and ironies of life.
Start: 7:00 pm
--TICKETED DINNER CANCELLED, REPLACED BY AUTHOR MEET & GREET--
In Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager (Skipstone), Seattle's Langdon Cook writes of forsaking the corporate world for life in a cabin off the grid—with his wife and son. Food is a major part of this undertaking, as chronicled here with insight and a sense adventure. "In Fat of the Land, Langdon Cook invites us to share in his enthusiastic, salubrious, wild food foraging quests. Get out of town, breathe in the fresh air, hear the quiet, exercise, feel good, connect with nature and the season—then return to the kitchen to delicious preparations of dandelion greens, squid, fiddleheads, or whatever the quarry. Lively, informative, soul-satisfying narrative." - Jon Rowley. Meet Langdon Cook and order some Fat of the Land fare on the Elliott Bay Café menu tonight in a special pre-reading author meet and greet in the café's Salon Space at 6 p.m. For more information, please see www.elliottbaycafe.com. The 7 p.m. program is also free of charge. Please join us!
Start: 7:30 pm
Presented by SEATTLE ARTS & LECTURES. One of contemporary fiction's masters of dialogue, street-smart observation, and chronicler of big-city life, Richard Price is the third person in SAL's 2009-10 Literary Lecture Series. Speaking to the subject, "True Bones," he'll outline his approaches to writing—approaches which have led to an extraordinary series of novels—The Wanderers, Bloodbrothers, Clockers, and, most recently, Lush Life (Picador), among them. He also has written for HBO's The Wire. "Richard Price is the greatest writer of dialogue, living or dead, this country has ever produced. Wry, profane, hilarious, and tragic, sometimes in a single line, Lush Life is his masterwork. I doubt anyone will write a novel this good for a long, long time." - Dennis Lehane. Tickets and more information via www.lectures.org or (206) 621-2230. Benaroya Hall is at 200 University Street. Elliott Bay will be present with an assortment of pre-signed copies.
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