Each month\, the Elliott Bay Book Club reads and discusses the best in contemporary fiction with the occasional classic thrown in for good measure. Our March selection is The Journey of Little Gandhi by Elias Khoury. A many-layered story of Little Gandhi\, or Abd al-Karim\, a shoe shine in a city fractured by war. Shot down in the street\, Gandhi's story is recounted by an aging and garrulous prostitute named Alice. Ingeniously embedding stories within stories\, Little Gandhi becomes the story of a city\, Beirut\, in the grip of civil war. Laila Lalami in the Los Angeles Times says\, "\;Los Angeles has Joan Didion and Raymond Chandler\, and Istanbul\, Orhan Pamuk. The beautiful resilient city of Beirut belongs to Khoury."\;
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T033530Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100303T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100303T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/chalkerscott URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/chalkerscott SUMMARY:LINDA CHALKER-SCOTT DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T033530Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100304T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100304T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/thompson URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/thompson SUMMARY:GABRIEL THOMPSON DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T033530Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100305T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100305T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/andrews URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/andrews SUMMARY:SIDNEY S. ANDREWS DESCRIPTION:Pioneer Square's Boren Block One\, once home to the Seattle Hotel\, is now best known as the plot of land on which the infamous \\"Sinking Ship\\" parking garage now sits. The hotel's razing in 1961 helped spark the historic preservation movement in the city\, a movement that would\, within a decade\, help save both the Pike Place Market and Pioneer Square from a similar fate. Sidney S. Andrews\, author of Boren's Block One\: A Sinking Ship (Create Space)\, speaks tonight about the block's history\, which includes stories from Seattle's earliest days—\;totem pole thefts\, Japanese American hoteliers\, the ill-fated (recent) monorail\, and more. We can't think of a better time to reminisce about Pioneer Square's past and contemplate its future.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T033530Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100305T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100305T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/sheff URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/sheff SUMMARY:DAVID SHEFF & NIC SHEFF at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:Presented by the RECOVERY CAFÉ\;. Author/journalist David Sheff and his son Nic make this Seattle return to discuss Beautiful Boy\: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction (Mariner)\, David Sheff's much-praised family memoir. \\"A brilliant\, harrowing\, heartbreaking\, fascinating story\, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts.\\" - Anne Lamott. \\"When one of us tells the truth\, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our own pain and that of others. That's ultimately what Beautiful Boy is about.\\" - Mary Pipher. Advance tickets ($10/free students) are available through www.brownpapertickets.com or 1-800-838-3006. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information\, please see www.recoverycafe.org.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T033530Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100306T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100306T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/shields URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/shields SUMMARY:DAVID SHIELDS DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T033530Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100306T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100306T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/stallings URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/stallings SUMMARY:ARIEL MEADOWS STALLINGS DESCRIPTION:Thinking of planning a \\"Demolition Derby\\" style wedding? Bride-to-be hipsters\, nonconformists\, and others tying the knot without joining the nation of pink and white will find comfort and advice in Ariel Meadows Stallings' book\, The Offbeat Bride\: Creative Alternatives for Independent Brides (now in a second edition from Seal Press). \\"Finally\, a wedding guide that won't make you puke. Whatever your idea of nontraditional may be\, The Offbeat Bride is here to tell you that it's all gonna be okay.\\" - Wendy McClure\, Bust Magazine.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T033530Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100307T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100307T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/marcy URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/marcy SUMMARY:WILLIAM L. MARCY DESCRIPTION:William L. Marcy\, assistant professor of history at St. Martin's University\, makes the case that the U.S. has\, starting with the joining of the Reagan administration's anti-Communist initiatives with the "\;War on Drugs\,"\; played a large role in actually establishing the drug trade as a central economic base in Central and South America. He talks tonight about this and more\, as chronicled in his book\, The Politics of Cocaine\: How U.S. Foreign Policy Has Created a Thriving Drug Industry in Central and South America (Lawrence Hill Books). "\;Marcy investigates why South American drug trafficking has remained so hardy and lucrative even as the U.S. has spent billions—usually on wrongheaded measures\, as he sees it—to combat both production and export. Costly raids and drug seizures have had minimal impact on production and no impact on U.S. consumption\, argues Marcy ... Marcy's connections and conclusions richly reveal how intricately the legitimate and illegal economies are entangled across two continents."\; - Publishers Weekly.
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