Three years after circumstances in Istanbul\, in largest part\, dictated cancellation of a planned Seattle visit for her novel\, The Bastard of Istanbul\, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak makes this long-awaited first visit here\, this for her newest novel\, The Forty Rules of Love (Viking). The author of ten novels in her homeland\, and now five in English\, Elif Shafak (or Safak) in The Forty Rules of Love weaves together two narratives\, set hundreds of years apart\, linking an unhappy\, contemporary U.S. housewife and the great Sufi mystic and poet Jelaluddin Rumi\, and his dervish mentor\, Shams of Tabriz. \\"In The Forty Rules of Love\, Elif Shafak has woven a wonderful tale of spiritual longing\, brilliantly exploring the universal desire for intimacy—\;with another human being\, as well as with the divine. It is provocative in the best sense of that term\, a rare novel that succeeds in illuminating the mystical aspects of daily existence\, a novel of intelligence as well as heart\, with wisdom that infuses every page.\\" - Roland Merullo. With thanks to our friends and neighbors at CAFÉ\; PALOMA (93 Yesler Way\, www.cafepaloma.com) for their assistance. A special post-reading gathering for Café\; Paloma is in the works.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T041742Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100309T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100309T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/kupchan URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/kupchan SUMMARY:CHARLES A. KUPCHAN at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. A National Security Council member during the Clinton administration who is now a professor of international relations at Georgetown\, Charles Kupchan visits Town Hall with his new book\, How Enemies Become Friends\: The Sources of Stable Peace (Princeton University Press).\\"This is a work of admirable breadth and unusual interest. Combining an engaging theoretical framework with an extraordinarily diverse set of case studies\, Kupchan has produced a lucid work that should be valued by both the academic and policymaking worlds in sorting out the relationships among classic diplomacy\, democracy\, and peace.\\" - Anthony Lake. Charles Kupchan is also the author of The End of the American Era. $5 tickets are available at the door starting at 6\:30 p.m. or in advance via www.brownpapertickets.com (or 1-800-838-3006). Preferred seating for Town Hall members. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (entry on Seneca). For more information\, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600\, Town Hall at (206) 652-4255\, or see www.townhallseattle.org.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T041742Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100310T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100310T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/cibookclub URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/cibookclub SUMMARY:ELLIOTT BAY GLOBAL ISSUES & ETHICS BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T041742Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100310T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100310T150000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/daschle URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/daschle SUMMARY:Senator THOMAS A. DASCHLE at the Seattle Sheraton Hotel DESCRIPTION:Breakfast with Champions presented by the KING COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION. The Tenth Annual Breakfast with Champions\, a fundraising occasion sponsored by the King County Bar Association that benefits several good causes\, brings former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle to Seattle as the keynote speaker. He is expected to speak on the current health-care proposals and where they stand. His most recent book is Critical\: What to Do About the Health-Care Crisis (Thomas Dunne Books). Timely\, yes. Tickets are $50 ($500 for a table of ten)\, and available through www.kcbf.org. For more information\, please call (206) 267-7007. The Seattle Sheraton is at 1400 Sixth Avenue.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T041742Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100312T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100312T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/mason URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/mason SUMMARY:ZACHARY MASON DESCRIPTION:Few debuts have arrived on the scene with the lightness and gravity\, and that harken to the original\, in its fullest sense\, as Zachary Mason's luminous novel\, The Lost Books of the Odyssey (Farrar\, Straus &\; Giroux). Yes\, that Odyssey. This is one of the rare cases where one of the enduring works is taken on\, with the result that the new work itself becomes adorned with the essence of timelessness.\\"Spellbinding. In his versions of these ancient myths\, Mason twists and jinks\, renegotiating the journey to Ithaca with all the guile and trickery of Odysseus himself. Rarely is it so reassuring to be in the hands of such an unreliable narrator.\\" - Simon Armitage. \\"A subtle\, inventive\, and moving meditation on what Louis MacNeice calls 'the drunkenness of things being various.'\\" - John Banville.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T041742Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100313T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100313T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/finneyfrock URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/finneyfrock SUMMARY:KAREN FINNEYFROCK DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with HEDGEBROOK. Seattle poet\, novelist\, and current Hugo House writer-in-residence Karen Finneyfrock was a member of three National Poetry Slam teams and honored as a \\"Legend\\" at the National Poetry Slam in Austin in 2006. She reads tonight from her newly published second collection of poems\, Ceremony for the Choking Ghost (write bloody publications). Seattle Magazine chose her as one of their 2009 Spotlight Award winners\, naming her \\"Queen of the Spoken Word.\\" She is also the author of Queen of the Butterfly House.
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