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:20120524T103850Z 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:20120524T103850Z 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:20120524T103850Z 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:20120524T103850Z 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:20120524T103850Z 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.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100314T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100314T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/ballet URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/ballet SUMMARY:Conversations with PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET presents 3 BY DOVE DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100314T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100314T230000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/pine URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/pine SUMMARY:RED PINE at Seattle Asian Art Museum DESCRIPTION:Presented by the GARDNER CENTER FOR ASIAN ART AND IDEAS. The Gardner Center hosts what should be a delightful program as noted translator and author (as Bill Porter) Red Pine discusses the recently released new edition of his translation of Lao-Tzu's Taoteching (Copper Canyon Press). This translation features not only Lao-Tzu's timeless poetic text\, but translations of selected Chinese commentaries over the past 2\,000 years. \\"With its clarity and scholarly range\, this version of the Taoteching works as both a readable text and a valuable resource of Taoist interpretation.\\" - Publishers Weekly. Some other recent Red Pine translations include\: In Such Hard Times\: The Poetry of Wei Ying-wu\, The Platform Sutra\, The Heart Sutra\, The Diamond Sutra\, Poems of the Masters\: China's Classical Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse\, and The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain. There are also Bill Porter's books\: Zen Baggage\: A Pilgrimage to China and Road to Heaven\: Encounters with Chinese Hermits. Free entry\, with Seattle Art Museum admission. Advance reservations suggested. Please see www.seattleartmuseum.org for more information. The Seattle Asian Art Museum is at 1400 E. Prospect in Volunteer Park.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100316T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100316T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/lee URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/lee SUMMARY:CHANG-RAE LEE at Seattle Public Central Library DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Award-winning novelist Chang-rae Lee\, who has read with Elliott Bay for each of his three highly acclaimed novels\, makes this welcome Seattle return for his much-anticipated new novel\, The Surrendered (Riverhead). Good as Native Speaker (winner of the PEN-Hemingway Award)\, A Gesture Life\, and Aloft\, his earlier novels were\, The Surrendered signals a major leap\, in every way. \\"The odyssey of a Korean War refugee becomes first the subject of\, then a haunting overture ... In its ineffably quiet way\, there really is something Tolstoyan in this searching fiction's determination to understand the characters specifically as members of families and products of other people's influences ... A major achievement\, likely to be remembered as one of the year's best books.\\" - Kirkus Reviews. \\"Lee's masterful fourth novel bursts with drama and human anguish as it documents the ravages and indelible effects of war ... traumas reverberate throughout the characters' lives\, determining the destructive relationship that develops ... as the plot rushes forward and back in time\, encompassing graphic scenes of suffering\, carnage\, and emotional wreckage. Powerful\, deeply felt\, compulsively readable and imbued with moral gravity\, the novel does not peter out into easy redemption. It's a harrowing tale\: bleak\, haunting\, often heartbreaking—\;and not to be missed.\\" - Publishers Weekly. Free admission is on a first-come\, first serve basis. Special $5 parking coupons for the Central Library garage are available on a limited basis for those attending the program. The Microsoft Auditorium of the Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison and Spring). For more information on tonight\, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600\, The Seattle Public Library at (206) 386-4636\, or see www.spl.org.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100317T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100317T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/sfbookclub URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/sfbookclub SUMMARY:SPECULATIONS - ELLIOTT BAY SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100317T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100317T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/conover URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/conover SUMMARY:TED CONOVER DESCRIPTION:In his new book\, The Routes of Man\: How Roads are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today (Knopf)\, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning writer Ted Conover takes routes in use in the world today—\;and masterfully tells a big story of how we are connected—\;and separated—\;by the roads and routes we make to travel on\, to transport goods\, to make escapes\, and also to control. Peru\, the West Bank\, the Himalayas\, Nigeria\, east Africa\, and China\: all figure vividly in this arresting\, provocative book by the author of Newjack\, Coyoytes\, and Rolling Nowhere. \\"Ted Conover's exploration of six far-flung roads—\;from a truck route over the Andes to an ambulance crew's rounds in Lagos\, Nigeria—\;will prove a delight\, while at the same time serving to remind that in many places of the world the act of getting around is an art marked by pride\, lust\, corruption\, and bloodshed.\\" - Erik Larson. \\"Ted Conover is one of the great writers of my generation\, and this may be his finest book. Fearless and compassionate\, with echoes of Conrad and Kerouac\, it explores how the road\, once a symbol of limitless possibility\, has become a path to annihilation.\\" - Eric Schlosser.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100318T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100318T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/trussoni URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/trussoni SUMMARY:DANIELLE TRUSSONI DESCRIPTION:Danielle Trussoni received good attention for her 2006 memoir\, Falling Through the Earth\, including citation by the New York Times for being one of the ten best books of the year. She goes a whole other direction for her first novel\, the radiantly absorbing Angelology (Viking). \\"A covert age-old war between angels and humans serves as the backdrop for Trussoni's gripping tale of supernatural thrills and divine destinies ... Trussoni anchors this fanciful dark fantasy to a solid foundation built from Catholic church history\, biblical exegesis\, and apocryphal texts. Suspenseful intrigues and apocalyptic battle scenes give this complexly plotted tale a vigor and vitality all the more exciting for its intelligence.\\" - Publishers Weekly.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100318T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100318T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/garlin URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/garlin SUMMARY:JEFF GARLIN at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:Most known as the co-star and executive producer for the longtime HBO hit\, Curb Your Enthusiasm\, Jeff Garlin has also made the rounds as a stand-up comedian (a Second City alum\, so it might be second nature)\, and as a film director (I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With). His book debut\, My Footprint\: Carrying the Weight of the World (Simon and Schuster)\, is both a laughing matter—\;and not. It is an account of his working to lighten both his carbon footprint—\;and the weight of his very own footprint. Less consumption—\;the attempts—\;are in there somewhere. It is good\, it is edifying\, and some points are made. This should be fun. $5 tickets are available at Elliott Bay or via www.brownpapertickets.com (and 1-800-838-3006) beginning February 24th. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information on this evening\, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100319T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100319T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/malae URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/malae SUMMARY:PETER NATHANIEL MALAE at Rainier Beach Library DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. A young writer whose work has been selected for both the Best American Essays and the Best American Mysteries series\, and has written a praised book of stories (Teach the Free Man)\, Peter Nathaniel Malae visits with a powerful debut novel\, What We Are (Grove Press). \\"The voice is gold ... A high energy rant by a half-Samoan/half-white drifter trying to survive in a world bent on marginalizing seekers of truth and integrity ... [What We Are] bears a message that in the face of the madness of the modern world\, the most important thing is to know yourself and to hold onto that at whatever cost.\\" - Publishers Weekly. \\"Malae possesses a prodigious command of the masculine American idiom and its ironies. Paul—\;the unforgettable protagonist of What We Are—\;is that rarest of literary creatures these days\: a hard-living\, oft-brawling\, culture-straddling\, foul-mouthed juggernaut\, one who's as liable to throw a punch as he is to break your heart.\\" - Rattawut Lapcharoensap\, joined in early praise by Sherman Alexie and Russell Banks. Free admission is on a first-come\, first-serve basis. The Rainier Beach Branch of the Seattle Public Library is at 9125 Rainier Avenue S. For more information on this evening\, please call (206) 386-1906 or Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100320T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100320T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/hugo URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/hugo SUMMARY:HUGO LITERARY SERIES presents \\"LAWS OF ATTRACTION\\" at Kane Hall DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100320T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100320T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/picoult URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/picoult SUMMARY:JODI PICOULT at Seattle Public Central Library DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. A teenage with Aspergers is wrongly accused of the murder of his tutor in popular novelist Jodi Picoult's newest (18th!) book\, House Rules (Atria). These bestselling novels\, which pair compelling and timely stories with thoughtful\, sympathetic characters\, are favorites of many book groups—\;locally and around the country. \\"Picoult is at her razor-sharp best with House Rules. It's both a tender look at the depths of a mother's love and a searing examination of how we treat those who are different\, and whether we expect them to play by the same rules.\\" - BookPage. Free admission is on a first-come\, first-serve basis. Special $5 parking coupons for the Central Library garage are available on a limited basis for those attending. The Microsoft Auditorium at the Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison and Spring). For more information\, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600\, The Seattle Public Library at (206) 386-4636\, or see www.spl.org.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100321T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100321T210000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/react URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/react SUMMARY:REACT THEATRE presents 'NIGHT\, MOTHER DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100323T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100323T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/perkinsvaldez URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/perkinsvaldez SUMMARY:DOLEN PERKINS-VALDEZ at Douglass-Truth Library DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the CENTRAL DISTRICT FORUM FOR ARTS &\; IDEAS and THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Dolen Perkins-Valdez' historically-set debut novel\, Wench (Harper Amistad) is one of those books we've most wanted to share with readers this season. The chronicle of four slave women who are also their masters' mistresses\, Wench is set in a popular Ohio resort where slaveholders (and mistresses) gather during the summer. Witness to the growing abolition movement with this Free State\, these women must each decide whether to run or stay. Dolen Perkins-Valdez\, who is bicoastally based in both Seattle and the Washington known as D.C.\, based this novel on research into the period and the actual Xenia\, Ohio resort where this story is set. \\"Heart-wrenching\, intriguing\, original\, and suspenseful\, this novel showcases Perkins-Valdez' ability to bring the unfortunate past to life.\\" - Publishers Weekly. Free admission. The Douglass-Truth Branch of the Seattle Public Library is at 2300 East Yesler. For more information on this evening\, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600\, or see www.cdforum.org.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100323T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100323T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/nesbo URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/nesbo SUMMARY:JO NESBO at Leif Erikson Hall DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100324T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100324T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/drama URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/drama SUMMARY:STAGES - ELLIOTT BAY DRAMA BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100324T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100324T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/braden URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/braden SUMMARY:ALLEN BRADEN\, KEVIN MILLER & DEREK SHEFFIELD Group Reading DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100325T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100325T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/sundaresan URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/sundaresan SUMMARY:INDU SUNDARESAN DESCRIPTION:A writer whose work is popular in her home country of India\, Indu Sundaresan has been doing that writing here in the Seattle area—\;and winning readers in the U.S. (and elsewhere)\, as well. She follows her recent book of present-day stories\, In the Convent of Little Flowers\, with a return to historically-set\, Mughal-era novels that she is first known for. The Twentieth Wife\, The Feast of Roses\, and The Splendor of Silence\, are now joined by her newest\, Shadow Princess (Atria). \\"Sundaresan returns to 17th-century India in this romantic fictionalization of the life of Jahanara\, the oldest child of the empress Mumtaz Mahal\, Shah Jahan's cherished wife ... Simdaresan has a scholar's fascination with the period ...\\" - Publishers Weekly. Mumtaz Mahal was immortalized\, in death\, by the building of the Taj Mahal. This novel becomes the imagined story of the life of a princess who in history did play a part in governance\, albeit with much intrigue and mystery. All the richer\, hence\, for the place of fiction—\;and this winning\, wonderful new novel.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100327T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100327T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/spragg URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/spragg SUMMARY:MARK SPRAGG & LAURA BELL DESCRIPTION:Wyoming is the story with this visit by two excellent writers who call the state home. Mark Spragg\, who has been this way before with his award-winning memoir\, Where Rivers Change Directions\, and his novels The Fruit of Stone and An Unfinished Life\, is here tonight with a new novel\, Bone Fire (Knopf). A murder in a Wyoming town methlab sets certain things in motion\, the unfolding of mysteries of a larger dimension. \\"A tribute to the human state and an outstanding work ... Not one word is out of place\, and each and every character is well drawn and intensely believable ... This 'bone fire' is in fact the burning we call life\, symbolizing our shared pain as human beings.\\" - Henry Bankhead\, Library Journal. From Cody\, Wyoming\, comes Laura Bell with a remarkable nonfiction debut\, Claiming Ground\: A Memoir (Knopf). \\"First\, it is the language you notice\: phrases\, whole passages composed with the musical authority of psalms. Then it is the evocation of place\, Wyoming rising from these pages as actual as a wild perfume. But\, start to finish\, it is her honesty that keeps you up in the night\, wondering at the frailty of what it means to be human and glad and brave and\, at times\, broken.\\" - Mark Spragg.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100327T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100327T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/moby URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/moby SUMMARY:MOBY & MIYUN PARK at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100328T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100328T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/febos URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/febos SUMMARY:MELISSA FEBOS DESCRIPTION:Melissa Febos co-curates and hosts New York City's Mixer Reading and Music series\, has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence\, and teaches at both SUNY Purchase and the Gotham Writers' Workshop. En route to all of this\, she spent much of her younger adult life as a sex worker. She tells the story of her years as a drug addict and dominatrix (\\"one of the few high-paid acting gigs in the city\\") in Whip Smart (Thomas Dunne Books). \\"Febos' candid\, hard-slugging debut about her four years working as a dominatrix at a midtown Manhattan dungeon cuts a sharp line between prurience and feminist manifesto.\\" - Publishers Weekly. \\"Melissa Febos masterfully brings us into these unexpected\, unsettling places\, the least of which are the dungeons she so vividly—\;briefly—\;occupies. Whip Smart is a wild\, bright-eyed ride home.\\" - Nick Flynn.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100328T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100328T210000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/react1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/react1 SUMMARY:A Staged Reading of MRS. PACKARD by Emily Mann DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with support from REACT THEATRE and ABRAMS ARTISTS AGENCY. Elliott Bay's Eleventh Annual Staged Play Reading Series continues with a second reading this month as we bid a fond farewell to our venue for over a decade. Today's featured play will be the exciting new drama set in Illinois in 1861\, Mrs. Packard by Emily Mann. Without proof of insanity\, Elizabeth Packard is committed by her husband to an asylum. Based on historical events\, Mann's play tells of one woman's courageous struggle to right a system gone wrong in this winner of the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award. You won't want to miss this engaging\, significant and passionate play. Please join us for this unique blend of theatrical staging and the spoken word. Free Admission\, ($5 suggested donation at the door.) Reservations encouraged. For additional information visit www.reacttheatre.org.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100330T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100330T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/mcclelland URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/mcclelland SUMMARY:MAC McCLELLAND at Seattle University DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100330T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100330T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/roy URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/roy SUMMARY:ARUNDHATI ROY at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with SEATTLE ARTS &\; LECTURES. We are delighted and honored to again help present one of the most vital\, arresting writers at work in the world today\, Arundhati Roy. The Booker Prize-winning author of the 1997 novel\, The God of Small Things\, and the author\, since\, of a series of compelling\, political non-fiction books\, it is with the most recent of these\, Field Notes on Democracy\: Listening to Grasshoppers (Haymarket Books)\, that she visits Seattle this evening. \\"After so much celebratory salesmanship about India the 'emerging market\,' Roy draws us into India the actual country\, peeling away the gloss until we are confronted with perhaps the most challenging question of our time\: who and what are we willing to sacrifice in the name of development? Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time.\\" - Naomi Klein. \\"Arundhati Roy\, the direct descendant of Antigone\, resists and denounces all tyrannies\, pleads for their victims\, and unflinchingly questions the tragic. Reflect with her on the questions she receives from the political world today.\\" - John Berger. Tickets ($15 general/$30 patron) and information are available via Seattle Arts &\; Lectures at www.lectures.org or (206) 621-2230. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca).
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100331T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100331T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/verhoeven URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/verhoeven SUMMARY:PAUL VERHOEVEN with DOUG THORPE DESCRIPTION:Renowned Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven\, whose credits include Robocop\, Basic Instinct\, and The Black Book\, is probably less well-known for his religious interests and pursuits. He is one of a very few non-theologians admitted into the Jesus Seminar\, a group of eminent scholars working in theology\, linguistics\, philosophy\, and biblical history\, whose ranks include Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan\, among others. Paul Verhoeven's book\, Jesus of Nazareth (Seven Stories\, translated by Susan Massotty)\, aspires to reveal the humanity of Jesus\, \\"a true radical who brought humanity a few steps closer to an enlightened view of ourselves.\\" \\"Paul Verhoeven breaks out of the box of scholarly orthodoxy with this thoughtful and daring reassemblage of the evidence—\;old and new—\;for the life of Jesus ... The result is a revelation for scholar and casual reader alike.\\" - Chris Shea. Paul will be interviewed onstage by Professor Doug Thorpe of Seattle Pacific University.
\; \; \;And yes\, this looks to be the last such evening we will present at 101 South Main Street—\;25-1/2 years after Lewis Hyde held forth in July 1984\, addressing both his then-recent book\, The Gift and this work-in-progress on the trickster—\;we conclude here\, due to resume matters in-house come mid-April at the new place\, 1521 Tenth Avenue. Meanwhile\, writers we present\, and co-present\, will be found here and there\, which is not something entirely new.
Co-presented with RICHARD HUGO HOUSE. As Elliott Bay begins its migration to Capitol Hill—\;closing at 6 p.m. at 101 South Main on March 31—\;we both end a month\, signify our move uphill\, and\, significantly\, help welcome a wonderful new book in the world with this celebratory evening for the publication of The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs\: Revisiting the Northwest Towns of Richard Hugo (University of Washington Press). Both author Frances McCue\, who was Hugo House's founding director\, and renowned photographer Mary Randlett will be on hand. A little more information on the book is in the listing for April 4. Free admission. Richard Hugo House is at 1634 Eleventh Avenue—\;a block-and-a-half from Elliott Bay's new location. For more information\, please see www.hugohouse.org or call (206) 322-7030. Frances McCue and Mary Randlett will also be reading on Sunday\, April 4th at 2 p.m. at Seattle Public Central Library.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100403T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100403T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/apr10/mosley URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/apr10/mosley SUMMARY:WALTER MOSLEY at Seattle Public Central Library DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. It was a few Seattle visits ago\, the most recent time Walter Mosley read at Central Library\: concern ran through the audience as the last of the Easy Rawlins novels to appear\, Blonde Faith\, ended on a note that was not good—\;and left readers uncertain where Easy's author might go. The irrepressible\, singular Mr. Mosley can and has gone several directions since. A year ago\, at the Northwest African American Museum\, he showcased his boldest\, and newest entry into the annals of memorable detective characters by introducing New York City detective Leonid McGill in his hit novel\, The Long Fall. It's an honor and delight to welcome Walter Mosley and Leonid McGill back for the just-released second installment\, Known to Evil (Riverhead). \\"Bestseller Mosley scores a clean knockout in his excellent second mystery featuring New York City PI Leonid McGill. Still striving to atone for some of the lives he's ruined\, the 54-year-old McGill laments that there are 'no straight lines in the life or labors of the private detective.' Instead\, crises crowd him at every turn ... in this contemporary noir gem.\\" – Publishers Weekly. Free admission is on a first-come\, first-serve basis. Special $5 coupons for parking in the Central Library garage are available on a limited basis for those attending. Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison &\; Spring). For more information\, please call the Seattle Public Library at (206) 386-4636 or see www.spl.org.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100403T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100403T210000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/apr10/moore URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/apr10/moore SUMMARY:KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE at Trinity Lutheran Church DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100403T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100403T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/apr10/bacho URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/apr10/bacho SUMMARY:PETER BACHO at Beacon Hill Library DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100404T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100404T210000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/apr10/mccue URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/apr10/mccue SUMMARY:FRANCES McCUE & MARY RANDLETT at Seattle Public Central Library DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. After the inaugural launch in March at Richard Hugo House\, those involved venture to the Seattle Public Central Library for more celebrating of this extraordinary\, brand-new (from the bindery) book about Richard Hugo and his beloved Northwest haunts. Please join us as author Frances McCue\, also Hugo House's founding director\, and esteemed photographer Mary Randlett tell stories and show images about road trips now immortalized in The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs\: Revisiting the Northwest Towns of Richard Hugo (University of Washington Press). This is a splendid way to see this part of the country (its \\"triggering towns\\")\, from La Push to Red Lodge\, with White Center there at the start\, and the singular\, soulful vision of one of its great poets\, the late Richard Hugo. Free admission is on a first-come\, first-serve basis. $5 parking coupons are available on a limited basis for those attending. The Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison &\; Spring). For more information\, please see www.spl.org or call (206) 386-4636. Frances McCue and Mary Randlett also read at Richard Hugo House on Wednesday\, March 31st at 7\:30 p.m.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100406T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100406T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/apr10/laskin URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/apr10/laskin SUMMARY:DAVID LASKIN at Seattle Public Central Library DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. In The Long Way Home\: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War (Harper)\, Seattle writer David Laskin looks at the United States that entered World War I in 1917—\;a country that had one-third of its population either born overseas\, or having a parent who was an immigrant. In the military\, one in five U.S. soldiers was born out of the country. David Laskin has written numerous acclaimed books on aspects of history\, literature\, and place\, The Children's Blizzard\, Rains All the Time\, Braving the Elements\, and Partisans among them. \\"The Long Way Home is a riveting remembrance of the Great War by a master writer ... Deeply compelling.\\" – David Brinkley. \\"Moving\, revealing\, and lovingly researched\, this book is a must read\, and a great read\, for any of us whose forebears came from overseas—\;meaning just about all of us.\\" – Erik Larson. Free admission is on a first-come\, first-serve basis. Special $5 coupons for parking in the Central Library garage are available on a limited basis for those attending. Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison &\; Spring). For more information on this evening\, please call (206) 386-4636 or see www.spl.org.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100407T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100407T013000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/apr10/fbookclub URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/apr10/fbookclub SUMMARY:ELLIOTT BAY BOOK GROUP at Oddfellows Cafe DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T103850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100407T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100407T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/apr10/vollman URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/apr10/vollman SUMMARY:WILLIAM T. VOLLMAN at the Northwest African American Museum DESCRIPTION:He is the author of twenty-one books in twenty-three years\, one of those 'books' being a seven-volume work on violence. Most of the other books are 'big' books\, big in every way—\;subject matter\, ambition\, passion\, scope\, imagination\, intelligence\, size. William T. Vollmann has won a National Book Award (for Europe Central) and numerous other honors and awards. He makes this welcome return visit for his newest book this evening\, the non-fiction work Kissing the Mask\: Beauty\, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater with Some Thoughts on Muses (especially Helga Testorf)\, Transgender Women\, Kabuki Goddesses\, Porn Queens\, Poets\, Housewives\, Makeup Artists\, Geishas\, Valkyries\, and Venus Figurines (Ecco). \\"Vollmann\, who has tackled an astonishing array of subjects in fiction and nonfiction\, here explores female beauty—\;its creation and consumption—\;with a spotlight on highly stylized traditional Japanese Noh theater. Because male actors wearing strictly codified masks perform all Noh roles\, men\, ironically\, are both the creators and purveyors of female beauty. From Noh\, Vollmann explores other far-flung performances of feminine beauty\, including revered geisha\, L.A. transvestites\, a porn model\, Andrew Wyeth's Helga paintings\, and legendary Norse women\, and even dons his own cross-gendered mask with the help of a makeup artist.\\" – Terry Hong\, Library Journal. Free admission. The Northwest African American Museum is at 2300 South Massachusetts Street (www.naamnw.org). Our special thanks to NAAM for aiding and abetting while we are in transition (moving) mode.
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