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Start: 7:00 pm
New York City-based poet Jorn Ake visits with his Blue Lynx Prize-winning new collection, Boys Whistling Like Canaries (Eastern Washington University Press). "Boys Whistling Like Canaries is a collection haunted by the grim history of the 20th century, and by how its legacy continues to so troublesomely endure. Ake tackles the most vexing subjects—among them our current wars, the Holocaust, and Cold War totalitarianism—yet he reckons with them without resorting to bromides, polemics, or the benumbing timidity with so often afflicts the work of American poets when they seek to confront injustice. In his rangy and querulous approach, Ake recalls the work of two of our finest poets of social justice, George Oppen and Thomas McGrath. To be linked with them is no small accomplishment." – David Wojahn. Jorn Ake's 2001 debut, Asleep in the Lightning Fields, received the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize.
Start: 7:00 pm
Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY and the CANADIAN STUDIES CENTRE, JACKSON SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. Nine years after captivating readers everywhere with his Man Booker Prize-winning novel, Life of Pi, Spanish-born Canadian author Yann Martel visits with a much-anticipated new novel, Beatrice and Virgil (Spiegel and Grau). As with its predecessor, Yann Martel takes what seems like a fragment, a slice of incident, and makes it into a story that opens wider and deeper than one might expect. No one is at sea here, but the surprises that unfold with the opening of an envelope, a story told of a 'Beatrice' and 'Virgil,' should win readers as Life of Pi has. 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. Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison & Spring). For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, The Seattle Public Library at (206) 386-4636, or see www.spl.org.
Start: 7:30 pm
Co-presented with SEATTLE ARTS & LECTURES. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Remnick, author of Lenin's Tomb and an acclaimed life and times account of Muhammad Ali, Champion of the World, and currently well-known for his work as editor of The New Yorker, makes this appearance for his first new book in years. The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama (Knopf) figures to be the most in-depth, realized biography of our 44th president. He has conducted hundreds of interviews from rivals, teachers, family members, mentors, and President Obama himself. This evening is expected to consist of an onstage conversation with University of Washington professor David S. Domke, who is chair of the UW Department of Communication and co-author of The God Strategy (Oxford University Press), followed by a booksigning. Tickets ($15/$30 patrons) are available via www.brownpapertickets.com or 1-800-838-3006. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For those with Patron tickets, there is a 6 p.m. pre-program reception at the nearby Sorrento Hotel, 900 Madison Street. For more information on this evening, please www.lectures.org or call Seattle Arts & Lectures at (206) 621-2230.
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