This past winter saw the posthumous publication of S. Ann Dunham's anthropological study\, Surviving Against the Odds\: Village Industry in Indonesia (Duke University Press). Ms. Dunham was\, of course\, the mother of President Barack Obama and his sister\, Maya Soetoro-Ng. She also spent formative years in the Seattle area\, residing here with her family as a teenager before the family
moved to Hawai'i. It was in 1960—\;fifty years ago—\;that she graduated from Mercer Island High School. To help commemorate her presence there\, a scholarship in her name is being established by others from that class (see information below). Alice G. Dewey\, professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Hawai'i (and whose field is also Indonesia)\, helped oversee the publication of Ann Dunham's book. She is here to help participate in the Mercer Island festivities—\;and to talk about the life and scholarly work of Ann Dunham. \\"S. Ann Dunham's Surviving Against the Odds bears witness to her knowledge of and affection for the Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia. The book also speaks legions about Dunham's integrity as a cultural anthropologist ... By the mid-1980s Dunham had begun to see the audience for her work made up of not just academics but Indonesians\, aid workers\, and foreign analysts whose findings affect the lives of ordinary Indonesians. Rather than go with the academic flow\, Dunham stayed true to a research program requiring varied and rigorous methodologies\, all in an effort to speak truth of power and policy making.\\" - Robert W. Hefner. For more information on the Stanley Ann Dunham Scholarship Fund\, please see www.stanleydunhamfund.org. Tax-deductible contributions are welcome.
Richard Wirick's new collection of interconnected short stories\, Kicking In (Soft Skull)\, takes the drug war out of the context of the 'fringe element\,' and shines a light on another variety of user\: the Valium-fogged attorney\, the morphine-addled Gulf War orderly\, and others for whom depressants and stimulants are necessary for functioning\, if in a marginalized way. \\"Wirick's stories are powerful\, evocative tales rife with dark beauty. His characters\, whether at work or at war\, or just making it on the jagged margins of society\, jump off the page and into your head—\;this is high-octane stuff.\\"- Thomas Kelly.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100613T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100613T210000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/arokiasamy URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/arokiasamy SUMMARY:CHRISTINA AROKIASAMY DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100613T233000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100613T233000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/steil URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/steil SUMMARY:JENNIFER STEIL DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100615T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100615T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/grossman URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/grossman SUMMARY:LEV GROSSMAN DESCRIPTION:First published to high praise and widespread attention a year ago\, Lev Grossman's totally captivating novel\, The Magicians (newly in paper\, Plume)\, a coming-of-age story like almost no other yet with roots in some older\, familiar ground. There is a land called Fillory\, there is a high-school senior named Quentin\, and there are adventures that unfold. \\"The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea. Solidly rooted in the traditions of both fantasy and mainstream literary fiction\, the novel tips its hat to Oz and Narnia as well as Harry\, but don't mistake this for a children's book. Grossman's sensibilities are thoroughly adult\, his narrative dark and dangerous and full of twists.\\" - George R.R. Martin. \\"Stirring\, complex\, adventurous ... from the life of Quentin Coldwater\, his slacker Park Slope Harry Potter\, Lev Grossman delivers a superb coming-of-age fantasy.\\" - Junot Díaz. Lev Grossman is also the author of Codex\, and a senior writer and book editor at Time.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100615T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100615T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/gleick URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/gleick SUMMARY:PETER GLEICK at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100615T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100615T180000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node.events/jun10/storytime4 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node.events/jun10/storytime4 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100616T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100616T013000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/event/speculations-elliott-bay-science-fiction-fantasy-book-group-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/event/speculations-elliott-bay-science-fiction-fantasy-book-group-0 SUMMARY:SPECULATIONS - ELLIOTT BAY SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100616T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100616T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/wilson URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/wilson SUMMARY:G. WILLOW WILSON DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100617T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100617T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/ward URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/ward SUMMARY:PETER D. WARD at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100617T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100617T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/mcgovern URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/mcgovern SUMMARY:CAMMIE McGOVERN DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100618T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100618T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/helvarg URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/helvarg SUMMARY:DAVID HELVARG - Cancelled DESCRIPTION:Journalist and activist David Helvarg has reported on everything from the Vietnam War to Hurricane Katrina\, and is currently writing about the still-unfolding Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Saved by the Sea\: A Love Story (Thomas A. Dunne Books) is the writer's story of his five-decade love affair with the oceans\, his many adventures in Antarctica\, the Great Barrier Reef\, the waters of Central America\, and more. \\"This is a love story\, filled as most of them are with a certain amount of pain and a great deal of pleasure. David Helvarg has done an awful lot to protect the world's oceans\, not least this fine piece of writing!\\" - Bill McKibben. David Helvarg is also the founder and president of the Blue Frontiers campaign. Previous books include Blue Frontier and Rescue Warriors. For more about his work\, please see www.bluefront.org.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100619T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100619T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/whitehead URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/whitehead SUMMARY:COLSON WHITEHEAD DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100619T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100619T180000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/storytime5 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/storytime5 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100619T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100619T210000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/morrison URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/morrison SUMMARY:RICHARD MORRISON & CHAD MACK DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100620T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100620T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/rich URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/rich SUMMARY:SUSAN RICH DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100620T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100620T210000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/andrews URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/andrews SUMMARY:CECILE ANDREWS & JOHN de GRAAF DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100620T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100620T230000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/gaar URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/gaar SUMMARY:GILLIAN G. GAAR DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100622T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100622T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/kirkpatrick URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/kirkpatrick SUMMARY:DAVID KIRKPATRICK DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100622T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100622T180000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/storytime6 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/storytime6 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100623T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100623T010000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/walbert URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/walbert SUMMARY:KATE WALBERT DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100623T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100623T013000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/drama URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/drama SUMMARY:STAGES - ELLIOTT BAY DRAMA BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:Elliott Bay's Drama Book Group\, Stages\, meets once a month to read\, enjoy and discuss great plays and dramatic works\, contemporary and classic\, from the U.S. and around the world. With summer in the air\, this month we turn to lighter fare...but with just as many discussion topics to make for a lively discussion. Our June selection is the marvelous new play Speech &\; Debate by Stephen Karam. Three teenage misfits in Salem\, Oregon discover thay are linked by a local sex scandal that has rocked their town. When one of them sets out to expose the truth\, secrets become currency\, the stakes get higher\, and the trio's connection grows deeper in this searching\, fiercely entertaining dark comedy with music. Whether you read the play or have seen the recent wonderful production of Speech &\; Debate at the Seattle Repertory Theatre\, please join us for this discussion.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100623T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100623T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/crosley URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/crosley SUMMARY:SLOANE CROSLEY at the Sorrento Hotel DESCRIPTION:For what should be a lovely\, amusing\, and most sociable time\, we repair up to the Penthouse at the Sorrento Hotel—\;which has of late become the site of numerous book-related activities\, from having books available for room service to the Night School dinner discussions with authors to Christopher Frizzelle/The Stranger's hosted\, 'silent' reading together evenings. We're delighted to be presenting Sloane Crosley\, one of the most attuned essayists of her generation. Her debut\, I Was Told There'd Be Cake was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor\, and was both a critical\, and word-of-mouth favorite. Tonight\, it's her newest collection\, How Did You Get This Number? (Riverhead). \\"A worthy successor to Crosley's well-received debut. Where her first collection focused on a young professional's life in Manhattan\, this follow-up finds the author—\;whose day job as a book publicist is rarely mentioned—\;taking her show on the road. She gets lost in Lisbon (actually\, she gets lost pretty much everywhere)\, threatened by a bear in Alaska\, and all but deported from France—\;or at least discouraged from ever again visiting Notre Dame. Most of the book is funny\, some of it even laugh-out-loud\, but her literary gifts go well beyond easy laughs ... Perhaps the finest essay is the final one ... Initially about wanting what you can't afford\, it transforms into an exploration of receiving what you want that you can't afford ... Ultimately\, though\, it becomes a meditation on a romance that forces Crosley to come to terms with a truth she'd suspect and the lie she was living. It's the least humorous of the collection\, but the most unflinchingly true.\\" - Kirkus Reviews. Free admission. Refreshments will be available for purchase. The Sorrento Hotel is at 900 Madison Street.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100623T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100623T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/valby URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/valby SUMMARY:KAREN VALBY DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100624T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100624T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/skyhorse URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/skyhorse SUMMARY:BRANDO SKYHORSE DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100624T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100624T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/dyer URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/dyer SUMMARY:GWYNNE DYER at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the TOWN HALL Seattle's Seattle Science series. In his new book\, Climate Wars (Oneworld)\, journalist/author Gwynne Dyer casts an open-eyed look at the future—\;projecting a geo-political landscape in 2050 if things continue as they are presently. \\"Civil war in China and the collapse of the European union by 2045\; nuclear strikes between India and Pakistan in 2036\; 'people being blown up by land mines and machine-gunned by automatic weapons' at a sealed U.S./Mexican border in 2029—\;these are just some of the terrifying climate change scenarios forecast by journalist and geopolitical analyst Dyer. His apocalyptic predictions are drawn from unimpeachable sources ... we can hope Dyer's sources are impressive enough to convince policy makers to take serious action.\\" - Publishers Weekly. $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). Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). Preferred seating for Town Hall members. For more information on this evening\, 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:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100625T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100625T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/dalrymple URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/dalrymple SUMMARY:WILLIAM DALRYMPLE at Seattle Asian Art Museum DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100625T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100625T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/balint URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/balint SUMMARY:BENJAMIN BALINT DESCRIPTION:Commentary was founded in 1945 by Jewish American writers\, children of immigrants steeped in radical socialist politics and labor activism. A forceful advocate of civil rights\, a forum for fiction writers Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth and a home for literary critics\, the magazine's writers' response to the 60s counterculture is now known as neoconservatism—\;a school of thought that influenced the political right from the Cold War through the current war on terror\, laying the foundation for today's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Journalist and scholar Benjamin Balint traces all these shifts and the extraordinary influence of the magazine in Running Commentary\: The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right (Public Affairs). \\"Benjamin Balint's history of Commentary magazine is nothing less than a history of the intellectual life of Jews in America as they go from being cultural outsiders to consummate insiders ... [His] judicious\, non-partisan account doesn't miss a shift in the political landscape\, whether on the Left or the Right ... This is intellectual history as it should be written\: lucid\, capacious\, and unfailingly readable.\\" - Daphne Merkin. A former Seattle resident and University of Washington graduate\, Benjamin Balint is presently a Herman Kahn Fellow at the Hudson Institute and an editorial writer for the Jerusalem Post.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100625T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100625T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/shirky URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/shirky SUMMARY:CLAY SHIRKY at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100626T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100626T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/armantrout URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/armantrout SUMMARY:RAE ARMANTROUT DESCRIPTION:One of this country's most distinguished poets\, and the recipient of this year's Pulitzer Prize for poetry\, Rae Armantrout makes this welcome Elliott Bay reading visit here this evening. The National Book Critics Circle Award winner in 2009\, a National Book Award Finalist in 2009\, a professor of writing and literature at the University of California\, San Diego\, and the author of ten books of poetry\, it is for her most recent collection\, Versed (Wesleyan University Press) that she received this year's Pulitzer. \\"Rae Armantrout is the most philosophical sort of poet\, continually seeking in her collections to summon and surmise the contemporary character of subjective experience and\, further\, to test the limits of knowledge ... Armantrout's writing in Versed will thus be familiar to her longtime readers for its way of holding meaning (and identification) in uneasy suspension. Short lines in brief poems are polyvalent in both voicing and implication\, inviting multiple readings ... yet pleasure arises in contemplating both the options and the paradox.\\" - Tom Griffin\, Bookforum.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100626T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100626T180000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/storytime7 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/storytime7 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100626T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100626T210000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/unger URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/unger SUMMARY:DONALD N.S. UNGER DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100627T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100627T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/morales URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/morales SUMMARY:AARON MICHAEL MORALES\, TRAVIS NICHOLS & PAUL MARTINEZ POMPA Group Reading DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100627T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100627T210000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/duno URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/duno SUMMARY:STEVE DUNO DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100627T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100627T230000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/akio URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/akio SUMMARY:IRENE AKIO DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100629T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100629T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/wolff URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/wolff SUMMARY:MISHNA WOLFF DESCRIPTION:One of the most beguiling\, surprising memoirs to come along in some time was that of Mishna Wolff with her coming-of-age account\, I'm Down (newly in paper\, Griffin). First published last year\, this is a Seattle coming-of-age—\;Mishna Wolff writes of her upbringing in the Rainier Valley\, living most of the time with her father and sister. Though white\, her father identified culturally as black. This leads to quite a story. It's told with humor\, empathy\, and insight\, even as it lets readers feel much of the fear and uncertainty the author felt as an adolescent. The story has its shifts—\;from feeling she didn't fit in as 'black' (acceptance from peers was mixed)\, she goes for a time to live with her mother\, attending a new school with wealthy white kids who\, far from being enviable\, seem lonely and removed from real life. \\"In a memoir that is frequently hilarious\, occasionally terrifying\, and ultimately bittersweet\, Wolff forces readers to consider whether racial identity is the result of nature\, derived through nurture\, or constructed and reconstructed through life ... Wolff writes fluidly and offers moments of great insight through the story rather than explanation\, making it easy for readers to engage with the child's questions and growing frustrations. An excellent choice for discussion in ethnic identity curricula\, but absorbing reading\, too.\\" - Francisca Goldsmith\, Library Journal. As part of this Seattle visit\, Mishna Wolff will also be reading at the Northwest African American Museum on Saturday\, June 26. Please see www.naamnw.org for more information.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100629T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100629T180000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/storytime8 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/storytime8 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100630T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100630T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/jones URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/jones SUMMARY:SHANE JONES DESCRIPTION:This is a season—\;and month—\;for excellent fiction debuts\, among them Shane Jones with his vivid\, allusive\, fabular tale\, Light Boxes (Penguin). It is fabulous\, this story of a town that's been cast into an endless (truly endless) February. Something is awry\, something needs to be made right. Flight is an issue. \\"At last\, a book that cries out to our inner balloonists. Shane Jones has built a fable that is fresh and surprising\, but also familiar in the way that the oldest stories are familiar.\\" - Jedediah Berry. \\"Reading this book makes you realize what our American literature has been missing. Wholly original\, tremendously imaginative\, written with the deftest hand\, Light Boxes makes sense of modern life in the way only dreams can.\\" - Joe Meno.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T113435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100701T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100701T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/ellis URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jun10/ellis SUMMARY:BRET EASTON ELLIS DESCRIPTION:A long and lively month of June ends on a high note with this Elliott Bay return by novelist Bret Easton Ellis. Author of such novels as American Psycho\, Glamorama\, The Informers\, Lunar Park\, and The Rules of Attracttion\, his newest\, Imperial Bedrooms (Knopf)\, comes as a sequel\, twenty-five years later\, to his celebrated debut\, Less Than Zero. \\"Ellis explores what disillusioned youth looks like 25 years later in this brutal sequel ... The story takes on a creepy\, nourish bent—\;with [protagonist] Clay as the frightened detective who doesn't really want to know anything—\;as it barrels toward a conclusion that reveals the horror that lies at the center of a tortured soul. Ellis fans will delight in the characters and Ellis's easy hand in manipulating their fates\, and though the novel's synchronicity with Zero is sublime\, this also works as a stellar stand-alone.\\" - Publishers Weekly.
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