Seattle native son Michael Byers\, author of a much-praised first book of stories\, The Coast of Good Intentions\, and a terrific Seattle-set novel\, Long for This World\, is back in his hometown with a new novel\, Percival's Planet (Henry Holt). \\"... a gloriously expansive view of Depression-era America\, from the easy extravagance of the Boston Brahmins to hardscrabble rural life. At its core\, this is the story of Clyde Tombaugh\, an unassuming Kansas farm kid who achieves international fame for his discovery of Pluto ... Byers connects Clyde's story with a number of riveting and eventually interlinking subplots ... Between the faultless storytelling and the juicy historical hook\, this looks like a hit.\\" – Publishers Weekly. \\"Fascinating ... fresh and astonishing ... Brilliant observations about human nature—\;obsessiveness\, laziness\, duplicity\, and violence\, but also creativity\, faithfulness\, integrity\, selflessness\, and courage—\;are all illustrated by unique yet believable\, likable characters ... This insightful\, witty novel grabs the heart and tickles the mind.\\" – Booklist.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100805T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100805T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/moody URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/moody SUMMARY:RICK MOODY DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100806T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100806T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/esquith URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/esquith SUMMARY:RAFE ESQUITH at Seattle Public Central Library DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100806T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100806T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/brooks URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/brooks SUMMARY:COLETTE BROOKS DESCRIPTION:Another native of Seattle (following Michael Byers) who's moved away but makes visits back such as this is nonfiction prose writer Colette Brooks. She first read at Elliott Bay for her PEN-Jerard Fund Award-winning meditation on cities\, In the City\: Random Acts of Awareness. She's here now with a new book on another form of awareness\, Lost in Wonder\: Imagining Science and Other Mysteries (Counterpoint). This is a readerly and writerly bridge between the casually informed layperson and the 'expert'—\;the latter a category to which so much scientific weight in the culture has been assigned (or allowed)—\;as if others don't have a serious stake in participating and perceiving. Again\, awareness\, which includes wariness within it\, along with much deep pleasure. Billy Collins comments for In the City seems apt for Lost in Wonder\: \\"A lively mix of narrative\, reportage\, memoir\, and meditative essay. This is an engaging book\, so fraught with self-consciousness as to bring into question our notions of writing and literary structure.\\"
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100807T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100807T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/rix URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/rix SUMMARY:JALLEN RIX\, Ed.D. DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100807T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100807T180000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/storytime1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/storytime1 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100807T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100807T210000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/tracy URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/tracy SUMMARY:LISA TRACY DESCRIPTION:After over ten years of paying storage fees for their late mother's possessions\, Lisa Tracy and her sister finally sat down to the task of preparing for an auction. The process of uncovering the history of objects as varied as mismatched cake plates\, an old Chinese trunk\, and a chair in which our first president might have rested\, is the tale she tells in The Objects of Our Affection\: Uncovering My Family's Past\, One Chair\, Pistol and Pickle Fork at a Time (Bantam). \\"Lisa Tracy's Objects of Our Affection is a lovely and loving book\, revealing the life of her well-traveled military family not just through the furniture they chose to keep\, but through what they lost and surrendered along the way. Moving from the heights of San Juan Hill to the courtyards of China's Forbidden City\, this book shows us why the possessions of our ancestors exert a profound influence upon our modern lives.\\" – Jeff Gammage. Lisa Tracy's previous books include Muddy Waters\: The Legacy of Katrina and Rita and The Gradual Vegetarian.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100808T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100808T000000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/lutz URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/lutz SUMMARY:CATHERINE LUTZ & ANNE LUTZ FERNANDEZ DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100810T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100810T180000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/storytime2 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/storytime2 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100811T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100811T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/bacevich URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/bacevich SUMMARY:ANDREW BACEVICH DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100812T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100812T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/heller URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/heller SUMMARY:PETER HELLER DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100812T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100812T200000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/ryan URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/ryan SUMMARY:SHAWNA YANG RYAN DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100813T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100813T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/zaher URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/zaher SUMMARY:MAGED ZAHER DESCRIPTION:A marvelous\, locally-based poet (and software ace) who is originally from Cairo\, Maged Zaher gives this first full Elliott Bay reading as a kind of sendoff before a trip 'home' to see family and touch base. He is here with a recently published volume of poetry\, Portrait of the Poet as an Engineer (Pressed Wafer)\, a book written in English\, but dedicated to the Arabic language. "\;Maged Zaher is in my view the contemporary writer simultaneously the furthest inside and the most outside the English language as we know it. His texts are intensely casual and bathed in the language of Groupthink and Microsoft\, yet deeply thought and rhythmically alluring\, which is all the more impressive for the detrius they take on and challenge. Like his near contemporary\, Linh Dinh\, Zaher can fashion either sentence or line to the point where sublimity and absurdity make a viable erotic couple. If Frank O'Hara has been an Arab and a Coptic Christian living in late capitalist Seattle\, he would have been called Maged Zaher."\; – Leonard Schwartz.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100814T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100814T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/weissman URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/weissman SUMMARY:DICK WEISSMAN DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100814T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100814T180000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/storytime3 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/storytime3 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100814T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100814T210000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/winchell URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/winchell SUMMARY:APRIL WINCHELL DESCRIPTION:With the success of Etsy.com\, the entrepreneurial crafter's online\, one-stop shopping and selling source\, wasn't Regretsy\, which Salon has called\, 'the hall of fame for artistic impulses gone oddly awry\,' inevitable? The gold-embossed Cheerio on a chain\, the pink leopard goat coat\, and the soap that makes you smell like bacon\, might have seemed like a good idea at the time\, but it takes real guts to try to sell all of these things online. It also takes a sense of humor to have your work featured on April Winchell's blog and in her book\, Regretsy\: Where DIY Meets WTF (Villard). Come and share your own regretsys. For more\, see www.regretsy.com.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100815T003000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100815T003000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/creative URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/creative SUMMARY:CONFERENCE OF CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURS Booksigning DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100817T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100817T180000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/storytime4 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/storytime4 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100817T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100817T230000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/yabookclub URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/yabookclub SUMMARY:ELLIOTT BAY YOUNG READERS BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100818T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100818T013000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/event/speculations-elliott-bay-science-fiction-fantasy-book-group URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/event/speculations-elliott-bay-science-fiction-fantasy-book-group SUMMARY:SPECULATIONS - ELLIOTT BAY SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:As the literature of ideas and imagination\, Science Fiction and Fantasy simply demands discussion. Our August selection is the Nebula
award-winning novel\, The Windup Girl\, by Paolo Bacigalupi. Anderson
Lake is a company man\, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover
as a factory manager\, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in
search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct\, hoping to reap the bounty
of history's lost calories. There\, he encounters Emiko. Emiko is the
Windup Girl\, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People\,
Emiko is not human\; instead\, she is an engineered being\, creche-grown
and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman\,
but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless
beings by some\, devils by others\, New People are slaves\, soldiers\, and
toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies
rule the world\, the oil age has passed\, and the side effects of
bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe. What Happens when
calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a
tool for corporate profits\, when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift
forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution?
Down from Bellingham\, where he works at an aerospace machine shop\, is Caleb Barber with his fine debut collection of poems\, Beasts and Violins (Red Hen Press). \\"Caleb Barber is a large talent without any time for language that doesn't strike and haunt. With his raw\, bleak voice\, Barber resuscitates the American narrative poem—\;a species dying into the anecdotal—\;so that it stands up again and sings.\\" – Katie Ford. \\"Caleb Barber's fortuitous debut onto the American poetry scene strikes me as every bit as consequential and clarifying as those of his recognizable mentors—\;Spicer\, Hugo\, Wright\, and Carver. Having absorbed them\, he's done what no one could have taught him\: given honest and singular voice to the painful extremities of being both beast and violin\, brutish and fragile\, mired in the flesh\, yet bent on not being entirely at its mercy.\\" – Tess Gallagher.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100821T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100821T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/levine URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/levine SUMMARY:STACEY LEVINE & FRIENDS DESCRIPTION:This evening has a celebratory air to it as esteemed Seattle writer Stacey Levine and others launch a new edition of her superb novel\, Frances Johnson (Verse Chorus Press). Originally published by Matthew Stadler and Rich Jensen's brainchild\, Clear Cut Press\, in 2005\, this book\, a finalist for the Washington State Book Award\, has been out of print for some time. The new edition was revised by the author\, re-typeset\, and printed in a 5\\" by 8\\" trade format with a striking new cover. This evening's gathering will highlight work by some of Seattle's hard-working arts practitioners\, with brief readings by Stacey Levine\, and local poets Rebecca Hoggs\, Johnny Horton\, and others\, with music by cellist Lori Goldston (Spectratone International Earth). Plus a special musical guest and refreshments. Stacey Levin received The Stranger Genius Award in 2009. \\"Stacey Levine ignores lyricism as an evolutionary dead end. Life is fractious and dire\, her prose style says\; let fiction serve as razor and torch. It's not that Levine isn't funny or that she doesn't forge phrases and sentences of throat-clutching beauty. It's just that her effort to dissect humankind's propensity for neuroses\, fallacies\, and other inanities requires measured drollery and surgical concision.\\" – Donna Seaman\, Bookforum.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100821T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100821T180000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/storytime5 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/storytime5 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100821T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100821T180000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/lu URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/lu SUMMARY:DR. SHANHONG LU\, MD\, PhD DESCRIPTION:--LATE BREAKING ADDITION!--
Co-presented by ELLIOTT BAY CAFÉ\; and MT. SHASTA INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE. Dr. Shanhong Lu\, MD\, PhD\, a fellow Breast Cancer Fund \\"Climb Against the Odds\\" teammate from Mt. Shasta\, CA is presenting a fundraising lecture about Pure Prevention and the Age of Toxins. Growing up in Beijing\, China with aspirations to become a ballerina\, artist\, or concert pianist\, Dr. Lu reluctantly realized that medicine was in her genes. Her grandmother\, a traditional Chinese healer\, and her mother\, a world-renown female cardiologist and the first ever female physician in China\, provided her with deep insight into their respective fields and philosophies. As a result of this influence\, Dr. Lu today instinctively blends eastern and western approaches towards healing. She completed her MD at Beijing Medical University\, becoming a third-generation physician. Having been exposed throughout her life to both traditional Chinese as well as western medicine\, Dr. Lu never released her belief in holistic and spiritual healing. After completing her PhD\, Dr. Lu chose to pursue patient treatment rather than research\, recognizing the value of connecting directly with human beings. She embraces all paths of healing and rejuvenation with a passion for improving quality of life and proactive approaches toward aging. $10 suggested donation for tickets\, all proceeds benefit the Breast Cancer Fund's groundbreaking work to identify and eliminate the environmental causes of cancer. Tamara Murphy is generously providing bites from Elliott Bay Café\;. To secure your spot\, go to www.brownpapertickets.com. Please join us in what is sure to be a very informative morning.
During the 1970s\, Seattle's Pioneer Square\, Capitol Hill\, and Central District were the organizing and base grounds for the George Jackson Brigade\, a group of black and white men and women\, both queer and straight\, whose three-year campaign against 'corporate and state institutions' resulted in fifteen attempted bombings\, a jailbreak\, and\, for some\, prison terms. Historian Daniel Burton-Rose's fascinating research on the era and its people brings to light many of the economic\, cultural\, and political realities of the time. He's here this evening to speak about his book\, Guerrilla USA\: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970's (University of California Press). We welcome others from \\"back in the day\\" to join in the conversation\, and those who've come along since\, wanting to know more the story of times not so long distant. \\"Guerilla USA is an engaged and engaging work\, an intimate account of a buried piece of American history. Daniel Burton-Rose combines exhaustive scholarship with passionate partisanship to create an excruciatingly honest portrait.\\" – Bill Ayers. Daniel Burton-Rose is also editor of Creating a Movement with Teeth\: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade\, and co-editor\, with Dan Pens and Paul Wright\, of The Ceiling of America\: An Inside Look at the US Prison Industry.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100824T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100824T180000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/storytime6 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/storytime6 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100825T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100825T013000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/event/aug10/drama URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/event/aug10/drama SUMMARY:STAGES - ELLIOTT BAY DRAMA BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100825T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100825T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/jonaitis URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/jonaitis SUMMARY:ALDONA JONAITIS DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100826T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100826T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/holmes URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/holmes SUMMARY:JULIA HOLMES DESCRIPTION:Summer is always a good time to find the work of new writers\, and this season\, we've been looking forward to meeting (and hosting) Julia Holmes\, author of Meeks\, newly released by one of our favorite independent literary houses\, Small Beer Press. \\"A highly imaginative debut finds a stark Darwinian logic in a rigidly Darwinian society. In Holmes's unnamed dystopia\, everyone is ascribed a place strictly enforced by the police\, with the young Bachelors bearing the responsibility of finding a wife\, an accomplishment that will secure them a place in society ... Holmes has fashioned a terrifying and utterly convincing world in which the perfect human being is one stripped of all illusions.\\" – Publishers Weekly.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100827T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100827T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/pellegrini URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/pellegrini SUMMARY:GEORGIA PELLEGRINI DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100828T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100828T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/cohen URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/cohen SUMMARY:ALEX COHEN & JENNIFER BARBEE DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100828T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100828T180000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/storytime7 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/storytime7 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100828T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100828T210000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/harrison URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/harrison SUMMARY:JOHN A. HARRISON DESCRIPTION:Our recent move to Capitol Hill has inspired us to host a series of talks having to do with our new (to us) neighborhood's history\, beginning with this story of the man who built and briefly inhabited the \\"Sam Hill House\\" located on north Capitol Hill\, near the St. Mark's greenbelt. Sam Hill was one of the great railway magnates of his day and an entrepreneur whose more well-known hilltop mansion is Maryhill\, located 200-some miles southeast of Seattle's Capitol Hill. Sam Hill built both Maryhill and its famous\, nearby Stonehenge replica for his lover Mona Bell. A Woman Alone\: Mona Bell\, Sam Hill and the Mansion on Bonneville Rock (Frank Amato) is John A. Harrison's account of both Mona Bell and Sam Hill\, and of the former's court battle to retain title to her home. More programs on Capitol Hill (most a little more germane to Capitol Hill) to come. This meanwhile\, sheds new light on an intriguing Northwest story.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100829T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100829T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/gregory URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/gregory SUMMARY:ROBERTA GREGORY & BRUCE B. TAYLOR DESCRIPTION:Comic book artist Roberta Gregory and her partner Bruce Taylor have been longtime fixtures at literary fairs at Bumbershoot\, Hugo House\, and elsewhere throughout the region. Tonight we welcome them both to Elliott Bay to read from and talk about new work published by Landis Review Press. Bruce Taylor\, sometimes known as \\"Mr. Magical Realism\,\\" reads from Mountains of the Night\, in which he explores living with a chronic illness through the metaphor of hiking through a wilderness. Roberta Gregory\, creator of Bitchy Bitch\, speaks about her new collection\, Follow Your Art\: Roberta's Comic Trips\, which includes pieces on her residency at Hedgebrook\, a cross-country Amtrak trip\, and some entertaining stories about budget book tours.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T121953Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100831T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100831T180000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/storytime8 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/aug10/storytime8 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR