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Start: 6:00 pm
Following her Friday, September 17 appearance at Lake City Presbyterian Church (see listing above), Linda McDonald-Lewis goes for a change in ambience with this whiskey tasting and fireside history lesson about the Scottish influence on the US's founding principles as she discusses her book, The Warriors and Wordsmiths of Freedom: The Birth and Growth of Democracy (Luath Press). $30 tickets include an autographed book and whiskey tasting (age 21+ for the latter), and are available via www.brownpapertickets.com. The Sorrento Hotel is located at 900 Madison Street. For more information, please see www.bookitnorthwest.com or call (425) 820-6829. | 20
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Start: 4:00 pm
Our selection for September is Godless by Pete Hautman. Fifteen year old, Jason Bock, rebels against his parents religion by creating one of his own centered around the town's ten-legged water tower. Initially meant as a joke, the worship of the "Ten-legged God" spins dangerously out of his control when his followers begin taking things a little too seriously. A funny, scary, provocative mix of "faith-crisis" and the chaos of adolescence. Please join su for what is sure to be a lively discussion! Start: 7:30 pm
Co-presented with the Town Hall Center for Civic Life and Soundings from Island Press. Energy issue consulting executive Peter Fox-Penner is here with his timely, recent book, Smart Power: Climate Change, the Smart Grid, and the Future of Electric Utilities (Island Press). "Few economist/engineers understand the electricity system as well as Peter Fox-Penner, and far fewer can explain it as lucidly. Whether or not you agree with every detail, his vision of the opportunities, risks, uncertainties, and tipping-points of this vast and crucial industry is powerful and provocative." - Amory B. Lovins. "A valuable and insightful analysis of where the U.S. electric power industry is headed and what it must do to successfully transition to a low-carbon environment." - Mark Crisson. $5 tickets are available at the door starting at 6:30 p.m., or in advance via www.brownpapertickets.com (1-800-838-3006). Preferred seating for Town Hall members. evening, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, Town Hall at (206) 652-4255, or see www.townhallseattle.org. | 22
Start: 7:00 pm
British Columbia writer John Vaillant wrote what has been an enduring favorite of Northwest coast nature writing with his earlier book, The Golden Spruce. He works his way all the way around the northern Pacific Rim to Siberia for his absolutely riveting new book, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Knopf). "What spirits this adventure narrative from compelling to brilliant is Vaillant's use of the tiger hunt as an allegorical lens through which to understand the cultural, economic, and environmental devastation of post-Communist Russia ... This energetic hybrid of classic adventure and impassioned sociocultural critique will appeal to Jon Krakauer fans, tiger lovers, and readers interested in contemporary Russian history." - Library Journal. "This elegant work of narrative non-fiction has it all—beauty, intrigue, a primeval locale, fully realized characters, and a conflict that speaks to the state of our world. Obsessively well-researched and artfully written, The Tiger takes us on a journey to the raw edge of civilization, to a world of vengeful cats and venal men, a world that, in Vaillant's brilliant telling, is simultaneously haunting and enchanting." - Hampton Sides, joined by Annie Proulx, Temple Grandin, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, and others in early praise. | 23
Start: 7:30 pm
Presented by the CENTRAL DISTRICT FORUM FOR ARTS & IDEAS, with support from ELLIOTT BAY BOOK COMPANY and KUOW 94.9 FM. We are delighted to help present this evening, the much-awaited Seattle return by Terry McMillan, and the keenly anticipated return of the four-women cast of Waiting to Exhale. Fifteen years later, we get brought up to date—and then some—on the doings of Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin in Terry McMillan's newest, Getting to Happy (Viking). Midlife time it is—crossroads—which way to go. Everyone's been shaped by the life lived—but there is shaping yet to do. This is spirited fun—and should again be fodder for much ongoing talk. Terry McMillan is the author of six previous novels—from Mama to The Interruption of Everything—with her edited, groundbreaking anthology of contemporary African American fiction, Breaking Ice—along the way. She has received the NAACP Image Award and the Essence Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Literature. Tickets are $5, available via www.brownpapertickets.com. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information on this evening and on the CD Forum's 2010-11 season, please see www.cdforum.org. Elliott Bay can also be called at (206) 624-6600 for more information. | 24
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Start: 2:00 pm
--LATE BREAKING ADDITION!--- Presented by THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Join the Seattle Public Library in celebrating the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The program will include remarks from Seattle author and actress Stephanie Kallos, and will also feature an excerpt from Scout, Atticus and Boo, a documentary by Mary McDonaugh Murphy, who is also the author of the book, Scout, Atticus and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of 'To Kill a Mockingbird (HarperCollins). A complete screening of the classic 1962 film version of To Kill a Mockingbird, starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, will also be shown. The Microsoft Auditorium of the Seattle Public Central Library is located at 1000 Fourth Avenue. Start: 7:00 pm
That Jimi Hendrix's story is one that starts in Seattle is well-known to music listeners and readers here and elsewhere. In their new book, Becoming Jimi Hendrix: From Southern Crossroads to Psychedelic London, the Untold Story of a Musical Genius (Da Capo), music journalist/archivists Steven Roby and Brad Schreiber focus on his formative musical experiences between 1962 and 1966, years that saw him out of Seattle, eventually in Europe. Both authors, who live in the Bay Area, have done work on Hendrix before, with Steven Roby having written Black Gold: The Lost Archives of Jimi Hendrix. |
