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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.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100926T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100926T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/roby URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/roby SUMMARY:STEVEN ROBY & BRAD SCHREIBER DESCRIPTION: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.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100927T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100927T000000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/tao URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/tao SUMMARY:TAO LIN DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100928T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100928T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/kehlmann URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/kehlmann SUMMARY:DANIEL KEHLMANN DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100928T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100928T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/gruen URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/gruen SUMMARY:SARA GRUEN at Seattle Public Central Library DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100928T183000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100928T183000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/storytime7 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/storytime7 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100929T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100929T013000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/drama URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/drama SUMMARY:STAGES - ELLIOTT BAY DRAMA BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100929T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100929T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/lyon URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/lyon SUMMARY:ANNABEL LYON DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100930T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100930T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/donoghue URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/donoghue SUMMARY:EMMA DONOGHUE DESCRIPTION:Irish novelist and scholar Emma Donoghue\, now based in Canada\, has made several appearances at Elliott Bay\, none more eagerly anticipated than this for her new novel\, Room (Little\, Brown). A longlist nominee for this year's MAN Booker Prize\, Room is a story told form the point of view of a five-year-old who has never left the room in which he—\;and his mother—\;are imprisoned. It's a tale of resilience and the mother/child bond. Room has been read with enthusiasm and early readers around the country. This is one not to miss. \\"Talented\, versatile Donoghue relates a searing tale of survival and recovery\, in the voice of a five-year-old boy ... Donoghue brilliantly shows mother and son grappling with very different issues as they adjust to freedom ... In the story's most heartbreaking moments\, it seems that Ma may be unable to live with the choices she made to protect Jack. But his narration reveals that she's nurtured a smart\, perceptive\, and willful boy—\;odd\, for sure\, but resilient\, and surely Ma can find that resilience in herself ... Wrenching\, as befits the grim subject matter\, but also tender\, touching\, and at times unexpectedly funny.\\" - Kirkus Reviews. Emma Donoghue's novels include Hood\, Landings\, Life Mask\, and the Lambda Award-winning The Sealed Letter\, which was also longlisted for Canada's Giller Prize. She is also the author\, earlier this year\, of Inseparable\: Desire Between Women in Literature (Knopf).
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100930T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100930T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/bateson URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/bateson SUMMARY:MARY CATHERINE BATESON at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. Twenty years after eminent scholar and author Mary Catherine Bateson's Composing a Life appeared—\;a book which has had readership and relevance ever since—\;she is here with Composing a Further Life\: The Age of Active Wisdom (Knopf). More than taking up where its predecessor left off\, Composing a Further Life is a serious\, informed\, lively exploration of what can be made of later stages of adult life\, what Dr. Bateson calls 'Adulthood II.' She draws from an array of conversations/portrayals of others who have lived more deeply and fully as they've aged\, as well as developing research. Mary Catherine Bateson's numerous other books include With a Daughter's Eye\: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson\, Peripheral Visions\, and Willing to Learn. She is presently a Visiting Scholar at the Center on Aging &\; Work/Workplace Flexibility at Boston College\, and until recently was president of the Institute of Intercultural Studies. $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.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100930T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100930T200000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/numeroff URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/numeroff SUMMARY:LAURA NUMEROFF DESCRIPTION:One of the most popular children's book authors of all\, Laura Numeroff makes this special mid-day appearance for her newest book\, Otis &\; Sydney and the Best Birthday Ever (Abrams Books for Young Readers). This enchanting tale of what happens when Otis plans a surprise for his friend Sydney's birthday should join the list of other enduring favorites Laura Numeroff has created over the years—\;The Jellybeans and the Big Dance\, When Sheep Sleep\, If You Give a Moose a Muffin\, If You Give a Pig a Pancake\, and many\, many more. At her publisher's request\, Laura Numeroff will sign her books purchased for this visit\, along with one book brought from home. Please join us for what should be a very fun event.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101001T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101001T000000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/stowell URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/stowell SUMMARY:ETHAN STOWELL with JILL LIGHTNER DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101001T003000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101001T003000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/huffington URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/huffington SUMMARY:ARIANNA HUFFINGTON at the Century Ballroom DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101001T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101001T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/simpson URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/sep10/simpson SUMMARY:MONA SIMPSON DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101002T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101002T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/reighley URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/reighley SUMMARY:KURT B. REIGHLEY DESCRIPTION:A very active October is set into motion with Seattle writer and DJ Kurt B. Reigley holding forth here for his look-at-what-we-have-here rumination on the new place of the old\, United States of Americana\: Backyard Chickens\, Burlesque Beauties\, &\; Handmade Bitters\: A Field Guide to the New American Roots Movement (Harper). \\"Encompassing\, engaging\, and definitive\, United States of America finds the through-line that connects such seemingly disparate fashions ... to reveal the yearning for simpler times at their heart. Reighley shows us the Americana movement from the inside\, not just as a conservative reaction to modern times\, but as a progressive response to a popular culture that's increasingly unsustainable.\\" - John Roderick\, from the Long Winters. \\"Reighley's book is your magical wardrobe into the Narnia of Americana ... Always fun\, fully informed\, astutely researched and extremely generous in scope\, United States of Americana is the lexicon of a laudable way of life.\\" - Wesley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding).
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101002T163000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101002T163000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/saam3 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/saam3 SUMMARY:FIROOZEH PAPAN-MATIN at Seattle Asian Art Museum DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101002T183000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101002T183000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/storytime URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/storytime SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101002T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101002T210000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/battaglia URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/battaglia SUMMARY:BEVERLY BATTAGLIA\, PhD DESCRIPTION:Vashon Island author and (retired) social psychologist Dr. Beverly Battaglia's book\, Changing Lanes\: Couples Redefining Retirement (BookSurge)\, is one of the very few books written for couples retiring together. Based on over one hundred interviews\, Changing Lanes offers advice about planning for financial\, health\, and relationship issues that develop as couples plan for retirement. This guidebook addresses issues faced by seniors of all ages\, and helps retirees weigh options and plan for the future. Questions\, concerns\, and experiences are welcome.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101002T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101002T230000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/cheney URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/cheney SUMMARY:COLIN CHENEY DESCRIPTION:Next this afternoon is Colin Cheney reading from his much-admired debut poetry collection\, Here Be Monsters (University of Georgia Press)\, a 2009 National Poetry Series selection. \\"Nature is a serious character in Here Be Monsters\, and these highly textured poems show us that disparate elements live side by side. Colin Cheney's surprising\, graceful leaps are never misleading or arbitrary. From poem to poem\, line by line\, classical and modern conceits converge throughout Here Be Monsters\; extraordinary touches the ordinary\, and something changes in us.\\" - Yusef Komunyakaa. Colin Cheney was a Ruth Lily Poetry Foundation Fellow and his poems have appeared in Ploughshares\, The Kenyon Review\, and Gulf Coast.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101003T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101003T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/strauss URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/strauss SUMMARY:DARIN STRAUSS DESCRIPTION:\\"Half my life ago\, I killed a girl\,\\" writes noted novelist Darin Strauss in his new memoir\, Half a Life (McSweeney's). First told on NPR's This American Life\, Half a Life is the story of the author's having accidentally hit\, and killed\, his high school classmate in a car/bicycle collision\, and his slow coming to terms with what followed. \\"At the center of this elegant\, painful\, stunningly honest memoir thrums a question fundamental to what it means to be human\: What do we do with what we've been given? What is truly exceptional here is watching a writer of fine fiction probe\, directly\, carefully and with great humility\, the source from which his fiction springs.\\" - Dani Shapiro\, The New York Times Book Review. Darin Strauss' books include the novels Chang and Eng and More Than It Hurts You.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101003T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101003T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/bhutto URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/bhutto SUMMARY:FATIMA BHUTTO at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101003T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101003T210000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/simon URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/simon SUMMARY:SCOTT SIMON DESCRIPTION:National Public Radio's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon is a morning mainstay in many homes around the U.S.\, including Seattle. Today\, program host Scott Simon returns\, sharing a bit of his own life with readers\, as he tells the story of him and his wife adopting two girls from China. Baby We Were Meant for Each Other\: In Praise of Adoption (Random House) is a joyful\, exuberant account\, both of his family's experiences and those of authors. The author doesn't shy away from some of the challenges\, terrible circumstances\, and sadness that are also sometimes part of adoption. \\"Simon's unvarnished portrait is an ode to adoption and the joy it can bring to both parent and child. It's clear that each family Simon highlights\, including his own\, is bound by a strong sense of generosity\, empathy\, and love.\\" - The Washington Post.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101004T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101004T000000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/peterson URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/peterson SUMMARY:SCOTT PETERSON DESCRIPTION:Scott Peterson\, an award-winning journalist with The Christian Science Monitor and the author of an acclaimed book on turmoil in parts of Africa\, Me Against My Brother\, makes this Seattle stop to discuss his timely new book\, Let the Swords Encircle Me\: Iran—\;A Journey Behind the Headlines (Simon &\; Schuster). This is drawn from over thirty trips to Iran made over the past fifteen years—\;no quick glance\, this. \\"This insightful and thoughtful exploration of Iran's revolution comes at a critical juncture ... Peterson provides an insider's tour of the people and issues that have made Iran one of the most fascinating and frustrating countries in the world for three decades.\\" - Robin Wright. \\"Incisive\, humane\, and full of vivid reportage ... Perhaps the best account we have of Iran's complex\, embattled reality.\\" - Publishers Weekly.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101004T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101004T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/moulitsas URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/moulitsas SUMMARY:MARKOS MOULITSAS at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101005T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101005T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/chang URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/chang SUMMARY:LAN SAMANTHA CHANG DESCRIPTION:A welcome Elliott Bay return is made this evening by fiction writer Lan Samantha Chang\, who now serves as director of the renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop\, in addition to writing superb books. She follows Hunger and Inheritance with her new novel\, All is Forgotten\, Nothing is Lost (W.W. Norton). \\"Among the many threads Chang elegantly pursues—\;the fraught relationships between mentors and students\, the value of poetry\, the price of ambition—\;it is her indelible portrait of the loneliness of artistic endeavor that will haunt readers the most in this exquisitely written novel about the poet's lot.\\" - Booklist. \\"All is Forgotten\, Nothing is Lost offers a starkly honest portrait of people caught up in the drive to write and of the personal bargains and self-deceptions that such an ambition can entail. Lan Samantha Chang was brave to write this book\, to turn her novelist's eye onto a world she knows intimately\, and her bravery pays off.\\" - Adam Haslett.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101005T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101005T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/norris URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/norris SUMMARY:MICHELE NORRIS with LYNNE VARNER at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:Presented by the CENTRAL DISTRICT FORUM FOR ARTS &\; IDEAS in association with ELLIOTT BAY BOOK COMPANY\, KUOW 94.9 and KPLU 88.5. Also in early October is this evening with award-winning National Public Radio journalist Michele Norris. Co-host of NPR's All Things Considered and recipient of the National Association of Black Journalists' 2009 Journalist of the Year Award\, among other honors\, Ms. Norris is here with a much-anticipated first book\, The Grace of Silence\: A Memoir (Pantheon). With her\, in conversation\, will be Seattle Times editorial columnist Lynne Varner. \\"The Grace of Silence is a riveting\, inspiring memoir of an at once singular and representative American family. From Minnesota to Alabama\, Norris takes us on a painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. She relies on her formidable skills as an investigative reporter to unearth shocking family secrets kept from her by her father and mother ... Feeling hurt and betrayed\, she learns that their lack of forthrightness allowed her to rise in a country haunted by its racial past. Powerful and tender\, The Grace of Silence reveals our human complexity in exemplary fashion.\\" - Henry Louis Gates\, Jr. $10 tickets are available via www.brownpapertickets.com (1-800-838-3006). Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information on this evening\, please see www.cdforum.org\, call (206) 323-4032\, or call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101005T183000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101005T183000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/storytime1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/storytime1 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101006T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101006T013000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/fbookclub URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/fbookclub SUMMARY:ELLIOTT BAY BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101006T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101006T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/kunstler URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/kunstler SUMMARY:JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101007T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101007T010000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/hersh URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/hersh SUMMARY:KRISTIN HERSH DESCRIPTION:Musician Kristin Hersh began her musical career at fourteen\, formed the band Throwing Muses with her stepsister Tanya Donelly while in college\, founded the nonprofit Coalition of Artists and Stakeholders in 2007\, and now performs as part of 50FOOTWAVE and also as an acoustic solo act. Her powerful autobiography\, Rat Girl\: A Memoir (Penguin)\, tells the story of a pivotal year (1985) during which her band was signed to a major label\, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder\, and found that she was pregnant. \\"Hersh's memoir is the book a fan didn't dare hope for\: a beacon in a dark field\, illuminating the mysterious and the mundane. Beautifully\, honestly written and as close as you will ever get to being in a Throwing Muses song.\\" - Wesley Stace. Free downloads of Throwing Muses performing songs from Rat Girl are available at www.kristinhersh.com.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101007T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101007T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/evans URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/evans SUMMARY:R. TRIPP EVANS DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101008T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101008T000000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/elder URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/elder SUMMARY:ROBERT K. ELDER DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101008T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101008T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/kane URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/kane SUMMARY:JESSICA KANE & TIPHANIE YANIQUE DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101008T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101008T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/skibell URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/skibell SUMMARY:JOSEPH SKIBELL at Richard Hugo House DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with JEWISH IN SEATTLE and the University of Washington Chapter of HILLEL. Young Dr. Jacob Sammelsohn arrives in Vienna in the 1890s\, befriends Sigmund Freud\, and falls for one of his beautiful and wealthy patients in Joseph Skibell's epic historical novel\, A Curable Romantic (Algonquin). \\"Intellectual comedy of the Highest Order.\\" - J.M. Coetzee. \\"Skibell's delicious juxtaposition of Sammelsohn against the cocaine-snorting Freud\, and Sammelsohn's infatuation with the 'cruel\, vindictive\, haughty\, caustic\, dismissive\, even murderous' character of Emma Eckstein\, one of Freud's patients\, make for a magnetic collection of personalities.\\" - Publishers Weekly. Joseph Skibell's novels include A Blessing on the Moon\, which received the Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Turner Prize for First Fiction. He teaches at Emory\, and is director of the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature. Free\, no tickets needed. Richard Hugo House is at 1634 Eleventh Avenue (just north of Pine\, a block-and-a-half from Elliott Bay). The café\;/bar will be open.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101009T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101009T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/awards URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/awards SUMMARY:WASHINGTON STATE BOOK AWARDS at Seattle Public Central Library DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101009T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101009T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/kotler URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/kotler SUMMARY:STEVEN KOTLER DESCRIPTION:A Small Furry Prayer\: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life (Bloomsbury) is writer Steven Kotler's autobiographical account of how falling in love would change his life\, and what that change has meant. The woman Steven Kotler would one day marry was devoted to animal rescue. To love her would be to take this on as well. The change included moving from Los Angeles to rural New Mexico\, continuing the work there. \\"Kotler\, owner of Rancho de Chihuahua\, an organization that treats dog with special needs\, offers a joyous\, almost spiritual chronicle of his journey from L.A.-based apartment dweller to owner of a dog sanctuary in New Mexico ... Brimming with humor\, gratitude\, and grace\, this is a remarkable story.\\" - Publishers Weekly.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101009T163000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101009T163000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/saam URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/saam SUMMARY:PETER MORAN at Seattle Asian Art Museum DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101009T183000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101009T183000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/storytime2 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/storytime2 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101009T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101009T200000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/lang URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/lang SUMMARY:AMY LANG DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101009T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101009T230000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/bartlett URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/bartlett SUMMARY:ALLISON HOOVER BARTLETT DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101010T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101010T013000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/chau URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/chau SUMMARY:ANGIE CHAU DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101010T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101011T000000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/artscrush URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/artscrush SUMMARY:ARTS CRUSH/Writing Workshops for Elementary and High School-aged Kids DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101010T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101010T233000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/artscrush1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/artscrush1 SUMMARY:ARTS CRUSH/Kids and Families Storytime DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101011T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101011T013000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/artscrush2 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/artscrush2 SUMMARY:ARTS CRUSH/The Novel\: Live! Launch Party DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101012T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101012T000000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/marcus URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/marcus SUMMARY:SARA MARCUS with LED TO SEA DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101012T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101012T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/oneill URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/oneill SUMMARY:JOSEPH O'NEILL with MARY ANN GWINN DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101012T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101012T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/collins URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/collins SUMMARY:GAIL COLLINS at Seattle Public Central Library DESCRIPTION:The A. SCOTT BULLITT LECTURE IN AMERICAN HISTORY presented by THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. This year's Bullitt Lecture is given by Gail Collins\, former editorial page of the New York Times\, and still a regular op-ed contributor there. Last year saw publication of her major historical work\, When Everything Changed\: The Amazing Journey of America's Women (Little\, Brown)\, is an enthralling social history woven around profiles of women you've heard of and women you haven't.\\" - Patricia Corrigan\, St. Louis Post-Dispatch. \\"A rousing epic.\\" - Stacy Schiff\, New York Times Book Review. Elliott Bay will be on hand with copies of When Everything Changed available for sale. Free admission is on a first-come\, first serve basis. The Microsoft Auditorium of the Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison &\; 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:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101012T183000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101012T183000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/storytime3 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/storytime3 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101013T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101013T010000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/percy URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/percy SUMMARY:BENJAMIN PERCY DESCRIPTION:Presently living and teaching in Iowa\, debut novelist Benjamin Percy hails from high desert country in central Oregon. That landscape plays a central role in his just-released novel\, The Wilding (Graywolf Press). \\"Not your father's eco-novel. In compelling\, image-driven prose\, Benjamin Percy confounds the old polarities about wilderness and development by sending three generations of men into a doomed canyon\, and letting so much hell break loose we can't tell the heroes from the villains—\;which feels exactly right. This is a dark\, sly\, slip-under-your-skin-and-stay-there kind of a book.\\" - Pam Houston. Benjamin Percy is also the author of a book of stories\, Refresh\, Refresh\, and the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and the Plimpton Prize.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101013T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101013T013000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/cibookclub URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/cibookclub SUMMARY:ELLIOTT BAY GLOBAL ISSUES & ETHICS BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101013T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101013T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/pyle URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/pyle SUMMARY:ROBERT MICHAEL PYLE DESCRIPTION:The butterfly bard of Grays River\, Washington makes this most welcome first visit to Elliott Bay's new home this evening. Internationally known for his scholarly—\;and popular—\;research and writings on butterflies\, Bob Pyle is also known for his writings on this wet side of the mountains—\;its pleasures and mysteries. We believe the most recent was his chronicle of a year in his home place—\;Grays River—\;a lovely book on all the things that happen in one year in one place. Contrast that with the thousands of miles travel involved for his newest book\, Mariposa Road\: The First Butterfly Big Year (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). By land and air\, Bob Pyle set out to see how many species of the United States' 800 varieties he could see. Hawai'i\, Alaska\, and states hither and yon all figure. \\"Toss out any notion you might have had about butterfly watchers and meet Bob Pyle\: scientist and daredevil\, philosopher and magician\, pioneer and rebel\, and the finest companions for a vagabond journey. Follow him down the rip-roaring Mariposa Road and you'll never look at a butterfly\, or the world\, in the same way again.\\" - Kenn Kaufman.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101014T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101014T010000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/rall URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/rall SUMMARY:TED RALL DESCRIPTION:Cartoonist/columnist Ted Rall considers his new manifesto for a United States heading toward economic and political collapse his most radical yet—\;which is saying something. He has just returned from a trip to Afghanistan\, stopping here now on tour with The Anti-American Manifesto (Seven Stories). Ted Rall sees opportunity in the current economic devastation—\;opportunity to first work against the kind of gangsterism that has rushed into place when Russia went through its collapse\, then to push for the big radical shift that would be called revolution. \\"This great book lays the foundation for the revolution we know is necessary. This is the book we've all been waiting for. Pick up this book. Read it. And then get ready to fight back.\\" - Derrick Jensen. A Pulitzer Prize finalist and twice the winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award\, Ted Rall is also a syndicated political cartoonist\, op-ed columnist\, graphic novelist\, and occasional war correspondent.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101014T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101014T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/colton URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/colton SUMMARY:LARRY COLTON at Trinity Lutheran Church DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101014T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101014T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/chernow URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/chernow SUMMARY:RON CHERNOW at Seattle Public Central Library DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. National Book Award-winning biographer Ron Chernow has written about Alexander Hamilton\, the \\"House\\" of Morgan\, and John D. Rockefeller. He makes this Seattle appearance for what is perhaps his most masterful achievement yet with his new biography\, Washington\: A Life (Penguin Press). \\"With so much that can be said—\;and said positively—\;about this magisterial biography\, it is difficult not to write a review as long as the book itself. Given the distinction of the author ... readers can safely assume from the outset that what lies ahead of them is a vastly enlightening\, overwhelmingly engaging treatment of a great man ... Another book on Washington? is a question rendered pointless by this one\, which happens to be the author's masterpiece. Definitive Washington is the point and effect of this biography.\\" - Booklist. This should be a very special evening. Free admission is on a first-come\, first serve basis. Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison &\; 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:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101014T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101014T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/ward URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/ward SUMMARY:PETER D. WARD at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:The WALTER P. KISTLER LECTURE SERIES presented by FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE. All concerned are most relieved and glad to present this rescheduled lecture by noted University of Washington professor of biology and earth and space sciences Peter D. Ward\, who is also the author of over a dozen highly regarded books. He was en route from his Lake Forest Park home to give this talk in June when an automobile accident caused postponement. His lecture\, \\"Our Flooding World\,\\" is drawn from the same research that informs his newest book\, The Flooded Earth\: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps (Basic). \\"NASA astrobiologist Ward describes the disastrous changes that can be expected as sea levels continue their accelerating rise due to global warming. Drawing on recent studies\, the author writes that there will be massive flooding—\;far more than currently predicted—\;of world coastlines\, home to more than 200 million people ... to avoid disastrous global warming ... [Ward writes]\, humans must not only reduce greenhouse gases\; they must change behaviors (stop using coal\, eliminate the suburbs and private vehicles) and engineer new climate-protecting techniques ... A blunt\, vivid warning.\\" - Kirkus Reviews. Free admission. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information on this evening and the Foundation For the Future\, please see www.futurefoundation.org.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101014T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101014T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/russell URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/russell SUMMARY:THADDEUS RUSSELL DESCRIPTION:Portion Two of what should be a lively\, politically-informed evening at Elliott Bay has historian Thaddeus Russell\, who has taught at Occidental College\, Columbia\, The New School\, and Barnard\, discussing his big new book\, A Renegade History of the United States (Free Press). \\"Thaddeus Russell's A Renegade History of the United States is a work of history like no other—\;a bold\, controversial\, original view of American history that will amuse\, inspire\, outrage\, and\, most of all\, instruct readers. Russell strips away conventional wisdom and explodes many myths. In the process\, he sheds new light on ideas\, institutions\, and people.\\" - Alan Brinkley. \\"Thaddeus Russell has written the history of the American People Whom Historians Would Rather Forget\: the whores\, delinquents\, roustabouts—\;the so-called bums and immoral minority who did more for our civil rights and personal freedoms than anyone could count—\;until now. There is no understanding of American feminism\, sexual liberation\, civil rights or dancing in the streets without this careful analysis that Russell has put before us.\\" - Susie Bright. Also with early praise\: Steven Johnson\, Nancy Cott\, Thomas E. Woods\, Jr.\, Kirkus Reviews\, and Elliott Gorn.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101014T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101014T230000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct14/grimes URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct14/grimes SUMMARY:TOM GRIMES DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101015T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101015T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/robinson URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/robinson SUMMARY:EUGENE ROBINSON at Northwest African American Museum DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101015T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101015T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/zirin URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/zirin SUMMARY:DAVE ZIRIN DESCRIPTION:One of our favorite writers on sports—\;and society—\;Dave Zirin is back in the friendly confines of Elliott Bay for his newest book\, Bad Sports\: How Owners are Ruining the Games We Love (Scribner). All the male major league sports are addressed in here—\;save Major League Soccer—\;and a rogue's gallery of poster boy sports owners it is. Guess what iconic local basketball franchise and its departure\, is among the tales recounted. Yes\, the Howard Schultz-to-Clay Bennett era of local sports history is here. \\"Not since Hunter S. Thompson has a sportswriter shown the right snarl for the job ... Zirin puts the politics back in sports and makes good sport of the politics. Even if you don't know the difference between March Madness and Spring Break\, read this book\: It's an original and scathing look at how America works.\\" - Naomi Klein. Dave Zirin is the host of Sirius/XM's Edge of Sports radio show\, and also the author of What's My Name\, Fool?\, Welcome to the Terrordome\, and A People's History of Sports in the United States. As part of this Seattle visit\, Dave Zirin will also be making an appearance on behalf of 826 Seattle—\;please see www.826seattle.org for information.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101015T173000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101015T173000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/barron URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/barron SUMMARY:T.A. BARRON DESCRIPTION:Special morning at Elliott Bay reading. This morning\, we offer a special treat\: a children's event\, suitable for young readers and interested adults\, featuring the very popular children's book author T.A. Barron. He's here to talk about his newest book\, Ultimate Magic (Philomel)\, the third book in his Merlin's Dragon series of chapter books. A renowned storyteller\, writer (and Rhodes Scholar)\, T.A. Barron is the author of nearly two dozen books\, including both chapter books (the Lost Years of Merlin series\, Great Tree of Avalon trilogy\, Adventures of Kate trilogy) and children's picture books (High as a Hawk\, The Day the Stones Walked). He founded the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes\, recognizing extraordinary young people from all backgrounds. T.A. Barron's appearances with us have been some of the highlights of our series. (Want to bring a classroom? Call us at (206) 624-6600.) For more\, please see www.tabarron.com.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101015T191500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101015T191500Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/cunningham URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/cunningham SUMMARY:MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101016T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101016T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/hugo URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/hugo SUMMARY:THE HUGO LITERARY SERIES presents \\"UNDER THE INFLUENCE\\" at Richard Hugo House DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101016T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101016T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/opera URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/opera SUMMARY:SEATTLE OPERA presents ASPECTS OF \\"LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR\\" DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101016T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101016T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/danticat URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/danticat SUMMARY:EDWIDGE DANTICAT at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101016T163000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101016T163000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/das URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/das SUMMARY:GURCHARAN DAS at Seattle Asian Art Museum DESCRIPTION:Saturday University Sacred Sites of Asia Lecture Series\, presented by the GARDNER CENTER FOR ASIAN ART AND IDEAS\, cosponsored by UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON JACKSON SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES and ELLIOTT BAY BOOK COMPANY. A major figure in contemporary Indian life and letters\, Gurcharan Das is here from New Delhi\, a special guest in the Gardner Center's Saturday University series. Author of numerous books\, including India Unbound\, a novel\, essays\, plays\, and more\; a regular columnist for The Times of India and other Indian papers\; and a former CEO of Proctor &\; Gamble India\, he visits to discuss themes raised in his newest book\, The Difficulty of Being Good\: On the Subtle Art of Dharma (Oxford University Press). This learned\, engaging book—\;with a personal stake in the writing and exploring—\;uses the great Indian epic\, the Mahabharata\, as a way to examine how to live a life that's true to one's self and the civic life of society. Free\, with museum admission (or membership). The Seattle Asian Art Museum is at 1400 E. Prospect in Volunteer Park. For more information\, please see www.seattleartmuseum.org.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101016T183000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101016T183000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/storytime4 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/storytime4 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101016T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101016T210000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/danticat1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/danticat1 SUMMARY:EDWIDGE DANTICAT DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101017T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101017T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/hunsinger URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/hunsinger SUMMARY:Rev. Dr. GEORGE HUNSINGER at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101017T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101017T210000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/react URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/react SUMMARY:REACT THEATRE presents YELLOW FACE DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101019T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101019T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/verhovek URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/verhovek SUMMARY:SAM HOWE VERHOVEK DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101019T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101019T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/mengestu URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/mengestu SUMMARY:DINAW MENGESTU at Seattle Public Central Library DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101019T183000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101019T183000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/storytime5 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/storytime5 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101019T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101019T230000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/yabookclub URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/yabookclub SUMMARY:ELLIOTT BAY YOUNG ADULT READERS BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:After School &\; Beyond. This hosted\, after-school book discussion group has Sherman Alexie's National Book Award-winning novel\, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Little\, Brown)\, as its pick for this month. Based on the authors own experiences\, this first young adult novel by bestselling author Alexie features poignant drawings by acclaimed artist Ellen Forney that reflect the characters art as it chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy attempting to break away from the life he was destined to live. This should be fun. Please join us.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T192150Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101020T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101020T013000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/sfbookclub URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/oct10/sfbookclub 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 pick this month is Steal Across the Sky by Hug Award-winning novelist Nancy Kress. The aliens appeared one day\, built a base on the moon\, and put an ad on the internet\: "\;We are an alien race you may call the Atoners. Ten thousand years ago we wronged humanity profoundly. We cannot undo what has been done\, but we wish humanity to understand it. Therefore we request twenty-one volunteers to visit seven planets to Witness for us. We will convey each volunteer there and back in complete safety. Volunteers must speak English. Send requests for electronic applications to witness@Atoners.com."\; At first\, everyone thought it was a joke. But it wasn't. This is the story of three of those volunteers\, and what they found on Kular A and Kular B. Please join us.
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