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Start: 10:00 am
End: 5:00 pm
Presented by HISTORIC SEATTLE. The appreciation of all things Arts and Crafts, and Bungalow, is again celebrated in Historic Seattle's annual Bungalow Fair, now in its thirteenth year. Period and period-inspired collectible furniture, textiles, art, ephemera, glass, and other items are available (books from Elliott Bay, too!) for purchase, with dealers from all over the U.S. on hand. This year's lecturers are: Arts and Crafts guild stalwart Daniel Lees, speaking on Saturday the 25th at 11 a.m. on his book, Leather of the Arts and Crafts Era (Schiffer); Susan Futterman, speaking on Sunday the 26th at 11 a.m. on color block prints by Frances Gearhart; and Jim Heuer, on Sunday the 26th at 1:30 p.m., speaking about Portland's Arts and Crafts neighborhoods. Food and drink are available for purchase on-site. For tickets/information, please see www.historicseattle.org or call (206) 622-6952. Tickets are $10 for Fair entry and $10 for each lecture, with discounts for seniors/Historic Seattle members. Tickets will also be available at the door. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For those wanting more, take the Home Sweet Bungalow Tour and view historic houses, gardens, and selected interiors in Seattle's Ravenna neighborhood. This tour is offered both days of the Fair, from 2 - 5 p.m. Cost is $25 in advance/$30 day of, from www.brownpapertickets.com.
Start: 5:00 pm
A favorite of readers in Seattle, in particular, but also elsewhere, Tao Lin makes this welcome Elliott Bay return to read from his newest work, Richard Yates (Melville House). Yes, it's fiction, and "Richard Yates" is named after the late writer—but isn't about him. "Richard Yates is hilarious, menacing, and hugely intelligent. Tao Lin is a Kafka for the iPhone generation. He has that most important gift: it's impossible to imagine anyone else writing like he does and sounding authentic. Yet he has already spawned a huge school of Lin imitators. As precocious and prolific as he is, every book surpasses the last. Tao Lin may well be the most important writer under thirty working today." - Clancy Martin. Tao Lin's other books include you are a little bit happier than i am, Eeeee Eee Eeee & Bed, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and Shoplifting from American Apparel.
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