Events
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Start: 9:30 am
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. The second of this autumn's popular lecture series has Firoozeh Papan-Matin, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Literature at the University of Washington (and translator of the major, twentieth-century poet Ahmad Shamlu), speaking on 'Mystic Shrines as the Gateway to Memory and Anticipation.' Elliott Bay is usually on hand with a selection of related/recommended titles. Individual lecture tickets are SAM members $5, nonmembers $10. Series tickets are SAM members $38, nonmembers $75. The Seattle Asian Art Museum is at 1400 E. Prospect in Volunteer Park. For more information, please see www.seattleartmuseum.org.
Start: 11:30 am
Our twice-a-week Children's Storytimes, set for Tuesday and Saturday mornings each month, commence for October with this morning's reading from picture- and storybook favorites out of our children's section. One of our Elliott Bay bookfolk will do the reading and telling honors. Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin! Please join us.
Start: 2:00 pm
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.
Start: 4:00 pm
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.
Start: 7:00 pm
"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.
Start: 7:30 pm
Presented by ELLIOTT BAY BOOK COMPANY in association with the GARDNER CENTER FOR ASIAN ART & IDEAS and SEATTLE ARTS & LECTURES. Here from Karachi is Pakistani poet/journalist Fatima Bhutto with her searing, astonishing book, Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir (Nation Books). This is a "daughter's memoir" of both a family and a homeland, as Fatima Bhutto's family has been a central, indelible part of Pakistan's sixty-three turbulent years as an independent nation. Her grandfather, uncle, aunt (Benazir), and father Mir Murtaza were variously executed, murdered, and assassinated, as were numerous others who worked with or for them. The clarities and mysteries of these, and more—alliances, betrayals, exiles, homecomings—are told with a brave, bracing narrative voice. $10 tickets are available via www.brownpapertickets.com (1-800-838-3006) or at Elliott Bay Book Company. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). We expect this evening to also address in various ways (discussion, relief efforts, financial support) the ongoing devastation in Pakistan owing to floods). At Ms. Bhutto's request, proceeds raised from this evening will go to the work of the medical relief organization, Merlin (www.merlin-usa.org).
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