Events
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Start: 10:30 am
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.
Start: 12:15 pm
Special midday at Elliott Bay reading. A Seattle visit that begins with a Thursday evening reading at Town Hall and concludes with this noon-hour reading at Elliott Bay brings Pulitzer- and PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novelist Michael Cunningham here for his new novel, By Nightfall (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). This is the present-day story of a couple seemingly at the peak of their purpose—in work (arts), in family, in friends. Then, things happen. Delicate balances are altered. How they seem to happen—are perceived and acted upon—make up the heart of this intelligent, perceptive novel. "'What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?' That jolt, that upending realization that your life is just a stream of small dreams and small mistakes, is a defining theme in Cunnigham's coruscatingly excellent fiction (remember The Hours?), expressed here in a way that makes you ache ... Extraordinary." - Library Journal. Michael Cunningham's other novels include A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours, and Specimen Days. Please join us.
Start: 7:30 pm
Presented by RICHARD HUGO HOUSE. Hugo House's three-part 2010-11 Hugo Literary Series commences this evening with original work composed by writers and musicians under the theme of 'Under the Influence.' Novelist/playwright NANCY RAWLES, poet ED SKOOG, and novelist JESS WALTER are the writers engaged, and THE BOARD OF EDUCATION will be providing newly-composed music. Individual and series tickets, along with more information, are available at www.hugohouse.org, or calling (206) 322-7030. Richard Hugo House is located at 1634 Eleventh Avenue.
Start: 7:30 pm
Presented by SEATTLE OPERA. The curtain goes up on Seattle Opera's 2010-11 season on Saturday with its opening production of the Gaetano Ronizetti opera, Lucia di Lammermoor. Seattle Opera General Director Speight Jenkins and an invited guest will discuss cultural, historical, and artistic aspects of the opera and its times. These are always engaging, lively evenings. Lucia di Lammermoor is scheduled for eight performances October 16 - 30 at McCaw Hall. $5 admission to this discussion is handled at the door by Seattle Opera. For more information, please see www.seattleopera.org or call (206) 389-7676.
Start: 7:30 pm
Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. A writer who first read at age 25 with her debut book, Breath, Eyes, Memory, and has been an Elliott Bay and Seattle favorite in appearances here since, Edwidge Danticat returns with a powerful, timely new book that grew out of talks she gave for this year's Toni Morrison Lecture Series at Princeton. Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (Princeton University Press) is a beautiful book of eloquent writing, one that explores the place of the artist as immigrant—and immigrant as artist. She does this both generally and specifically—by taking readers to her home country of Haiti, including the Haiti shattered and devastated by a 7.0 earthquake on January 12 this year ("Our Guernica"). "This is the most powerful book I've read in years. Though delicate in its prose and civil in its tone, it hits like a freight train. It's a call to arms for all immigrants, all artists, all those who choose to bear witness, and all those who choose to listen. And though it describes great upheaval, tragedy, and injustice, it's full of humor, warmth, grace, and light." - Dave Eggers. $5 tickets are available at the door starting at 6:30 p.m. or in advance via www.brownpapertickets.com (1-800-838-3006). Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). Preferred seating for Town Hall members. For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, Town Hall Seattle at (206) 652-4255, or see www.townhallseattle.org. (As part of this Seattle visit, Edwidge Danticat will also be appearing at Elliott Bay Book Company on Saturday, October 16 at 2 p.m.)
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