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Start: 7:00 pm
Fourteen years after his spellbinding book, The Spell of the Sensuous, David Abram at last is here again with a long-awaited new book on the human relationship with nature (and nature's relationship with the human), Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology (Pantheon). "As with many deeply original—and radical—books, this work may startle, even provoke the reader in its electric reversal of conventional thought. Worth any provocation for the profundity of its insights, this is the portrait of the artist as a young raven, with all the subtlety of his mind, for the mindedness of the body. An exercise of uncanny imagination by a writer who has a sixth sense for the intelligence of the first five." - Jay Griffiths. "Abrams shows brilliantly how this body brings us back to Earth in a series of acutely moving descriptions of its polysensory genius. An original work of primary philosophy, it is written with verve, passion, and poetry." - Edward S. Casey.
Start: 7:30 pm
Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. Historian Jill Lepore examines the far right's battle to "take back America" in the context of a centuries-long struggle over the meaning of America's founding. Her book, The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History (Princeton University Press), takes on the Tea Party's ahistorical, anti-intellectual, anti-pluralist version of American history, and tells real stories about American history. Jill Lepore is a professor of U.S. history at Harvard and a New Yorker staff writer. "Jill Lepore is a national treasure. There is no other writer so at home both as a trenchant scholar of American history and as an on-the-scene observer of our present-day follies. She etches the connection between past and present with a wisdom, grace, and sparkle that makes this book even hard to put down—if that's possible—than her previous work." - Adam Hochschild. Her previous books include the Pulitzer finalist, New York Burning; and the Bancroft Prize-winning The Name of War. $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.
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