Events
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Start: 7:00 pm
The second New Yorker "20 Under 40" writer to read here this month, following Dinaw Mengestu on the 18th, Yiyun Li is here from her Oakland home with an amazing new book of stories, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl (Random House). "A stellar assortment of stories ... further proof that Li deserves to be considered among the best living fiction writers." - Kirkus Reviews. "In the most dismal circumstances and with the most unlikely subjects, Yiyun Li has the rare ability to conjure hope. She writes with precision and delicacy about the Chinese diaspora and about the new China, and in doing so she writes about us all." - Mona Simpson. Yiyun Li's other books are the novel, The Vagrants, and a first book of stories, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. She has also received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
Start: 7:30 pm
Presented as part of the SOUNDINGS FROM ISLAND PRESS series by TOWN HALL's CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE and ISLAND PRESS, in association with IslandWood and Elliott Bay Book Company. Wolves, sea otters, and sharks exert a disproportionate influence on their environment. Dramatic ecological consequences can result when they are removed from, or returned to, an ecosystem. Scientist Cristina Eisenberg, author of The Wolf's Tooth: Keystone Predators, Trophic Cascades and Biodiversity (Island Press), explores the role of top predators and other factors in regulating ecosystems. $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 (entry downstairs on 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.
Start: 7:30 pm
Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. Two years after making world headlines with her thrilling release after six years of captivity, Colombian public figure, onetime presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt writes about her disappeared years in her haunting, powerful memoir, Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Penguin Press). This is one of the more remarkable accounts of surviving and persevering through captive life. Facing the darkest, Ingrid Betancourt found an inner light which helped her keep center, keep focus, keep faith. She was already an individual of moxie and stature from her public standing in Colombia—including a 2002 run for the presidency—before being abducted by FARC rebels. This is open-eyed, inspiring talk and writing. $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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