Each month\, the Elliott Bay Book Club reads and discusses the best in contemporary fiction with the occasional classic thrown in for good measure. Our first selection for the new year is Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco. Winner of the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize\, Ilustrado begins with a body. On a clear day in winter\, the battered corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River. Gone\, too\, is the only manuscript of his final book\, a work meant to rescue him from obscurity by exposing the crimes of the Filipino ruling families. Miguel\, his student and only remaining friend\, sets out for Manila to investigate. The result is a rich and dramatic family saga of four generations\; tracing one hundred and fifty years of Philippine history forged under the Spanish\, the Americans\, and the Filipinos themselves. Exuberant and wise\, wildly funny and deeply moving\, Ilustrado is a daring and inventive debut novel that \\"begins as a murder mystery and develops into an ambitious exploration of cultural identity\, ambition\, and artistic purpose.\\" - The New Yorker.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120105T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120105T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/barghouti URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/barghouti SUMMARY:OMAR BARGHOUTI DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120105T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120105T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/sweets URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/sweets SUMMARY:ELLEN SWEETS DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120106T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120106T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/barghouti1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/barghouti1 SUMMARY:OMAR BARGHOUTI at St. Mark's Cathedral DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120106T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120106T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/bernier URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/bernier SUMMARY:CLIFFORD BERNIER & CECILIA MARTINEZ-GIL DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120107T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120107T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/halberstam URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/halberstam SUMMARY:JUDITH HALBERSTAM & CHANDAN REDDY DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120107T193000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120107T193000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/storytime1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/storytime1 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120107T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120107T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/kashiba URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/kashiba SUMMARY:SHIRO KASHIBA DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120108T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120108T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/borden URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/borden SUMMARY:JANE BORDEN DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120108T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120108T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/utne URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/utne SUMMARY:ERIC UTNE DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120109T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120109T010000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/stanley URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/stanley SUMMARY:ERIC A. STANLEY\, LORI SAFFIN\, RALOWE T. AMPU\, & TOSHIO MERONEK DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120110T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120110T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/call URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/call SUMMARY:WENDY CALL DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120110T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120110T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/xi URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/xi SUMMARY:XI CHUAN with PAUL MANFREDI at Seattle Public Central Library DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120110T193000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120110T193000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/storytime2 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/storytime2 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120111T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120111T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/cibookclub URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/cibookclub SUMMARY:GLOBAL ISSUES & ETHICS BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:Our Global Issues &\; Ethics Book Group is devoted to discussing books that cover the most relevant topics of our everyday lives. Our first selection for the new year is Ghost Wars\: The Secret History of the CIA\, Afghanistan\, and Bin Laden\, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10\, 2001 by Steve Coll. To what extent did America's best intelligence analysts grasp the rising threat of Islamist radicalism? Who tried to stop bin Laden and why did thay fail? Comprehensively and for the first time\, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll recounts the history of the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks. Based on scrupulous research and firsthand accounts by government\, intelligence\, and military personnel both foreign and American\, Ghost Wars details the secret history of the CIA's role in Afghanistan (including its covert operations against Soviet troops from 1979 to 1989)\, the rise of the Taliban\, the emergence of bin Laden\, and the failed efforts by U.S. forces to find and assassinate bin Laden in Afghanistan. James Bamford in The Washington Post calls it\, \\"A long overdue look at the peaks and valleys of the CIA's presence in Afghanistan through the decades leading to September 10\, 2001...a well-written\, authoritative\, high-altitude drama with few heroes\, many villains\, bags of cash\, and a tragic ending—\;one that may not have been inevitable.\\"
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120111T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120111T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/guess URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/guess SUMMARY:CAROL GUESS & KEVIN SIMMONDS DESCRIPTION:Tonight two esteemed queer writers of both prose and poetry share our stage. Carol Guess' most recent reading here was from her novel\, Homeschooling\, a Lambda Award finalist for Lesbian Fiction. This visit\, she'll read from My Father in Water (Shearsman Books)\, an interlinked collection of essays about her relationship with her late\, scientist father. \\"'As they float across regions right now and bodies back then' these essays refuse to distinguish between life and labor\, love and loss. Guess proves herself to be—\;yet again—\;a consummate recorder of our collective queer heart.\\" – Scott Herring. Traveling here from San Francisco to read is poet\, musician\, and past Jack Straw Foundation writer Kevin Simmonds. He will read from his new book of poems\, Mad for Meat (Salmon Poetry/Dufour). \\"As sharply and carefully honed as his poems are\, Kevin Simmonds has managed to preserve a quality of urgency\, spontaneity and surprise in his poems through his unquestionable sense of music\, and above all\, his willingness to take risks in subject and form.\\" – Kwame Dawes.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120113T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120113T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/gallagher URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/gallagher SUMMARY:WINIFRED GALLAGHER DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120114T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120114T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/vangelder URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/vangelder SUMMARY:SARAH VAN GELDER DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120114T193000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120114T193000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/storytime3 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/storytime3 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120114T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120114T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/burgess URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/burgess SUMMARY:JOHN BURGESS\, STEPHEN ROXBOROUGH\, & JOANNIE STANGELAND DESCRIPTION:John Burgess reads from Graffito\, his third collection (Ravenna Press). A Jack Straw writer in 2006 and (with Stephen Roxborough) co-founder of the original Burning Word Festival\, he serves as editor for the online journal Snow Monkey and appears with the Band of Poets. Stephen Roxborough\, aka roxword\, has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His most recent book is This Wonderful\, Perpetual\, Beautiful (Neopoiesis Press). Joannie Stangeland will read from Into the Rumored Spring (Ravenna Press)\, a series of poems about the illness and recovery of a friend facing breast cancer. She is the author of two previous chapbooks\, including Weathered Steps.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120115T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120115T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/avery URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/avery SUMMARY:ELLIS AVERY DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120115T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120115T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/robbins URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/robbins SUMMARY:CATHERINE C. ROBBINS with RANDE COOK (KWAKWAKA'WAKW) DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120117T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120117T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/zunz URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/zunz SUMMARY:OLIVIER ZUNZ at Town Hall Seattle - CANCELLED! DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120117T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120117T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/johnson URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/johnson SUMMARY:ADAM JOHNSON DESCRIPTION:Nearly a decade after his highly praised debut novel\, Parasites Like Us and a collection of stories\, Emporium\, Stanford writing professor Adam Johnson is here with The Orphan Master's Son (Random House) a major new novel that is garnering all kinds of early attention and excitement. \\"Johnson's novel accomplishes the seemingly impossible\: an American writer has masterfully rendered the mysterious world of North Korea with the soul and savvy of a native\, from its orphanages and its fishing boats to the kitchens of its high-ranking commanders. While oppressive propaganda echoes throughout\, the tone never slides into caricature\; if anything\, the story unfolds with astounding empathy for those living in constant fear of imprisonment—\;or worse—\;but who manage to maintain their humanity against all odds ... In this moment and a thousand others like it\, Johnson juxtaposes the vicious atrocities of the regime with the tenderness of beauty\, love\, and hope.\\" – Publishers Weekly. \\"Am addictive novel of daring ingenuity\; a study of sacrifice and freedom in a citizen-eating dynasty\; and a timely reminder that anonymous victims of oppression are also human beings who love. A brave and impressive book.\\" – David Mitchell.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120117T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120117T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/boudinot URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/boudinot SUMMARY:RYAN BOUDINOT at Richard Hugo House DESCRIPTION:A writer who is a friend of both Elliott Bay and long active with Hugo House\, Ryan Boudinot takes to the stage of the latter—\;a block from the bookstore—\;to read from his newly published second novel\, Blueprints of the Afterlife (Black Cat/Grove). And what a second novel. \\"Take every high voltage future-shock you can imagine about life as it's shaping up in the twenty-first century\, process it through one of the smartest and funniest and weirdly compassionate sensibilities you'll find on this crazy planet at this crazy moment\, and you get a novel named Blueprints of the Afterlife. This guy Ryan Boudinot is the WikiLeaks of the zeitgeist.\\" – Robert Olen Butler\, joined by Tom Robbins\, Jonathan Evison\, Will Self\, Charles Yu\, and others in early praise. \\"Boudinot's ingenious second novel ... takes readers on a frenzied\, hilarious\, and paranoid trip through a hypernetworked near future. A bracing dystopian romp through contemporary dread\, extrapolated.\\" – Publishers Weekly. Free admission. Richard Hugo House is at 1634 Eleventh Avenue (11th\, just north of Pine Street).
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120117T193000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120117T193000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/storytime4 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/storytime4 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME with special guest SAMANTHA VAMOS DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120118T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120118T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/sfbookclub URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/sfbookclub SUMMARY:SPECULATIONS - ELLIOTT BAY SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:As the literature of ideas and imagination\, Science Fiction and Fantasy simply demands discussion. Our selections for January are the two books that make up Hal Duncan's The Book of All Hours series\, Vellum and it's sequel Ink. It's 2017 and angels and demons walk the earth. Once they were human\; now they are unkin\, transformed by the ancient machine-code language of reality itself. They seek The Book of All Hours\, the mythical tome within which the blueprint for all reality is transcribed\, which has been lost somewhere in the Vellum—\;the vast realm of eternity upon which our world is a mere scratch.
The Vellum\, where the unkin are gathering for war.
The Vellum\, where a fallen angel and a renegade devil are about to settle an age-old feud.
The Vellum\, where the past\, present\, and future will collide with ancient worlds and myths.
And the Vellum will burn. . . .
Founding editor of The Baffler\, Thomas Frank has long been explaining what seems inexplainable—\;the author of The Wrecking Crew and One Market Under God\, he scathingly looked at how people would vote blatantly against their own interests in What's the Matter with Kansas? Now\, he looks at sympathy for the rich in hard times (whose hard times?)—\;in his newest\, Pity the Billionaire\: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right (Metropolitan Books). \\"No one fools Thomas Frank\, who is the sharpest\, funniest\, most intellectually voracious political commentator on the scene. In Pity the Billionaire he has written a brilliant expose of the most breathtaking ruse in American political history\: how the Right turned the biggest capitalist breakdown since 1929 into an opportunity for themselves.\\" – Barbara Ehrenreich.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120120T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120120T200000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/becker URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/becker SUMMARY:PAULA BECKER & ALAN STEIN at the Woman's Century Club (Harvard Exit Theatre) - POSTPONED TO A TBA DATE! DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120121T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120121T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/martin URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/martin SUMMARY:S.R. \\"RUDY\\" MARTIN\, JR. - Cancelled! DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120121T193000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120121T193000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/storytime5 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/storytime5 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120121T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120121T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/frisino URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/frisino SUMMARY:DENISE FRISINO DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120122T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120122T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/smith URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/smith SUMMARY:ALEXIS M. SMITH DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120123T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120123T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/lipstadt URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/lipstadt SUMMARY:DEBORAH E. LIPSTADT at Temple De Hirsch Sinai DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120124T193000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120124T193000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/storytime6 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/storytime6 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120125T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120125T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/drama URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/drama SUMMARY:STAGES - ELLIOTT BAY DRAMA BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120125T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120125T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/diment URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/diment SUMMARY:GALYA DIMENT DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120126T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120126T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/graeber URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/graeber SUMMARY:DAVID GRAEBER DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120126T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120126T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/iyer URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/iyer SUMMARY:PICO IYER at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120127T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120127T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/sickels URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/sickels SUMMARY:CARTER SICKELS DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120128T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120128T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/marcus URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/marcus SUMMARY:GARY MARCUS DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120128T193000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120128T193000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/storytime7 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/storytime7 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120128T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120128T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/james URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/james SUMMARY:DIANA E. JAMES DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120129T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120129T010000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/mueller URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/mueller SUMMARY:TOM MUELLER - Late Breaking Addition! DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120129T213000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120129T213000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/redpine URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/redpine SUMMARY:RED PINE / BILL PORTER & ERIC PAUL SHAFFER DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120131T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120131T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/cumberland URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/cumberland SUMMARY:SHARON CUMBERLAND DESCRIPTION:Celebration is in order this evening as Seattle University Creative Writing Program director and poet Sharon Cumberland reads from her just-published first full collection\, Peculiar Honors (Black Heron). \\"Sharon Cumberland knows the forceful pronouncement\, but also possesses the rarer gift for quietness and gentle naming—\;a contemporary Adam christening the hard-to-name emotions and perceptions of grief\, happiness\, faith.\\" – Andrew Hudgins. \\"In these poems we meet Madonnas in jeans\; Athenas in Greek widow's weeds\; nosey aunts with faces displayed on Mylar birthday balloons\; and medieval schoolmasters enjoining their pupils to write themes on those who have died by drowning\, crucifixion\, or pure joy.\\" – Carolyne Wright.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120131T193000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120131T193000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/storytime8 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/storytime8 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T210154Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120201T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120201T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/phillips URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/phillips SUMMARY:JONATHAN TALAT PHILLIPS DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR