Events
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Start: 7:00 pm
A favorite writer of many since her singular debut, Cowboys Are My Weakness, nearly twenty years ago, Pam Houston has visited and given Elliott Bay audiences memorable evenings for each of her subsequent books—Waltzing the Cat, A Little More About Me, and Sight Hound. She makes this welcome return for her new novel, Contents May Have Shifted (W.W. Norton). "Houston's latest novel finds Pam, the intrepid narrator, shuttling the world over, from Alaska to Tunisia, from Bhutan to Newfoundland, searching for authenticity, drinking up life, and maybe, just maybe, fleeing from a little conflict ... Houston imbues each pithy chapter with unifying lyricism ... Unapologetic and empowering, Houston's book hammers home the idea that if you don't have problems, you probably aren't living. Or, to use her metaphor, we all have baggage, so we might as well get used to traveling with it." – Katharine Fronk, Booklist.
Start: 7:30 pm
Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. One of the key players in one of the most significant of the many changes to take place in the Middle East last year—the protest that became a revolution that has become a new era in Egypt—makes this special appearance on the occasion of the publication of his book, Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Wael Ghonim was a Google executive who set things in motion when he decided, via Facebook, to protest the death of a fellow Egyptian at the hand of domestic security forces. That was just the beginning—there and elsewhere. Joining him onstage this evening is D. Parvaz, a onetime Seattle P-I journalist now reporting for Al Jazeera out of Qatar. This should be something. $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 at (206) 652-4255, or see www.townhallseattle.org.
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