ROBERT FISK
Friday, September 26 at 7 p.m. at Microsoft Auditorium, Seattle Public Central Libray, 1000 Fourth Avenue

Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. We are honored to help present this long-awaited Seattle visit by internationally renowned journalist and author Robert Fisk. Based in Beirut, his dispatches (presently for The Independent) and books (Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War, The Great War for Civilisation) represent decades spent in witness from many of the battlefields of the past thirty-plus years. He is here tonight with a new book, The Age of the Warrior: Selected Essays (Nation Books), a compilation of pieces, most written over the past five years—since the U.S. invaded Iraq. This evening should help with perspective—Robert Fisk's on-the-ground (and well-read) knowledge of the past, his open-eyed scrutiny of the present, should offer insight for where the future lies. Among the praises for his recent masterwork, The Great War for Civilisation: "A book of unquestionable importance, given Fisk's unmatched experience of war and its impact in the contemporary Middle East and his capacity to convey that experience in concrete, passionate language." - Washington Post. "A stimulating and absorbing book by a man who speaks Arabic, who had known the region better than most, and has met the leading players ..." - The New York Times. Free admission is on a first-come, first-serve basis (no tickets). The Seattle Public Central Library is located at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison & Spring). Special $5 parking coupons for use in the Central Library garage are available on a limited basis for those attending. For more information, please call (206) 386-4636, or Elliott Bay Book Company at (206) 624-6600, or see www.spl.org.

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