The Elliott Bay Book Company

ELLIOTT BAY BOOK GROUP
Tuesday, March 2 at 6:30 p.m.

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 March selection is The Journey of Little Gandhi by Elias Khoury. A many-layered story of Little Gandhi, or Abd al-Karim, a shoe shine in a city fractured by war. Shot down in the street, Gandhi's story is recounted by an aging and garrulous prostitute named Alice. Ingeniously embedding stories within stories, Little Gandhi becomes the story of a city, Beirut, in the grip of civil war. Laila Lalami in the Los Angeles Times says, "Los Angeles has Joan Didion and Raymond Chandler, and Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk. The beautiful resilient city of Beirut belongs to Khoury."

LINDA CHALKER-SCOTT
Tuesday, March 2 at 7 p.m.

Do using drought-tolerant plants reduce water consumption? Does aerobically brewed compost tea suppress disease? Urban horticulturalist Linda Chalker-Scott discusses common gardening practices, drawing from science to separate the stereotypes from helpful practices, all encompassed in her new book, The Informed Gardener Blooms Again (University of Washington Press). "Linda Chalker-Scott is a scientist with a mission—evidence-based gardening. Happily she is also the most interesting, entertaining, knowledgeable, and useful garden writer I've come across. Home gardeners will learn practices that are more effective, safer, and ... cheaper." - Constance Casey.

GABRIEL THOMPSON
Wednesday, March 3 at 7 p.m.

Journalist and Studs Terkel Media Award-winning writer Gabriel Thompson, last here with his book, There's No José Here, traveled the U.S. working as a lettuce cutter, chicken killer, delivery person. These jobs—unseen, unacknowledged work that help maintain the U.S. economy and its first world standard of living—are some of the jobs performed by immigrant laborers. He relates his experiences in his book, Working in the Shadows: A Year Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do (Nation Books). "The author pushes his body and his patience to the limits, all the while deferring attention to the true heroes: his co-workers, whose dignity, perseverance, physical endurance, and manual skill are no less admirable for being born of sheer necessity. What emerges are not tales of downtrodden migrants but of clever hands and clever minds forced into repetitive and dangerous labor without legal protections. Thompson excels at putting a human face on individuals and situations alternatively ignored and vilified." - Publishers Weekly.

SIDNEY S. ANDREWS
Thursday, March 4 at 7 p.m.

Pioneer Square's Boren Block One, once home to the Seattle Hotel, is now best known as the plot of land on which the infamous "Sinking Ship" parking garage now sits. The hotel's razing in 1961 helped spark the historic preservation movement in the city, a movement that would, within a decade, help save both the Pike Place Market and Pioneer Square from a similar fate. Sidney S. Andrews, author of Boren's Block One: A Sinking Ship (Create Space), speaks tonight about the block's history, which includes stories from Seattle's earliest days—totem pole thefts, Japanese American hoteliers, the ill-fated (recent) monorail, and more. We can't think of a better time to reminisce about Pioneer Square's past and contemplate its future.

DAVID SHIELDS
Friday, March 5 at 7 p.m.

Seattle writer and University of Washington professor David Shields takes on writing, perception, reality proposed or reality disposed, and much more, in his rousing new book, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Knopf). This work has garnered a goodly amount of pre-publication attention, buzz in all the spheres and zones, from the printed to the virtual. "The subtitle of David Shields' Reality Hunger categorizes it as a 'manifesto,' which is a little like calling a nuclear bomb a 'weapon.' In a series of numbered paragraphs, Shields explores all sorts of categorical distinctions—between fiction and nonfiction, originality and plagiarism, memoir and fabrication, reality and perception. It's a book designed to inspire and to infuriate, and it is sure to do both." - Don McLesse, Kirkus Reviews. "This is the book that our sick-at-heart moment needs—like a sock in the jaw or an electric jolt in the solar plexus—to wake it up." - Wayne Koestenbaum.

ARIEL MEADOWS STALLINGS
Saturday, March 6 at 2 p.m.

Thinking of planning a "Demolition Derby" style wedding? Bride-to-be hipsters, nonconformists, and others tying the knot without joining the nation of pink and white will find comfort and advice in Ariel Meadows Stallings' book, The Offbeat Bride: Creative Alternatives for Independent Brides (now in a second edition from Seal Press). "Finally, a wedding guide that won't make you puke. Whatever your idea of nontraditional may be, The Offbeat Bride is here to tell you that it's all gonna be okay." - Wendy McClure, Bust Magazine.

WILLIAM L. MARCY
Saturday, March 6 at 7 p.m.

William L. Marcy, assistant professor of history at St. Martin's University, makes the case that the U.S. has, starting with the joining of the Reagan administration's anti-Communist initiatives with the "War on Drugs," played a large role in actually establishing the drug trade as a central economic base in Central and South America. He talks tonight about this and more, as chronicled in his book, The Politics of Cocaine: How U.S. Foreign Policy Has Created a Thriving Drug Industry in Central and South America (Lawrence Hill Books). "Marcy investigates why South American drug trafficking has remained so hardy and lucrative even as the U.S. has spent billions—usually on wrongheaded measures, as he sees it—to combat both production and export. Costly raids and drug seizures have had minimal impact on production and no impact on U.S. consumption, argues Marcy ... Marcy's connections and conclusions richly reveal how intricately the legitimate and illegal economies are entangled across two continents." - Publishers Weekly.

ELIF SHAFAK
Monday, March 8 at 7 p.m.

Three years after circumstances in Istanbul, in largest part, dictated cancellation of a planned Seattle visit for her novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak makes this long-awaited first visit here, this for her newest novel, The Forty Rules of Love (Viking). The author of ten novels in her homeland, and now five in English, Elif Shafak (or Safak) in The Forty Rules of Love weaves together two narratives, set hundreds of years apart, linking an unhappy, contemporary U.S. housewife and the great Sufi mystic and poet Jelaluddin Rumi, and his dervish mentor, Shams of Tabriz. "In The Forty Rules of Love, Elif Shafak has woven a wonderful tale of spiritual longing, brilliantly exploring the universal desire for intimacy—with another human being, as well as with the divine. It is provocative in the best sense of that term, a rare novel that succeeds in illuminating the mystical aspects of daily existence, a novel of intelligence as well as heart, with wisdom that infuses every page." - Roland Merullo. With thanks to our friends and neighbors at CAFÉ PALOMA (93 Yesler Way, www.cafepaloma.com) for their assistance. A special post-reading gathering for Café Paloma is in the works.

ELLIOTT BAY GLOBAL ISSUES & ETHICS BOOK GROUP
Tuesday, March 9 at 6:30 p.m.

Our Global Issues & Ethics Book Group is devoted to discussing books that cover the most relevant topics of our everyday lives. Our selection for March is Israel vs. Utopia by Joel Schalit. Israel is a synonym for many things: the ancestral home of the Jewish people, the antagonist of the Palestinians, the realization of a centuries-old dream of freedom, the heart of the War on Terror. No country inspires as much debate about its rights and wrongs, its legitimacy and illegitimacies, as Israel. In this new volume, Israel vs. Utopia Israeli American journalist Joel Schalit distinguishes between the Israel he knows and the image of it that exists in the imagination of Americans and Europeans. Israel is a state of mind, Schalit argues, as much as it is a sovereign state. Exploring this tension—in America, in Israel, in Europe—through a combination of personal observations, political analysis, and cultural commentary, Schalit defines the instability of Israel, as a metaphor, and America's troubled love for it, as only an Israeli American could. Doug Henwood said of the book, "Fresh thinking about the Middle East is rare, but that's Joel Schalit's specialty. Regardless of your politics, you probably won't see Israel in the same way again after reading this admirable and engaging book—and that's something we all need. And you'll probably develop an irresistible appetite for good hummus along the way."

ZACHARY MASON
Thursday, March 11 at 7 p.m.

Few debuts have arrived on the scene with the lightness and gravity, and that harken to the original, in its fullest sense, as Zachary Mason's luminous novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Yes, that Odyssey. This is one of the rare cases where one of the enduring works is taken on, with the result that the new work itself becomes adorned with the essence of timelessness."Spellbinding. In his versions of these ancient myths, Mason twists and jinks, renegotiating the journey to Ithaca with all the guile and trickery of Odysseus himself. Rarely is it so reassuring to be in the hands of such an unreliable narrator." - Simon Armitage. "A subtle, inventive, and moving meditation on what Louis MacNeice calls 'the drunkenness of things being various.'" - John Banville.

KAREN FINNEYFROCK
Friday, March 12 at 7 p.m.
      POETRY

Co-presented with HEDGEBROOK. Seattle poet, novelist, and current Hugo House writer-in-residence Karen Finneyfrock was a member of three National Poetry Slam teams and honored as a "Legend" at the National Poetry Slam in Austin in 2006. She reads tonight from her newly published second collection of poems, Ceremony for the Choking Ghost (write bloody publications). Seattle Magazine chose her as one of their 2009 Spotlight Award winners, naming her "Queen of the Spoken Word." She is also the author of Queen of the Butterfly House.

Conversations with
PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET presents
3 BY DOVE
Sunday, March 14 at 2 p.m.

Presented by PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET. PNB's popular, free discussion series continues this afternoon as PNB Education programs manager Doug Fullington and guests—soloists Maria Chapman and Lesley Rausch—discuss PNB's forthcoming production of 3 By Dove. These ballets, created by the late Ulysses Dove (a fourth in the production is by Victor Quijada) were inspired by events from his own life during the turbulent 1980s, and by the experiences of his grandmother. For more information on this program, and on Pacific Northwest Ballet's season/productions, please see www.pnb.org or call (206) 441-2440.

SPECULATIONS - ELLIOTT BAY SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY BOOK GROUP
Tuesday, March 16 at 6:30 p.m.

As the literature of ideas and imagination, Science Fiction and Fantasy simply demands discussion. As the literature of ideas and imagination, Science Fiction and Fantasy simply demands discussion. Boneshaker by Cherie Priest is March's selection. In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomer to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska's ice. Thus was Dr. Blue's Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.
But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.

TED CONOVER
Tuesday, March 16 at 7 p.m.

In his new book, The Routes of Man: How Roads are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today (Knopf), National Book Critics Circle Award-winning writer Ted Conover takes routes in use in the world today—and masterfully tells a big story of how we are connected—and separated—by the roads and routes we make to travel on, to transport goods, to make escapes, and also to control. Peru, the West Bank, the Himalayas, Nigeria, east Africa, and China: all figure vividly in this arresting, provocative book by the author of Newjack, Coyoytes, and Rolling Nowhere. "Ted Conover's exploration of six far-flung roads—from a truck route over the Andes to an ambulance crew's rounds in Lagos, Nigeria—will prove a delight, while at the same time serving to remind that in many places of the world the act of getting around is an art marked by pride, lust, corruption, and bloodshed." - Erik Larson. "Ted Conover is one of the great writers of my generation, and this may be his finest book. Fearless and compassionate, with echoes of Conrad and Kerouac, it explores how the road, once a symbol of limitless possibility, has become a path to annihilation." - Eric Schlosser.

DANIELLE TRUSSONI
Wednesday, March 17 at 7 p.m.

Danielle Trussoni received good attention for her 2006 memoir, Falling Through the Earth, including citation by the New York Times for being one of the ten best books of the year. She goes a whole other direction for her first novel, the radiantly absorbing Angelology (Viking). "A covert age-old war between angels and humans serves as the backdrop for Trussoni's gripping tale of supernatural thrills and divine destinies ... Trussoni anchors this fanciful dark fantasy to a solid foundation built from Catholic church history, biblical exegesis, and apocryphal texts. Suspenseful intrigues and apocalyptic battle scenes give this complexly plotted tale a vigor and vitality all the more exciting for its intelligence." - Publishers Weekly.

REACT THEATRE Presents 'NIGHT, MOTHER
Sunday, March 21 at 2 p.m.

Co-presented with REACT THEATRE. Elliott Bay's Eleventh Annual Staged Play Reading Series continues with a full staging of the Pulitzer Prize-winning American drama 'Night, Mother. Non-traditionally cast as only ReAct would dare to in a way you've never seen it before. "...honest, uncompromising, lucid, penetrating, well-written, dramatic, and...unmanipulatively moving." - New York Magazine. Don't miss this modern masterpiece, presented with a unique blend of theatrical staging and the spoken word. Suggested donation ($5) at the door. Reservations encouraged. For more information, please see www.reacttheatre.org.

STAGES - ELLIOTT BAY DRAMA BOOK GROUP
Tuesday, March 23 at 6:30 p.m.

Elliott Bay's Drama Book Group, Stages, meets once a month to read, enjoy and discuss great plays and dramatic works, contemporary and classic, from the U.S. and around the world. Our selection for March is the controversial modern British play Closer by Patrick Marber. This is a brilliant exploration into the brutal anatomy of modern romance, where a quartet of strangers meet, fall in love, and become caught up in a web of sexual desire and betrayal. Closer has been hailed as one of the best plays of the nineties, and as the London Observer noted, it "has wired itself into the cultural vocabulary in a way that few plays have ever done." Please join us for this lively discussion of this brutally thought-provoking drama.

ALLEN BRADEN, KEVIN MILLER & DEREK SHEFFIELD Group Reading
Tuesday, March 23 at 7 p.m.
      POETRY

A trio of poets, each of whom lives, works, and writes in the Pacific Northwest, share the stage tonight to read from recently published work. Derek Sheffield will read from his new chapbook, A Revised Account of the West (Iowa State University Press), the inaugural winner of the Hazel Lipa Environmental Chapbook Award. The 2007 writer-in-residence at the Bernheim Research Forest in Kentucky, he teaches at Wenatchee Valley College. Also tonight are Olympia-based teacher and poet Kevin Miller, whose Home & Away: The Old Town Poems (Pleasure Boat Studio) invites readers and listeners into a "home" of memories and dreams. Allen Braden, whose work has appeared in Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere, celebrates the publication of A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood (VQR/University of Georgia Press).

INDU SUNDARESAN
Wednesday, March 24 at 7 p.m.

A writer whose work is popular in her home country of India, Indu Sundaresan has been doing that writing here in the Seattle area—and winning readers in the U.S. (and elsewhere), as well. She follows her recent book of present-day stories, In the Convent of Little Flowers, with a return to historically-set, Mughal-era novels that she is first known for. The Twentieth Wife, The Feast of Roses, and The Splendor of Silence, are now joined by her newest, Shadow Princess (Atria). "Sundaresan returns to 17th-century India in this romantic fictionalization of the life of Jahanara, the oldest child of the empress Mumtaz Mahal, Shah Jahan's cherished wife ... Simdaresan has a scholar's fascination with the period ..." - Publishers Weekly. Mumtaz Mahal was immortalized, in death, by the building of the Taj Mahal. This novel becomes the imagined story of the life of a princess who in history did play a part in governance, albeit with much intrigue and mystery. All the richer, hence, for the place of fiction—and this winning, wonderful new novel.

MARK SPRAGG & LAURA BELL
Friday, March 26 at 7 p.m.

Wyoming is the story with this visit by two excellent writers who call the state home. Mark Spragg, who has been this way before with his award-winning memoir, Where Rivers Change Directions, and his novels The Fruit of Stone and An Unfinished Life, is here tonight with a new novel, Bone Fire (Knopf). A murder in a Wyoming town methlab sets certain things in motion, the unfolding of mysteries of a larger dimension. "A tribute to the human state and an outstanding work ... Not one word is out of place, and each and every character is well drawn and intensely believable ... This 'bone fire' is in fact the burning we call life, symbolizing our shared pain as human beings." - Henry Bankhead, Library Journal. From Cody, Wyoming, comes Laura Bell with a remarkable nonfiction debut, Claiming Ground: A Memoir (Knopf). "First, it is the language you notice: phrases, whole passages composed with the musical authority of psalms. Then it is the evocation of place, Wyoming rising from these pages as actual as a wild perfume. But, start to finish, it is her honesty that keeps you up in the night, wondering at the frailty of what it means to be human and glad and brave and, at times, broken." - Mark Spragg.

MELISSA FEBOS
Saturday, March 27 at 7 p.m.

Melissa Febos co-curates and hosts New York City's Mixer Reading and Music series, has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence, and teaches at both SUNY Purchase and the Gotham Writers' Workshop. En route to all of this, she spent much of her younger adult life as a sex worker. She tells the story of her years as a drug addict and dominatrix ("one of the few high-paid acting gigs in the city") in Whip Smart (Thomas Dunne Books). "Febos' candid, hard-slugging debut about her four years working as a dominatrix at a midtown Manhattan dungeon cuts a sharp line between prurience and feminist manifesto." - Publishers Weekly. "Melissa Febos masterfully brings us into these unexpected, unsettling places, the least of which are the dungeons she so vividly—briefly—occupies. Whip Smart is a wild, bright-eyed ride home." - Nick Flynn.

A Staged Reading of MRS. PACKARD
Sunday, March 28 at 2 p.m.

Co-presented with support from REACT THEATRE and ABRAMS ARTISTS AGENCY. Elliott Bay's Eleventh Annual Staged Play Reading Series continues with a second reading this month as we bid a fond farewell to our venue for over a decade. Today's featured play will be the exciting new drama set in Illinois in 1861, Mrs. Packard by Emily Mann. Without proof of insanity, Elizabeth Packard is committed by her husband to an asylum. Based on historical events, Mann's play tells of one woman's courageous struggle to right a system gone wrong in this winner of the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award. You won't want to miss this engaging, significant and passionate play. Please join us for this unique blend of theatrical staging and the spoken word. Free Admission. ($5 Suggested donation at the door.) Reservations encouraged. For additional information visit www.reacttheatre.org.

PAUL VERHOEVEN with DOUG THORPE
Tuesday, March 30 at 7 p.m.

Renowned Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven, whose credits include Robocop, Basic Instinct, and The Black Book, is probably less well-known for his religious interests and pursuits. He is one of a very few non-theologians admitted into the Jesus Seminar, a group of eminent scholars working in theology, linguistics, philosophy, and biblical history, whose ranks include Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan, among others. Paul Verhoeven's book, Jesus of Nazareth (Seven Stories, translated by Susan Massotty), aspires to reveal the humanity of Jesus, "a true radical who brought humanity a few steps closer to an enlightened view of ourselves." "Paul Verhoeven breaks out of the box of scholarly orthodoxy with this thoughtful and daring reassemblage of the evidence—old and new—for the life of Jesus ... The result is a revelation for scholar and casual reader alike." - Chris Shea. Paul will be interviewed onstage by Professor Doug Thorpe of Seattle Pacific University.
     And yes, this looks to be the last such evening we will present at 101 South Main Street—25-1/2 years after Lewis Hyde held forth in July 1984, addressing both his then-recent book, The Gift and this work-in-progress on the trickster—we conclude here, due to resume matters in-house come mid-April at the new place, 1521 Tenth Avenue. Meanwhile, writers we present, and co-present, will be found here and there, which is not something entirely new.

ALSO TO NOTE:

• Seattle Arts & Lectures. SAL's 2009-10 Literary Lecture Series continues with MICHAEL CHABON, March 9 at Benaroya Hall. Also on tap are DANIEL HANDLER aka LEMONY SNICKET, as a Special Event, March 15; poet LINDA GREGG, March 25; and ARUNDHATI ROY, March 29 (see listing here.) Also not to be overlooked is SAL's annual "Words Matter" Benefit Dinner on March 24 at the W, featuring TIMOTHY EGAN. For tickets and information on all, please see www.lectures.org or call (206) 621-2230.
• Seattle Reads Secret Son. The Washington Center for the Book at The Seattle Public Library's internationally-recognized pioneering citywide reading program this year will feature Morocco-born novelist LAILA LALAMI's novel, Secret Son (Algonquin). Laila Lalami is scheduled to make appearances for SPL and SAL May 6-10, but that visit will be preceded by a number of other programs. Arab Storytelling sessions with KOLOUD 'KAY' TARAPOLSI are set for March 13 and 27 at 11:30 a.m. at the New Holly and Douglass-Truth Branches, respectively. On March 31, local Arab American writers SAMAR ABULHASSAN, GHIDA SINNO, and MAGED ZAHAR will read and discuss their work, and the larger picture, at 7 p.m. at Microsoft Auditorium, Seattle Public Central Library. For more information, please see www.spl.org.
• Gardner Center for Asian Art & Ideas. The Seattle Asian Art Museum's resident program center starts a new series of its popular morning 'Saturday University Series' on the theme of 'Relgions & Their Expressions in Contemporary Asian Societies' on March 20 and running on through April 17 in Stimson Auditorium at SAAM in Volunteer Park. See www.seattleartmuseum.org for information/tickets.
• Mosaic. Mosaic Multicultural Foundation presents MICHAEL MEADE in a daylong workshop, 'Creative Mentoring,' on March 6 at the Northwest African American Museum. Please see www.mosaicvoices.org or call (206) 935-3665 for registration/information.
• Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas. The CD Forum in March presents a 'Which Way Seattle? Series' discussion on foster care on March 25 at the NW African American Museum. Also on the horizon, the CD Forum's annual 'Food as Art' Benefit Gala, set for April 10 at Bell Harbor. Please see www.cdforum.org or call (206) 323-4032 for more information.
• Town Hall Seattle. In addition to the many programs Elliott Bay has a hand in there, www.townhallseattle.org has a calendar to many other lively literary, political, cultural, and artistic occasions, including Town Hall's annual 'Talk of the Town' Dinner Parties benefit gala on March 5.
• Richard Hugo House. In addition to the Hugo Literary Series evening on March 19 (see listing here), Hugo House plays host to many other readings, panels, workshops and programs. Among them this month is Hugo House resident poet KAREN FINNEYFROCK reading from a new book, March 19. See www.hugohouse.org for more information.
• Hedgebrook. Master Class residencies for women writers (and those getting there) are in swing up at Hedgebrook on Whidbey Island. See www.hedgebrook.org for information on classes with CAROLYN FORCHÉ (March 7 -14), NANCY RAWLES (June 30 - July 7) and more.
• Night School at the Sorrento. Keep tabs on spirited offerings—some literary, some more libational—at the Sorrento Hotel at www.onespotblog.blogspot.com.

AUGURIES, APRIL, AWAY

Auguries, April, Away. Things happen otherwise and elsewhere starting with what some call the cruelest month. Not us. But things are changing. Adventure and novelty are at hand. And we go on. Among those slated in April: WALTER MOSLEY, Apr. 2 at Seattle Public Central Library (see above); KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE, Apr. 3; PETER BACHO, Apr. 3 at Beacon Hill Branch, Seattle Public Library; FRANCES McCUE & MARY RANDLETT, Apr. 4 at Seattle Public Central Library; DAVID LASKIN, Apr. 5 at Seattle Public Central Library; WILLIAM T. VOLLMAN, Apr. 6 at locale TBA; SONYA CHUNG, Apr. 7 at locale TBA; SIG HANSEN, Apr. 9; "Conversations with Pacific Northwest Ballet," Apr. 11; CRAIG WELCH, Apr. 12 at Seattle Central Public Library; ROGER LOWENSTEIN, Apr. 12 at Town Hall Seattle; LISA SHANNON, presented by the World Affairs Council, Apr. 12 at Intiman Theatre; ANCHEE MIN, Apr. 15; REBECCA SKLOOT, Apr. 16 at Town Hall Seattle; ANNA LAPPÉ, Apr. 17; JORN AKE, Apr. 19; YANN MARTEL, Apr. 19 at Seattle Public Central Library; DAVID REMNICK, Apr. 19 at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall Seattle (a just-added Special Event co-presented with Seattle Arts & Lectures, see www.lectures.org for more information); HOLLY LECRAW, Apr. 20; ELIZABETH GEORGE, Apr. 21; GREIL MARCUS, Apr. 22; PEN World Voices with SOFI OKSANEN (Finland/Estonia), CHRISTOS TSILOLKAS (Australia), and TOMMY WIERINGA (Netherlands), hosted by SHERMAN ALEXIE (Spokane Reservation), Apr. 23; CAROL KEARNS, Apr. 24 at 2 p.m.; JON COTNER & ANDY FITCH, Apr. 24 at 7pm; ELLEN GARVIN, Apr. 25; DAMALI AYO, Apr. 26; LEV GROSSMAN, Apr. 27; WILLY VLAUTIN, Apr. 28; JAMES HIRSCH, Apr. 29; ARTHUR SZE, Apr. 29 at Seattle Asian Art Museum (see www.seattleartmuseum.org); and SUSANNAH CHARLESON, Apr. 30. All of the above are subject to change (especially this month ...), and others will be added as well. Please see check back for updates on this and everything else, including our move and re-opening (scheduled for April 15) at 1521 Tenth Avenue (between Pike and Pine).