The Elliott Bay Book Company

JUDITH ARMATTA
Wednesday, September 1 at 7 p.m.

Internationally recognized human rights activist, lawyer, and journalist reported from The Hague on the four year trial of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes and genocide—a trial that began in 2002 and concluded abruptly in 2006 with Milosevic's death while still on trial. She is here with an important account of that trial, Twilight of Impunity: The War Crimes Trial of Slobodan Milosevic (Duke University Press). "In Twilight of Impunity, Judith Armatta has done for the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the Butcher of the Balkans, what Hannah Arendt did for the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the Architect of the Holocaust: present an unflinching depiction of the crimes, the anguish of the victims and witnesses, the arrogance of the killers, the virtues and flaws of the judicial process, and the banality of the evil that can arise when leaders assume they enjoy impunity." - Chuck Sudetic.

NEW POETS OF THE AMERICAN WEST
Thursday, September 2 at 7 p.m.
      POETRY

RALPH METZNER
Friday, September 3 at 7 p.m.

Ralph Metzner, veteran (with Ram Dass and Timothy Leary, among others) of the experimentation with mind-altering substances at Harvard, speaks about his experiences in those early days, as chronicled in his new book, Birth of a Psychedelic Culture: Conversations about the Harvard Experiments, Leary, Millbrook and the Sixties (Synergetic Press). Ram Dass and Gary Bravo are co-authors. Co-founder of the Green Earth Foundation, Ralph Metzner also practices psychotherapy and is professor emeritus at the California Institute of Integral Studies. His many books include Alchemical Divination and MindSpace and TimeStream.

CHILDREN'S STORYTIME
Saturday, September 4 at 11:30 a.m.
      KID'S EVENT

Our twice-a-week Children's Storytimes, set for Tuesday and Saturday mornings each month, commence for September with this morning's reading from picture- and storybook favorites out of our children's section. One of our Elliott Bay bookfolk will do the reading and telling honors. Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin! Please join us. Also, please note the new starting time of 11:30 a.m.

CHILDREN'S STORYTIME
Tuesday, September 7 at 11:30 a.m.
      KID'S EVENT

Join us for this fun round of readings from picture and storybooks ... Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin!

ELLIOTT BAY BOOK GROUP
Tuesday, September 7 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. Considered by contemporary critics to be Anthony Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of nineteenth-century London and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. The story concerns Augustus Melmotte, a French swindler and scoundrel, and his daughter, to whom Felix Carbury, adored son of the authoress Lady Carbury, is induced to propose marriage for the sake of securing a fortune. Trollope's portrait of Lady Carbury, impetuous, unprincipled, and unswervingly devoted to her own self-promotion, is one of his finest satirical achievements. In his kaleidoscopic depiction of a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy. Trollope gives us life as it was lived more than a hundred years ago, while speaking eloquently to some of the governing obsessions of our own age. Victoria Glendinning said of the novel, "The Way We Live Now is the essence of Trollope. If he had written no other novel, it would have ensured his immortality."

MARK RICHARD SCHUSTER
Tuesday, September 7 at 7 p.m.

a href="/book/9781934812730">Seattle real estate developer Mark Schuster founded the Schuster Group at age 22 and now heads one of the most successful private equity investment and development firms in the Northwest. His book, Lofty Pursuits: Repairing the World One Building at a Time (Brown Books), presents both some of his own history, and some ideas about sustainability and community engagement. Included is the story of the Moslet Lofts, the LEED Silver-certified condominium building in Seattle, designed and named in honor of the author's grandfather, George Mosler. "A beautiful story of heroism and triumph, in business and humanity." - Caryl M. Stern, US Fund for UNICEF.

JOHN BRANDON
Wednesday, September 8 at 7 p.m.
--THIS EVENT CANCELLED--

From McSweeney's, and from the deft hand of author John Brandon, he of the wonderful Arkansas debut, comes a terrific new novel about teenage romance in a small Florida town. It's more interesting—and funnier—than one might think. Citrus County (McSweeney's Rectangulars) is the book that tells how a certain young man named Toby, and a certain young woman named Shelby try, try, try to make it happen. "Citrus County is a real charmer ... The book makes you laugh even as it breaks your heart. It may be, among other things, one of the best books about junior high ever written." - Dan Chaon. "Pursues relentlessly what each of us might find daily in a Florida town ... The purity of thought and of unadorned line are remarkable." - [The late, great] Barry Hannah.

CAROL CASSELLA
Thursday, September 9 at 7 p.m.

Seattle has struck it a bit rich in terms of finding itself with writer physicians. One of the finest, Carol Cassella follows up on the promise and wonder of her debut, Oxygen, with an ambitious, wide-ranging second novel, Healer (Simon & Schuster). A woman's ambitions for a medical career get put on hold in order for other life to be lived, only to see her calling realized, after much travail has ensued, in rich and surprising ways. "A deeply powerful story about the intricate intersection of marriage, motherhood, and career. Clear-eyed and compassionate, Carol Cassella takes her readers on the roller-coaster ride of a marriage and family shaken by financial upheaval." - Erica Bauermeister.

MELANIE THERNSTROM
Friday, September 10 at 7 p.m.

New York Times Magazine contributing writer Melanie Thernstrom, author of The Dead Girl and Halfway Heaven, is up from her Portland-area home with an arresting book on chronic pain, The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing and the Science of Suffering (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). "Chronic pain is the Wild West of medicine. In The Pain Chronicles, Melanie Thernstrom navigates this territory—its history, its evolution, and its always shifting frontiers—with keen intelligence and insight. She shares her own story in order to illuminate a narrative of pain that is becoming more and more a national narrative. Thernstrom never flinches in the face of a subject that is easily overlooked or judged by those for whom it is, ironically, too painful. This is stellar work." - Alice Sebold. "The Pain Chronicles is scholarly, lyrical, and humane, and will give tremendous comfort to those who are in pain and those who hope to understand them." - Andrew Solomon.

CHILDREN'S STORYTIME
Saturday, September 11 at 11:30 a.m.
      KID'S EVENT

Join us for this fun round of readings from picture and storybooks ... Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin!

AMANDA TATTERSALL
Saturday, September 11 at 1 p.m.

Five days after Labor Day and over from Australia, where she is director of the Sydney Alliance, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Unions NSW, and teaches at the University of Sydney is labor scholar/activist Amanda Tattersall. She is here with the newly published Power in Coalition: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change (ILR Press/Cornell University Press). "At last a scholar/activist who understands that coalitions are not merely a way of advancing union goals! Building on three successful coalitions in Australia, Canada, and the United States, Amanda Tattersall identifies three main mechanisms that lead to successful coalition formation between unions and community organizations, identifying common concerns, building organizational relationships, and finding the right scale. She shows how unions can transcend the narrow corporatism of 'business unionism' to return to the social movements they once were in a world that has become more complex and more indifferent to the needs of both workers and communities." - Sidney Tarrow.

ELLEN BOUGHN
Saturday, September 11 at 4 p.m.

The booming microstock industry has made it possible for amateur photographers—previously shut out of exclusive stock photography—to show and sell their images. This afternoon microstock guru Ellen Boughn presents information for the serious amateur photographer interested in selling photos on microstock, with examples of travel photos, photos of family and friends, and advice about working with models. Much more of her expert advice appears in her new book, Microstock Money Shots (Crown). Ellen Boughn is a thirty-year veteran of the stock photography industry. She founded AfterImage (now part of Getty Images) and her affiliations include Dreamstime, Corbis, UpperCut Images, Artville, Punchstock.com, and Superstock. Those purchasing a copy of Microstock Money Shots at this program today will be entered into a drawing for a free, 30-minute consultation.

JOSEPH MATTSON
Saturday, September 11 at 7 p.m.

"Here I was, doing ninety on the Santa Monica Freeway with a quart of whiskey shoved into my crotch and my dead neighbor in the trunk. It had come time to leave Los Angeles ..." This begins the pre-apocalyptic, cross-country race with death chronicled in Joseph Mattson's debut novel, Empty the Sun (Barnacle Books). The book includes a CD soundtrack by Seattle's Six Organs of Admittance. Empty the Sun is a finalist for a Southern California Independent Booksellers Association award. "Empty the Sun balances its verbal and narrative excesses with emotional substance and a convincing variation on the theme of loss. Mattson makes it clear that this is not just a Thompsonian exercise in self-medicated wild-man alienation ... it's the raw eccentricity of his prose and storytelling that holds you for the ride." - The Boston Phoenix.

MIRYAM KABAKOV & Friends
Sunday, September 12 at 2 p.m.

The reconciliation of sexuality with religion is always challenging, especially for lesbian, bi, transgendered, or queer women whose roots are in Orthodox Judaism. Editor/contributor Miryam Kabakov is joined by other contributors to the groundbreaking anthology, Keep Your Wives Away from Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires (North Atlantic Books), a collection that shares perspectives of LGBT women struggling to build integrated lives. "Each powerful essay challenges my preconceptions about the nature of religious lives and communities, about gendered selves, and about the delights and constraints of Orthodox Judaism. Keep Your Wives Away from Them is a complex spirit journey that speaks of the longing for love and the search for comforting and comfortable identities." - Vanessa L. Ochs. Miryam Kabakov, MSW, is a founder of Yeshivadykes, has facilitated a supports group for ex-Orthodox and Hassidic young adults, and is the former director of GLBT programming at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan.

STEVEN T. MURRAY ("REG KEELAND") & TIINA NUNNALLY
Sunday, September 12 at 5 p.m.

This special Sunday visit brings back much-missed former Seattle residents Steve Murray and Tiina Nunnally. Individually, and collectively, they represent much of the major translating of fiction (detective and otherwise) to be brought from Scandinavian languages over the past several years. They published some of these (some excellent English-language originals, too) when operating Fjord Press. A special focus of this program no doubt will be Steve Murray's translations, under a "Reg Keeland" pseudonym, of the hugely popular, hugely-acclaimed three Stieg Larsson novels: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Vintage, Vintage, and Knopf). Other authors Steve Murray has translated have/will include Camilla Läckberg, Jan Guillou, Henning Mankell, and Karin Alvtegen, among many others. Tiina Nunnally, who has made reading visits to Elliott Bay in the past, has translations by Arne Dahl, Mari Jungstedt, and Arild Stubhaug due out this year. Among her many translations in past years: Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking, Nobel Prize winner Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavsrandattar, Peter Hoeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow, and various other works by Per Olav Enquist, Hans Christian Anderson, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Henning Mankell, and more. Between them, Steve Murray and Tiina Nunnally have received several awards, shortlist nominations, and citations. This should be fun.

BEVERLY OLEVIN
Monday, September 13 at 7 p.m.

A timely novel, if that can be said, novelist/playwright Beverly Olevin's new novel, The Good Side of Bad (White River Press), goes back and forth between Seattle and New York, in the aftermath of 2008's economic meltdown. Besides trying to hold lives and livelihoods together, this novel also tells the story of adult siblings coming to know themselves as family in surprising ways. "This is a quirky, wonderfully human tale of failure and redemption. It illuminates how, in hard times, adults can become children and how children can, finally, once again become adults. Although it unflinchingly takes on tough topics, it's a quick and engaging read everyone can relate to—I certainly did." - Sandra Tsing Loh.

CHILDREN'S STORYTIME
Tuesday, September 14 at 11:30 a.m.
      KID'S EVENT

Join us for this fun round of readings from picture and storybooks ... Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin!

JENNIFER JORDAN
Tuesday, September 14 at 6 p.m.

Award-winning author, filmmaker, and screenwriter, most known for her book, Savage Summits, Jennifer Jordan visits this evening with her new tale of Himalayan adventures in days of yore (1939), The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2 (W.W. Norton). "The Last Man on the Mountain is a page-turning account of one of mountaineering's most intriguing mysteries: what happened to Dudley Wolfe and the three Sherpas sent to rescue him on K2 in 1939? Jennifer Jordan has great respect for the legend and the lives she examines; she also has a novelist's eye for character and for the telling detail. What emerges in this wonderful book is a story of ego, hubris, and the price of passion in the world's highest arena." - Greg Mortenson. "The Last Man on the Mountain will finds its place in the adventure canon of man versus the mountains, when wool, hemp, and hobnails ruled, and class and national differences roiled beneath the surface ... Jordan has done a great job." - Peter Porterfield.

ELLIOTT BAY GLOBAL ISSUES & ETHICS BOOK GROUP
Tuesday, September 14 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. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of—and in the words of—America's women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers. Howard Fast said of the book, "One of the most important books I have ever read in a long life of reading...It's a wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." Join us for this monumental discussion.

ERIC PUCHNER
Tuesday, September 14 at 8 p.m.

Los Angeles-based fiction writer Eric Puchner won raves for his debut book of stories, Music Through the Floor. He then received more praise and prominence for his first novel, Model Home (Scribner, new in paper). "The subject of this marvelous novel is nothing less than the soul of the American family, in which love sometimes hides inside estrangement and survival can be a choice made under duress. All of it is played out in the California desert, land of false dreams, and yet the result is anything but arid, a searing, bitterly funny, achingly humane book by one of our most talented young writers." - Ann Packer. "Eric Puchner's Model Home is 1980s California in a nutshell: bright and frantic, giddy and broke, desperate and strong, and always, always moving." - Daniel Handler.

PETER LEWIS
Wednesday, September 14 at 7 p.m.

A raised glass is more than in order this evening as we help celebrate the publication of Seattle writer Peter Lewis' much-awaited debut novel, Dead in the Dregs (Counterpoint). This excellent, smart, whodunit takes readers from the Napa Valley to Côte d'Or, in search of a killer—with some excellent wine-seeking, and wine country lore along the way. As the longtime (now onetime) guiding hand behind Campagne, he is one who would know that way. "Dead in the Dregs is a thrillingly knowledgeable insider's odyssey into the world of fine wines—with the added value of particularly lurid homicides, lots of suspense, and a cast of fascinating and well drawn characters. Peter Lewis, better than anybody, knows what he's talking about here. I hope he writes more—and fast." - Anthony Bourdain. "Dead in the Dregs is a rare and engrossing wonder dealing with the murderous grotesqueries of the wine world worn lightly in an atmosphere of homicide, sex, and food. I don't know anyone who knows more about wine than Peter Lewis, and I include France." - Jim Harrison. Mario Batali and Jonathan Raban also weigh in with praise, as have other early readers. À votre santé.

MARK OLDMAN
Thursday, September 16 at 7 p.m.

One evening after wine is part of a mystery (Peter Lewis' Dead in the Dregs), wine is made less of a mystery with this appearance by Mark Oldman. Whether as lead judge on the PBS series, The Winemakers, or as a regular contributor to Martha Stewart's Living Today, Mark Oldman has been helping wine enthusiasts navigate the world of wine without breaking the bank. His writing and wine picks appear in Food and Wine, and in Everyday with Rachel Ray. Oldman's Brave New World of Wine: Pleasure, Value and Adventure Beyond Wine's Usual Suspects (W.W. Norton) contains information about taste, source, price, food pairings and more, all delivered with his signature mix of wit and authority. "Wine speak without the geek." - Bon Appétit. "Mark Oldman is the ideal mix of wine connoisseur, showman, and everyday dude." - Publishers Weekly.

MARK HASKELL SMITH
Friday, September 17 at 6 p.m.

Whiffs of Seattle's Hempfest (mid-August) may still be lingering as L.A. novelist and screenwriter Mark Haskell Smith visits with his newest novel, Baked (Black Cat/Grove). Published in the season that California's Proposition 19—which would legalize marijuana use—this entertaining mystery has ganga growing at its core. Protagonist Miro Basinas is a botanist whose skills result in his winning Amsterdam's Cannabis Cup—which sets in motion a whole array of intrigues and escapades. "A laugh-out loud, thrill-a-minute, tour de force of bad behavior, weirdness, and contemporary illegal commerce. For years, the author's work has been an open secret to connoisseurs of monstro prose and outrageous, transcend-the-genre crime action. With Baked, Mark Haskell Smith may just have written his masterpiece." - Jerry Stahl. "As cockeyed and riotous as Carl Hiaasen on really good dope." - Kirkus Reviews. Moist, Delicious, and Salty are Mark Haskell Smith's three previous books.

RICK BASS
Friday, September 17 at 8 p.m.

The wonderfully prolific Rick Bass, already author or editor of twenty-five books of both fiction and non-fiction, makes this welcome return to Elliott Bay from his home in northwest Montana's Yaak Valley. The occasion is the delightful new Nashville Chrome (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), a novel one which returns him to his more southern roots. "In his grand return to fiction, Bass summons—with a lyrical style befitting his best nature writing—Arkansas and backwoods trio the Browns, the true-life country music trailblazers who pioneered the 1950s sound from which the novel takes its title ... Like the sound Chet Atkins pulls from the Browns in the studio, the narrative has a pitch-perfect chorus of longing and regret, with an undertone that connects and heals." - Publishers Weekly.

CHILDREN'S STORYTIME
Saturday, September 18 at 11:30 a.m.
      KID'S EVENT

Join us for this fun round of readings from picture and storybooks ... Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin!

SETH BERG
Saturday, September 18 at 2 p.m.
      POETRY
--THIS EVENT CANCELLED!--

Minneapolis poet Seth Berg visits with a debut collection, Muted Lines from Someone Else's Memory, newly published by Dark Sky Books, itself newly transplanted to the Seattle area from South Carolina. "Muted Lines from Someone Else's Memory is a heartfelt and gutsy investigation into the human brain's infinite possibilities, possibilities that remain potential in most of us, but geyser forward from Berg's consciousness in every poem." - Larissa Szporluk. "The memorable poems in Seth Berg's Muted Lines from Someone Else's Memory embed themselves first in our minds and finally anchor in our hearts, reminding us to be still, to celebrate rare moments of communion, to savor bread rising in the kitchen, to listen to a yellow finch even in a world that threatens to drown out song." - Vivian Shipley. Seth Berg WILL be reading this evening at 7 pm at Pilot Books, 219 Broadway E. (www.pilotbooksseattle.com).

JULIA GLASS
Saturday, September 18 at 4 p.m.

Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes, and other reader (book group) favorites I See You Everywhere and The Whole World Over, is back with a nuanced, insightful new novel, The Widower's Tale (Pantheon). "Percy Darling, 70, the narrator of Glass's fourth novel, takes comfort in certitudes: he will never leave his historic suburban Boston house, he is done with love (still guilty about his wife's death 30 years ago), and his beloved grandson will do credit to the family name. But Glass spins a beautifully paced, keenly observed story in which certainties give way to surprising reversals of fortune ... Glass handles the coalescing plot elements with astute insights into the complexity of family relationships, the gulf between social classes, and our modern culture of excess to create a dramatic, thought-provoking, and immensely satisfying novel." - Publishers Weekly.

THEA COOPER
Saturday, September 18 at 7 p.m.

Few expected that Elizabeth Hughes, diagnosed with juvenile diabetes in 1919, would live to adulthood, much less to welcome children and grandchildren into the world. Her story, and that of the Canadian researchers who first identified and purified the animal insulin that saved not only her life but also the lives of many millions of other diabetics, is told by Seattle writer Thea Cooper in the new book, Breakthrough; Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle (St. Martin's Press, co-authored with Arthur Ainsberg). "A work that sometimes reads like a novel, with the characters brought to life through their ... thoughts, remarks and physical gestures ... A readable tale of medical achievement." - Kirkus Reviews.

Conversations with PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET presents DIRECTOR'S CHOICE
Sunday, September 19 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 discuss the Ballet's forthcoming "Director's Choice" program. Dancers, choreographers, and other special guests make these lively and enjoyable programs for ballet fans interested in what goes on behind-the-scene. This fall's "Director's Choice" program includes two ballets by Jiri Kylian (music by Mozart), a Philip Glass/Jerome Robbins collaboration, and work by Nacho Duarto, choreographed to traditional Catalonian songs. For more about Pacific Northwest Ballet, its season and/or this afternoon's program, please see www.pnb.org, or call (206) 441-2440.

KIM FAY
Sunday, September 19 at 4 p.m.

This afternoon we welcome former Elliott Bay bookseller and Northwest native Kim Fay back home. Now series editor and creator of Things Asian Press guidebooks, she is here to share her love of Vietnamese culture, people, and food, all beautifully presented in her new book, Communion: A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam (Things Asian Press). Extensive research, extended stays, and travels with friends, including Nguyen thi Lan Huong and sister Julie Fay Ashborn (whose lush photographs illustrate) inform this book, which is essential reading for food lovers, travelers, and anyone interested in Southeast Asia. Recipes are included. Please join us.

TAMAM KAHN
Monday, September 20 at 5 p.m.
--LATE BREAKING ADDITION!

Poet and historian Tamam Kahn, one of the foremost authorities on the wives of Prophet Muhammad, joins us today to speak about her book, Untold: A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad (Monkfish), which demystifies the most influential women present at the dawn of Islam. The women include a merchant, the leader of an army, two Jewish war captives and a Coptic Christian diplomat. "In a sustained act of spirited research and imagination, Tamam Kahn brings Muhammad's wives and daughters out of the shadows and into the light. The women of Untold have at last found their perfect teller, in voices so gemlike and clear that one wants to chant them aloud." -Lesley Hazleton, author of After the Prophet.

MAE NGAI
Monday, September 20 at 7 p.m.

Esteemed Columbia University historian Mae Ngai, whose first book (on illegal immigration of an earlier time) Impossible Subjects received the AHA Littleton-Griswold Prize and the OAH Frederick Jackson Turner Award for best first book on any topic in American history, focuses more on the Chinese American immigrant experience in her new book, The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). "A thorough-going look at the historical record of early Chinese immigration to San Francisco unearths the heartening story of one rags-to-riches family. Ngai characterizes her work as history, situating the union of two young working people in San Francisco in 1875 within a larger frame of Chinese immigration, which had been encouraged by the California Gold Rush of the mid-19th century, attracting impoverished men, mostly from the Guangdong Province ... Ngai fashions a terrifically readable, compelling work about the little-known middle-class in the Chinese immigrant experience." - Publishers Weekly.

CHILDREN'S STORYTIME
Tuesday, September 21 at 11:30 a.m.
      KID'S EVENT

Join us for this fun round of readings from picture and storybooks ... Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin!

ELLIOTT BAY YOUNG ADULT BOOK GROUP
Tuesday, September 17 at 4 p.m.

After School & Beyond. Join us for this month's hosted book group discussion, focusing today on Pete Hautman's National Book Award-winning novel, Godless (Simon & Schuster). This story of a young man questioning his family's religion, and for a time, inventing a new one with his friends, also received honors from the American Library Association, the New York Public Library, and the Minnesota Book Awards. Fun stuff.

SPECULATIONS - ELLIOTT BAY SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY BOOK GROUP
Tuesday, September 17 at 6:30 p.m.

As the literature of ideas and imagination, Science Fiction and Fantasy simply demands discussion. Our September selection is the inspiration for the movie Bladerunner, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time. By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep...They even built humans. Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn't want to be identified, they just blended in. Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results.

TOM McCARTHY
Tuesday, September 21 at 7 p.m.

One of the finest younger writers to come from England in recent years, Tom McCarthy is here from his London home to read from his new novel, C. (Knopf), which is longlisted for this year's MAN Booker Prize. Already highly praised for his debut novel, Remainder ("One of the great English novels of the past ten years" - Zadie Smith), and an earlier work, Tintin and the Secret of Literature, Tom McCarthy in C. takes readers back a century to turn-of-the-century England, and then sets off wildly and inventively from there. "C is for carbon and cocaine, Cairo and CQ, and many other things besides. Under the elegant curve of the letter lies a fantastically detailed landscape of tiny pen-strokes that, if seen from high enough above, coalesce into a face, laughing uproariously. Tom McCarthy's latest is terrifically stylish, acrobatic, and insidious." - Luc Sante.

CHARLES YU
Wednesday, September 22 at 4 p.m.

A special After School & Beyond reading. Cited as a "5 Under 35" Award-winner by the National Book Foundation for his book of stories, Third Class Superhero, Charles Yu hits Seattle with his winning debut novel, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Pantheon). "With Star Wars allusions, glimpses of a future world, and journeys to the past, as well as hilarious and poignant explanations of 'chronodiegetics,' or the 'theory of the nature and function of time within a narrative space,' Yu constructs a clever, fluently metaphorical tale. A funny, brain-teasing, and wise take on archetypal father-and-son issues, the mysteries of time and memory, emotional inertia, and one sweet but bumbling misfit's attempts to escape a legacy of sadness and isolation." - Booklist. Colson Whitehead, Kevin Brockmeier, Audrey Niffenegger, and David Eagleman all would agree with Nick Harkaway on How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: "Funny, touching, and weirdly beautiful. The book is awesome.

JOHN VAILLANT
Wesnesday, September 22 at 7 p.m.

British Columbia writer John Vaillant wrote what has been an enduring favorite of Northwest coast nature writing with his earlier book, The Golden Spruce. He works his way all the way around the northern Pacific Rim to Siberia for his absolutely riveting new book, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Knopf). "What spirits this adventure narrative from compelling to brilliant is Vaillant's use of the tiger hunt as an allegorical lens through which to understand the cultural, economic, and environmental devastation of post-Communist Russia ... This energetic hybrid of classic adventure and impassioned sociocultural critique will appeal to Jon Krakauer fans, tiger lovers, and readers interested in contemporary Russian history." - Library Journal. "This elegant work of narrative non-fiction has it all—beauty, intrigue, a primeval locale, fully realized characters, and a conflict that speaks to the state of our world. Obsessively well-researched and artfully written, The Tiger takes us on a journey to the raw edge of civilization, to a world of vengeful cats and venal men, a world that, in Vaillant's brilliant telling, is simultaneously haunting and enchanting." - Hampton Sides, joined by Annie Proulx, Temple Grandin, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, and others in early praise.

JASMINE ALINDER
Thursday, September 23 at 6 p.m.

Co-presented with DENSHO. We continue our ongoing collaboration with Densho, the Seattle-based Japanese American legacy project, with a special program by historian Jasmine Alinder. She will speak about her book, Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration (University of Illinois Press). Published as part of a series edited by esteemed historian and former Seattle resident Roger Daniels, Moving Images examines how photography was used to document and present the World War II impounding of Japanese Americans, and includes analysis of work by Dorothea Lang, Ansel Adams, and Manzanar inmate Toyo Miyatake, who secretly constructed his own camera to document camp life. For more about Densho, its extensive photo archives, oral histories, articles, and programs, please see www.densho.org.

ELIZABETH ROSNER
Friday, September 24 at 7 p.m.

Elliott Bay first hosted Elizabeth Rosner during her book tour for her acclaimed debut novel, Speed of Light, and we're pleased to welcome her back for the newly released paperback of her newest novel, Blue Nude (Gallery). Blue Nude was originally inspired by the author's involvement with a project called Acts of Reconciliation, which brought together second generation Germans and Jews in order to confront their shared legacy from World War II and before. "Poet and novelist Rosner has written an elegiac story of an emotionally and creatively starved artist and his muse ... Rosner's multilayered composition is rendered in beautiful, spare prose and will resonate long after the last page." - Publishers Weekly.

CHILDREN'S STORYTIME
Saturday, September 25 at 11:30 a.m.
      KID'S EVENT

Join us for this fun round of readings from picture and storybooks ... Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin!

STEVEM ROBY & BRAD SCHREIBER
Saturday, September 25 at 7 p.m.

That Jimi Hendrix's story is one that starts in Seattle is well-known to music listeners and readers here and elsewhere. In their new book, Becoming Jimi Hendrix: From Southern Crossroads to Psychedelic London, the Untold Story of a Musical Genius (Da Capo), music journalist/archivists Steven Roby and Brad Schreiber focus on his formative musical experiences between 1962 and 1966, years that saw him out of Seattle, eventually in Europe. Both authors, who live in the Bay Area, have done work on Hendrix before, with Steven Roby having written Black Gold: The Lost Archives of Jimi Hendrix.

TAO LIN
Sunday, September 26 at 5 p.m.

A favorite of readers in Seattle, in particular, but also elsewhere, Tao Lin makes this welcome Elliott Bay return to read from his newest work, Richard Yates (Melville House). Yes, it's fiction, and "Richard Yates" is named after the late writer—but isn't about him. "Richard Yates is hilarious, menacing, and hugely intelligent. Tao Lin is a Kafka for the iPhone generation. He has that most important gift: it's impossible to imagine anyone else writing like he does and sounding authentic. Yet he has already spawned a huge school of Lin imitators. As precocious and prolific as he is, every book surpasses the last. Tao Lin may well be the most important writer under thirty working today." - Clancy Martin. Tao Lin's other books include you are a little bit happier than i am, Eeeee Eee Eeee & Bed, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and Shoplifting from American Apparel.

DANIEL KEHLMANN
Monday, September 27 at 7 p.m.

One of the most notable European writers at work today, younger or otherwise, Daniel Kehlmann makes this welcome first Elliott Bay visit. Dividing his time between Vienna and Berlin, he is most known for his novel, Measuring the World, which was translated into more than forty languages. Recipient of numerous awards, including the Candide Prize, the Thomas Mann Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and more, he is here with the newly translated Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes (Pantheon, translated by Carol Janeway). "[A] brilliant study of the fragility and interconnectedness of life ... Layers of connection, irony, despair, and humor distinguish this masterful work." - Publishers Weekly. "Who would have thought contemporary Central European literature could be so fun and so funny? Daniel Kehlmann is who. The young Austrian prodigy, famous everywhere but in the United States, has given us a real beauty of a book, farcical, satiric, melancholic, and humane. Modern fame may have been invented in America, but nobody has dramatized its paradoxes and heartbreaks more entertainingly than the European Kehlmann does here." - Jonathan Franzen.

CHILDREN'S STORYTIME
Tuesday, September 28 at 11:30 a.m.
      KID'S EVENT

Join us for this fun round of readings from picture and storybooks ... Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin!

STAGES - ELLIOTT BAY DRAMA BOOK GROUP
Tuesday, September 28 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 September is Peter Parnell's play adaptation of The Cider House Rules by John Irving (Parts 1 and 2) in conjunction with the local anniversary production at Book-It Repertory. Spanning eight decades of American life, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch, founder of the St. Cloud's, Maine orphanage and hospital, and of the complex father-son relationship he develops with the young orphan Homer Wells. Homer's growth into adulthood begins first at St. Cloud's, and then out in the wide world, where he learns about life and love, and must ultimately decide whether to return to St. Cloud's and fulfill the destiny his "father" has always believed in for him. Whether you've seen the productions at Book-It, enjoyed the Irving novel, seen the Michael Caine movie, or read the playscripts, please join us for this lively discussion!

ANNABEL LYON
Tuesday, September 28 at 7 p.m.

A little three-evening sequence of remarkable writers from outside the U.S. (Daniel Kehlmann Monday, Emma Donoghue Wednesday) continues this evening with award-winning Vancouver novelist Annabel Lyon. Her astounding debut novel, The Golden Mean: A Novel of Aristotle and Alexander the Great (Knopf) takes readers viscerally and with verisimilitude back to the day, 2300 years ago. "Historical fiction at its best ... Whether posing the eternally relevant questions of what it means to live a virtuous life, detailing the gory details of an ancient battle scene, or probing the relationship between master and student, Lyon authoritatively evokes a fabled time and place in the urbane and dry voice of the man judged the smartest of his age ... This is a pitch-perfect, even dazzling debut novel." - Elaine Kalmann Naves, Montreal Gazette. " ... Lean, taut, stripped down, The Golden Mean is dense with meaning while also managing to be crisp, direct, and contemporary. Lyon has a poet's eye without allowing her prose to become poetically langorous ... She also rips up the conventions of the historical novel ... Rich, fresh, strange, and deeply original." - Patricia Robertson, Canadian Notes and Queries.

EMMA DONOGHUE
Wednesday, September 29 at 7 p.m.

Irish novelist and scholar Emma Donoghue, now based in Canada, has made several appearances at Elliott Bay, none more eagerly anticipated than this for her new novel, Room (Little, Brown). A longlist nominee for this year's MAN Booker Prize, Room is a story told form the point of view of a five-year-old who has never left the room in which he—and his mother—are imprisoned. It's a tale of resilience and the mother/child bond. Room has been read with enthusiasm and early readers around the country. This is one not to miss. "Talented, versatile Donoghue relates a searing tale of survival and recovery, in the voice of a five-year-old boy ... Donoghue brilliantly shows mother and son grappling with very different issues as they adjust to freedom ... In the story's most heartbreaking moments, it seems that Ma may be unable to live with the choices she made to protect Jack. But his narration reveals that she's nurtured a smart, perceptive, and willful boy—odd, for sure, but resilient, and surely Ma can find that resilience in herself ... Wrenching, as befits the grim subject matter, but also tender, touching, and at times unexpectedly funny." - Kirkus Reviews. Emma Donoghue's novels include Hood, Landings, Life Mask, and the Lambda Award-winning The Sealed Letter, which was also longlisted for Canada's Giller Prize. She is also the author, earlier this year, of Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature (Knopf).

LAURA NUMEROFF
Thursday, September 30 at 1 p.m.
      KID'S EVENT

One of the most popular children's book authors of all, Laura Numeroff makes this special mid-day appearance for her newest book, Otis & Sydney and the Best Birthday Ever (Abrams Books for Young Readers). This enchanting tale of what happens when Otis plans a surprise for his friend Sydney's birthday should join the list of other enduring favorites Laura Numeroff has created over the years—The Jellybeans and the Big Dance, When Sheep Sleep, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, and many, many more. At her publisher's request, Laura Numeroff will sign her books purchased for this visit, along with one book brought from home. Please join us for what should be a very fun event.

ETHAN STOWELL with JILL LIGHTNER
Thursday, September 30 at 5 p.m.

We are delighted to help celebrate publication of award-winning Seattle chef/owner Ethan Stowell's first book, Ethan Stowell's New Italian Kitchen (Ten Speed Press, co-authored by Leslie Miller). In this beautifully produced book, the proprietor of Union, Tavolata, How to Cook a Wolf, Olives & Anchovies, and the new Staple & Fancy brings the best of Italian tradition and Pacific Northwest bounty together. Ethan Stowell's honors include a James Beard Award nomination as Best Chef Northwest, citation as one of 2008's Best New Chefs in America by Food & Wine magazine. National publications with rave reviews of his restaurants have come from Gourmet, Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, Wine Spectator, GQ, and more. Jill Lightner, editor of Edible Seattle magazine (www.edibleseattle.com), will conduct an onstage interview with Ethan as part of the proceedings. This should be fun ... and leave one hungry for more.

MONA SIMPSON
Thursday, September 30 at 7 p.m.

One of the most accomplished novelists at work today, Mona Simpson makes this very welcome Elliott Bay return. Starting with her breakout debut, the enduringly popular Anywhere But Here in 1986, and with each of her three novels since, she has read at Elliott Bay. My Hollywood (Knopf) tells the story of two seemingly very different families' lives—lives deeply examined and explored in contrast with superficial concerns suggested in a Hollywood setting. "This big gorgeous book is at once an entertaining, socially astute upstairs-downstairs drama and a profound meditation on the shifting and often competing demands of love and work in a woman's life. One more time, Mona Simpson has burrowed deep into the American family to extract the shivering truth about the many trade-offs women face in raising children today. Lola, the Filipina nanny at the heart of the book, is surely one of the great literary creations of our time." - Michelle Huneven. "Simpson's massive gifts—for unflinching precision, for artful indirection, and for the deft unfurling of imagery—are on vivid display in My Hollywood, a book that carries us down deep, into the darkness of two distinct worlds, and lights them up, finding all the comedy in the ways they are the same world, and all the tragedy in the unbridgeable distance between them." - Michael Chabon.

ALSO TO NOTE:

The busy season begins ...
• Book Drive for Preschoolers from Homeless Families. Elliott Bay is proud to participate in this special book drive benefitting Seattle/King COunty Coalistion on Homelessness and its Project Cool for Back to School. Sept. 13 - October 22, 2010. Visit the event's Wish List or www.preschoolbookbrive.com for more information.
• Seattle Arts & Lectures. SAL's 2010/11 Literary Arts series begins Sept. 14 with JONATHAN FRANZEN, followed by SARA PARETSKY, Oct. 19; DANIEL HANDLER, Nov. 9; JOHN RICHARDSON, Dec. 8; ELIZABETH STROUT, Jan. 24; JOYCE CAROL OATES, Apr.18; and RICHARD FORD, May 10. The 2010/11 Poetry Series starts Oct. 15 with ROBERT PINSKY, followed by ROBERT HASS, Oct. 28; BILLY COLLINS, Nov. 22; LUCIA PERILLO, Jan. 20; PATRICIA SMITH, Feb. 15; MARIE HOWE, March 15; BRIAN TURNER, MAJOR JACKSON, SUSAN RICH, Apr. 14; and WENDELL BERRY, May 24. The 2010/11 Special Events, so far, include: T.R. REID, Oct. 5; NORA EPHRON, Nov. 18; NELL PAINTER IRVIN, Feb. 8; TRACY KIDDER, Mar. 2. The Literary Arts Series, Poetry Series, and most of the Special Events/American Voices series take place at Benaroya Hall. Please see www.lectures.org or call (206) 621-2230 for tickets/information.
• Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas. In September, besides TERRY McMILLAN, Sept. 23, and MICHELE NORRIS, Oct. 4 at Town Hall (both in above listings), the CD Forum has a discussion, "Only on Sundays: The Black Church's New Politics," on Sept. 9 at 7 at Seattle University's LeRoux Conference Center; and a production of dance theatre x: "World Headquarters," Sept. 30 – Oct. 2 at Velocity Dance Center on tap. Please see www.cdforum.org or call (206) 323-4032 for tickets/information.
• World Affairs Council. September offerings include ROB SALKOWITZ, Sept. 16; and "From Infidel to Nomad: A Conversation with AYAAN HIRSI ALI," Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. at Town Hall Seattle. For tickets/information, please see www.world-affairs.org or call (206) 441-5910.
• Mosaic Multicultural Foundation. On Sept. 2 at 7 at Washington Hall, Mosaic presents "Voices of Youth: Poetry from the Edge." Later in the month there are evenings with MICHAEL MEADE, "Facing Fate, Finding a Destiny," on Sept. 29 at 7 at All Pilgrims Church, and Oct. 1 at United Methodist Church on Vashon Island. See www.mosaicvoices.org or call (206) 935-3665 for tickets/information.
• Northwest African American Museum. NAAM & Elliott Bay present ISABEL WILKERSON, Sept. 24 (see listings here) and are due to present journalist EUGENE ROBINSON, Oct. 14. See www.naamnw.org for information on these and other good offerings.
• Henry Art Gallery. Among the talking programs in September: lecturer BERT RODRIGUEZ, Sept. 3; PRIMITVO SUAREZ-WOLFE, Sept. 11 (Open Satellite series); and "Five Innovative Writers from Seattle & Beyond," on Sept. 24 with JEANNE HEUVING, BERT LAZER, ROBERT MITTENTHAL, LOU ROWAN, and ZHANG ER. See www.henryart.org for more information.
• Seattle Art Museum. Talking programs at SAM Downtown in September include: ANN BLAKEMORE, Sept. 2; and "SAM Word,: poetry in the galleries, Sept. 16. For information on these and more on "Saturday University" at the Seattle Asian Art Museum (VIKRAM PRASKAH in Sept. 25 in listings here) on through the fall, please see www.seattleartmuseum.org.
• Book-It. Book-It's 2010/11 season begins with a production of The Cider House Rules, Parts 1 & 2, from the novel by John Irving, Sept. 15 – Oct. 16, at Center House Theatre. See www.book-it.org for tickets/information.
• Recovery Café Benefit. The annual fundraising breakfast for the Recovery Café, 'Home of the School for Recovery,' takes place Sept. 29 at Bell Harbor International Conference Center at 9 a.m. See www.recoverycafe.org or call (206) 374-8731 ext. 115 for more information.

• Richard Hugo House. September readings include LiTFUSE Launch Party, Sept. 7; Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award Reading, Sept. 16; and JUDITH SKILLMAN & Friends, Sept. 29. There is also information on the 2010/11 Hugo Literary Series, which begins Oct. 15 with "Under the Influence," NANCY RAWLES, ED SKOOG, & JESS WALTER reading, The Board of Education performing new music. See www.hugohouse.org for more information.
• Pilot Books. In September, our neighbors at 219 Broadway E. (upstairs) host, among others: MATTHEW PITT, Sept. 2; ALEXIS WOLF, CRAVEN ROCK, JOSHUA JAMES, Sept. 3; OPP Reading Series, Sept. 16; SUSAN RICH, Sept. 23; and "Last of the Living Spankstra (and friends)," Sept. 28. See www.pilotbooksseattle.com for more information.
• Northwest Film Forum. Over at 1515 12th Avenue, besides some extraordinary films, the NW Film Forum plays host to "An Evening with Jacob and David," Sept. 11 (they being the performance pair of JACOB CLOCCI and DAVID WIGHTMAN); and will have acclaimed Portuguese director MIGUEL GOMES on hand during a Sept. 14 – 16 run of feature and short films. See www.nwfilmforum.org for more information.
• Sorrento Hotel. See www.hotelsorrento.com for updates on the Sorrento's fun "Night School" offerings, including the resumption of the Silent Reading Hour, with CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE of The Stranger.
• Velocity Dance Center. The 2010/11 season begins with a "Fall Kick-Off Extravaganza," Sept. 10 - 12 at Velocity's still-new home, 1621 Twelfth Avenue. See www.velocitydancecenter.org for more information.
• Naked Girls Reading. Last, probably not least, for this little neighborhood citing of related activities in September, is the Naked Girls Reading and Academy of Burlesque presentation of "Naked Girls ROCK," Sept. 5 in West Hall, Oddfellows Building. See www.nakedgirlsreading.com for more information.

With September's arrival, we join others in welcoming students and their families back to school and the neighborhood—Seattle Academy, Northwest School, Lake Washington Middle Girls School, O'Dea High School, Seattle Public Schools, Seattle Central Community College, Cornish College of the Arts, Gage School of Art, Seattle University, and more.

ONLINE FOR OCTOBER

Online for October. Among those due through: KURT B. REIGHLEY, Oct. 1; BEV BATTAGLIA, Oct. 2 at 2; DARIN STRAUSS, Oct. 2 at 7; FATIMA BHUTTO, Oct. 2 at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall Seattle (see above listings); SCOTT SIMON, Oct. 3; COLIN CHENEY, Oct. 4; LAN SAMANTHA CHANG, Oct. 4; MICHELE NORRIS, Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall Seattle, presented with the Central District Forum and KUOW 94.9 (see above listing); JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER, Oct. 5; JESSICA KANE & TIPHANIE YANIQUE, Oct. 7; JOSEPH SKIBELL, Oct. 7 at Hugo House, co-presented with the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle; STEVEN KOTLER, Oct. 8; Washington State Book Awards (authors & books), Seattle Public Central Library, Oct. 8; AMY LANG, Oct. 9 at 1 p.m.; ANGIE CHAU, Oct. 9, co-presented with Hedgebrook; ALLISON HOOVER BARTLETT, Oct. 9; SARA MARCUS, Oct. 11 at 5; JOSEPH O'NEILL, Oct. 11 at 7; GAIL COLLINS, Oct. 11 at Seattle Public Central Library (The A. Scott Bullitt Lecture in American History); BENJAMIN PERCY, Oct. 12 at 6; ROBERT MICHAEL PYLE, Oct. 12 at 8; TED RALL, Oct. 13 at 6; RON CHERNOW, Oct. 13 at Seattle Public Central Library, co-presented with the Washington Center for the Book; THADDEUS RUSSELL, Oct. 13 at 8; LARRY COLTON, Oct. 13; TOM GRIMES, Oct. 14; DAVE ZIRIN, Oct. 14; EUGENE ROBINSON, Oct. 14 at 7 at the NW African American Museum; MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, Oct. 15 at 12 noon; EDWIDGE DANTICAT, Oct. 15 at Town Hall Seattle; "Aspects of the Lucia di Lammermoor," Oct. 15; GURCHARAN DAS, Oct. 16 at 9:30 a.m. at Seattle Asian Art Museum, co-presented with the Gardner Center for Asian Art & Ideas; REACT THEATRE presents Yellow Face, Oct. 17 at 2 p.m.; DINAW MENGESTU, Oct. 18 at Seattle Public Central Library, co-presented with the Washington Center for the Book; SAM HOWE VERHOVEK, Oct. 18; LESLIE MARMON SILKO with SHERMAN ALEXIE, Oct. 19 at Seattle Public Central Library, co-presented with the Washington Center for the Book; PAUL HARDING, Oct. 20 at Seattle Public Central Library, co-presented with the Washington Center for the Book; JUDY BENTLEY, Oct. 21 at Seattle Public Central Library; RAHNA REIKO RIZZUTO, Oct. 21; DAVID ABRAM, Oct. 22; ELIZABETH AUSTEN, Oct. 23; GARRY WILLS, Oct. 23 at Town Hall Seattle; YIYUN LI, Oct. 25; INGRID BETANCOURT, Oct. 25 at Town Hall Seattle; CHRISTOPHER RYAN, Oct. 26; LISA BIRNBACH, Oct. 27; MADHUR JAFFREY, Oct. 28 at Seattle Asian Art Museum, co-presented with the Gardner Center for Asian Art & Ideas; LAWRENCE MATSUDA, Oct. 29; KARY WAYSON with ED SKOOG, KEVIN CRAFT, ERIN MALONE, REBECCA HOOGS, Oct.30; IAN FRAZIER, Oct. 31 at 2 at Seattle Public Central Library, co-presented with the Washington Center for the Book; Conversations with Pacific Northwest Ballet, Oct. 31; Boo! Oct. 31 is also Halloween. All of the above are subject to change, and others, believe it or not, will be added, as well. Please check back on our website at the end of September and/or see our October newsletter for more current and detailed information forthcoming. Thanks.

NORTH AND WEST most directly refers to ISABEL WILKERSON's The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (see September 24).