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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Green star Jack Hitt

6 pm
This American Life contributor Hitt reads new work at this benefit for Richard Hugo House, featuring food from Tom Douglas.
Palace Ballroom
2030 5th Ave
Seattle (Downtown)
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Franz Wisner

6:30 pm
Free
The author, who was dumped at the altar and has already written one book about it, now looks at How the World Makes Love and relates it to his own shitty love life.
Elliott Bay Book Company
101 S Main St
Seattle (Pioneer Square)
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American Heritage Series

7 pm
This is a discussion about the contributions of Caribbean-Americans to our culture.
Northwest African American Museum
2300 S Massachusetts St
Seattle (Down South)
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David Archer

7 pm
Free
The author, who is an award-winning climatologist, has written The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate.
Kane Hall, Room 130
UW Campus
Seattle (University District)
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Ben Marra

7 pm
Free
Marra, a photographer, has taken photos of Native American dance regalia from around the country. Faces from the Land is a collection of those photographs.
Third Place Books
17171 Bothell Way NE
Lake Forest Park (Out of Town)
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Simon Wickham-Smith & Maged Zaher

7 pm
Wickham translates Mongolian poets. Zaher translates Arabic poets. Tonight they discuss translation.
Hugo House
1634 11th Avenue
Seattle (Capitol Hill)
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Friday, April 17, 2009

David Hewson

Noon
Free
Dante's Numbers is about a film adaptation of Inferno...and murder.
Seattle Mystery Bookshop
117 Cherry St
Seattle (Downtown)
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Garth Sundem

6:30 pm
Free
The Geeks' Guide to World Domination is about how geeks have taken over the world.
Third Place Books
17171 Bothell Way NE
Lake Forest Park (Out of Town)
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Green star Aimé Césaire: A Celebration

7 pm
Free
Local authors come together to read work from and celebrate the life of Césaire, a Martinican poet who passed away one year ago today.
University Book Store
4326 University Way NE
Seattle (University District)
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Green star Maria Semple

7 pm
Free
The author of This One Is Mine reads from her novel in a reading presented by KNOCK Magazine.
Antioch University
2326 6th Ave
Seattle (Downtown)
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Adina Hoffman

7:30 pm
Free
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century is a biography of Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali.
Elliott Bay Book Company
101 S Main St
Seattle (Pioneer Square)
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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Cricket McRae

Noon
Free
Spin a Wicked is a book set in Seattle about crafting and murder at the co-op.
Seattle Mystery Bookshop
117 Cherry St
Seattle (Downtown)
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PoetsWest

4 pm
Free
Featured readers and an open mic
Seattle Public Library. Green Lake Branch
7364 E Green Lake Drive N
Seattle (Green Lake)
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Green star William O'Daly

4:30 pm
Free
The author reads his new translation of one of Neruda's last books, World's End / Fin de mundo.
Elliott Bay Book Company
101 S Main St
Seattle (Pioneer Square)
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Green star Cheryl Harris Sharman, Russell Leigh Sharman & Corey Hayes

7:30 pm
Free
Two journalists and a photographer spend a year following people who work on the night shift in their new book Nightshift NYC.
Elliott Bay Book Company
101 S Main St
Seattle (Pioneer Square)
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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Cristina Henríquez

3 pm
Free
A girl goes to Panama to meet her father in The World in Half. The New York Times Book Review said Henrîquez's "prose reads as if she grew up drinking water that had been fluoridated with traces of John Updike and Ann Beattie."
Elliott Bay Book Company
101 S Main St
Seattle (Pioneer Square)
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Little Red Studio Open Mic

6:30 pm
Free
Everyone gets five minutes on an open mic in "a very relaxed supportive atmosphere"
Little Red Studio
400 Dexter Avenue
Seattle (Downtown)
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Green star Wangari Maathai

7:30 pm
The "first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize" reads from her newest book, The Challenge for Africa.
Town Hall
1119 Eighth Ave
Seattle (Downtown)
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Monday, April 20, 2009

Cristina Henríquez

7 pm
Free
There is a trip to Panama and an estranged father in The World in Half.
University Book Store
4326 University Way NE
Seattle (University District)
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Jay Mcinerney

7:30 pm
Free
How It Ended is a collection of short stories by the author who will probably forever be best known as the author of Bright Lights, Big City.
Elliott Bay Book Company
101 S Main St
Seattle (Pioneer Square)
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Amanda Quick

Noon
Free
The Perfect Poison is about poisonous plants...and murder.
Seattle Mystery Bookshop
117 Cherry St
Seattle (Downtown)
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Yu-Chin Chen

7 pm
The University of Washington Assistant Professor gives a lecture titled "The Brilliance Behind the Columns: Paul Krugman, an Economist of Scale."
UW Waterfront Activities Center
3900 Montlake Blvd. NE
Seattle (University District)
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Ellyn Anne Geisel

7 pm
Free
The author has written a book about linens called The Kitchen Linens Book. Rayne DeMartini, my intern, says "Really? Is this a joke? Linens? A book tour for this book?" Apparently, it is not a joke.
Third Place Books
17171 Bothell Way NE
Lake Forest Park (Out of Town)
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Erica Bauermeister

7 pm
Free
The School of Essential Ingredients is a novel about students in a cooking school.
King County Library, Bellevue Regional Branch
1111 110th Ave NE
Bellevue (Eastside)
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Jennifer Culkin

7 pm
Free
Culkin, a local nurse, is the author of A Final Arc of Sky: A Memoir of Critical Care.
University Book Store
4326 University Way NE
Seattle (University District)
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Emily Beyer

8 pm
Free
Beyer will read from her manuscript of four-line Sapphic stanza poetry titled Sightseeing.
Hugo House
1634 11th Avenue
Seattle (Capitol Hill)
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Lois Bernstine

6:30 pm
Free
The author, who is 76 years old, reads from her first book, an autobiography titled Sixty Seven Secret Years.
Hugo House
1634 11th Avenue
Seattle (Capitol Hill)
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Tom Wilson

7 pm
Free
The son of the man who created Ziggy reads from his inspirational memoir, Zig-Zagging. I just threw up on my keyboard.
Third Place Books
17171 Bothell Way NE
Lake Forest Park (Out of Town)
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Green star Alan Aderem

7:30 pm
A "global leader in immunology and cell biology research" discusses the future of vaccines and the fight against AIDS and the bird flu, among other illnesses.
Town Hall
1119 Eighth Ave
Seattle (Downtown)
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Green star Andrei Codrescu

7:30 pm
NPR's Codrescu's The Posthuman Dada Guide has something to do with an imaginary chess game with Lenin and dada.
Town Hall
1119 Eighth Ave
Seattle (Downtown)
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