Books
Kevan Atteberry
Bunnies!!! is for new readers. University Book Store (Bellevue), 990 102nd Ave. N.E., Bellevue, WA 98004 Free Wednesday, January 28, 2015, 6 – 7pm
Susan Adrian The author of Tunnel Vision is joined by Kendare Blake (Anna Dressed in Blood) and Lish McBride (Hold Me Closer, Necromancer). University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Wednesday, January 28, 2015, 7 – 8pm
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Nazila Fathi As a child of 7, raised in a secular, privileged family, Nazila Fathi witnessed Iran’s 1979 revolution, when a conservative Islamic tide transformed the world around her. This is how The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran (Basic Books. $28) begins. By 2009, by which time Fathi had been a New York Times correspondent for more than 10 years, she fled the country with her husband and two children-a decision made shortly after being informed that snipers had her photo and the command to kill her. Although Fathi thought she and her family might eventually return to their homeland, they were urged to stay away, forcing them to live in exile-to this day. In her memoir, the Bethesda, Md.-based Fathi shares how modern Iran has created a robust middle class despite economic sanctions (and, lately, falling oil prices). It will be interesting to hear her perspective from afar on how that middle class might now be chafing at Iran’s restrictive regime. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., 652-4255, townhallseattle.org. $5. 7:30 p.m. Bianca Sewake Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 Free Wednesday, January 28, 2015, 7:30 – 8:30pm
Ivor Davis
The Beatles and Me on Tour is his memoir of 1964. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Thursday, January 29, 2015, 1 – 2pm
M.A. Lawsom
Viking Bay is his new crime thriller. University Book Store (Bellevue), 990 102nd Ave. N.E., Bellevue, WA 98004 Free Thursday, January 29, 2015, 6 – 7pm
Jay Asher He’ll read from Thirteen Reasons Why. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Thursday, January 29, 2015, 7 – 8pm
Sharma Shields The Spokane writer’s debut novel is The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac. Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Thursday, January 29, 2015, 7 – 8pm
Tracy Weber The local writer’s yoga mystery is A Killer Retreat. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way N.E., Seattle, 98115 Free Thursday, January 29, 2015, 7 – 8pm
Tom Graves From the Bay Area writer, Twice Heroes: America’s Nisei Veterans of WWII and Korea is sure to include some local vets. Eagle Harbor Books, 157 Winslow Way E., Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Free Thursday, January 29, 2015, 7:30 – 8:30pm
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Stewart O’Nan He novelizes the last years of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life in West of Sunset. Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Friday, January 30, 2015, 7 – 8pm
Wayne Pacelle Head of The Humane Society of the United States, he’s written The Bond: Our Kinship With Animals, Our Call to Defend Them. Henry Art Gallery, 4100 15th Ave. N.E., Seattle, WA 98195 $20 Friday, January 30, 2015, 7 – 8pm
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James K. Galbraith He’s the author of The End of Normal: The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 $5 Friday, January 30, 2015, 7:30 – 8:30pm
Michael Shermer The journalist and ethicist discusses The Moral Arc. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 $5 Friday, January 30, 2015, 7:30 – 8:30pm
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Patton Oswalt Anyone lucky enough to have seen this comic perform will know that-besides sometimes starring in movies like Big Fan and Ratatouille-Oswalt is a serious student of movies. He jokes about them with an insider’s knowledge, he reels off Hollywood trivia with more authority than IMDb, and now he’s finally written a book on the subject: Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life From an Addiction to Film (Scribner, $25). As a young comic in the ‘90s, new in L.A., Oswalt began a self-taught total-immersion program in film-his DVD player never empty, spending evenings at the New Beverly Cinema, that West Hollywood shrine of repertory and arthouse movies. During that period, besides nurturing a love for Billy Wilder pictures, Oswalt was finding his feet as a comic: first writing for MADtv (anyone remember that show?), then discovering his confidence onstage. (And from there, eventually, to the soundstage.) Tonight he’ll be joined in a discussion about movies, showbiz, and life in L.A. by expat comedy writer George Meyer, now a Seattle resident, who made his bones on The Simpsons, another rich trove of movie gags and genre parodies. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., 621-2230, lectures.org. $35 (includes book). 7:30 p.m. Brian Miller Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 $35 Saturday, January 31, 2015, 7:30 – 8:30pm
Seattle Poetry Slam Local poets share their verse and spoken word compositions. 21 and over. Rebar, 1114 Howell StreetSeattle, WA $5 Tuesday, February 3, 2015, 8 – 11:30pm
Seattle Poetry Slam Local poets share their verse and spoken word compositions. 21 and over. Rebar, 1114 Howell StreetSeattle, WA $5 Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 8 – 11:30pm
Seattle Poetry Slam Local poets share their verse and spoken word compositions. 21 and over. Rebar, 1114 Howell StreetSeattle, WA $5 Tuesday, February 17, 2015, 8 – 11:30pm
Seattle Poetry Slam Local poets share their verse and spoken word compositions. 21 and over. Rebar, 1114 Howell StreetSeattle, WA $5 Tuesday, February 24, 2015, 8 – 11:30pm
