Books
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Becky Selengut & Langdon Cook In the Elliott Bay Room (above the Economy Market Atrium), Selengut discusses her new cookbook Shroom: Mind-Bendingly Good Recipes for Cultivated and Wild Mushrooms with Cook, the well-known local author of The Mushroom Hunters. Pike Place Market, 85 Pike St, Seattle, WA 98101 $12.50 Monday, November 3, 2014, 7 – 8:30pm
David Haskins A veteran of the bands Bauhaus and of Love and Rockets, he shares from his memoir Who Killed Mister Moonlight? Bauhaus, Black Magick, and Benediction. Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Monday, November 3, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Molly Gloss Her novel Falling From Horses is set among the Hollywood stuntmen (and women) of the 1930s. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way N.E., Seattle, 98115 Free Monday, November 3, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Scott Elliott Temple Grove is his locally set new novel. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Monday, November 3, 2014, 7 – 8pm
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Barry Blanchard One of the world’s top alpinists, he shares from his memoir The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains and will likely show slides from his adventures. Feathered Friends, 119 Yale Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109 Free Monday, November 3, 2014, 7:30 – 8:30pm
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Colm Toibin Seattle Arts & Lectures presents the eminent Irish author of Nora Webster. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 $5-$50 Monday, November 3, 2014, 7:30 – 8:30pm
David Rothkopf He’ll discuss National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 $5 Monday, November 3, 2014, 7:30 – 8:30pm
Dave O’Leary The local musician reads from his new novel, The Music Book. High Dive, 513 N. 36th St., Seattle, WA 98103 Free Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 3 – 4pm
Harriet Arkley Her primary education guide is The Good News Chair. University Book Store (Bellevue), 990 102nd Ave. N.E., Bellevue, WA 98004 Free Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 6 – 7pm
Hillary Brown She’ll discuss Next Generation Infrastructure. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 $5 Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 6 – 7pm
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Bryan Stevenson
Just Mercy is the new book from the NYU law professor, MacArthur “genius” award winner, and crusader for the wrongfully incarcerated. Seattle Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA 98104 Free Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Dan Pashman & Molly Wizenberg They’re the authors of Eat More Better: How to Make Every Bite More Delicious and Delancey: A Man, A Woman, A Restaurant, A Marriage, respectively. Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 7 – 8pm
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Yorum Bauman Learn how to rebut the deniers in The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Seattle Poetry Slam Local poets share their verse and spoken word compositions. 21 and over. Rebar, 1114 Howell StreetSeattle, WA $5 Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 8 – 11:30pm
Charles Johnson The UW professor discusses his new Taming the Ox: Buddhist Stories and Reflections on Politics, Race, Culture, and Spiritual Practice with David Guterson (Snow Falling on Cedars). Northwest African American Museum, 2300 South Massachusetts StreetSeattle, WA 98144 $5-$7 Wednesday, November 5, 2014, 7 – 8pm
James Cole His new illustrated maritime history is Drawing on Our History: Fishing Vessels of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way N.E., Seattle, 98115 Free Wednesday, November 5, 2014, 7 – 8pm
James Lenfestey His travel memoir, interlaced with poetry and philosophy, is Seeking the Cave: A Pilgrimage to Cold Mountain. Seattle Asian Art Museum, 1400 E. Prospect St. (Volunteer Park), Seattle, WA 98112 Free Wednesday, November 5, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Jana Harris Her new poetry volume, researched in the archives, is You Haven’t Asked About My Wedding or What I Wore: Poems of Courtship on the American Frontier. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Wednesday, November 5, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Kobold Guide to Combat Contributors to this computer gaming design book include Janna Silverstein, Wolfgang Baur, Jeff Grubb, Chris Pramas, John A. Pitts, and Steve Winter, who’ll participate in a roundtable discussion. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Wednesday, November 5, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Molly Gloss Her novel Falling From Horses is set among the stuntmen (and women) of 1930s Hollywood. Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Wednesday, November 5, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Molly Tenenbaum Her poetry and art book Exercises to Free the Tongue draws inspiration from her grandparents, who were vaudeville ventriloquists. Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Wednesday, November 5, 2014, 7 – 8pm
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The Last Patrol The author (The Perfect Storm) turned film director (Korengal and Restrepo) has now made his third documentary about the war in Afghanistan, though it takes place on East Coast railway lines and in the Allegheny Mountains. Produced for HBO, The Last Patrol documents Junger’s 300-mile trek, originally planned for his filmmaking partner Tim Hetherington, the famed photojournalist who was killed covering the Libyan revolution. Joining him instead are a couple of war vets (including Brendan O’Byrne from Restrepo) on a hobo-style march along an active railway line. Why take that route from New York to Washington, D.C.? Junger has said that “the railroad tracks go straight through the middle of everything-ghettos, suburbs, crumbling industry, farms, and swamps. You see America from the inside out.” The trek becomes the basis for Junger’s reporting on this forlorn corridor and the people he encounters along the way. It’s not without its dangers, but at least no one is shooting at his small company of hikers. The film debuts Nov. 10 on HBO. Junger will appear for a post-film Q&A tonight with local actor Tom Skerritt, founder of The Red Badge Project, which supports wounded vets. (Free, but RSVP at siff.net.) BRIAN MILLER SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109 Free Wednesday, November 5, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Richard Brookhiser His new biography is Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 $5 Wednesday, November 5, 2014, 7:30 – 8:30pm
Olympia Snowe The former U.S Senator (Maine, R) conveniently overlooks her own GOP obstructionism in Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress. There is absolutely no reason to respect anything this woman has to say. Her talk is delivered in Kane Hall, Room 130. University of Washington Campus, 15th Ave. N.E. and N.E. 41st St., Seattle, WA 98105 Free with RSVP at grad.washington.edu/lectures Thursday, November 6, 2014, 6:30 – 7:30pm
David Bosworth He goes back to the ‘50s to explain the global financial crisis of 2008 in The Demise of Virtue in Virtual America: The Moral Origins of the Great Recession. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Thursday, November 6, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Grace Lin In Kane Hall, Room 220, she’ll discuss her children’s book Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. University of Washington Campus, 15th Ave. N.E. and N.E. 41st St., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Thursday, November 6, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Joe Guppy The local author and psychotherapist shares from his memoir of mental illness My Fluorescent God. Ravenna Third Place Books, 6504 20th Ave. N.E., Seattle, WA 98115 Free Thursday, November 6, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Robert Dugoni
My Sister’s Grave is his new locally set crime thriller. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way N.E., Seattle, 98115 Free Thursday, November 6, 2014, 7 – 8pm
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Ron Dakron Tokyo is burning, and Devilfish is laughing. He’s a kaiju, one of those fake-looking rubber monsters running amok-a giant blue manta ray, in this instance-and the very amusing narrator of Dakron’s Hello Devilfish! (Three Rooms Press, $15.95). Devilfish claims to be an enemy not just of Tokyo, where he gleefully topples power lines and elevated trains, munching on their passengers, but also of the novel itself. “Join us in plot-maiming fun!” he exclaims in Manglish, a comic lexicon made up of odd advertising slogans, poorly translated Japanese, LOL-speak, and I Can Has Cheezburger grammar. Destruction is this manta ray’s mantra. Yet the more his sting-tailed protagonist inveighs against Big Lit, local writer Dakron begins to sneak in some structure and literary mischief. Devilfish has an unwanted paramour in pursuit of him: another kaiju he calls Squidra, a giant pink kraken with tentacles and laser beams that shoot from her eyes. So there’s a bit of a love story in Hello Devilfish!, and a chase through the city’s smoldering rubble, an abrupt transformation (hello, Doug!), and flourishes of humor that recall Mark Leyner. Quoth the Devilfish, “I spit on realism and all its cunning henchmen!” Here’s a creature intending not to enter the literary canon but to destroy the library. BRIAN MILLER Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Thursday, November 6, 2014, 7 – 8pm
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Martin Meredith Blessed with riches, cursed with riches: that’s the continental dilemma he addresses in Fortunes of Africa. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 $5 Thursday, November 6, 2014, 7:30 – 8:30pm
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Art Wolfe The local nature and wildlife photographer shows images from his Earth Is My Witness. Seattle Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA 98104 Free Friday, November 7, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Brian Benson His travel memoir is Going Somewhere: A Bicycle Journey Across America. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way N.E., Seattle, 98115 Free Friday, November 7, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Karen Gaudette Brewer She shares from Seafood Lover’s Pacific Northwest: Restaurants, Markets, Recipes & Traditions. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Friday, November 7, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Sarah Alisabeth Fox Our state, specifically Hanford, figures in her Downwind: A People’s History of the Nuclear West. Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Friday, November 7, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Matt Barreto Secure the borders? Not according to the author of Latino America: How Americas Most Dynamic Population is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 $5 Friday, November 7, 2014, 7:30 – 8:30pm
Matthea Harvey Presented by Seattle Arts & Lectures, Harvey is a poet who’ll share from her fourth collection, If the Tabloids Are True, What Are You?
Chihuly Garden and Glass, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA 98109 $15-$50 Friday, November 7, 2014, 7:30 – 9:30pm
Jeff Chen The visiting scholar gives a talk called ”Chinese Mathematics and the Jesuit Influence in the 17th Century.” Seattle Asian Art Museum, 1400 E. Prospect St. (Volunteer Park), Seattle, WA 98112 $5-$10 Saturday, November 8, 2014, 9:30 – 10:30am
Khodadad Kaviani He talks about his new Rethinking Khayyaamism: His Controversial Poems and Vision. University Book Store (Bellevue), 990 102nd Ave. N.E., Bellevue, WA 98004 Free Saturday, November 8, 2014, 10 – 11am
Songs and Stories of World War II Songs and stories from Dina Blade, Hans Brehmer, and WWII veteran Ray Puddicombe (!) in honor of Veteran’s Day. Bellevue Regional Library, 1111 110th Ave. N.E., Bellevue, WA 98004 Free Saturday, November 8, 2014, 1 – 2pm
Jack Straw Writers Laurel Albina, Claudia Castro Luna, Margot Kahn, Loreen Lilyn Lee, Susan Meyers, John Mullen, Michelle Penaloza, Gigi Rosenberg, Raul Sanchez, Anastacia Tolbert, Jane Wong, and Kristen Millares Young share their work. Seattle Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA 98104 Free Saturday, November 8, 2014, 2 – 3pm
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Chris Hadfield He went into space a distinguished Canadian pilot and astronaut; he came back an international-one hesitates to say interplanetary-star. Following last year’s zero-G cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” which dropped on YouTube shortly before he came down from the International Space Station, Hadfield retired and began writing books: first an autobiography, now his You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes: Photographs From the International Space Station (Little Brown, $26). Aboard the ISS, apart from music, he did everything he could to evangelize for science and space exploration, and his new volume continues that noble mission. In a dumbed-down era of “I’m not a scientist” and teach-the-controversy subterfuge, Hadfield wants you-and your kids-to look at the Earth more seriously. The winking oil-well flares, the retreating glaciers, the spreading deserts, the cyclonic whirls of typhoons that bring devastation (and life-giving rain)-these are what he documented from high above our fragile planet. His book contains some 150 images from his 2,500 orbits, some of which he’ll discuss this evening. Also, he’s made mustaches cool again-here and throughout the galaxy. (Advance registration is strongly urged.) BRIAN MILLER University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Saturday, November 8, 2014, 6 – 7pm
Harriet Arkley She’s the local author of The Good News Chair: A Simple Tool for Shaping a Child’s Positive Behavior & Self Image. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way N.E., Seattle, 98115 Free Saturday, November 8, 2014, 6:30 – 7:30pm
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz Her new biography of the eccentric medical innovator is Dr. Mutter’s Marvels: a True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine. Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Saturday, November 8, 2014, 7 – 9pm
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Gabriel Campenario The Seattle Times staff artist shares images from his regular feature The Seattle Sketcher. Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Sunday, November 9, 2014, 3 – 4pm
Woody Wheeler The local ornithologist shares from Look Up! Birds and Other Natural Wonders Just Outside Your Window. Eagle Harbor Books, 157 Winslow Way E., Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Free Sunday, November 9, 2014, 3 – 4pm
John Connolly His crime thriller The Wolf in Winter is set in Maine. Seattle Mystery Bookshop, 117 Cherry St., Seattle, WA 98104 Free Monday, November 10, 2014, 12 – 1pm
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Richard Norton Smith His On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller has received excellent reviews. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Monday, November 10, 2014, 4 – 5pm
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Elissa Washuta Her much-praised new memoir of bipolar illness is My Body Is a Book of Rules. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Monday, November 10, 2014, 7 – 8pm
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R.M. Campbell The author of Stirring Up Seattle: Allied Arts in the Civic Landscape joins in a discussion with Seattle Weekly and Town Hall founder David Brewster. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 $5 Monday, November 10, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Richard Blanco His memoir of growing up gay is The Prince of los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood. Broadway Performance Hall, 1625 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122 Free Monday, November 10, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Bill Roorbach A snowstorm leads to romance in his comic novel The Remedy for Love. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 6 – 7pm
I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand This new anthology features Alex Bleecker, Thomas Hanchett, Mercedes Lawry, Richard Loranger, Jane Ormerod, and John J. Trause. Vermillion Art Gallery & Bar, 1508 11th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122 Free Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 7 – 8:30pm
International Comix Night Short Run Seattle, The Seattle Globalist, and The Seattle Public Library welcome international comix artists Anna Sailamaa (Finland), Jean De Wet (South Africa), and representatives from Nobrow Publishers in the UK. Seattle Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA 98104 Free Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 7 – 8:30pm
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J. Robert Lennon The always entertaining writer from upstate New York collects new stories in See You in Paradise. Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Leslie Klinger S.T. Joshi joins the author in a discussion of The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 7 – 8pm
John Hockenberry The NPR host speaks about universal design for the disabled. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 $15 Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 7:30 – 9:30pm
Seattle Poetry Slam Local poets share their verse and spoken word compositions. 21 and over. Rebar, 1114 Howell StreetSeattle, WA $5 Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 8 – 11:30pm
Fuminori Nakamura A journalist has doubts about a killer’s guilt in Last Winter We Parted. Seattle Mystery Bookshop, 117 Cherry St., Seattle, WA 98104 Free Wednesday, November 12, 2014, 12 – 1pm
Robert Dugoni His new locally set thriller is My Sister’s Grave. University Book Store (Bellevue), 990 102nd Ave. N.E., Bellevue, WA 98004 Free Wednesday, November 12, 2014, 6 – 7pm
Alan Doyle His memoir of growing up Canadian is Where I Belong: Small Town to Great Big Sea. Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Wednesday, November 12, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Kelsang Jinduk The Buddhist nun considers How to Understand the Mind by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way N.E., Seattle, 98115 Free Wednesday, November 12, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Scott Magner
Homefront is his new sci-fi thriller. Also reading will be Mark Teppo, with his holiday-themed Rudolph!
University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Fr Wednesday, November 12, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Elizabeth Dimarco Her company has published Apps for Book Lovers & Bibliophiles. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Thursday, November 13, 2014, 12 – 1pm
Zack Davisson Davinder Bhowmik joins the author of Yurei: The Japanese Ghost. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Thursday, November 13, 2014, 7 – 8pm
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Greg Palmer Memorial Reading Local actor Jeff Steitzer reads from the reissued memoir Cheese Deluxe, in which the late local humorist Palmer (who died in 2009) recalls his ‘60s youth on Mercer Island. There are no antiwar demonstrations, no secret abortions, no declarations of “I love you, man” or catastrophic car crashes. (Though there is a chapter that’s essentially one long fender-bender, as Palmer and his buddies teach an inept friend to drive.) In a short series of well-told anecdotes, modesty is Palmer’s prevailing tone-one that TV viewers will recall from his days at KING 5 and PBS. (Also: Island Books, on Mercer Island, 7 p.m. Sat., Nov. 8.) BRIAN MILLER Eagle Harbor Books, 157 Winslow Way E., Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Free Thursday, November 13, 2014, 7:30 – 8:30pm
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Diane Von Furstenberg Yes, you read that name correctly, as in DVF. The fashion legend will discuss her The Woman I Wanted to Be with Chiyo Ishikawa of SAM and erstwhile SW writer Laura Cassidy. Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Friday, November 14, 2014, 5:30 – 6:30pm
Marathon II: A Short Run Art Show Music from DJ Missie Mac and DJ Lit Field is part of an evening featuring artists MariNaomi, Tom Neely, Josh Simmons, Pam Wishbow, John Porcellino,
and Ed Piskor. Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, 1201 S. Vale St. Free Friday, November 14, 2014, 6 – 9pm
Diana Pharoh Francis, Devon Monk, Leah Cutter The fantasy writers discuss their new books, respectively: Trace of Magic, House Immortal, and The Changeling Troll. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Friday, November 14, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Patricia Cornwell The bestselling crime writer returns with Flesh and Blood: A Scarpetta Novel. University Temple United Methodist Church, 1415 N.E. 43rd St., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Friday, November 14, 2014, 7 – 8pm
David Ignatius The journalist’s new novel is The Director, which he’ll discuss with historian Robert W. Merry. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 $5 Friday, November 14, 2014, 7:30 – 8:30pm
Short Run Comix & Arts Festival Nearly 200 writers and artists are scheduled to attend. Washington Hall, 153 14th Ave., Seattle, WA Free Saturday, November 15, 2014, 11am – 6pm
Amanda Palmer She’s the author of The Art of Asking. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 $15 Tuesday, November 18, 2014, 7:30 – 9:30pm
Seattle Poetry Slam Local poets share their verse and spoken word compositions. 21 and over. Rebar, 1114 Howell StreetSeattle, WA $5 Tuesday, November 18, 2014, 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, November 25, 2014, 8 – 11:30pm
