Books
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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
Seattle Poetry Slam Local poets share their verse and spoken word compositions. 21 and over. Rebar, 1114 Howell StreetSeattle, WA $5 Tuesday, March 3, 2015, 8 – 11:30pm
