October 2010 • VOLUME 8 : ISSUE 10
EVENTS TAKE PLACE AT OUR U DISTRICT STORE, LOCATED AT 4326 UNIVERSITY WAY NE, EXCEPT AS NOTED.
with Pacific Science Center and University Book
Store. Series sponsored by Microsoft; series media
sponsorship provided by KPLU. Tickets are $5
and are available at www.brownpapertickets.
com, 800.838.3006, and at the door beginning
at 6:30pm. Town Hall members receive priority
seating.
Wednesday • October 20 • 7pm
(UW PRESS)
An anthropologist in a Brazilian shantytown
joins forces with a local activist to try to
ameliorate the conditions surrounding
them. In a first-person account of her work
to help, Margaret Wilson takes us from the
crushing poverty of Northeastern Brazil to
the socialite world of London, as she tries to
help create an educational center for girls.
(FREE PRESS)
Bellevue store
A mysterious death in 1998 ruled a suicide,
an absent Lewis County Coroner who made
judgments without having attended an
autopsy or been present at the scene of the
crime, and a mother who refused to believe
her daughter would take her own life—all
these elements combine in the latest book
by true crime master Ann Rule. At this event
in our Bellevue store, Rule will be joined by
Barb Thompson, the mother who fought
to find out the truth about her daughter’s
death.
Sustainable Excellence: The Future of
Business in a Fast Changing World
Lois McMaster Bujold
Bellevue Regional Library
1111 110th Ave NE
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs
1119 8th Avenue (Enter on Seneca)
In 2002, Lois McMaster Bujold introduced
readers to the Vorkosigan Saga and they have
been champing at the bit for more ever since.
Well, readers, you can now stop champing
because Cryoburn is here. Interplanetary
diplomat Miles Vorkosigan escapes a
kidnapping attempt at a cryonics conference
only to find himself in a chilly conspiracy
involving reformists, cartels, and the attempt
to postpone death through the use of deep
freezing.
Carol Cassella’s long-awaited second novel,
Healer, explores the challenges of a woman
who must resurrect her medical career after
her husband loses everything when the
development of a risky new cancer drug goes
awry. Meet this talented local author and
anesthesiologist as part of Bellevue Regional
Library’s Northwest Author Spotlight series.
From carbon-footprint concerns to
unprecedented transparency, today’s
business landscape is fundamentally
changing, with companies adapting in
response to a paradigm shift: Nike now
publishes information on its subcontractor
factories, and GE and Google have partnered
to develop renewable-energy technologies.
Cramer and Karabell examine how 21stcentury businesses will need to integrate
their aims with environmentally responsible
practices. Presented by the Town Hall Center
for Civic Life, with University Book Store. Series
media sponsorship provided by PubliCola. Series
supported by The Boeing Company Charitable
Trust, and the RealNetworks Foundation. Tickets
are $5 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.
com, 800.838.3006, and at the door beginning
at 6:30pm. Town Hall members receive priority
seating.
Friday • October 22 • 7pm
Cryoburn (BAEN)
Sam Harris
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can
Determine Human Values
(Free Press)
Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Avenue
Sam Harris’ bestselling book The End of
Faith ignited a worldwide debate about the
validity of religion, and his combustible
February presentation at TED is still fueling
that fire. Now Harris tears down the wall
between scientific facts and human values,
showing that we know enough about the
human brain and its relationship to events
in the world to say that there are right
and wrong answers to the most pressing
questions of human life. Presented as part of
Seattle Science Lectures, with Pacific Science Center
and University Book Store. Series sponsored by
Microsoft. Series media sponsorship provided by
KPLU. Tickets are $5 and are available at www.
brownpapertickets.com, 800.838.3006, and at the
door beginning at 6:30pm. Town Hall members
receive priority seating.
Thursday • October 21 • 6:45pm
Margaret Willson
Dance Lest We All Fall Down: Breaking
Cycles of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond
Monday • October 25 • 7:00pm
Healer (SS)
Tuesday • October 26 • 7:00pm
David Wilma & Laura Tufts
Hope on the Hill (UW PRESS)
Friday • October 22
8:00pm
Mike Birbiglia
Wednesday • October 20
7:30pm
Tuesday • October 26 7:30pm
Aron Cramer &
Zachary Karabell
Carol Cassella
Ann Rule
In the Still of the Night: The Strange
Death of Ronda Reynolds and Her
Mother’s Unceasing Quest for the Truth
University Book Store. Series media sponsorship
provided by PubliCola. Series supported by The
Boeing Company Charitable Trust and the
RealNetworks Foundation. Tickets are $5 at www.
brownpapertickets.com or 800/838-3006, and at
the door beginning at 6 pm. Town Hall members
receive priority seating. with the history of black radical movements,
the location of public intellectual work in
contemporary social movements, and the
role of the imagination in transformational
politics. Free and open to the public. For more
information please visit simpsoncenter.org.
Sleepwalk With Me (ECCO)
Moore Theatre
1932 2nd Avenue, Seattle
STG Presents “Mike Birbiglia: Painfully
True Stories Tour” at The Moore Theatre in
Seattle. Birbiglia is a comedian known both
for his very funny standup and his work on
the very popular NPR show This American
Life. Ticket includes a SIGNED copy of Mike’s
new book Sleepwalk With Me And Other
Painfully True Stories. Pick up night of show at
theatre with valid photo I.D.
Sunday • October 24 7:30pm
Steven Rattner
Overhaul: An Insider’s Account of the
Obama Administration’s Emergency
Rescue of the Auto Industry (HMH)
Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Avenue (Enter on Seneca)
When the auto industry was failing,
counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury
Steve Rattner was instrumental in finding a
way to bring it back and save the million or
so jobs that would’ve been lost with the end
of GM and Chrysler. In his book Overhaul,
Rattner tells readers what was going on
behind the scenes, the political wheeling’s
(no pun intended) and dealings that lead
to the auto industry bailout. Presented
by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life, with
The death of her five-year-old boy in 1898 lit
a fire in the heart of Anna Clise. At the time,
there were no doctors who specialized in
childhood ailments west of Philadelphia, but
she and a board of concerned Seattle women
worked to open a facility where children’s
health needs could be met. Today, Seattle
Children’s Hospital is a consistently topranked leader in pediatric medicine. Hope on
the Hill is a history of that facility.
Tuesday • October 26 • 7pm
The Solomon Katz Lecture
Distinguished Lectures in the
Humanities presents
Robin D.G. Kelley
“When Africa Was ‘The Thing’:
Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times”
UW Kane Hall, Room 130
A pathbreaking scholar, prolific writer, and
engaged intellectual, Robin D.G. Kelley
is Professor of American Studies and
Ethnicity at the University of Southern
California and author of Thelonious Monk:
The Life and Times of an American Original
(2009), Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical
Imagination (2002), and Race Rebels: Culture
Politics and the Black Working Class (1994),
among many other authored, co-authored,
and co-edited books. Kelley also frequently
writes for a wide range of publications,
including The Nation, New York Times,
Rolling Stone, Callaloo, Social Text, and frieze:
contemporary art and culture. Unifying this
body of work is Kelley’s central concern
(RODALE)
Tuesday • October 26 7:30pm
the fastest book signer alive—honors us with
yet another visit. President Carter is always
generous with his time and his ink, and will
stop by to etch his John Hancock on copies
of his latest, White House Diary. This is a
signing only. A signing ticket is required to stand
in the signing line. Signing tickets available by
purchasing White House Diary from Unversity
Book Store. Other guidelines apply; visit ubookstore.
com for details. Please note: there will be a bag
check for security purposes.
Wednesday • October 27 • 5pm
Robin D.G. Kelley & Jack O’Dell
“Freedom Dreams: A Conversation
on Black Led Movements for Social
Change”
University of Washington Tacoma,
Philip Hall, Milgard Assembly Room
Jack O’Dell is a longtime peace and social
justice activist. Beginning as a rank-and-file
union organizer in the Merchant Marines
during World War II, he went on to head the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s
fundraising and southern voter registration
campaign, alongside Martin Luther King, Jr.
O’Dell was later in charge of foreign policy
for Jesse Jackson’s People United to Save
Humanity and Rainbow Coalition. He is the
author of Climbin’ Jacob’s Ladder: The Black
Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O’Dell
(2010). This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, visit www.simpsoncenter.org
or call 206.543.3920.
Thursday • October 28 • 11am
A Special Story Time with
Bonny Becker
Connie Willis
Bedtime for Bear (CANDLEWICK)
UW Kane Hall, Room 210
Bonny Becker, author of the enormously
charming Bear and Mouse books, will be at
our Mill Creek store to present a reading of
her latest book about a curmudgeonly ursine
and an unflappably friendly rodent. Can
these two very different creatures manage a
restful sleep over? Stop by to find out.
All Clear (SPECTRA)
After the events of Connie Willis’s timetraveling adventure Blackout, her characters
have noticed that their intervention in past
history has—contrary to what they believed
would happen—changed the future in subtle
ways. The three characters must discover how
these changes have been made, and what
they can do about them. Tickets are free with
the purchase of All Clear from University Book
Store; otherwise tickets are $5. Books and tickets
available beginning October 19.
Wednesday • October 27
7:00pm
SIGNING ONLY:
President Jimmy Carter
White House Diary (FSG)
One of our very favorite ex-presidents—and
Mill Creek store
Thursday • October 28
7:00pm
Mark Bittman
The Food Matters Cookbook: Lose Weight
and Heal the Planet with More Than
500 Recipes (SIMON & SCHUSTER)
The minimalist chef, New York Times
columnist, and best-selling author Mark
Bittman has some pretty thought-provoking
ideas about how we should eat, and he told
us about them in his book Food Matters. This
follow-up offers recipes that tie in to his
food philosophy, so that those swayed by his
proposals can become fellow travelers in
the kitchen and at the dinner table, instead
of just in their world views. Sponsored by
J-Connect. A signing ticket guarantees prioritized
place in the signing line. Signing tickets available
by purchasing The Food Matters Cookbook from
University Book Store.
1.800.335.READ • ubookstore.com
Thursday • October 28 • 7:00pm
Charlotte Coté
Spirits of our Whaling Ancestors:
Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chahnulth Traditons (UNIVERSITY OF
WASHINGTON PRESS)
UW Campus, Burke Museum
As a member of the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation,
Coté offers a valuable perspective on the
issues surrounding indigenous whaling, past
and present. She shows the implications for
the physical, mental, and spiritual health
of these Native communities today and
describes how whaling “defines who we are
as a people.” Charlotte Coté is associate
professor of American Indian studies at the
University of Washington. This event is free and
open to the public.
Saturday • October 30 • 10:30am
L. Y. Marlow
Color Me Butterfly (CROWN)
Northgate Mall
401 NE Northgate Way Ste.210
Inspired by a true story, Color Me Butterfly
is a novel about four generations of women
ensnared by a cycle of domestic violence.
Sixty years follows the story of Eloise
Bingham all the way to great granddaughter
Treasure, who works to escape circumstance
and a destructive family legacy.
CREEPY TALES!
StoryTime for Grown-up Fans of
New and Classic Horror
U District Store
It’s a month-long tribute to Halloween! Join
us every Saturday in October for a series of
readings by bookstore staff of some of the
finest examples of terrifying tales from new
and classic authors. Included will be Aimee
Bender, Ray Bradbury, Brian Evenson, Shirley
Jackson, M. R. James, Joyce Carol Oates, Saki,
and more. Reading starts at 6PM and features
two or more stories read by two or more
readers.
Friday • October 1 • 11:00am
Special Story Time with
Laura Numeroff
Otis & Sydney and the Best
Birthday Ever (ABRAMS)
Mill Creek store
What is it that makes a birthday party really
special? Otis and Sydney discover it’s not the
gifts or the games, but just the presence of a
good friend. Laura Numeroff, author of the
delightful classic, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie,
will treat young and old to a reading from her
newest picture book.
Friday • October 1 • 7:30pm
Ken Follett
Fall of Giants (Dutton)
Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Avenue
Attention, Ken Follett fans: You might want
to clear your calendar for the next four
years. One of the world’s most beloved
novelists (The Pillars of the Earth), Follett has
a new historical epic, and it’s just the first
installment in a new series called The Century
Trilogy. Volume One, Fall of Giants, follows
five interrelated families—American, German,
Russian, English, and Welsh—through
World War I and the Russian Revolution; the
second book, due in 2012, will feature their
descendants in the Depression and WWII;
and the third (2014) will continue the tale
through the Cold War. Presented by Town
Hall. Tickets are $5 and are available at www.
brownpapertickets.com, 800.838.3006, and at the
door beginning at 6:30pm. Town Hall members
receive priority seating.
media sponsorship provided by Publicola. Series
supported by The Boeing Company Charitable
Trust and the RealNetworks Foundation. Tickets
are $5 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.
com, 800.838.3006, and at the door beginning at
6:30pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.
Tuesday • October 5 • 6:30pm
Monday • October 4
7:30pm
Hardy Green
The Company Town: The Industrial
Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the
American Economy (BASIC)
Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Avenue, Downstairs (Enter on
Seneca)
Hershey bars, Tabasco sauce, Spam, even
Google—all come from a “company town,”
where one business dominates the local
economy and culture. Seattle has in the past
had the same designation—and though most
would say we’ve diversified in the last 25 years,
there are still a handful of players that cast
undeniably long shadows. These towns are the
essence of America, says former BusinessWeek
associate editor Hardy Green, who analyzes
how the American economy has grown and
changed, and how the company town has
reflected the best and worst of American
capitalism. Presented by the Town Hall Center
for Civic Life, with University Book Store. Series
Gebisa Ejeta
Danz Lecture Series
“Can Science and Technology Secure
Global Food Reserves?”
UW Kane Hall, Room 130
Distinguished Professor of Agronomy at
Purdue University, Gebisa Ejeta will discuss
the new era of global food security in the
21st Century. A native Ethiopian, Ejeta
has dedicated his professional career to
serving international agriculture. For over
30 years, Dr. Ejeta has led a comprehensive
educational and research program with
emphasis on African agricultural research and
development. As an educator, Professor Ejeta
has made contributions in the training and
mentoring of a large cadre of international
professionals. Sponsored by the Graduate School,
the College of the Environment-School of Forest
Resources, the Program on the Environment, the
Department on Atmospheric Sciences, and the UW
Alumni Association. This event is free and open to
the public. To guarantee your seat please register by
clicking here. Feel free to direct all registration related
questions to the UW Alumni Office at: 206-5430540 or 800-AUW-ALUM.
Tuesday • October 5 • 7:00pm
Cherie Priest
Dreadnought (TOR)
Multiple award nominee and winner
Boneshaker has spawned this third steampunk/
zombie hybrid novel by local author Cherie
Priest. Dreadnought takes place in the same
alternative history past and follows Nurse
Mercy Lynch as she travels to Seattle to see
her father on a Tacoma-bound steam train
called Dreadnought. The journey, though,
is much more eventful than one would wish.
Could the train’s secret cargo be to blame?
Tuesday • October 5 • 7pm
Scott Simon
Clover Park Technical College
McGavick Conference Center, Lakewood
NPR’s Scott Simon will speak at Clover Park
Technical College’s McGavick Center in
Lakewood Tuesday, October 5th at 7pm. The
evening is a celebration of Northwest Public
Radio bringing NPR and Classical Music to
listeners in the South Puget Sound area on
KVTI 90.9 FM. Scott Simon recently published
Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise
of Adoption. He will be reflecting on 40 years
of NPR and will also be signing books at this
event. Tickets available at nwpr.org.
Aftershock: The Next Economy And
America’s Future (KNOPF)
Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Avenue (Enter on Seneca)
When the 2008 recession hit, blame
was directed toward a bloated financial
industry lacking government oversight or
accountability. But former Secretary of Labor
and economist Robert Reich suggests a
different, structural, reason for the meltdown:
The distribution of wealth in the United
States is wildly off, and the middle class in
particular suffers for it. Reich, author of
2007’s Supercapitalism, suggests that if we are
to lastingly improve our economy, it will take a
serious examination of our nation’s principles,
and a much broader safety net for the middle
class. Presented by The Town Hall Center for Civic
Bo Caldwell
City of Tranquil Light (HOLT)
Having felt a call from God, Will Kiehn travels
to the vast North China Plain at the start of
the twentieth-century. There he finds love, in
a place on the brink of civil war. As Will and
his wife face incredible hardship, will their
love and faith be enough to sustain them?
Seattle Arts and Lectures presents
T.R. Reid
Benroya Hall, S. Mark Taper Foundation
Auditorium
In his presentation, T.R. Reid examines
why other countries have better, fairer, and
cheaper health care than the USA. According
to the World Health Organization, the U.S,
the richest country in the world ranks 37th
overall on health care cost, quality, and
coverage. After traveling the world while
researching his forthcoming book, Reid offers
lessons from other countries that will help
us fix our rotten health care system. Part of
the American Voices Series. Sponsored by Swedish
Medical Center. Tickets at www.lectures.org.
Wednesday • October 6
7:30pm
Eliza Griswold
Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault
Line Between Christianity and Islam
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs
1119 8th Avenue (Enter on Seneca)
Robert Reich
Thursday • October 7 • 7:00pm
Tuesday • October 5
7:30pm
(FSG)
Tuesday • October 5
7:30pm
Admission cost. See
event listing for details.
Life, with University Book Store. Series media
sponsorship provided by Publicola. Series supported
by The Boeing Company Charitable Trust, the
RealNetworks Foundation and the Otto Haas
Charitable Trust. Tickets are $5 and are available
at www.brownpapertickets.com, 800.838.3006,
and at the door beginning at 6:30pm. Town Hall
members receive priority seating.
The 10th parallel—the line of latitude 700
miles north of the equator—is a geographical
and ideological front line where Christianity
and Islam collide. More than half the
world’s 1.3 billion Muslims live along it,
as do 60 percent of the world’s 2 billion
Christians. Investigative journalist and poet
Eliza Griswold examines the area’s complex
relationships of religion, land, and oil; local
conflicts and global ideology; politics and
martyrdom; and faith and violence in the
contemporary world. Presented by the Town Hall
Center for Civic Life, with University Book Store.
Series media sponsorship provided by Publicola.
Series supported by The Boeing Company Charitable
Trust and the RealNetworks Foundation. Tickets
are $5 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.
com, 800.838.3006, and at the door beginning at
6:30pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.
Event is free of charge
but requires a ticket.
Thursday • October 7 7:30pm
Richard Rhodes
The Twilight of the Bombs (KNOPF)
Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Avenue
The past 20 years have drastically transformed
our relationship with nuclear weapons. In
The Twilight of the Bombs, the culminating
volume in Richard Rhodes’ prizewinning
history of nuclear weapons, Rhodes offers a
comprehensive narrative of the challenges
faced in a post–Cold War age, detailing how
the five original nuclear powers—Russia,
Great Britain, France, China, and especially
the United States—have struggled with
new realities. Assessing the hope for our
future, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author
also gauges the emerging threat of nuclear
terrorism. Presented by the Town Hall Center
for Civic Life, with University Book Store. Series
media sponsorship provided by Publicola. Series
supported by The Boeing Company Charitable
Trust and the RealNetworks Foundation. Tickets
are $5 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.
com, 800.838.3006, and at the door beginning at
6:30pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.
observations positively revel in the power of
negativity. Tickets are free with the purchase of
Half Empty from University Book Store; otherwise
$5 beginning September 21 and at the door.
Friday • October 8 • 7:00pm
Ben Greenman
Celebrity Chekhov (PERENNIAL)
Editor at the New Yorker, satirist, and excellent
short story writer Ben Greenman does
not shy away from an interesting formal
conceit. That’s because he always manages
to transcend gimmick to find a charming,
fascinating, or hilarious way to approach his
ideas. Celebrity Chekhov, his latest, tackles
the father of the modern short story (Anton
Chekhov), and when the master’s stories
return to their feet, they find themselves
repopulated with members of the current
celebrity scene.
Monday • October 11 • 7:00pm
David Weber
David Rakoff
Half Empty (DOUBLEDAY)
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs
1119 8th Avenue (Enter on Seneca)
Assume the worst, says David Rakoff, and
you’ll never be disappointed. By examining
his own life alongside the realities of our
sunny, everyone-can-be-a-star culture, Rakoff,
author of the bestselling Don’t Get Too
Comfortable, finds that the best is not yet to
come, adversity will triumph, justice will not
be served, and your dreams won’t come true.
Whether he’s lacerating the musical Rent
for its cutesy depiction of AIDS or criticizing
the sad state of the outdated “House of
Tomorrow” at Disneyland, his sharp and witty
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Revolution (DELACORTE BOOKS FOR
YOUNG READERS)
Devastated by the death of her younger
brother, Andi Alpers is flunking out of her
prep school and finds her only solace in
playing guitar. Her father whisks her away to
Paris, where she will be able to work on her
senior thesis at a distance from her family’s
tragedy, but there she instead finds a mystery
about a young prince and a composer from
the 18th Century.
Tuesday • October 12 • 7pm
Let’s Talk About Books!
With David and Katie
Mill Creek store
Two of our favorite Random House reps will
stop by our Mill Creek store to talk about
some of their favorite fall and winter 2010
books. Looking for the next big read? Check
out this event.
Out of the Dark (TOR)
Dark fantasy and space-faring military
might meet when an alien race, observing
the savagery at Agincourt when Henry V
slaughters the French, decide the human
world is ripe for conquest. But the battle isn’t
as easy as expected for the galactic empire
known as the Hegemony. The humans fight
well, and are even more formidable when the
vampires show up to help!
Monday • October 11 7:30pm
Thursday • October 7 7:30pm
Tuesday • October 12 • 7pm
Jennifer Donnelly
Bill Bryson
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
(DOUBLEDAY)
Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Avenue
Beloved author Bill Bryson (A Walk in the
Woods, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, and the
new At Home) lives in a Victorian parsonage
in England where not much has happened
since the Romans decamped. That is, until
the day Bryson decided to write a history of
the world without leaving home. And now, his
bathroom provides the occasion for a history
of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and
sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice
trade. Journeying through the rooms of his
house, Bryson shows how each has figured in
the evolution of private life, demonstrating
that whatever happens in the world ends up
in our house. Tickets are free with the purchase
of At Home from University Book Store; otherwise
tickets are $5. Books and tickets available beginning
October 5.
Wednesday • October 13 • 7:30pm
Jonathon Keats
Virtual Words (OXFORD)
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs
1119 8th Avenue (Enter on Seneca)
The technological realm cultivates not only
new ideas and products but also some pretty
remarkable linguistic innovations to go with
them: How else would words like qubit (a unit
of quantum information) or in vitro meat
(chicken and beef grown in an industrial vat)
enter our language? Conceptual artist and
Wired magazine ‘Jargon Watch’ columnist
Jonathon Keats investigates the interplay
between words and ideas in our fast-paced,
tech-driven society, examining how such
words get coined; what relationship they have
to their subject matter; and why some (blog)
succeed, while others (flog) fail. Tickets are
$5 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.
com, 800.838.3006, and at the door beginning at
6:30pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.
Thursday • October 14 • 6:45pm
Mac Barnett
Tuesday • October 12 7:30pm
Alex Ross
Listen to This (FSG)
Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Avenue
Music critic Alex Ross established himself as a
true cultural historian with his international
bestseller The Rest is Noise, an ambitious
and award-winning history of 20th-century
music. Now Ross is expanding his repertoire,
approaching music “not as a self-sufficient
sphere but as a way of knowing the world.”
Ross offers a panoramic view of the musical
scene, from Bach to the Malcolm X Shabazz
High School Marching Band. Presented
by Town Hall in association with University
Bookstore. Tickets are $5 and are available at www.
brownpapertickets.com, 800.838.3006, and at the
door beginning at 6:30pm. Town Hall members
receive priority seating.
Wednesday • October 13 • 7:00pm
The Novel: Live!
featuring Maria Dahvana
Headley, Peter Mountford & Erik
Larson
Novel writing! Live! On October 10, 36
Northwest writers will begin an attempt to
collaborate on a since novel-length work of
fiction. Midway through the six-day marathon,
we will host three of the writers involved to
discuss their part in this benefit for literacy.
The Ghostwriter’s Secret (SIMON &
SCHUSTER)
826 Seattle
8414 Greenwood Avenue N
Can a twelve-year-old detective like Steve
Brixton solve the cases of both a missing
diamond and a missing author. In Mac
Barnett’s hilarious and suspenseful new
Brixton Brothers mystery, Steve and his
best buddy Dana use The Bailey Brothers
Detective Handbook and a little bit of spunk
to give it a try. Sponsored by 826 Seattle.
Thursday • October 14
7:00pm
Signing Only: Tucker Max
Assholes Finish First (SIMON SPOTLIGHT)
Back in the day, one would refer to a person
like Tucker Max as a “cad.” He kisses—and
drinks, and talks trash, and acts out, and
indulges his enormously appetitive Id, and,
well, you get the picture—and, to the great
appreciation of a segment of the readership,
he tells and tells and tells. His new book
chronicles his newest, baddest adventures. A
signing ticket is required to stand in the signing
line. Signing tickets available by purchasing
Assholes Finish First from University Book Store.
Other signing guidelines apply. Please visit www.
ubookstore.com for details.
Thursday • October 14 • 7:00pm
Spencer Shaw Lecture: Jane Yolen
UW Kane Hall, Room 220
Join the UW Information School and the
UW Alumni Association for a special evening
with award-winning author Jane Yolen.
Often called the Hans Christian Andersen
of America, Yolen is one of the most prolific
contemporary writers of children’s stories. She
has written more than 300 books including
Owl Moon, The Devil’s Arithmetic, and How
Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? Tickets are $3 for
UWAA members & current students, $5 general
admission. Advanced registration is requested.
206.543.0540 or 1.800.AUW.ALUM.
Thursday • October 14 • 7pm
Bill Carter
Fools Rush In: A True Story of War and
Redemption (WENNER)
UW Kane Hall, Room 210
Fools Rush In is the incredible true story of
Carter’s experience working through loss,
dodging bullets and bombs, and delivering
aid to desperate citizens cut off from the rest
of the world by the longest military siege of
a European capital in modern history. A
startling portrait of life in a war zone, it
demonstrates the extraordinary ability of
humans to adapt to even the worst imaginable
circumstances. Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Simpson Center, Ellison Center,
Comp. Lit Department, and the Film Studies
Program.
bodyguard, which seems like a fine idea until
the murderous zombies arrive and he needs to
figure out where they are coming from before
he is sent back to the nine-circled fire pit he
fought to get out of.
Friday • October 15 • 7:30pm
Robert Michael Pyle
Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly
Big Year (HMH)
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs
1119 8th Avenue (Enter on Seneca)
There are 800 species of butterflies in
America, so naturally, naturalist Bob Pyle
raced across the country to find as many as he
possibly could in one year. Accompanied by
his butterfly net, his 1982 Honda Civic, and
the small Leitz binoculars he’s carried for
more than 30 years, Pyle, author of the classic
Chasing Monarchs, journeyed into the heart
and fringes of butterfly country, and into
close-up encounters with the land, its people,
and its fading fauna. Presented as part of Seattle
Science Lectures, with Pacific Science Center and
University Book Store. Series sponsored by Microsoft.
Series media sponsorship provided by KPLU. Tickets
are $5 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.
com, 800.838.3006, and at the door beginning at
6:30pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.
need to shift the debate from meaningless
targets toward a revolution in how the
world’s economy is powered, neutralizing
the venomous politics surrounding the
crisis. Presented as part of Seattle Science Lectures,
with Pacific Science Center and University Book
Store. Series sponsored by Microsoft. Series media
sponsorship provided by KPLU. Tickets are $5
and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com,
800.838.3006, and at the door beginning at
6:30pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.
Tuesday • October 19 • 6:30pm
Marion Nestle
Food Politics: Advocacy for Social Change
(PUBLISHER)
UW Kane Hall, Room 130
For the first time in history, the U.S. is
experiencing a social movement focused
on food that is healthier for people and the
planet. An author, blogger, and New York
University Professor, Marion Nestle explains
why we need to fix our food system, and
whether it’s a matter of personal responsibility
or society’s next call to action. Hosted by the UW
College for the Environment, UW Graduate School,
and the UW Alumni Association. RSVP online at
https://go.washington.edu/uwaa/events/2010food_
lecture/details.tcl.
Tuesday • October 19 • 7:00pm
Thursday • October 14
7:30pm
Michael Cunningham
By Nightfall (FSG)
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs
1119 8th Avenue (Enter on Seneca)
Like his legendary Pulitzer Prize–winning
novel, The Hours, Michael Cunningham’s new
novel is a heartbreaking look at the way we
live now. Peter and Rebecca Harris are in their
mid-40s, living in Manhattan, and nearing the
apogee of committed careers in the arts. With
a spacious loft, a college-age daughter, and
lively friends, they are admirable, enviable
contemporary urbanites with every reason, it
seems, to be happy. But a visit from Rebecca’s
younger brother, known in the family as Mizzy
(“the mistake”), leaves Peter questioning his
work and career—and the entire world he has
so carefully constructed. Tickets are free with the
purchase of By Nightfall from University Book Store
beginning September 28; otherwise tickets are $5.
John Lawton
Monday • October 18 7:00pm
Dorie Greenspan
Around My French Table (HMH)
A favorite of Julia Child, Dorie Greenspan
writes cookbooks that show home chefs how
to master the French classics. Hundreds of
easy recipes for those who want to impress
guests without risking the possibility of
that complete dinner party meltdown that
happens when one’s culinary reach exceeds
one’s skill level grasp. Sponsored by the
French-American Chamber of Commerce. A
signing ticket guarantees a prioritized place in the
signing line. Signing tickets available by purchasing
Around My French Table from University Book
Store.
Monday • October 18 • 7:30pm
Roger Pielke
The Climate Fix: What Scientists and
Politicians Won’t Tell You About Global
Warming (BASIC)
Richard Kadrey
Town Hall Seattle, downstairs
1119 8th Avenue, Downstairs (Enter on
Seneca)
James Stark is back from Hell, but his troubles
persist. He hunts monsters in LA and works
part time for a Homeland Security-affiliated
(and angel-affiliated) squad called the Golden
Vigil. When Lucifer returns to Earth to work
in Hollywood (natch), Stark takes a gig as his
Why can’t the world successfully address
global warming? Science-policy expert Roger
Pielke says it’s not the fault of those who reject
the Kyoto Protocol, but those who support
it and the magical thinking it represents.
Pielke says that to repair climate policy, we
Friday • October 15 • 7:00pm
Kill the Dead (EOS)
A Lily of the Field (GROVE)
This crime novel is anything but conventional.
Split between two converging narratives—one
historical, the other procedural—it begins in
Vienna, finds itself in Auschwitz, and makes
its way to the New Mexican desert where the
A-bomb was first tested. It then returns to
Inspector Troy , where the British detective
must solve a murder that somehow involves an
Auschwitz survivor from the first plotline. It’s a
bold strategy, but one that pays off for readers.
Tuesday • October 19 7:30pm
Simon LeVay
Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The
Science of Sexual Orientation (Oxford)
Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Avenue
Since neuroscientist Simon LeVay reported
a difference in the brain structure between
gay and straight men in 1991, an entire
scientific discipline has sprung up around the
quest for a biological explanation of sexual
orientation. And now LeVay explains where
the science stands today. Although many
details remain unresolved, he says, the general
conclusion is quite clear: A person’s sexual
orientation arises in large part from biological
processes that are already under way before
birth. Presented as part of Seattle Science Lectures,