Tuesday: The Literati Invade Seattle
It’s Tuesday and it’s too early in the week to start drinking so why not head out and listen to someone read from and discuss a book? Ok, that’s a lame excuse not to drink but it’s a big enough night in the book tour world that we could feasibly call this Tome Tuesday (or Tomesday, if you will). Of note tonight:
- Ha Jin, National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner award winning author of “Waiting” and “War Trash”, will read from and discuss his new book “A Free Life” about one family’s struggle for the American dream.
7:00 at the Central Library (free) [central library]
- Lou Dobbs is described by the Seattle Times as an “economist, television host and former Seattle TV anchor”. Huh. Not the way I’d describe him but that’s neither here nor there. He’ll discuss his new book “Independence Day: Awakening the American Spirit” and will probably not be very shy about explaining his populist stances on almost every issue of the day.
7:30 at Town Hall Seattle ($5 at the door) [town hall seattle]
- J. Peterman himself, John O’Hurley, will be at the University Bookstore in Mill Creek to read from his just released book “Before Your Dog Can Eat Your Homework, First You Have to Do It: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog to a Young Boy.”
7:00 at Mill Creek University Bookstore (signing ticket required) [university bookstore]
A former colleague worked with Lou Dobbs and hated him. He called him Fat Lou. I think that is what we should all call him.
I went the Ha Jin route instead of paying $5 to see Fat Lou bloviate. I’m not regretting it.
I have no idea if Lou Dobbs is fat, nor do I care, but it is worth noting that while Lou was “bloviating” in the main room, a marvelous young man named Jonah Lehrer was in the basement talking with brevity, wit and intelligence about his impressive first book, Proust was a Neuroscientist. I feel lucky to have been among the smaller, cozier crowd in the bowels of Town Hall, where the normally somewhat dry topic of the frontal cortex came alive with references to Escoffier, Virginia Woolf, Walt Whitman, Proust, Coleridge and monosodium glutamate.
Gah! I can’t believe I overlooked him in this post.
Thanks for the report!