* 6:30 PM: UW Bookstore presents science writer Dava Sobel at UW’s Kane Hall, room 130, for “Galileo and the International Year of Astronomy”, as part of the John & Jesse Danz Lecture Series. Did you know that 2009 was the International Year of Astronomy? Yes, indeed, the United Nations says so! 400 years ago Galileo Galilei recorded the first astronomical observations made with a telescope and Johannes Kepler published Astronomia Nova. So 2009 is the year to rock out with your… telescope out.
2009 is also the International Year of Natural Fibres (not fibers, fibres. Because it’s international.) and of Reconciliation. Neither of which have anything to do with Sobel’s lecture, I just think it’s funny.
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* 6:30 PM: Local writer Molly Gloss, author of The Hearts of Horses, will be at the SPL University Branch to read and discuss the novel. I haven’t read it, I’m afraid, but several horsey acquaintances adore the book.
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* 7:00 PM: I think we all know how I feel about “business” books, particularly those of the self-help type. Nonetheless, I dutifully report that David Allen, author of Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life, is making an appearance at the U-District UW Bookstore. Obviously, my many and varied failures have made me bitter and jaded.
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* 7:30 PM: Elliott Bay Book Co. hosts Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Lark & Termite: A Novel. Phillips produces about one novel a decade, which means only one author tour per decade, so fans of her work have few opportunities to hear her read or ask her to sign. Phillips’ writing has been described as “incandescent and utterly original” [NYT]
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7:30 PM: Poets Jenny Browne, author of The Second Reason, and Matthew Dickman, author of All-American Poem, read at Open Books.
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* 7:30 PM: Cherie Calbom, “The Juice Lady,” will be downstairs at Town Hall Seattle, talking about juice. She may also mention soup. Mmmm, yummy soup. Who doesn’t like soup? $5
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