7:00 PM: The U-District UW Bookstore hosts Ronald White, author of A. Lincoln: A Biography, to read and sign the first of what will indubitably be a slew of Lincoln books released this year. That’s what happens when you turn 200. White is an actual historian, so A. Lincoln relies heavily on period documents to present a nuanced portrait of the American icon.
White has also written two other Lincoln themed books, both available at SPL: Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural (Thorndike Press, 2002) and The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln through his Words (Random House, 2005).
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* 7:30 PM: Elliott Bay Book Co. has three Northwest poets reading tonight: Carol Guess reads from Tinderbox Lawn; Jen Currin reads from Hagiography; Kim Minkus reads from 9 Freight.
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* 7:30 PM: More poetry at Richard Hugo House: Cody Walker, former writer-in-residence, has successfully gotten published. Woot! Help him celebrate the release of Shuffle and Breakdown in the Cabaret.
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* 7:30 PM: And yet more poetry! Emily Warn reads from her third collection of poems, The Shadow Architect, at Open Books in Wallingford.
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* 7:30 PM: If poetry is not your bag, Matt Miller, host of NPR’s “Left, Right, & Center” visits Town Hall Seattle to say, “Told ya so! Told ya! Dude, I called it! Who’s your Daddy, huh?” His book is The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go of the Old Ways of Thinking to Unleash a New Prosperity, and yes, he totally called it. Sort of. Downstairs, $5.
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