* 6:00 PM: Happy 200th Birthday, Darwin!!! Too dead to read or sign, or even to cut his own cake, Darwin is nonetheless the star of tonight’s event at the Burke Museum. The author of The Voyage of the Beagle (1845), On the Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871), and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) will be feted with lectures by Mott Greene (UPS & UW), Mark Terry (Northwest School), and John Herron (UW).
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* 7:00 PM: Dystopian novels are usually set in the future, but John Birmingham’s Without Warning is an alternate history of the very recent variety. America is reduced to the PNW and Alaska by a wave of mysterious radiation. Oh, noes! What will the world do without America? My dad loves this sort of speculative fiction. Birmingham will read and sign at the U-District UW Bookstore.
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* 7:30 PM: Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the wildly popular Eat, Pray, Love, will speak about writing, life, and her current projects at the Meany Theatre. I may be the only person on the planet who didn’t care for Eat, Pray, Love, so there should be plenty of people willing to shell out for tickets, even though Gilbert will not be signing. Presented by University Bookstore.
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