* 12:00 PM: Drinking at work (or on your lunch hour) is not a great idea, but oeniphiles can get their midday fix at Elliott Bay Cook Co., today. Robert Camuto will discuss, read, and sign Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country. (I love that title.) Oh, and you can pre-order a lunch box from Elliott Bay for $10. Click the link for details. You can also check out Camuto’s blog [BLOG LINK] to follow the progress of his book tour.
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* 7:00 PM: Jamie Ford is still pimping his lovely debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet [BLOG LINK]; if you missed him last week at the Panama Hotel, the U-District UW Bookstore claims he’ll be back tonight, to read and sign. However, Ford’s blog says that he left for the Bay area last night. I’d call UW Bookstore and/or the Panama Hotel to confirm, before showing up. Seriously, I don’t believe it, I think the UW Bookstore website has gained sentience and is just making shit up, now. Still, it’s a great book, inspired by a local landmark, so I’ll take any excuse to promote it, even an imaginary signing, erroneously reported.
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* 7:30 PM: Elliott Bay Book Co. hosts Debra Gwartney, a Eugene-based journalist, to discuss her book Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love. I want to say something snarky about titles, subtitles, and how very long they both seem to be getting, but I can’t, because the subject makes me all verklempt. If you’ve ever “lost” a loved one to the street, Gwartney is talking to you, and for you. Give her a listen.
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* 7:30 PM: Town Hall Seattle presents Walter Williams and Bryan Jones, co-authors of The Politics of Bad Ideas: The Great Tax Cut Delusion and the Decline of Good Government in America. See what I mean, about long titles? Out of control! Anyway, Williams and Jones will be giving a presentation entitled “Barack Obama and the Challenge of the Bush Legacy,” which might as well be subtitled How Bush Destroyed America, so Go Ahead and Build Your Bunker, Now, Before It’s Too Late. I’ll be reading the book in my bunker, with the soothing sound of Ice Cube’s War & Peace, Vol.I to set the mood. Produced in conjunction with the Town Hall Center for Civic Life and University Book Store. Downstairs, $5.
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