10:00 AM – Team Read: Read Around the Clock Read-A-Thon
SPL, Central Branch, Level 1, Faye G. Allen Children’s Center
Teenage volunteers will read to children from 10 AM – 6 PM. Yeah. That just doesn’t sound safe, to me. Noble, yes; safe, no. Dude, teenagers.
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11:30 AM – Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Will Elder, Al Jaffee, & Arnold Roth: Humbug
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
Fantagraphics has collected original art and artifacts from Harvey Kurtzman’s 1957 satirical magazine in a two-volume slipcase edition. Book launch and gallery exhibit preview.
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2:00 PM – Susan Hildreth, City Librarian
SPL, Central Branch, Level 1, Microsoft Auditorium
Meet your new City Librarian! Mayor Nickels, Councilman Licata, Library Board President Eric Liu, SPL Foundation Board President Susan Adkins, Friends of the SPL President Linda Ruiz, and Hildreth will speak. Fortunately, there will also be refreshments.
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4:30 PM – Randy Shaw: Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century
Elliott Bay Book Co.
Shaw argues that the success of the UFW’s grassroots organization created the model for current activists. He’s probably right.
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7:30 PM – Brian Evenson: Last Days
Elliott Bay Book Co.
Something of a cult figure, the former Seattle-ite and graduate of the UWs MFA program is in town promoting a new edition of his novel. [CORRECTION: This is a new novel, not a new edition of a previous work. Sorry for the brain-fart.]
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