6:30 PM – Laurie Halse Anderson: Wintergirls
SPL Ballard Branch
Anderson pushes genre and cultural boundaries with her YA fiction and Wintergirls is no exception, tackling the complex issues around adolescent eating disorders and body image. Don’t let the seriousness of the subject or the YA classification deter you: Anderson is a wonderful writer, and her books are compelling.
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6:30 PM – Faculty Reading
Richard Hugo House, Cabaret
Take Hugo House instructors for a test drive! Spring quarter teachers Anna Balint, Caren Gussoff, Clare Meeker, Paul Nelson, Midge Raymond, David Schmader, Ann Spiers and Carolyne Wright discuss their classes and read some of their own work
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7:00 PM – Christopher Sanford, MD: The Adventurous Traveler’s Guide to Health Wide World Books and Maps
Learn how to reduce injuries and illness while you travel. Dr. Sanford is co-director of the UW Travel Clinic.
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7:30 PM – Jim Richardson: Celtic Heart, Celtic Soul
Benaroya Hall, S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, $20
The photographer presents the results of 15 years of documenting the Celtic homelands and a reawakening of Celtic identity in the British Isles. Part 2 of 2. Presented by National Geographic Live!
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7:30 PM – Kris Saknussemm: Private Midnight
Elliott Bay Book Co.
Horror and noir mix in Saknussemm’s second novel. Detective Birch Ritter becomes obsessed with a woman who knows too much. Bondage, domination, mindgames, sexual humiliation… good times, good times.
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