6:00 PM – Julie Paschkis: Imaginary Menagerie
Santoro Books
Illustrator Paschkis has earned a number of awards and honors including the Parents’ Choice Award for Fat Cat. Head Body Legs was an ALA Notable Children’s Book, and Night Garden was named one of the Ten Best Illustrated Books of 2000 by the New York Times. Imaginary Menagerie is a book of poems about mythological creatures.
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6:30 PM – David Benioff: City of Thieves
Pan Pacific Hotel, $45
“Words & Wine is an author series created by book event maven, Kim Ricketts whose vision is to celebrate the written word through dynamic and unique literary events. Words & Wine events take place at the elegant Pan Pacific Hotel Seattle where guests mingle with the author while sipping award-winning wines from the Chateau Ste. Michelle portfolio and enjoying savory nibbles created by John Howie’s Seastar Restaurant & Raw Bar Lake Union. For the highlight of the evening, the engaging Warren Etheredge of The Warren Report leads an intimate on-stage interview and conversation with the author.”
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7:00 PM – Film and Discussion: A Soldier’s Heart
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs
Donations welcome
Funds raised will benefit a scholarship fund for Veterans participating in a PTSD healing retreat.
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7:00 PM – Joe Raiola: The Joy of Censorship
SPL Central Branch, Level 1, Microsoft Auditorium
Raiola traces MAD Magazine’s unlikely and colorful history, from renegade publisher Williams Gaines’ historic showdown with the United States Senate over comic book censorship to MAD’s emergence as a revolutionary satirical force.
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7:30 PM – John Felstiner: Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
Open Books
The scholar, translator, professor, and writer answers his own question.
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7:30 PM – Midge Raymond: Forgetting English
Elliott Bay Book Co.
The local author signs and reads from her award-winning debut collection of short stories.
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