12:00 PM – Louis Ure: Liars Anonymous
Seattle Mystery Bookshop
Jessie Dancing is an operator for Hands On Emergency and fields a call from a millionaire. She believes she hears him being murdered while she’s on the phone with him. She heads from Phoenix to Tucson to play the tape for his widow only to be told that he’s still alive. Then what was it she heard? [Source: Seattle Mystery Bookshop]
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5:00 PM – Fifteen Ways to Tell the Story: Writing Class
Richard Hugo House, Cabaret
“In this fast-paced session led by writer and instructor Wendy Call, we’ll zoom through fifteen writing exercises, searching for the best way to get those words on the page. If there’s a story (factual or otherwise) you’ve been itching to tell, this is your chance to anchor those words to the page. Multimedia writing prompts-questions, answers, lines of poetry, images and even scents-will help us open the dusty drawers of memory and empty them out. Each participant will leave with a the elements of a new story draft and a toolbox full of writing exercises for your writing group or your classroom.” [Source: RHH]
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7:00 PM – Daniel Wolff: How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Educations That Made Them
UW Bookstore, U-District
What qualifies as a “good education,” in America? Daniel Wolff looks back into history, at the formal and informal educations of some key figures in our nation’s development, to find out. From Ben Franklin’s time spent in a printer’s shop, to Andrew Jackson’s savage childhood, to the privileged upbringing of Jackie Kennedy, Wolff pulls together the threads to weave a narrative of education in the U.S.A. And then he shows how all of it relates to the standardized tests, achievement gaps, and philosophies of education that we know today. [Source: UW Bookstore]
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7:00 PM – Stephanie Smallwood: Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
SPL Douglas-Truth Branch
This event is part of the Seattle Reads: My Jim series. Using letters, journals, and narratives from around the trade route, UW professor Smallwood brings to life the everyday horror experienced by Africans first arriving in the Americas. Saltwater Slavery was the winner of the 2008 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book on slavery or abolition. Sponsored by University Book Store and Seattle Public Library. [Source: UW Bookstore]
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7:00 PM – Wendy Mogel: ParentMap
Town Hall Seattle, Great Hall
Clinical psychologist Wendy Mogel, author of The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, helps parents recognize this overindulgent behavior, and avoid the pitfalls of “helicopter” parenting. Presented by ParentMap as part of its Pathways parenting lecture series; co-sponsored by the Seattle Jewish Community School. [Source: Town Hall Seattle]
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7:30 PM – Christine Fair: Pakistani Attitudes Towards Militancy In and Beyond Pakistan
UW Kane Hall, Room 220
Presented by the Luce Symposium on Global Religion and Human Security. Fair is the author of the book Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States.
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7:30 PM – Jim Moore & Judith Roche: Poetograpgy
Richard Hugo House, Cabaret
A guest reading and discussion on poetry and regionalism with poets Jim Moore and Judith Roche. Co-presented with the Loft Literary Center. [Source: RHH]
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7:30 PM – Winifred Gallagher: Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
Elliott Bay Book Co.
“As the 19th-century philosopher William James wisely understood, what you selectively notice and attend to is what makes up your experience. It is your life! Winifred Gallagher gets it. She has written a provocative, illuminating, and captivating book on the power and importance of attention in multiple domains in life—relationships, work, leisure, health. What makes some people happier, healthier, more fulfilled, more creative, or more engaged than others? Because of what they pay attention to.” – Sonja Lyubomirsky.
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