12:00 PM – Tim Maleeny: Jump
Seattle Mystery Bookshop
The author of the Cape Weathers series drops in to sign his first stand-alone novel.
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1:00 PM – Wild Geese Players: Ulysses (Circe)
UW Bookstore, U District
Ah, yes, it’s that time of year, again, when the Joycean’s completely lose their (our) shit. Yay, it’s (almost) Bloomsday ! UW Bookstore will be celebrating a few days early, with a staged reading of part 15, Circe.
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2:00 PM – Joyce Lebra-Chapman: The Scent of Sake
Sake Nomi
92 S. Washington
Sake Nomi celebrates this debut novel about a woman who runs a sake brewery with a special tasting of sake brewed by a female toji in Iwate. Sweet! Presented in conjunction with Elliott Bay Books.
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2:00 PM – Paula Becker & Alan J. Stein: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Washington’s First World Fair
SPL Central Library, Microsoft Auditorium
In the early 20th century, Seattle was a progressive hotbed of women’s suffrage activists, communists, and labor organizers. Smack dab in the middle of that, Seattle hosted the 1909 AYP, the first World’s Fair to make a profit, with over 3.7 million visitors from around the world. Visit SPL tonight to learn all about the event that shaped the UW, and put Seattle on the map. Local history buffs should definitely attend.
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3:00 PM – Bree Loewen: Pickets and Dead Men: Seasons on Rainier
SPL Broadview Branch
“Pickets and Dead Men is the story of a young woman’s experience as a climbing ranger where respect is hard won and on-the-job performance can be the difference between life and death.
Bree Loewen has been a climbing ranger on Mount Rainier, an EMT in Seattle, and has written for Climbing magazine. She has taught rigging and navigation classes for search and rescue groups and lives in Carnation, Washington, with her husband and daughter.” — I seem to have misplaced my source information for this blurb. Oops.
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4:00 PM – Seth Grahame-Smith: Pride and Prejudice … and Zombies
UW Bookstore, U District
I’m still not sure about this. Have you read it? What do you think? Is it worth going to the reading and buying a copy for the author to sign? Should I check the book out from the library, instead? Should I just forget that the book even exists, and catch up on back episodes of Dancing with the Stars?
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4:30 PM – Vincenza Scarpaci: The Journey of the Italians in America
Elliott Bay Book Co.
Scarpaci also published A Portrait of the Italians in America in 1982.
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6:00 PM – Jason: Low Moon
Fantagraphics Books
The Norwegian alternative cartoonist will sign copies of Low Moon, originally serialized in The New York Times Sunday Magazine. Fantagraphics is also offering several rare European editions of Jason’s work. Reception and signing will run until 9:00 PM tonight, but the exhibition of Jason’s work will remain up until July 8th.
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7:30 PM – Harvey Schwartz: Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of the ILWU
Elliott Bay Book Co.
Speaking of Seattle, communists, and the West Coast labor movement… read this book! Schwartz is an oral historian at the Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State University, and curator of the Oral History Collection, ILWU Library. It’s practically criminal that SPL doesn’t have the title on order – the publisher is the University of Washington Press! If you are interested in the labor movement, put in a purchase request.
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