4:00 PM – Short Stories Live: Reading
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs
A Tribute to John Updike: ACT artistic director Kurt Beatty directs ACT performers in readings by John Updike, and authors who influenced Updike.
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4:00 PM – Tyler E. Boudreau: Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine
Elliott Bay Book Co.
Another indictment of the Iraq War, this time by a 12 year veteran. Boudreau isn’t the world’s greatest writer, and this memoir is highly personal, without the rigorous fact-checking that one expects from journalists, but the very personal, subjective tone is also Boudreau’s strength. I suggest reading back to back with Shooter, by (former) USMC Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin.
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