1:30 PM – David Montgomery: Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
UW Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room
The UW geomorphology professor talks about soil. This is important stuff, folks.
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6:30 PM- Jennifer Hahn: Spirited Waters: Soloing South Through the Inside Passage
SPL Ballard Branch
“In a kayak named Yemaya with a cedar wreath lashed to the stern, Jennifer Hahn launched from Ketchikan, Alaska on a solo voyage home to Bellingham, Washington. With 26 years of wilderness kayak travel under her hull, Hahn chronicles more than her intrepid 750-mile solo journey through the Inside Passage over two springs and summers.” –Secret Garden Bookshop
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7:00 PM – Literati Parti: Poetry Reading
Richard Hugo House Cabaret
“Come join Seattle City Councilmember Nick Licata for a night of poetry readings and all things literary! Coffee and tea will be provided” –RHH
I might be tempted if whiskey and cookies were provided…
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7:30 PM – Jim Lynch: Border Songs
Elliott Bay Book Co.
“Meet Brandon Vanderkool, the most fascinating, memorable, and human character in American fiction since Ignatius J. Reilly of A Confederate of Dunces … Border Songs is a masterwork, and Jim Lynch, for my money, is our best new storyteller since Larry McMurtry: deeply in touch with the natural world, the absurdities of our era, and the hearts and minds of his unforgettable and endlessly surprising characters.” – Howard Frank Mosher
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