Readings, signings, and other events vaguely literary for Friday, June 26, 2009

7:00 PM – Gregory A. Wilson: The Third Sign
UW Bookstore, U District
Sword & sorcery. That’s all I know.
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7:00 PM – Party!: Raven Chronicles
Jack Straw Productions, Cabaret
Anniversary party and celebration of the new issue, Architecture in Literature.
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7:30 PM – Ann Holmes Redding, Jamal Rahman & Kathleen Schmitt Elias: Out of Darkness Into Light: Spiritual Guidance in the Quran with Reflections from Christian and Jewish Sources
Elliott Bay Book Co.
“Ann Holmes Redding is a Muslim and Christian who had served as priest at St. Mark’s Cathedral and a professor of Christian homiletics, before losing her ordination earlier this year. Jamal Rahman is a Muslim Sufi minister at Interfaith Community Church. Kathleen Schmitt Elias is a former nun, now a Sufi Jew. Together, these three Seattle co-authors will discuss their book…” –EBBC
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7:30 PM – Carlos Ruiz Zafon w/ Mary Ann Gwinn: The Angel’s Game
SPL Central Library, Microsoft Auditorium
“Fans of Zafón’s Shadow of the Wind and new readers alike will be delighted with this gothic semi-prequel. In 1920s Barcelona, David Martin is born into poverty, but, aided by patron and friend Pedro Vidal, he rises to become a crime reporter and then a beloved pulp novelist … Zafón’s novel is detailed and vivid, and David’s narration is charming and funny but suspect. Villain or victim, he is the hero of and guide to this dark labyrinth that, by masterful design, remains thrilling and bewildering.” – Publishers Weekly
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