12:05 PM – Thrilling Tales: Adult Story Time
SPL Central Library, Microsoft Auditorium
‘”Butch Minds the Baby,” by Damon Runyon. In a classic yarn by the inimitable Brooklyn raconteur, matters grow complicated when a safecracker can’t get a babysitter on the night of the big heist.’ (SPL)
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7:00 PM – Paul Collins: The Book of William: How Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered the World
UW Bookstore U District
A fabulous book about what has been described as the most import secular work of all time.
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7:30 PM – Bibi Gaston: The Loveliest Woman in America: A Tragic Actress, Her Lost Diaries, and Her Granddaughter’s Search for Home
Elliott Bay Book Co.

For forty-three years, all I knew was that Rosamond was beautiful and that she had killed herself. I may have spent the rest of my life knowing just those two things and everything would have gone on the way things do. After all, who really needs to dredge up something you can’t do anything about? But in the summer of 2003, I went back to the Forester’s Pool in Pennsylvania where I had distributed my father’s ashes in the waters where he had learned to fish and swim with his mother, Rosamond. That day, I was given a plain cardboard box containing a thousand pages of Rosamond’s diaries that people thought had vanished. For seventy years, her diaries and scrapbooks languished in airplane hangars, flooding basements, and dusty closets. They disappeared into the dark corners of a family’s pain. Retrieved from darkness, the diaries changed my life forever. Through them, I learned a good part of Rosamond’s story and found a home in the words of my grandmother.

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