12:00 PM – Julie Kramer & Steve Martini: Signing
Seattle Mystery Bookshop
Kramer will sign Missing Mark, the sequel to Stalking Susan. Martini is signing Guardian of Lies, a Paul Madriani novel.
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7:00 PM – Arzoo Osanloo: Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran
Revolution Books
Osanloo is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington.
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7:00 PM – Scott Rosenberg: Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters
UW Bookstore U District
“The humble blog has gone from a diary of oversharing to a political and cultural phenomenon in a very short time. But as with all things internet, there’s a wild and complex story to be told. Scott Rosenberg, cofounder of Salon.com tells that story in his new book Say Everything.” (UW Bookstore)
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7:30 PM – Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Town Hall Seattle
Hedges addresses education, business, celebrity, and the commodification of the worker with a WASPish hysteria that has burgeoned since 2002′s (brilliant) War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. In Empire…, Hedges is short on facts, long on graphic anecdotes, and ends with a distressing nostalgia for sweet, golden days of yore, when everything was spiffy– as long as you weren’t female, disabled, brown, poor, et cetera.
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7:30 PM – J.A. Jance: Fire and Ice
Barnes & Noble University Village
The best-selling local author signs #14 in her Joanna Brady series. No relation to The Brady Bunch.
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7:30 PM – Jerome Gold: Paranoia & Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility
Elliott Bay Book Co.
The author, publisher (Gold is a founder of Black Heron Press), and former juvenile rehabilitation counselor will speak about how very, very messed up is the US rehabilitation system. Gold has previously written about violence and young people in the excellent Prisoners.
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