Readings, signings, and other events vaguely literary for Friday, July 24, 2009

12:00 PM – Brett Battles: Shadow of Betrayal
Seattle Mystery Bookshop
Third in the Jonathan Quinn series; Quinn is a freelance ‘cleaner’ who solves crime.
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7:00 PM – Howard Dean: Howard Dean’s Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform: How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for Every American and Make Our Jobs Safer
Town Hall Seattle
A timely presentation by Town Hall and the Town Hall Center for Civic Life. The title says it all.
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7:00 PM – Jay Lake: Green
UW Bookstore U District
Okay, I love the publisher’s description. Writing jacket copy is more difficult than you might think. “She was born in poverty, in a dusty village under the equatorial sun. She does not remember her mother, she does not remember her own name—her earliest clear memory is of the day her father sold her to the tall pale man. In the Court of the Pomegranate Tree, where she was taught the ways of a courtesan…and the skills of an assassin…she was named Emerald, the precious jewel of the Undying Duke’s collection of beauties.
She calls herself Green.”
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