11:00 AM – Phyllis Yasutake: Storytelling
Northwest African American Museum
“This summer at the Northwest African American Museum, gifted griots—storytellers—will enchant young and old with tales recounted following oral traditions. Children of all ages are invited to experience the art of storytelling and the power of stories…” (NAAM)
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12:00 PM – Elizabeth Sims: The Extra
Seattle Mystery Bookshop
Sequel to The Actress: law student and occasional actress Rita Farmer investigates on the set of a movie.
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3:00 PM – Joyce Major: Smiling at the World: A Woman’s Passionate Yearlong Quest for Adventure and Love
Inner Chapters Bookstore
I’ve got to applaud the cause and the writer’s enthusiasm, but this is barely a book. The writing is weak, at best, and Major doesn’t really inform the reader about how to use voluntourism to make a positive difference.
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3:00 PM – Raleigh Briggs: Make Your Place
Pilot Books
Learn how to make your own cleaning supplies from a non-toxic guru. Briggs will teach from her new book and then you can buy the book and make the recipes your very own. You know you want to. All the cool kids are doing it.
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6:30 PM – Bree Loewen: Pickets and Dead Men: Seasons on Rainier
SPL Columbia Branch
The story of a young woman’s experience as a climbing ranger where respect is hard won and on-the-job performance can be the difference between life and death.
Bree Loewen has been a climbing ranger on Mount Rainier, an EMT in Seattle, and has written for Climbing magazine. She has taught rigging and navigation classes for search and rescue groups and lives in Carnation, Washington, with her husband and daughter.
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7:00 PM – Chris Mooney: Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future
UW Bookstore University District
“Journalist Chris Mooney, best known for his bestselling The Republican War on Science, has now teamed up with a scientist, Sheril Kirshenbaum, in a plea for increased scientific literacy. In their new book, Unscientific America, they highlight the anti-intellectual tendencies in American society and urge all who care about the place of science in solving our gravest challenges—climate change, the energy crisis, economic competitiveness, global pandemics, and nuclear proliferation—to become an army of ambassadors who can translate science’s message and make it relevant to the media, the politicians, and to the public. Presented as part of the Seattle Science Lectures by Town Hall, with Pacific Science Center and University Book Store.” (Town Hall)
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7:00 PM – Douglas Brinkley: The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
SPL Central Library, Microsoft Auditorium
“A distinguished Rice University history professor who is among the most highly regarded historians and biographers to come along in recent years, Douglas Brinkley has written on a vast array of subjects: Henry Ford, Hurricane Katrina, Jimmy Carter, Rosa Parks, Hunter S. Thompson (he is literary executor of Thompson’s estate), Bob Dylan, Ronald Reagan (he edited The Reagan Diaries), among many others. He is here at Central Library this evening for his major new work, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (HarperCollins). In this book, Douglas Brinkley draws on previously unpublished materials in documenting the life and accomplishments of the United States’ first president to champion wilderness. This should be a scintillating, engaging evening.” (EBB) I heartily agree.
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7:30 PM – Jane Adams: Sugar Time
Elliott Bay Book Co.
The local author will read and sign her self-published novel.
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