* 12:00 PM: Seattle Mystery Bookshop hosts Larry Karp, author of Scott Joplin mystery The King of Ragtime and its predecessor, The Ragtime Kid. Karp can be relied upon for meticulous research and interesting, authentic characters. [LINK]
* 1:00 PM: Peter Jamero, author of Growing Up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American will be reading and discussing his book at SPL International District Branch Library. Books will be available to purchase and Jamero will sign upon request. [LINK]
* 2:00 PM: Everyone and their brother has told me to read Snow Falling on Cedars, and one of the everyone’s even gave me a copy. It’s sitting in the pile of books that I avoid looking at for months at a time. I’ll get to it eventually. It’s a tall pile. And tilty. In the meantime, the author of the book that inspired Snow Falling on Cedars, Mary Woodward, will be at the Central Library. Woodward will show images and read from In Defense of Our Neighbors: The Walt and Milly Woodward Story, a true story of the internment of Japanese Americans and one community’s unique response. Books will be available for purchase and signing. [LINK]
* 2:00 PM: Front Porch Theatre presents All the Kings’s Men, the Pulitzer-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, at Northgate Community Center. Actors and community members will read selections from the book, with a moderated discussion to follow. This is the last Front Porch production of All the King’s Men, but the Intiman Theatre will be running it until November 8th. Except you have to pay Intiman. And if you go to Saturday’s Front Porch event you can enter a raffle to win tickets to the Intiman production. It’s a win-win! [LINK]
* 2:00 PM: Richard Ellis is back with Tuna: A Love Story, this time at Elliott Bay Books. Really, I know there is a lot happening around town on Saturday afternoon, but anyone who has ever eaten a tuna roll (tekka maki) should read Tuna. Anyone who has ever sat down at a sushi bar with one or two hundred bucks burning a hole in her pocket and told the waitress and chef to keep the saki and sushi and sashimi coming until the money runs out must not only read Tuna, but buy a copy, get it signed, and apologize to the author for being a sushi whore. This sushi whore will be wearing all black, by the way, in hopes of remaining relatively anonymous among her fellows. [LINK]
* 6:00 PM: I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a book launch party charging a cover, but that’s what’s happening at Caffe Vita on Capital Hill. The Stranger’s Charles Mudede, One Pot, and Caffe Vita are hosting a dinner followed by a book signing for Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky. Miller’s book Sound Unbound just hit bookstores. $45 for dinner and a copy of the book; $30 to latecomers, and also includes a copy of Sound Unbound. [LINK]