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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Books Reading Tonight

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:24 AM

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Today around Seattle, there are many readings about other cultures and their relations to America.

But first, the non-culture-related-reading. David Archer, who is an award-winning climatologist, has written a book called The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate. He will discuss issues related to his book (I assume) at Kane Hall in the U District.

At Elliott Bay Book Company, Franz Wisner, who was dumped at the altar and has already written one book about it, now looks at How the World Makes Love and relates it to his own shitty love life. I can maybe understand eking one book out of being left at the altar, but two? It's beginning to become clear why Wisner was dumped in the first place.

The Northwest African American Museum hosts a discussion about the contributions of Caribbean-Americans to our culture.

Ben Marra, a photographer, has taken photos of Native American dance regalia from around the country. Faces from the Land is a collection of those photographs. He will discuss the book at Third Place Books tonight.

And, finally, Simon Wickham-Smith translates Mongolian poets. Maged Zaher translates Arabic poets. Tonight at the Hugo House, they discuss translation together. The discussion will be held in English.

The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here.

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Do not fiction readings tend to be better than fiction ones?

Is there less sycophantic wanking by the audience, and more focus on the issues?

Posted by vooodooo84 on April 16, 2009 at 10:39 AM

That one book about motorcycles; what kind of bike is that?

Posted by elenchos on April 16, 2009 at 10:51 AM

it's non fictionaleye-said fiction.

Posted by samdandardanus on April 16, 2009 at 11:47 AM

Interesting story. I played golf with his brother, who wrote the other book with him and used to live in W. Seattle until he sold his house to go do the "Honeymoon with my Brother". Very cool guys.

Posted by dacoach on April 16, 2009 at 12:11 PM