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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Books Reading Tonight: Children in Peril, Exploited Children, and Autistic Children

Posted by on Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:15 AM

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At noon, the Seattle Mystery Bookshop hosts Lisa Scottoline. Scottoline's newest book is Look Again, about a woman seeing her son's face on a missing child flier.

Seattle University will host a lecture titled "Behind the Swoosh: Sweatshops and Social Justice," in which a man who lived with sweatshop workers discusses the awfulness that is working for a buck and a quarter a day. Elsewhere in universities—in particular, at Kane Hall—David R. Knechtges discusses someone who was "arguably the most avid mountain lover of the Chinese medieval period."

Meanwhile, at Third Place Books, Rupert Isaacson documents his attempts to help his autistic son with horses and Mongolian shamans. His book is titled The Horse Boy.

And Staceyann Chin reads from The Other Side of Paradise, which is about the part of Jamaica that lazy rich white people never see.

It's a socially conscious kind of evening, and so the sweatshop lecture or the Jamaica reading are tied for the reading of the night.

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

 

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"'My dad said flu vaccines are linked to autism, so to be safe from swine flu, I'm trying to lick an autistic kid."

http://xkcd.com/574/
Posted by josh b on April 28, 2009 at 11:48 AM

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