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Monday, May 11, 2009

Books Reading Tonight

Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:18 AM

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Iain Pears reads at Third Place Books from his newest, Stone's Fall. There will be a Suggests for this popping up soon, and so I won't spend a lot of time talking about this except to say that your summertime thriller has arrived, and Iain Pears has written it.

University Book Store hosts Mike Gastineau, Art Thiel, and Steve Rudman. They are the authors of The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists. I didn't realize that there was enough sports greatness in Seattle to list, but then I'm not the target audience.

Elliott Bay Book Company hosts John Daniel, who is the author of The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature. This is so regional it is not even funny.

Tony Horwitz reads at Town Hall from A Voyage Long and Strange, which is about America in the little-discussed time between Columbus (1492) and Jamestown (1607). It looks really interesting. If fiction isn't your thing, this is your reading of the night.

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

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The Horwitz book is great. I'm only about 100 pages in, but he's very clever and fascinating. Did you know that the first Indian to meet the Pilgrims in Massachusetts greeted them in English? Or that the great wave of European smallpox that wiped out some horrendous percentage of the American natives was already over before an Englishman set foot on the continent?

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