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News & ArtsFriday, May 15, 2009
Books Reading Tonight
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:17 AM
Hooray for narrowly avoiding hangovers thanks to the judicious application of water, aspirin, and hamburgers! Let's see what's going on tonight.
Over at Third Place Books, Janelle Brown reads from her debut novel All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, in which a high-tech bajillionaire divorces his wife, abandoning her with his daughters and leaving them all destitute. Ta-Nehisi Coates reads at Seattle Public Library from The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood, a memoir about race and corporate misanthropy.
There is a youth poetry slam at Town Hall. That is all I have to say about that.
And Christine Gleason, who is the author of Almost Home: Stories of Hope and the Human Spirit in the Neonatal ICU is reading at Elliott Bay Book Company. Gleason is local. She will probably read at every bookstore in Seattle.
Jack Straw Productions is hosting the first in a series of three readings by writers who have taken part in the Jack Straw Writer's Program, which is a program that helps authors learn how to read their own work aloud, which is a worthy goal for any author. Tonight's readers are Lana Hechtman Ayers, Anna Bálint, Priscilla Long, and Michael Magee. This is the reading of the night.
The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here.
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