Four readings tonight.
At Elliott Bay Book Company, Catherine Whitney reads from Soldiers Once: My Brother and the Lost Dreams of America's Veterans, which is about the sad way that we treat our soldiers when they come back from war.
Elizabeth Austen reads new poetry up at the Northlake branch of the Seattle Public Library. You can read more about her here.
Up at Third Place Books, Kate Christensen, author of The Great Man, reads from Trouble, her new book about sex and age and women. The only thing keeping this from being reading of the night is that Christensen is also reading tomorrow night at Elliott Bay Book Company.
And Karen Joy Fowler, who is an award-winning sci-fi author, reads at University Book Store as part of a celebration for local sci-fi workshop Clarion West. Fowler is one of those rare authors who has crossed boundaries to write literary fiction—her book The Jane Austen Book Club was an entertaining romantic comedy that also served as a love letter to Jane Austen. This should be an interesting crowd. This is the reading of the night.
The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here. And if you're planning on staying in and you're looking for personalized book recommendations, feel free to tell me the books you like and ask me what to read next over at Questionland.
