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Friday, November 13, 2009

Books Reading Tonight: Grunge, Gender-Bending Sci-Fi, and Poetry

Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:22 AM

There are a ton of things going on today including a youth poetry slam, a mystery about a photographer battling "a neer-do-well plumbing magnate," the story of the discovery of one of the oldest Native American villages ever discovered in the Northwest, a writer's collective, a guide about meditation, and a collection of sci-fi authors at University Book Store.

Brian Teare is at Open Books in Wallingford. Sight Map and The Room Where I Was Born are two books by Teare. He has also written a book called Pleasure. He has won more awards than you ever will. You can read some of his poetry here.

Michael Lavine is at Neumo's tonight. Grunge is a collection of photos of people from Seattle's grunge scene. It is a perfect opportunity to play "Find-the-Slats," which is like "Where's Waldo," but, you know, grungier.

And Nisi Shawl is at Elliott Bay Book Company. Shawl is a local author, book critic, and winner of the very worthwhile James Tiptree Jr. Award. Filter House is her new collection of stories. She plays with ideas of gender and sexuality in her sci-fi, which is something that usually gets swept under the rug to make way for big-breasted slave girls and manly space captains.

That would be the reading of the night, but we're all going to be at the Genius Awards tonight, so we'll have to hit up Nisi the next time she's reading in town.

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.