Atul Gawande will read at Town Hall tonight. Gawande, who is a surgeon, recommends using checklists in hospitals in his new book The Checklist Manifesto. It's kind of scary that doctors don't use checklists already.
You'll find a Suggest about this here on Slog any minute now, but the book event of the day is the University Book Store's 110 Year Anniversary Celebration. Many folks mistakenly think Elliott Bay Book Company is the oldest bookstore in town, but UBS is almost three times as old. This is a party to celebrate a new book compiled by University Book Store featuring a ton of local authors including Tom Robbins, Stacey Levine, and Dan Savage. The authors probably won't be in attendance, but there will be free cake!
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.
