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Dave Clapper is the founding editor of SmokeLong Quarterly, an online literary magazine, and helps to coordinate Seattle Pecha Kucha Night. His writing has appeared in dozens of literary magazines, and his plays have been produced as part of the Seattle Fringe Festival. Links to his fiction can be found on his author page at Red Room.

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    Seattle Lit Calendar May 5-May 11, 2008

    May 5, 2:20 PM
    by Dave Clapper, Seattle Literary Examiner
     
     
    Here are the literary events for this week that I could glean from the calendars of Richard Hugo House, Elliott Bay Book Company, University Book Store, and Third Place Books. In cases where no ticket cost is mentioned, the event is free. I'm running behind this week, so the listings won't have full descriptions this time around.

    Question for readers: should I weed out some of the less "literary" events? For example, do readers of this page care about books about planning weddings? Or do you want all of the bookish events I can track down? My temptation is to include only events that pertain to either fiction or poetry, but then that leaves out all the memoir-type stuff and some good non-fiction as well. What are your thoughts?

    Also, if you're a part of Seattle's lit scene and you know of events that aren't being covered here, shoot me an email at dclapper@smokelong.com, and I'll add them to future calendars. I'm still playing with format, too. Right now, I'm pretty much copying and pasting (with a little tweaking to make all events follow a similar format). If there's a particular event that I have a little more insight into, I'll make sure to include that.

    Monday, May 5

    7:00pm
    Richard Hugo House
    Hugo Works in Progress

    7:00pm
    University Book Store
    Diana Abu-Jaber, Origin

    7:00pm
    Third Place Books
    Sarah O'Leary Burningham, How to Raise Your Parents : A Teen Girl's Survival Guide

    7:30pm
    Elliott Bay Book Company
    WILLY VLAUTIN, Northline

    7:30pm
    Town Hall Seattle, 1119 Eighth Avenue, $5.00
    DANIEL BROOK, The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America

    Tuesday, May 6

    6:00pm
    Elliott Bay Book Company
    MARC ACITO, Attack of the Theater People

    6:30pm
    Elliott Bay Book Company
    ELLIOTT BAY BOOK GROUP, The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches

    7:00pm
    Richard Hugo House
    Lamba Literary Award Finalists' Reading: Nicola Griffith and Corrina Wycoff

    7:00pm
    University Book Store
    Dr. Christopher Sanford, The Adventurous Traveler's Guide to Health

    7:00pm
    University Book Store
    Ch'oe Yun and Bruce Fulton, There a Petal Silently Falls: Three Stories

    7:00pm
    University Book Store (Bellevue)
    Linda Chalker-Scott, The Informed Gardener

    7:00pm
    Third Place Books
    William Dietrich, Rosetta Key

    8:00pm
    Elliott Bay Book Company
    ALEKSANDAR HEMON, The Lazarus Project

    Wednesday, May 7

    12:00pm
    Elliott Bay Book Company
    LISA GARRIGUES, Writing Motherhood: Tapping into Your Creativity as a Mother and Writer

    12:00pm
    Green Lake Branch, Seattle Public Library, 7364 E Green Lake Drive N
    DINAW MENGESTU, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

    7:00pm
    Douglass Truth Branch, Seattle Public Library, 2300 E Yesler Way
    DINAW MENGESTU, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

    7:00pm
    UW Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room
    Maresi Nerad and Mimi Heggelund, Toward a Global PhD?: Forces and Forms in Doctoral Education Worldwide

    7:00pm
    University Book Store
    William J. Bernstein, A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

    7:00pm
    Thrid Place Books
    Elizabeth George, Careless in Red

    7:30pm
    Elliott Bay Book Company
    DOMENIC STANSBERRY, The Ancient Rain

    Thursday, May 8

    12:00pm
    Broadway Performance Hall, 1625 Broadway
    DINAW MENGESTU, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

    7:00pm
    The Henry Art Gallery, 15th Ave NE & NE 41st Street
    Roger Ballen, Shadow Chamber

    7:00pm
    Piggott Auditorium, Seattle University, 901 12th Avenue
    DINAW MENGESTU, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

    7:00pm
    Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs, 1119 8th Avenue
    Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart with Sanjeev Khagram, Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World

    7:00pm
    University Book Store
    Mark Sarvas, Harry, Revised

    7:00pm
    Third Place Books
    Charlie Ayers, Food 2.0 : Secrets From the Chef Who Fed Google

    7:30pm
    Elliott Bay Book Company
    SIRI HUSTVEDT, The Sorrows of an American

    Friday, May 9

    6:30pm
    Third Place Books
    Ellie Matthews, The Ungarnished Truth

    7:00pm
    Microsoft Auditorium, Seattle Public Central Library, 1000 Fourth Avenue
    DINAW MENGESTU, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

    7:00pm
    University Book Store
    Chelsea Handler, Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

    7:30pm
    Elliott Bay Book Company
    ANDREW FOSTER ALTSCHUL, Lady Lazarus

    Saturday, May 10

    11:00am
    Queen Anne Branch, Seattle Public Library, 400 W Garfield Street
    DINAW MENGESTU, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

    2:00pm
    Elliott Bay Book Company
    EMILY R. TRANSUE, Patient by Patient: Lessons in Love, Loss, Hope and Healing from a Doctor's Practice

    4:00pm
    Columbia Branch, Seattle Public Library, 4721 Rainier Avenue S
    DINAW MENGESTU, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

    4:30pm
    Elliott Bay Book Company
    RAJ PATEL, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System

    6:30pm
    Third Place Books
    Cynthia Lair, Feeding the Whole Family

    7:30pm
    Elliott Bay Book Company
    SARAH KATHERINE LEWIS, Sex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad for Me

    Sunday, May 11

    2:00pm
    Elliott Bay Book Company
    KERRY REICHS, The Best Day of Someone Else's Life


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