Books
David Gessner
All the Wild That Remains is the latest book from the North Carolina nature writer. (Also at Third Place Books, 7 p.m. Thurs., May 21). Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Tuesday, May 19, 2015, 7pm
Greg Proops The Whose Line Is It Anyway? comedian discusses The Smartest Book in the World, a collection of essays, trivia, and lists. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Tuesday, May 19, 2015, 7pm
Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett She discusses her new book, Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Tuesday, May 19, 2015, 7pm
Seattle Poetry Slam Local poets share their verse and spoken word compositions. 21 and over. Rebar, 1114 Howell StreetSeattle, WA $5 Tuesday, May 19, 2015, 8 – 11:30pm
Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite The two Seattle writers discuss their new book on the Iraq war, War of the Encyclopaedists. Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 7pm
David Barsamian He gives a discussion that coincides with the release of a new edition of his book, Propaganda and the Public Mind. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 $5 Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 7pm
Lucas Mann
Lord Fear: A Memoir is about the life and death of his brother. Seattle Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA 98104 Free Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 7pm
Melissa Cistaro She explores family and abandonment in her memoir, Pieces of My Mother.
ParkPlace Books, 348 Parkplace Center
Kirkland, WA 98033 Free Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 7pm
Sue Monk Kidd Her new book, The Invention of Wings, is based on the real life of Sarah Grimke an abolishionist and women’s rights activist who came from a wealthy slave-owning family. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 7pm
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Mona Eltahawy When the Egyptian-born journalist and activist was covering the 2011 Arab Spring uprising in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, she was brutally attacked and sexually assaulted by four riot policemen. With two broken arms, Eltahawy fought for her life. In the months that followed, with both her arms in casts, she used her one free finger to issue Tweets like “When my bones heal, I want to mark what happened to me.” First she wrote a 2012 essay for Foreign Policy magazine called “Why Do They Hate Us?”, which went viral. (The “they” in question referred to women in the Islamic world.) Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25) is an expansion of that provocative piece. As a teenager transplanted from the UK to Saudi Arabia, she was “traumatised into feminism,” Eltahawy recently told The Guardian. “As a woman . . . you have one of two options. You either lose your mind-which at first happened to me, because I fell into a deep depression-or you become a feminist.” Since then, the U.S. resident has been a strong advocate for global feminism. Often we in the West speak about global feminism and ask what women of different cultures need to achieve equality. Remedies may vary from state to state, but we certainly need more women like Eltahawy to speak so frankly about their own experiences, however painful they may be. Her book is a difficult must-read. DIANA M. LE Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Thursday, May 21, 2015, 7pm
Martin Ford He discusses a technological takeover in the workforce in Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 $5 Thursday, May 21, 2015, 7:30pm
Benjamin Schmidt The UW history professor discusses his book, Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe’s Early Modern World. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Friday, May 22, 2015, 7pm
Jay Rubin Haruki Murakami’s primary English translator discusses his own, The Sun Gods, set in Seattle on the eve of WWII with UW professor Dr. Davinder Bhowmik. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Saturday, May 23, 2015, 6pm
Ginny Gilder and Daniel James Brown The authors discuss Course Correction: A Story of Rowing and Resistance in the Wake of Title IX and Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Saturday, May 23, 2015, 7pm
Dana Simpson
Unicorn on a Roll is the latest comic strip about an awkward fourth grade girl from the local cartoonist. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Tuesday, May 26, 2015, 7pm
Jan Ellison
A Small Indiscretion is her debut novel about a woman who grows uncomfortable with the life she’s built. Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Tuesday, May 26, 2015, 7pm
Peter Orullian
Trial of Intentions is the second in his series about science, evil, and magic. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Tuesday, May 26, 2015, 7pm
Seattle Poetry Slam Local poets share their verse and spoken word compositions. 21 and over. Rebar, 1114 Howell StreetSeattle, WA $5 Tuesday, May 26, 2015, 8 – 11:30pm
Bob Santos and Larry Gossett The two surviving members of Seattle’s “Gang of Four” discuss their experiences and The Gang of Four: Four Communities, Four Leaders, One Friendship.
Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Wednesday, May 27, 2015, 7pm
Richard Thaler President of the American Economic Association and author of the new Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics appears in conversation with Nathan Myhrvold, the co-founder of Intellectual Ventures.. $5 Thursday, May 28, 2015, 6:30pm
Taso G. Lagos The foreign studies director for Hellenic Studies at the University of Washington provides a look at the crisis in Greece from an insider’s perspective in 86 Days in Greece. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Thursday, May 28, 2015, 6:30pm
Aleksandar Hemon Author of The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, The Lazarus Project, Love and Obstacles, and The Book of My Lives releases his new The Making of Zombie Wars. Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Thursday, May 28, 2015, 7pm
Jamie Tworkowski The founder of the nonprofit movement To Write Love on Her Arms discusses If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Friday, May 29, 2015, 7pm
Jerome Gold He reads from his new In the Spider’s Web: a Nonfiction Novel and The Divers and Other Mysteries of Seattle. Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Friday, May 29, 2015, 7pm
Martha M. Ertman The law professor drew from her own experience raising her son as one of three gay parents to write Love’s Promises: How Formal and Informal Contracts Shape All Kinds of Families. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Saturday, May 30, 2015, 6pm
Lori Horvitz and Carol Guess Horvitz discusses her memoir The Girls of Usually, while WWU professor Guess discusses Darling Endangered and How to Feel Confident with Your Special Talents. Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Saturday, May 30, 2015, 7pm
Seattle Poetry Slam Local poets share their verse and spoken word compositions. 21 and over. Rebar, 1114 Howell StreetSeattle, WA $5 Tuesday, June 2, 2015, 8 – 11:30pm
Seattle Poetry Slam Local poets share their verse and spoken word compositions. 21 and over. Rebar, 1114 Howell StreetSeattle, WA $5 Tuesday, June 9, 2015, 8 – 11:30pm
Seattle Poetry Slam Local poets share their verse and spoken word compositions. 21 and over. Rebar, 1114 Howell StreetSeattle, WA $5 Tuesday, June 16, 2015, 8 – 11:30pm
Seattle Poetry Slam Local poets share their verse and spoken word compositions. 21 and over. Rebar, 1114 Howell StreetSeattle, WA $5 Tuesday, June 23, 2015, 8 – 11:30pm