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David Brooks: In‑Person & Online
David Brooks, one of the nation’s leading writers and commentators, delivers a practical, heartfelt guide in How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. In order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives, Brooks digs into the essential conversations and questions of any community…
SAM TALKS: TOUCHING THE ART WITH MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE
RSVP strongly encouraged. Masking strongly encouraged. Masks will be made available. Join us in the Brotman Forum as queer icon and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (she/her) launches her new book Touching the Art. A mixture of memoir, biography, criticism, and social history, Touching the Art is Sycamore’s interrogation of the possibilities of artistic striving, the…
A Lifetime of Writing: A Conversation with International Bestselling Author John Irving
You are in for a treat when you join us for an intimate conversation with John Irving as he chats about not only his most recent novel, The Last Chairlift, but also about his prolific body of work and a lifetime spent writing. Irving’s first novel was published when he was just twenty-six years old….
SAL Presents: Anne Pachett
As the New York Times writes, “Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett’s fiction.” Author of nine novels, four works of nonfiction, and two children’s books, Ann Patchett continues to delight audiences with her latest novel, Tom Lake, where compelling narrative artistry combines with piercing insights into family dynamics. In this beautiful and moving novel…
A Conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Celebrated scholar and filmmaker of the African American experience Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. will be the featured speaker at Homestead Community Land Trust’s 2023 fall benefit! The event will take place at Town Hall-Seattle on September 7 at 7:30 p.m. The benefit will be hosted by local Seattle arts leader and communicator Vivian Phillips…
With His New Novel, Matthew Amster-Burton Trades Food for Music
Matthew Amster-Burton’s switch from mainstream publishing to Kickstarter got him a best-seller and a movie option
Matthew Amster-Burton’s new novel, Our Secret Better Lives, returns readers to the grunge era, focusing on Northwest kids stuck in Los Angeles while the whole world is going crazy over Pearl Jam. A former Seattle magazine contributor, Amster-Burton is known for his culinary writing and Spilled Milk podcast with Orangette’s Molly Wizenberg. His Pretty Good…
University of Washington Books: A Press for Success
A literary star gives the 97-year-old University of Washington Press a new lease on life
Nicole Mitchell with some of her favorite books; she’s also launching UW Press’s first multimedia project, an indigenous-studies digital publishing program with audio and video components
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