Feb 12, 2010
Seattle, WA – 02/12/10 – Elliott Bay Book Company – Kevin Sampsell
By: readinglocalseattle Categories: Events
| Who | Kevin Sampsell |
| When |
Friday, February 12, 2010
7:00pm
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All Ages
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| Where |
101 South Main Street
Seattle, WA, USA 98104 Located in the heart of the historic Pioneer Square District, Seattle's original business neighborhood, The Elliott Bay Book Company is home to over 150,000 titles, set on cedar shelves in a series of inviting, exposed-brick walled rooms. |
| Other Info | He is a publisher—his own independent press, Future Tense Books. He is a bookseller—Small Press Champion (yes) at Powell's in Portland. And he is a fiction writer (Beautiful Blemish and Creamy Bullets). Kennewick native son Kevin Sampsell is now author of a rollicking, coming-of-age memoir, A Common Pornography. "Memory and truth are jagged things, and Kevin Sampsell's memoir-in-vignettes expresses this forcefully. With grit and candor, he marches us through the heartbreak, horniness, and confusion of a west coast boy becoming a man." – Robin Romm. "Embarrassing and honest, heartbreaking and hilarious, A Common Pornography is a great memoir from one of the Northwest's best writers." – Willy Valutin. |
