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Jul 28, 2009 0

Seattle, WA – 07/28/09

Who
Rick Bass
When
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
7:30pm - All Ages
Where
Elliott Bay Book Company (map)
1521 Tenth Avenue
Seattle, WA, USA 98122

The Elliott Bay Book Company is Seattle's leading independent bookstore and hosts an incredible reading series. Elliott Bay moved from it's location in Seattle's Pioneer Square (a historic district that is known as the source of the term "Skid Road") in April 2010. On the new location, Elliott Bay Book Company says,

"Be assured--the new place will have its own distinct charms, many of them very similar to what people have known and enjoyed about our Pioneer Square home. Everyone that we know of who's had a sneak peek as construction has ensued has gone 'wow' in appreciation and anticipation."
Other Info
Rick Bass is back from his Yaak Valley, Montana home with his newest book, The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). "Classic in form, the journal of a year in an old loved place, The Wild Marsh is a lovingly wrought chronicle from a writerly soul that has found its spot in the world: the one-of-a-kind Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana. Sure-footed in his approach, whether the topic is a forest fire in his front yard or the excitement of the first tiny, cheerful glacier lilies in spring, Rick Bass is a stirring companion on the trail that leads west from the Walden Pond of Henry David Thoreau and the Sand County of Aldo Leopold." - Ivan Doig.

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Jul 20, 2009 0

Seattle, WA – 07/20/09

Who
Bibi Gaston
When
Monday, July 20, 2009
7:30pm - All Ages
Where
Elliott Bay Book Company (map)
1521 Tenth Avenue
Seattle, WA, USA 98122

The Elliott Bay Book Company is Seattle's leading independent bookstore and hosts an incredible reading series. Elliott Bay moved from it's location in Seattle's Pioneer Square (a historic district that is known as the source of the term "Skid Road") in April 2010. On the new location, Elliott Bay Book Company says,

"Be assured--the new place will have its own distinct charms, many of them very similar to what people have known and enjoyed about our Pioneer Square home. Everyone that we know of who's had a sneak peek as construction has ensued has gone 'wow' in appreciation and anticipation."
Other Info
A highly regarded landscape architect who maintains home and work places in both New York and the Columbia River Gorge, Bibi Gaston has made a moving memoir out of her grandmother's diaries. That grandmother, Rosamond Pinchot, was, in her short life, part of a prominent family, and prominent in her own right as an actress and sportswoman. The Loveliest Woman in America: A Tragic Actress, Her Lost Diaries, and Her Granddaughter's Search for Home (HarperPerennial) is Bibi Gaston's evocative chronicle of this all. "The Loveliest Woman in America is a story for all women who strive and struggle to lead meaningful and purposeful lives. In moving prose, the author weaves her grandmother Rosamond Pinchot's deep connection to nature with that of her own. That connection becomes the constantly redeeming thread, weaving its ways through the generations of a remarkable, passionate family whose legacy of service to the landscape and the environment are the DNA of today's conservation efforts." - Sara Cedar Miller.

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Jul 19, 2009 0

Seattle, WA – 07/19/09

Who
Brenda Peterson and Friends
When
Sunday, July 19, 2009
7:30pm - All Ages
Where
Elliott Bay Book Company (map)
1521 Tenth Avenue
Seattle, WA, USA 98122

The Elliott Bay Book Company is Seattle's leading independent bookstore and hosts an incredible reading series. Elliott Bay moved from it's location in Seattle's Pioneer Square (a historic district that is known as the source of the term "Skid Road") in April 2010. On the new location, Elliott Bay Book Company says,

"Be assured--the new place will have its own distinct charms, many of them very similar to what people have known and enjoyed about our Pioneer Square home. Everyone that we know of who's had a sneak peek as construction has ensued has gone 'wow' in appreciation and anticipation."
Other Info
"Writing Your Life: Memoirists at Work." Whether you've secretly wanted to write a memoir, or have questions for those who have written theirs, consider spending part of this Sunday afternoon as part of a lively discussion. To celebrate the new memoir anthology, Memoirs in the Light of Day (Lamberson-Corona Press), six contributors discuss the art and practice of making memoir. Writing teacher and acclaimed author Brenda Peterson—whose own new memoir, I Want to Be Left Behind, is due out later this year—moderates.

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