The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Chabon evokes the world of early comic books, where heroes like Superman were born from the fantasies and aspirations of Jewish immigrants.
October 21 2003, 6:30 PM
Queen Anne Branch, Seattle Public Library, 400 W. Garfield, Seattle
Facilitator: Jennifer Baker, Fiction Department, Seattle Public Library
October 28 2003, 7:00 PM
Mercer Island Library, 4400 88th Avenue SE, Mercer Island
Facilitator: Jennifer Baker, Fiction Department, Seattle Public Library
Michael Chabon comes to Seattle as part of the Nextbook Writers Series on November 12, 2003 at Benaroya Hall's Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall.
Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Gina Nahai
A magical and enchanting tale tracing three generations of Jewish women from the Jewish Ghetto in Tehran to the whorehouses of Turkey, and finally, to modern-day Los Angeles.
November 28 2003, 10:30 AM
Queen Anne Branch, Seattle Public Library, 400 W. Garfield, Seattle
Facilitator: Sally Porter, Manager, Mercer Island Library (KCLS)
November 28 2003, 2:00 PM
Mercer Island Library, 4400 88th Avenue SE, Mercer Island
Facilitator: Sally Porter, Manager, Mercer Island Library (KCLS)
Gina Nahai comes to Seattle as part of the Nextbook Writers Series on December 3, 2003 at Benaroya Hall's Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall.
"A Conversation with My Father" in The Collected Stories by Grace Paley
Paley's stories are united by her interweaving of personal and political truths, her extraordinary capacity for empathy, and her pointed, funny depiction of the small and large events that make up city life.
January 20 2004, 6:30 PM
Capitol Hill Branch, SPL, 425 Harvard Ave. E.
Facilitator: Sally Porter, Manager, Mercer Island Library (KCLS)
January 26 2004, 7:00 PM
Mercer Island Library, KCLS, 4400 88th Avenue SE, Mercer Island
Facilitator: Sally Porter, Manager, Mercer Island Library (KCLS)
Grace Paley's work will be read as part of "I'm a Stranger Here Myself," co-sponsored by Book-It Repertory Theatre, February 4, 2004 at Benaroya Hall's Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall.
Wild Gratitude, by Edward Hirsch and The Mercy, by Philip Levine
Edward Hirsch brings together "the two great impulses of poetry," elegy and praise, while Philip Levine's poetry has captured the physical and emotional lives of working class Americans.
March 2 2004, 12:00 PM
Temporary Central Library, SPL, Room 109, 800 Pike St., Seattle
Facilitator: Nancy Pearl, Executive Director, Washington Center for the Book
March 3 2004, 7:00 PM
Mercer Island Library, KCLS, 4400 88th Avenue SE, Mercer Island
Facilitator: Nancy Pearl, Executive Director, Washington Center for the Book
Edward Hirsch and Phillip Levine come to Seattle as part of the Nextbook Writers Series on March 10, 2004 at Benaroya Hall's Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall.
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Michaels' prize-winning novel tells the story of Jakob Beer, a seven-year-old Jewish boy, rescued from the Nazis by a Greek archaeologist and brought to Canada, where he grows up to become a poet.
May 5 2004, 6:30 PM
Capitol Hill Branch, SPL, 425 Harvard Ave. E.
Facilitator: David Wright, Fiction Department, Seattle Public Library
May 12 2004, 7:00 PM
Mercer Island Library, KCLS, 4400 88th Avenue SE, Mercer Island
Facilitator: David Wright, Fiction Department, Seattle Public Library
Anne Michaels comes to Seattle as part of the Nextbook Writers Series on May 19, 2004 at Benaroya Hall's Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall.