Below, we've compiled all of our critics' picks for the season's literary events, like journalist and debut novelist Ta-Nehisi Coates, hilarious feminist Lindy West, nonfiction giant Tim O’Brien, and newscaster Rachel Maddow. You can also find a complete list of readings & talks in Seattle this fall on our EverOut Things To Do calendar, or check out the rest of our critics' picks from Seattle Art and Performance.


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Fiction



Thurs Sept 19

Amitav Ghosh: Gun Island—A Novel In acclaimed author Ghosh's new novel, a rare book dealer with a crisis of faith embarks on a global journey to research a mysterious legend. Reportedly, the novel is, in part, an investigation of the post-climate-change world, with all its vast migrations, economic upheavals, and extreme weather events. Ghosh is a Medici Prize winner for The Circle of Reason and has received two Lifetime Achievement awards and four honorary doctorates, plus the Padma Shri award from the president of India. (Town Hall, 7:30 pm, $5)

Sat Oct 12

Neal Kosaly-Meyer: Finnegans Wake The Seattle composer and musician will continue his amazing feat of reciting James Joyce's novel from memory, chapter by chapter—as if reading the modernist monster wasn't hard enough. "Maybe this is the only way the novel could be saved. It's not all that amazing to memorize something that everyone understands; it's very impressive to memorize something understood by only one person, who has been in the grave for many years," Charles Mudede wrote. Kosaly-Meyer will perform Chapter 5 at this session. (Gallery 1412, 8 pm, $5—$15)


Sun Oct 20

Ta-Nehisi Coates All journalists secretly want to be novelists. Ta-Nehisi Coates—author of Between the World and Me, We Were Eight Years in Power, and "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration"—is no different. His highly anticipated novel The Water Dancer is due out in late September. It's an adventure novel about an enslaved man named Hiram Walker. If it's half as good as his journalism, it will be one of the best novels of 2019. RS (Benaroya Hall, 7:30 pm, $45—$105)


Mon Nov 4

Andre Aciman: Find Me A couple of years after the film adaptation of Aciman's Call Me by Your Name beguiled audiences with Elio and Oliver's love story, Aciman is back with a sequel, Find Me. This one follows Elio's father Samuel as he meets a beautiful young woman on the train, Elio as he has an affair in Paris, and Oliver as he deliberates returning to Europe. (Central Library, 7 pm, free)


Tues Nov 12

Amor Towles Internationally praised author Towles, whose first novel The Rules of Civility in its French translation won the 2012 Prix Fitzgerald, will talk about his follow-up, A Gentleman in Moscow, which appeared on many 2016 "Best Books" lists. (Benaroya Hall, 7:30 pm, $20—$80)


Sat Nov 23

Ben Lerner: The Topeka School Rich Smith has written: "Lerner started off his literary career writing nerdy books of poetry that were so good you could feel your brain and heart growing as you read them. Then he turned his attention to reinventing the American novel. Both Leaving Atocha Station and 10:04 were phenomenal. His sentences abound with intelligence and humor." Lerner's newest novel is set in Topeka and follows a high school senior struggling to fit between a liberal household and a deeply right-wing environment. (Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free)


Poetry



Thurs Sept 19

Naomi Shihab Nye Prolific Palestinian American poet Nye recently won the Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement, and that's just one prize in a long line of laurels. Don't miss her appearance with SAL, where she'll be promoting The Tiny Journalist, a collection inspired by a 7-year-old videographer of Palestinian protests, Janna Tamimi. (Town Hall, 7:30 pm, $20—$80)


Thurs Oct 17

Richard Kenney Kenney is the best local poet you've probably never heard of. But this guy is the real deal. He won a MacArthur "Genius Grant" for inventing new ways to create and pattern rhymes. That's right. Before Kenney started writing (and writing about writing, a speciality of his), we had fewer ways to find rhymes, which is one of the major food groups in poetry. If that's all he did, he'd deserve your full attention for at least one evening. But he's also given the world several books of poetry that are worth keeping close by. Using syntax to probe science, and diving deep into the evolutionary origins of language, Kenney refreshes the language that dies daily in our mouths, and he brushes the dust off old feelings like joy and love so that we can feel them again as if for the first time. RS (Broadway Performance Hall, 7:30 pm, $20—$80)


Thurs Nov 21

Mary Ruefle Ruefle has a new book of poetry out from Wave Books. It's called Dunce. I am happy to report that Ruefle continues to be obsessed with using her signature conversational style to write abstract-associative poetry about death, loneliness, and poetry itself. Though I'm not as in love with Dunce as I was with My Private Property, it is still early on in my relationship with the book. Regardless, it's my understanding that Ruefle rarely leaves her home in Vermont, and so it's a rare joy to get to see her in person. RS (Broadway Performance Hall, 7:30 pm, $20—$80)


Second Monday

African-American Writers' Alliance Poetry Reading Hear poets from the Northwest's African American community in a reading organized by the NW African American Writers' Alliance, which promotes emerging and seasoned writers and publishes anthologies. (Third Place Books Seward Park, 7 pm, free)


Third Thursday

Margin Shift A poetry reading series that emphasizes the contributions of anyone who might normally be at the margins of the mainstream literary scene—"poets of color, LGBTQI poets, poets from out of town, poets who are new to town, women poets, undocumented poets, experimental writers (whatever that might mean!), and brand new writers." (Common AREA Maintenance, 6:30 pm, free)


Sci-Fi/Fantasy



Wed Oct 16

Jeanette Winterson: Frankisstein Lesbian literary icon Winterson has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for this queer modern-day take on Frankenstein. A trans doctor named Ry Shelley encounters a couple of powerful men, Ron Lord and Victor Stein, who want to use them for sketchy trans- or posthumanist purposes. Stein is an idealistic but arrogant scientist; Lord, crudely misogynist, sounds Jeffrey-Epstein-cuckoo. (Central Library, 7 pm, free)


Fri Nov 15

Joanna Stoberock: Pigs Four children eke out a living caring for a herd of ferocious pigs on an island where all of earth's garbage is sent. One day, they find not another piece of flotsam but a boy, whose arrival challenges their routine. (Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free)


Essays



Tues Oct 1

Survivor Café: An Evening with Elizabeth Rosner None other than Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen called Rosner's Survivor Café, published in 2017, "a breathtaking overview of events as varied as the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, the Rwandan genocide, and Japanese American internment." Rosner will discuss her nonfiction examination of trauma and survival. (Hugo House, 7 pm, free)


Wed Oct 16

Paul Theroux: A Mexican Journey The acclaimed travel writer will read from his firsthand account of driving along the US-Mexico border and his explorations of Chiapas and Oaxaca, where he encountered such people as Zapotec mill workers, Zapatistas, and families of migrants. (Town Hall, 7:30 pm, $5)


Sun Nov 10

An Evening with David Sedaris He's back. One of America's most beloved writers and humorists returns to Seattle for his annual performance. It's almost a tradition by now, the yearly visit from David Sedaris, as though your favorite uncle or the best friend you wish you had pops in for a night to read from whatever he's working through. We're lucky that way. No word yet on whether his material will be old or new (maybe both?) but, like always, he is sure to amuse. KH (Benaroya Hall, 7 pm, $52—$61)


Sun Nov 24

Peter Sagal Sagal is the host of the nerdy NPR game show Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! and author of the amusing memoir The Incomplete Book of Running. (Neptune Theatre, 8 pm, $45)


Tues Nov 26

Lindy West At the height of the "#MeToo has gone too far" movement, Stranger alum and New York Times columnist Lindy West wrote a piece called, "Yes, This Is a Witch Hunt. I'm a Witch and I'm Hunting You." In the column, West argued that the criminal justice system doesn't adequately deliver justice to victims of sexual assault, and that she believes the number of sexual assault reports do not, in fact, exceed the number of sexual assaults in this country. And so, obviously, the #MeToo movement has not gone "too far," you fucking morons—and, yes, she's looking at you, Woody Allen. But, because she's Lindy West, she said all of that with enough clarity, force, and humor to make even the most panicked of sex panicky cautioneers crack a smile. Her new book, The Witches Are Coming, uses that column as a launching pad to explore an issue that could use a little more light. RS (Town Hall, 7:30 pm, $20—$80)


Memoir/ Biography



Mon Sept 16

Samantha Power: The Education of an Idealist The Pulitzer winner, current Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School professor, and member of Obama's State Department will read from her memoir, which spans her career from war correspondent to diplomat. (Town Hall, 7:30 pm, $5/$35)


Sun Sept 22

Clyde W. Ford: Think Black This prizewinning author will read from his new book about his father, John Stanley Ford, who became the first black software engineer at IBM in 1947 and had to weather his white coworkers' harassment and cruelty. Ford (junior) reflects on the cost of enduring a racist environment for both John Stanley Ford and his family, and delves into "how his hiring was meant to distract from IBM's dubious business practices including its involvement in the Holocaust, eugenics, and apartheid." (Town Hall, 4 pm, $5)


Sat Oct 5

Nora Krug: Belonging Krug's honest, fascinating graphic memoir originated when she became determined to revisit the mysteries of her childhood in Karlsruhe, Germany. How had her grandparents' generation experienced the reign of the Nazis and World War II? Why did no one ever speak of the period? (Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free)


Sun Oct 6

Patti Smith Many reviewers and people who grew up in the 1980s love the impossible coolness of this punk rock poet and memoirist. They thought that M Train, the memoir about memory and being a regular person even though you are actually Patti Smith, was good. They ate up all the New York bohemian details about her early life with Robert Mapplethorpe in Just Kids. I like Horses, and that's about as far as I go, but I understand that she is an important and brilliant force in the world. Smith will be touring with her newest memoir, Year of the Monkey. RS (Benaroya Hall, 7:30 pm, $42—$102)


Fri Oct 11

Lawrence Weschler: And How Are You Dr Sacks? In the '80s, Weschler began to profile the influential neurologist and science writer Oliver Sacks, a project that stretched out over four years. Though Sacks eventually asked Weschler not to publish the profile, the two men remained friends. Sacks died in 2015; during his decline, he told Weschler to take up the project again. Now you can read this long-abandoned portrait of one of the great scientists and science writers of our era. (Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free)


Sat Oct 12

Augusten Burroughs: Toil & Trouble It's a good time to be a witch. Modern witches (less the crook-nosed cartoon and more the millennial with a crystal collection) often profess to have exceedingly heightened powers of intuition, and this includes Burroughs, the memoirist made famous for his portrayal of his very unconventional family in Running With Scissors. He might not be a millennial, but he is a self-professed witch, and his new book details how, from an early age, he had certain... abilities others seemed not to possess. He confessed this to his mother, who wasn't surprised. And why would she be? She, too, was a witch, if not exactly the world's best mother, as anyone familiar with his previous work will recall. Toil & Trouble is about coming to terms with what he could—and, perhaps more importantly, could not—control in his life and others'. KH (Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free)


Thurs Nov 7

Tim O'Brien: Dad's Maybe Book Tim O'Brien—whose best-selling works include The Things They Carried and If I Die in a Combat Zone—was already old when his young sons were born. No stranger to loss, his new work shares a series of letters he wrote for his sons to read after he's gone. Thankfully, the man isn't dead yet, and Dad's Maybe Book—which touches on everything from soccer to magic tricks to, of course, war—is, at its heart, a love letter from a father to his sons, something he wished his own father had left for him. This sounds direr than it is, but as always, O'Brien's work is filled with as much joy and humor as pain. KH (Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free)


Thurs Nov 14

Roland De Wolk: American Disruptor The story of Leland Stanford should be better known: because he founded Stanford University, because he commissioned Eadweard Muybridge's famous photographic studies of horses, and because he was a world-class swine. De Wolk's biography details how the once-"serial failure" rose to become a stupendously wealthy robber baron, railroad tycoon, politician, and "this country's original 'disruptor.'" (Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, 7 pm)


Mystery/Thriller/Horror



Mon Oct 28

Ben Percy: Suicide Woods In this fiction collection by the author of the essay book Thrill Me, Percy tells tales of foresty horror and uncanny events. Rich Smith has written: "It's important to know how deep Benjamin Percy's voice is. It's comically deep. It takes you a few minutes to overcome its startling deepness. But once you get past his sound and into his sense, you'll realize he's a strong advocate for and excellent executioner of the literary/genre novel hybrid." (Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free)


Politics/Current Issues



Wed Oct 2

Ijeoma Oluo: 'So You Want to Talk About Race' with Charles Mudede The breakout book by Seattle-based writer, speaker, and emerging social media icon, Ijeoma Oluo offers a fresh, compassionate, often witty approach to helping us have productive conversations about race and navigating these turbulent times. DEEPA BHANDARU (Town Hall, 7:30 pm, $5)


Tues Oct 8

Christof Spieler: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit Why is it taking so damn long for American cities to get decent public transportation infrastructure? With his new book Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit, the vice president of design firm Huitt-Zollars and lecturer at Rice University will speak about how we can overcome the challenges of transit planning. (Town Hall, 12 pm, $5)


Fri Oct 11

Rachel Maddow: Blowout You could stay home and watch Rachel Maddow pontificate on cable news every weeknight, or you could do it in person. Maddow is out with a new book about some very bad shit international oil and gas companies have gotten away with, and their role in global politics. It's also a continuation of Maddow's theme since November 2016: How, and why, Russia hacked the 2016 election. Maddow has, at times, drifted into Red Scare territory since Trump was elected—nearly screaming THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! on air—but who can blame her? Donald Trump is actually the president. There's got to be some kind of nefarious explanation, right? Right?? KH (Benaroya Hall, 8 pm, $62)


Thurs Oct 24

Nick Turse Type Media Center Fellow, investigative reporter, and author of Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan will clue his audience in to the U.S.'s significant military presence in Africa, which is barely a blip in American news. (Kane Hall, Room 120, 7:30 pm, free)


Mon Oct 28

Anand Giridharadas: Winners Take All Want some good arguments to lob at our Jeff Bezos-worshiping, techno-libertarian overlords who think Amazon's "Community Banana Stand" serves as a sterling example of corporate magnanimity? Then pick up a copy of former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas's new book, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, and buy yourself a ticket to his Town Hall lecture. RS (Town Hall, 7:30 pm, $5/$21)


Tues Oct 29

Richard Stengel: The Global Battle Against Disinformation This new book on the plague of weaponized disinformation, Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It, comes to us from Obama's Undersecretary of State, who's also the former editor of Time magazine. (Town Hall, 7:30 pm, $5)


Fri Nov 1

Meghan Daum: The Problem with Everything Daum will read from her new book about "the current landscape—from Donald Trump's presidency to the #MeToo movement and beyond." The Stranger's own Katie Herzog will moderate. (Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free)


Wed Nov 6

Anita Hill Almost three decades ago, Anita Hill prefigured the #MeToo movement by testifying at Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, asserting that he had sexually harassed her. Though Thomas was confirmed, and Hill shamefully treated (Joe Biden, notably, refused to call witnesses to back up her claims), Hill stands as a testament to the bravery of women who fight back. Now, she's the Chair of the Hollywood Commission on Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equality in the Workplace. Hear this important women's rights activist speak about how far we have—and haven't—come. (Meany Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30 pm, $5)


Thurs Nov 21

Gloria Steinem Where do you start with Gloria Steinem? She's the founder of Ms. magazine, the author of half a dozen books, an award-winning activist, and, of course, the most famous feminist of her time. Not all of Steinem's positions have proved to be enduring: She perpetuated the widely debunked "recovered memories" phenomenon in the 1990s, which, for some reason, she has never disavowed, and has an almost puritanical view of pornography. But still, Steinem has done remarkable things, and she's one of the most influential women of her generation. She'll be talking about her life in feminism when she comes to Seattle. KH (Paramount Theatre)


Science/Nature



Mon Sept 16

David B. Williams: Stories in Stone Readers are taken on a tour of the city streets to discover underlying geology. (Third Place Books Lake Forest Park, 7 pm, free)


Tues Sept 24

Naomi Klein: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal The author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything isn't exactly the most uplifting of public thinkers, but it makes sense: her primary subjects are capitalism and climate change. Her new work, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, takes a slightly more optimistic view, arguing that the US can and should enact the Green New Deal, a nationwide project that could, if done right, rebuild our crumbling infrastructure while also ending our reliance on fossil fuels. Klein, like many proponents of the GND, has tied this movement to a divorce with capitalism, and while this might not play in Congress, I have a feeling she'll find a sympathetic audience in Seattle. KH (Town Hall, 7:30 pm, $5)


Wed Sept 25

Jonathan Safran Foer: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast Listen, we can't be eating breakfast sausages anymore. We can't be eating lunch sausages or dinner sausages or dessert sausages for that matter, either. I'm sorry, but we lost that privilege when we decided we wanted to turn the earth into one giant concentrated animal feeding operation. Or at least that's what Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated (totally great) and Eating Animals (very good), is here to argue in his brand-new book, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast. Show up to this reading at Town Hall and learn how to save the planet by not literally succumbing to every desire you've ever had for once in your life. RS (Town Hall, 7:30 pm, $5)


Thurs Nov 7

Ampersand Live Forterra presents Ampersand Live, a multimedia storytelling event "about people and place." (Moore Theatre, 7:30 pm, $15—$45)


Sociology/Psychology



Mon Sept 16

Caitlin Doughty: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? No one might know what happens when you die, but funeral director, mortician, and YouTube star Caitlin Doughty can certainly answer less ethereal questions about death. For instance: Do people poop when they die? And how do I get a Viking funeral? And, of course, will my cat eat my eyeballs out when I die alone on my kitchen floor after choking on a cupcake? Doughty's new book answers these questions and many more, and like all her work, will help demystify the most inevitable and perhaps most mysterious part of being alive: dying. KH (Town Hall, 7:30 pm, $5)


Mon Sept 23

Malcolm Gladwell Gladwell kicks off SAL's Literary Arts Series, with a reading from his new book Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know, which is good news for people who are into that kind of thing. To me, Gladwell represents the revival of the worst impulses in American storytelling and journalism. He is king of the metaphorically resonant but ultimately meaningless comparison, and he's obsessed with overblowing the claims of cherry-picked studies. That said, Kirkus gave his new book a starred review, so it'll probably read well. RS (Benaroya Hall, 7:30 pm, $20/$35)


Tues Oct 15

Tim Egan: A Pilgrimage to Eternity The beloved author of The Immortal Irishman, The Big Burn, and other works of history, travel writing, and true crime tackles nothing less than Christendom itself. As he travels the Via Francigena, a route to Rome via France and Switzerland, Egan reflects on the history of the Catholic Church and its current upheaval in secular Europe and beyond. (Town Hall, 7:30 pm, $35/$40)


Art/Design



Thurs Oct 10

Wed Oct 30

Philip Deloria: Becoming Mary Sully This professor of Native American and Indigenous history at Harvard University, author of Indians in Unexpected Places and Playing Indian, will speak about the oeuvre of Dakota Sioux artist Mary Sully. Completely under the radar of white art critics and even Native art historians, Sully worked from the '20s to the '40s, marrying modern abstraction with "indigenous women's expressive traditions of the northern Plains." Deloria will argue for Sully's place in the canon. (Kane Hall, Room 120, 7:30 pm, free)



Music/Performing Arts



Wed Oct 23

Hanif Abdurraqib Hanif Abdurraqib writes good poetry about music, and he writes good music criticism using the tools of poetry. Combining personal narrative with an electric analytical mind, Abdurraqib has made me consider the work of artists like Celine Dion, Macklemore, and Carly Rae Jepsen more deeply than I ever imagined I would. His essay about going to see a Bruce Springsteen show after visiting Michael Brown's plaque is a must-read, too. So, when news came out that Abdurraqib was working on a biography / book-length personal essay about his love for A Tribe Called Quest, Go Ahead in the Rain, I jumped for joy. RS (Town Hall, 7:30 pm, $10)


Writing Technique



Fri Oct 18

Chris Abani: Mining for Awe Nigerian author and activist Abani was jailed three times and even sentenced to death in his own country for his political writings. Nevertheless, he has held on to a sense of awe and compassion. Learn from his approach at this Word Works talk. (Hugo House, 7 pm, $15/$30)



Health



Wed Sept 25

Timothy Faust: Single Payer Health Care and What Comes Next Why have we been waiting so long for single-payer health care? Timothy Faust, a data scientist, journalist, advocate, and author of Health Justice Now, will delve into the possibilities for fair and affordable health care and the obstacles to its implementation. (Town Hall, 7:30 pm, $5)


Sun Sept 29

Jenny Brown: The Abortion Struggle Now Feminist Jenny Brown was one of the plaintiffs in the legal case that brought us over-the-counter access to Plan B, the "morning-after pill." Now she'll appear with her book Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now, in which she'll trace the history of abortion in the US and argue for a new approach to rallying around reproductive rights. Brown will be joined by local Shout Your Abortion activist Amelia Bonow. (Town Hall, 7:30 pm, $5)


Young Adult



Tues Sept 17

Gabby Rivera: Juliet Takes a Breath The editor of the queer women-focused website Autostraddle is the first Latina to work for Marvel. The SyFy network anointed Rivera one of the top comic creators of 2017, and NBC named her a #Pride30 Innovator in the same year. She's released a coming-of-age young adult novel about a "self-proclaimed closeted Puerto Rican baby dyke from the Bronx" who snags an internship with her favorite feminist writer. (Third Place Books Seward Park, 7 pm, free)



Miscellaneous



Fri Sept 20

Surreal Storytelling with Strange Women: One Year Anniversary Celebrate one year of Kate Berwanger's excellent series, which, for this special edition, will feature speculative fiction writer Carol A. Petrie, artist/writer/death doula apprentice Carrie Redway, fantasy/sci-fi/horror author Ellen Meny, poet Emma Aylor, feminist fiction writer G.G. Silverman, "Fat Femme Jewish Word Witch, Tarot Reader & Creatrix from a lineage of Priestesses" Hazel Fern, young adult novelist Helen K. Thomas, and multigenre writer Kate Bernatche. Bring cash to shop from vendors! (Vermillion, 7 pm, $10/$25)


Thurs Oct 24

Lit Crawl Seattle Seattle is a haven for literary arts, and during this free, one-night-only event, locals are invited to soak it up during a night of booze and book loving, when a huge number of bars, cafes, and businesses on Capitol Hill present writers and artists in events ranging from straightforward readings to cooking demos to performances. LP (Capitol Hill, 6 pm—12 am, free)


First Wednesday

Silent Reading Party The Silent Reading Party is one of the weirdest, most wonderful parties you'll ever go to, because no one talks to you and you can get some reading done. You curl up on a couch or in a wingback chair with a book or magazine or whatever you feel like reading, while Paul Moore plays piano and waiters bring you things. Whenever Paul starts playing Erik Satie, I find myself staring into the fireplace or closing my eyes and melting into the couch. The reading party is now in its 10th year, and is so popular that there is often a line out the door just to get a seat. CF (Hotel Sorrento, 6 pm, free)


Open Mic/Storytelling



First Thursday, Third Friday

Seattle StorySLAM A live amateur storytelling competition in which audience members who put their names in a hat are randomly chosen to tell stories on a theme. Local comedians tend to show up, but lots of nonperformers get in on the action as well. First Thursday readings take place at the Fremont Abbey, followed by third Friday events at St. Mark's Cathedral. (Various locations, 8 pm, $10)