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Literary Voices

A Friends of the Libraries Event

Saturday April 28, 2012, 6pm, UW Club

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Friends of the Libraries' seventh annual Literary Voices dinner is on Saturday, April 28, 6pm at the UW Club. Tickets are $125. Proceeds benefit Libraries preservation, collections, and student scholarships.
Send an email or phone 206-616-8397, or print and fill out an order form and mail or fax it with payment information.

2012 Authors

    Rebecca Brown, Keynote Speaker

    LV 2012 Keynote Speaker

    Rebecca Brown's twelfth book, AMERICAN ROMANCES, a collection of gonzo “essays,” released in 2009, won the Publishing Triangle Award. The same year she also also co-edited, with Mary Jane Knecht, LOOKING TOGETHER: Writers on Art. Other titles include THE LAST TIME I SAW YOU, THE END OF YOUTH, THE DOGS, THE TERRIBLE GIRLS, EXCERPTS FROM A FAMILY MEDICAL DICTIONARY and THE GIFTS OF THE BODY. A frequent collaborator, she has written numerous texts for dance, theater and the visual arts.  Her work has been translated into Japanese, German, Italian, etc. and published in the UK.  She lives in Seattle.
    Brown was the first writer-in-residence at Richard Hugo House, a recipient of the 2003 Washington State Book Award, and The Stranger's Genius Award.

     

    Authors hosting dinner roundtables

    Maid Adams, Jean Durning, Joan Singler, and Bettylou Valentine
    Seattle in Black and White: The Congress of Racial Equality and the Fight for Equal Opportunity (UW Press, 2011)

    Kurt Armbruster
    Before Seattle Rocked: A City and Its Music (UW Press, 2011), Orphan Road: The Railroad Comes to Seattle, 1853-1911 (WSU Press, 1999), Whistle Down the Valley: 100 Years of Green River Railroading (NW Railway and Locomotive Preservation Association, 1991)

    David Barash
    Payback: Why We Retaliate, Redirect Aggression and Seek Revenge (Oxford U Press, 2011), Approaches to Peace: A Reader in Peace Studies (Oxford University Press, 2009), Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature (with Nanelle R. Barash, Delta, 2006)

    Paula Becker and Alan Stein
    The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World’s Fair and Its Legacy (Seattle Center Foundation, 2011), Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Washington's First World's Fair: A Timeline History (History Link, 2009)

    Misha Berson
    Something's Coming, Something Good: West Side Story and the American Imagination (Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2011), Between Worlds: Contemporary Asian-American Plays (Theatre Communications Group, 1993), San Francisco Stage (Parts 1-4) (Theatre Communications Group, 1989-1992)

    John M. Findlay and Bruce Hevly
    Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West (UW Press, 2011), The Atomic West (Emil and Kathleen Sick Lecture-Book Series in Western History and Biography, 2000)

    Kathleen Flenniken
    Plume (UW Press, 2012), Famous (Bison Books, 2006), Pontoon, an anthology of Washington State Poets (Number Ten, Floating Bridge Press, 2008)

    Molly Gloss
    The Hearts of Horses (Houghton Mifflin, 2009), The Jump-Off Creek (Mariner Books, 2005), Wild Life (Mariner Books, 2001)

    John Laursen
    Wild Beauty: Photographs of the Columbia River Gorge 1867-1957 (with Terry Toedtemeier, Oregon State U Press, 2008)

    Stephen Manes
    Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear (Cadwallader and Stern, 2011), Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America, with Paul Andrews (Touchstone, 1994)

    Karl Marlantes
    What It Is Like to Go to War (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011), Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War (Rizzoli, 2011)

    Donna Miscolta
    When the Cruz Family Danced (Signal 8 Press, 2011), A Taste of La Lengua: Writings From Los Norteños (Nortenos Press, 2000)

    Richard Morrill
    Seattle Geographies with Michael Brown (UW Press, 2011), Strategic Leadership: Integrating Strategy and Leadership in Colleges and Universities (ACE Series on Higher Education, 2010)

    Jennie Shortridge
    When She Flew (NAL/Penguin, 2009), Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe (NAL, 2008), Eating Heaven (2005)

    Art Wolfe
    Dogs Make Us Human: A Global Family Album (Bloomsbury USA, 2011) Travels to the Edge: A Photo Odyssey with Kathleen Cubley (Mountaineers Books, 2009) Edge of the Sky, Corner of the Earth with Art Davidson (Wildlands Press, 2003)

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