The University of Washington Library is hosting Literary Voices 2008 on April 19 at 6 p.m. Tickets cost $100 and the money raised will go toward collections, preservation, and Library Undergraduate Research Scholarships.

UW Press authors include Tony Angell, Jack Hamann, Ruth Kirk, Alice Shorett, William Dietrich, Robin Wright, and Shawn Wong. Other authors at the event are keynote speaker and National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie, Kit Bakke, Tess Gallagher, Maria Headley, James Banks, Susan Jeffords, Lance Bennett, David Laskin, Robert Schenkkan, and Jean Sherrard.

 

For more information, see the Library's website.

 

The UW Press is headed back to campus, where we'll occupy offices in the UW Tower.

Our e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and PO Box will remain the same.

Mailing address:
PO Box 50096
Seattle, WA 98145-5096

New street location (not for USPS mail, only couriers such as Fed-Ex, UPS, etc):
4333 Brooklyn Ave
Seattle, WA

More information will be available in the coming weeks.

 

Ted Van Dyk will bring his political expertise and extensive background in advising presidential candidates to New York City for a talk at the Columbia Alumni Weekend Book Fair at Columbia University on April 4.

 

Going to be in New York? See Columbia's website for additional information.

For more info on Ted's book and to see recent reviews, please see our website.

 

Phillip Thurtle, professor in University of Washington's Comparative History of Ideas department, will read from his new book The Emergence of Genetic Rationality. Because the science of genetics and the practice of breeding plants and animals required extensive record keeping, Thurtle argues that modern science was born when systems were developed to manage and make sense of the massive information gathered. 

 

Join us at the Simpson Center in UW's Communications Building for a talk on Tuesday, April 8 at 4 p.m.. The discussion will be followed with a reception and book signing.

For more information, see the Simpson Center or our website.

 

Published by Seattle Architecture Foundation, Seattle Architecture provides nine walking tours of Seattle that highlight our city's architectural gems.

 

Join Maureen Elenga for a lecture at Third Place Books on Thursday, April 10 at 7 p.m. For more information, see Third Place Books, Seattle Architecture Foundation, or our website.

 

We're particularly excited to be announcing the April 13 opening of The West the Railroads Made exhibit at Washington State Historical Society. The Press's partnership with WSHS and the John W. Barringer III National Library at the St. Louis Mercantile Library -- University of Missouri, has produced a beautiful and significant book.

Railroads exercised a remarkable hold on the imagination, as evidenced by the advertisements, photographs, paintings, etchings, and other pieces of ephemera that accompany the historical research of two of country's most well-known historians: Carlos Schwantes and James P. Ronda. Schwantes, author of Railroad Signatures across the Pacific Northwest, and Ronda, author of Beyond Lewis and Clark, have delved into our history and produced a remarkable work.

 

For more information on the exhibit, see the Washington State Historical Society and for additional news on the book, see our website.

 

Coll Thrush's recent book, Native Seattle, is now available in paperback. An exploration of the relationship between Seattle's urban history and the Native Americans of the region, Thrush's book has been very well received.

 

 

Linda Chalker-Scott has been called gardening's answer to television's "MythBusters" -- using new scientific evidence, she proves which gardening myths are just myths. Linda is a well-known horticulturist who is Washington State's editor of MasterGardener and a professor at WSU's extension school.

You'll have plenty of opportunities to catch up with Linda, but if you missed her on KUOW's "Sound Focus," you can find the archived show here.

 

Or find Linda at the following lectures:

Sunday, April 13 at Swanson's Nursery at 4 p.m.

Sunday, April 20 at Molbak's Nursery at 1 p.m.

Thursday, April 24 at Center for Urban Horticulture, also co-sponsored by the University of Washington Press and UW Alumni Association, at 7 p.m. Join us after for a reception at the Center's Miller Library, where book sales will be provided by the Library.

 

Nance Van Winckel, the most recent poet in our Pacific Northwest Poetry Series, will read poems from her collection No Starling. Unpredictable, wry, always provocative, displaying a sure and startling command of images and ideas, her poems make every gesture count.