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Frances McCue's The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Join the celebration at the Hugo House on Wednesday, October 12 at 6 p.m!
 Marsha Weisiger, author of Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country, won the Hal K. Rothman Prize for the best book on western environmental history from the Western Historical Association. |
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Voyages, by Gordon Miller, will be available in September. Voyages reveals the evolution of maritime technologies, the rise and fall of maritime empires, the extreme dangers of sailing uncharted waters, the courage and brutality of life at sea, and the discovery of new continents, cultures, and products. Through their voyages, these ships and sailors defined the true dimensions of the oceans and coastlines of the world. |
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Benedict Anderson, author of the Introduction to No Concessions, will deliver the Danz Lecture on Tuesday, November 8, at 6:30 p.m. in Kane Hall 120.
John Findlay and Bruce Hevly, authors of Atomic Frontier Days, will be speaking in a Sick Lecture event in the Petersen Room at Allen Library on Tuesday, November 15, at 4 p.m. The talk will be followed by a reception.
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more events around town
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Thomas T. Wilson, subject of Thomas T. Wilson, will be at Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Room 220, in a UW Library event on Thursday, October 6, at 7 p.m.
Joan Singler, Jean Durning, Bettylou Valentine, and Maid Adams will be at the East Shore Unitarian Church on Thursday, October 13, at 10:30 a.m.
David Martin, author of Evergreen Muse, will speak at Horizon House on Thursday, October 13 at 7 p.m.
David Martin will also speak at the Tacoma Art Museum on Tuesday, October 18, at 7 p.m. on A Turbulent Lens.
 Stacilee Ford, author of Troubling American Women, will discuss the book at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC, on Wednesday, October 19, at noon.
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Greetings!
Well, this list of events should speak for itself! We will be practically everywhere around the Puget Sound region and beyond in the coming weeks, so be sure to say hello!  Sarika Cullis-Suzuki, author of the Introduction to Beneath Cold Seas, will be at the Burke on October 5 at 7 p.m. for an amazing event. You won't want to miss the incredible photos from the book! Also, please join us at the Richard Hugo House on Wednesday, October 12 at 6 p.m. as we toast the winners of the 2011 Washington State Book Awards. Frances McCue's The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs was a finalist in the nonfiction category and her new book of poetry, The Bled, won the poetry prize. For you academics and industry colleagues out there, we'll be at the Frankfurt Book Fair (Oct, 12-16), the Western History Association (Oct. 13-16, in Oakland), and Native American Art Studies Association (Oct. 26-29 in Ottawa, Canada). We'll also be at the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association in Portland on October 14. All the best, Rachael remann@u.washington.edu  |
Trimpin, anne focke, and ed marquand
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Trimpin, the sound sculptor and composer, has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships; been the subject of a full-length documentary film and a profile in The New Yorker magazine; been included in hundreds of shows, performances, and new music festivals; and has had installations and exhibitions around the world. This book captures a record of this remarkable journey and places Trimpin's work in the context of visual art, music composition, performance, ambitious engineering, acoustics, and installation art. A touchstone for the book is a two-year series of exhibitions of his work in museums across the Pacific Northwest.
Anne Focke is a writer and for 19 years coeditor of the Grantmakers in the Arts Reader.
Join Trimpin, Anne, and Ed on
Saturday, October 1, at 7 p.m. at Elliott Bay
For more on Trimpin, please see this video featuring him and the contributors to the book:
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sandra chait
| |  Seeking Salaam
Prolonged violence in the Horn of Africa, the northeastern corner of the continent, has led growing numbers of Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalis to flee to the United States. Despite the enmity created by centuries of conflict, they often find themselves living as neighbors in their adopted cities, with their children as class-mates in school. In many ways, they are successfully navigating life in their new home; however, they continue to struggle to bridge old divisions and find salaam, or peace, with one another.
In conversations with more than forty East African immigrants living in Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, Sandra Chait captures the immigrants' struggle for identity in the face of competing stories and documents how some individuals have been able to transcend the ghosts from the past and extend a tentative hand to their former enemies.
Sandra M. Chait immigrated to the Unites States from South Africa. She is currently an independent scholar in Seattle.
Join Sandra on
Monday, September 26, at 12:40 p.m. on KUOW's "The Conversation"
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kurt armbruster
| |  Before Seattle Rocked
Seattle is a music town with rich, deep roots that have influenced the culture and identity of its civic life for decades. In a society that appreciates music but is ambivalent toward the profession of making it, the importance and contribution of Seattle's musicians have been routinely overlooked in historical accounts of the city. Kurt Armbruster fills that gap in this far-reaching and entertaining panorama of Seattle music from the 1890s to the 1960s, "before Seattle rocked."
Before Seattle Rocked is enlivened by personal anecdotes and memories from many of Seattle's most beloved musicians and is enriched by historic photos of the changing music scene.
Kurt E. Armbruster is a Seattle native, historian, professional bassist, and singersongwriter.
Join Kurt on
Tuesday, October 4, at 12:40 p.m. on KUOW's "The Conversation" Thursday, October 6, at 7 p.m. at University Book Store Tuesday, October 11, at 7 p.m. at Village Books Thursday, October 13, at 6:30 p.m. at the Northeast Branch of the Seattle Public Library, with Ravenna Third Place Books
Saturday, October 29, at 2 p.m. at the New Orleans Restaurant with Elliott Bay View the book trailer:
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jack nisbet
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When a mining claim on a crumbling cliff of burnt-rose quartzite lured naturalist Jack Nisbet to the northeastern corner of Washington State in 1970, he began a search for an understanding of that open country through stories about the people who lived there and the everyday events he shared with them. Together, these vivid, engaging, and subtly humorous stories evoke the essence of this place.
Jack Nisbet is a writer, teacher, and naturalist.
Join Jack on
Wednesday, October 5, at 7 p.m. at Auntie's Books, Spokane
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sarika cullis-suzuki
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Join Sarika Cullis-Suzuki, author of the foreword to Beneath Cold Seas, for a look at the magical underwater wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. Sarika will share her thoughts on this extraordinary photographic achievement and then present a narrated slide show of images from the book created by the author, David Hall. Join us for this wonderful opportunity to learn about what's beneath Puget Sound and beyond!
David Hall's photographs take us into the underwater world of the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska, home to the most diverse and spectacular marine life of any temperate or cold-water ecosystem on the planet. Hall's stunning photographs and lively text reveal many fascinating species interrelationships and rarely observed animal behaviors. An innovative approach to over/underwater photography places the marine life of the Pacific Northwest in familiar context with hauntingly beautiful images that will surprise even experienced divers and delight the rest of us.
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judy bentley
| |  Hiking Washington's History
Hiking Washington's History is for hikers, amateur historians, newcomers unfamiliar with the state's history, and Northwest natives who know only part of that history. Savor the vicarious experience of a hike from a cozy chair on a rainy winter day, or put your boots on and hit the trail when the sun shines.
Judy Bentley, who teaches at South Seattle Community College, is an avid hiker and the author of fourteen books for young adults.
Join Judy on
Wednesday, October 12, at 7:15 p.m. at REI, Kennewick
Thursday, October 13, at 7 p.m. at Book & Game, Walla Walla
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DAVID MARTIN & NICOLETTE BROMBERG
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Shadows of a Fleeting World provides a rare glimpse into the regional Pictorialist movement. It documents the lives and artistic accomplishments of the SCC photographers. The SCC was one of the most active and successful in the United States, and, fortunately, preservation of its works and history allow for a rich interpretation of its art. Japanese immigrants formed the club's core, and their work routinely blended Pictorialist methods with Japanese aesthetic traditions. The Japanese-influenced Pictorialist works of the SCC made a unique contribution to the international art movement.
David F. Martin is an independent art historian and curator specializing in women and minority artists of the Pacific Northwest. Nicolette Bromberg is visual materials curator, Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries.
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barbara johns
| |  Signs of Home
This eloquent account of Issei artist Kamekichi Tokita, together with his paintings and wartime diary, vividly illustrates an immigrant's life in Seattle in the 1920s and '30s and the uncertainties and anxieties of Japanese Americans during the World War II incarceration. Tokita emigrated from Japan in the early twentieth century and settled in Seattle's Japanese American immigrant community. By the 1930s he was established as a prominent member of the Northwest art scene and allied with the region's progressive artists. His art shares qualities of American Realism while it embodies a ditinctively Issei perspective on his new home.
On the day Pearl Harbor was bombed, Tokita started a diary that he vowed to keep until the war ended. In it he recorded with great vividness and insight the events, fears, rumors, restrictions, and his own emotional turmoil before and during his detention at Minidoka. The diary in this book is a rare personal account of this time written as events were unfolding by a person of maturity and stature.
Barbara Johns is an art historian, curator, and the former chief curator of the Tacoma Art Museum. Her previous books include Paul Horiuchi: East and West, Jet Dreams: Art of the Fifties in the Northwest, and Anne Gould Hauberg: Fired by Beauty.
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penny harrison
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Collectively, the writers in this volume apply their expertise and talent to provide an intelligent and informed context through which to see public issues and make sense of the changes that continue to shape the region and our world. Individually, they touch on our deepest sense of human experience and continuity and reflect the spirit of the Northwest. Open Spaces enlightens, challenges, and inspires.
Penny Harrison is the editor and publisher of Open Spaces magazine.
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Douglas Wilson & Theresa Langford
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To explore the sweep of human history at Fort Vancouver is to grasp some of the essentials of the North American experience. The fort has been part of the major historical changes in the Pacific Northwest for over 150 years, from the effects of colonialism on native peoples to the role of the U.S. Army. Native Americans, traders, homesteaders, and soldiers lived and worked at the fort, their lives interwoven and their stories imbedded in the objects they left behind. Exploring Fort Vancouver uses some of the most intriguing objects from the fort's extensive archaeological and archival collections to tell the history of technology, material culture, globalization, health and diet, and the National Park Service at this significant place.
Douglas C. Wilson is director of the Northwest Cultural Resources Institute and adjunct associate professor of anthropology at Portland State University. Theresa E. Langford is curator for the Northwest Cultural Resources Institute, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, and Lewis and Clark National Historic Park.
Join Doug & Theresa on
Wednesday, October 26, at 7 p.m. at University Bookstore
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