Writers Reading Resources (The W2R)!

Seattle is a literature-lover's mecca. Some of my favorite writers come here in person.
Special note: Please let me know if I've missed any important hubs of author-events' listings below.

University Book Store calendar: http://www.bookstore.washington.edu/calendar_iframe.taf?page=1

Elliot Bay Book Company Author Events: http://www.elliottbaybook.com/events/index.jsp

Ravenna Third Place Books Author Events: http://www.ravennathirdplace.com/

Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park) Author Events: http://www.thirdplacebooks.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=storeevents

Town Hall Seattle Events: http://www.townhallseattle.org/calendar.cfm

Seattle Public Library Events: http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=audience_current_calendar

How to Write Like I Do, 826 Seattle: http://www.826seattle.org/writelikeido/

2009-10 Literary Arts Series

Subscribe now to the 2009-10 Literary\Arts Series!

All Literary Arts Series events begin at 7:30pm in the S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium at Benaroya Hall.

Annie Proulx - October 7, 2009
Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Shipping News and superlative short stories such as Brokeback Mountain: Wyoming Stories 3

Lydia Davis - November 4, 2009
Short story wrtier and National Book Award finalist for Varieties of Distrubance and Samuel Johnson is Indignant; translator of Proust, Foucault, Flaubert

Richard Price - December 1, 2009
Author of seven novels, including Clockers and Lush Life; recipient of American Academy of Arts and Letters award and an Edgar Award as a co-writer of HBO's The Wire

Jane and Michael Stern - January 12, 2010
Travelers of America's back roads and authors of Two for the Road: Our Love Affair With American Food and Blue Plate Specials and Blue Ribbon Chefs: The Heart and Sould of America's Great Roadside Restaurants

Dr. Abraham Verghese - TBD, 2010
Dr. Abraham Verghese has published two acclaimed works of non-fiction, the National Book Critics Circle award finalist My Own Country: A Doctor's Story(1995), which is based on his experiences as an AIDS physician in Tennessee, and was turned into a film by director Mira Nair, and the best-selling memoir The Tennis Partner (1998), which recounts his move to El Paso, Texas and his new job as a staff doctor at the county hospital. His most recent book and first novel is Cutting for Stone (2009), a family saga set in both America and Verghese’s home country of Ethiopia. Verghese is the Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. He was born in Ethiopia to parents from Kerala in south India.

Michael Chabon - March 9, 2010
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and the Nebula Award-winning The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Elaine Pagels - April 30, 2010
MacArthur Fellowship-winning scholar and author of The Gnostic Gospels; Adam, Eve and the Serpent; Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity (with Karen L. King)