Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. Free.
Internationally bestselling author Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns) has worked for six years on his new novel, And the Mountains Echoed—and this time, the writer called “a storyteller of dizzying power” by Evening Standard adds a whole new dimension to his work.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Pharos Editions debuts in June with a carefully curated collection of out-of-print, lost, or rare books hand-picked and introduced by some of today’s most exciting authors; three of them–Sherman Alexie, Jonathan Evison, and Jess Walter–discuss their choices with Paul Constant, books editor for The Stranger.
Thursday, June 13, 2013, 7:30 – 9:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5-$17.
In the three-day, four-event Thought Experiments festival, five local playwrights and five scientists collaborate on five original plays that ask: What does it mean to be human when robots and AI become an integral part of our lives?
Sunday, June 16, 2013, 4:00 – 5:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $10-$15.
For June 16th’s Bloomsday—commemorating the life of Irish writer James Joyce and his signature achievement, the novel Ulysses—a top professional cast celebrates with selections from Dubliners, Joyce’s 1914 collection of 15 vivid short stories.
Sunday, June 16, 2013, 7:00 – 9:30pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $10.
Just before Seattle Pride Fest, The Stranger columnist and all-around provocateur Dan Savage weighs in on love, sex, marriage, LGBT rights, politics—and anything else that comes up in conversation with Ari Shapiro, NPR’s White House correspondent.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013, 7:00 – 8:30pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $35 (includes a copy of the book).
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Dick Falkenbury: ‘Rise Above It All’
Monday, June 3, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Dick Falkenbury, writer of the initiative approved by Seattle voters in 1996 to “build, operate, and maintain” a 40-mile, citywide monorail and author of Rise Above It All, tells the story of the movement behind the failed monorail project.