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May 2015
Lost Boi in SEATTLE!
Join Sassafras Lowrey for the Seattle stop on hir West Coast book tour! Sassafras will be joined by SPECIAL GUEST READERS: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Evan J. Peterson Lost Boi: Prepare to be swept overboard into a world of orphaned, abandoned, and runaway bois who have sworn allegiance and service to Pan, the fearless leader of Neverland, and to the newly corrupted Mommy Wendi. Pan's best boi Tootles narrates this tale of the lost bois who call the Neverland squat home,…
Find out more »November 2015
Andrea Kleine with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Andrea Kleine reads from her debut novel, Calf, with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of The End of San Francisco. Andrea and Mattilda have never met. They are both DC refugees. Sometimes they write to each other on the internet. Anything might happen. Writer and performance artist Andrea Kleine’s debut novel, Calf (Soft Skull Press), was inspired by John Hinckley, Jr.’s 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan and by the murder of her close childhood friend that same year. Made…
Find out more »July 2016
Anna Pulley: The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!)
If you’ve ventured into our Gay and Lesbian Studies section, you’ve probably stumbled upon Anna Pulley's hilarious (and very literary) illustrated poetry collection, The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!) (Flatiron Books). Endorsed by Tegan and Sara and by Cheryl Strayed (as well as by several of our booksellers), this book also offers some humorous insight into lesbian sex, rituals and relationships and features cat paintings by Kelsey Beyer. Tonight’s appearance by Anna and Kelsey is just for fun and…
Find out more »October 2016
Mark Frost: The Secret History of Twin Peaks
Talk about end-of-October fun: we are thrilled to host this special appearance by Mark Frost, whose work as a novelist and writer for such television classics as Hill Street Blues would alone merit a big, live night. But it is his work as co-creator of the landmark television series, Twin Peaks, and now, the author of the gorgeous, utterly captivating new book The Secret History of Twin Peaks (Flatiron Books) that he is here tonight. This beautifully produced, illustrated book…
Find out more »January 2017
Witchy AF: A Writing Workshop with Imani Sims
This is an event of the Queer Resurgence on Capitol Hill Poetry Slam Festival! This project is funded in part by a Neighborhood Matching Fund award from the City of Seattle, Seattle Department of Neighborhoods FREE Witchy AF: This workshop is designed to examine the fantastic in poetry. In every poem there is a little magic, This workshop will examine best practices from authors like Nikki Giovanni, Countee Cullen, and Anastacia Renee. Participants will generate new work and have the…
Find out more »March 2017
Hida Viloria: Born Both
Added to our March after an earlier calendar went to press is this appearance by intersex activist Hida Viloria for the book recently published to considerable praise, Born Both: An Intersex Life (Hachette Book Group). Hida Viloria is chair of the Organization Intersex International and founding director of its US-affiliate, the Intersex Campaign for Equality. ''How do you discover who you are when you are born outside of what culture has decided is possible? Hida Viloria answers this question with…
Find out more »April 2017
Independent Bookstore Day at Elliott Bay
Join us for Indie Bookstore Day, a national celebration of indie bookstores and the customers that support them. Activities will include a special storytime featuring staff from Book-It Repertory Theatre, a bookish scavenger hunt, screen printing with Fogland Studios, blackout poetry from Meredith Clark, and more! We'll be giving away prizes all day (including a short story by Rainbow Rowell), selling limited edition merch (like literary condoms), and there will even be something called a beep-boop machine (we hear it…
Find out more »Book-It’s 2017-2018 Season Announcement Party
Book-It is launching its 28th season with an announcement party in Elliott Bay Book Company's reading room on Sunday, April 30 at 6pm. For just $5, enjoy light refreshments and be the first to hear about all five shows of Book-It’s 2017-18 mainstage season, the three youth touring shows, and details about special events the company will host over the next year. Subscriptions may be purchased at the event (save 10% off regular prices). Guest artists include Justin Huertas and…
Find out more »August 2017
Anne-christine d’Adesky & Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Converse
Anne-christine d'Adesky and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore will meet and converse at the intersection of art, memoir, and 90's activism. Ac d’Adesky is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker who reported on the global AIDS epidemic for New York Native, OUT, The Nation, and The Village Voice. She received the first Award of Courage from amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. She was an early member of ACT UP and cofounder of the Lesbian Avengers. Her books include her 2017 memoir,…
Find out more »September 2017
We Were Witches Seattle Launch
Ariel Gore travles to Seattle's best bookstore Elliott Bay Book Company for the launch of WE WERE WITCHES! Join us for a reading and Q&A! Cashing into the dream that education is the road out of poverty, a teen mom takes a chance on bettering herself, gets on welfare rolls, and talks her way into college. But once she’s there, the phallocratic story of “overcoming” permeates every subject. Creative writing professors depend heavily on Freytag’s pyramid to analyze life. So…
Find out more »December 2017
Booksigning with Hillary Rodham Clinton- SOLD OUT
We are thrilled to welcome Hillary Rodham Clinton to the Elliott Bay Book Company for a special book signing on Tuesday December 12th in honor of her extraordinary new book What Happened. Secretary Clinton is the first woman in US history to become the presidential nominee of a major political party. In What Happened, Clinton, for the first time, reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free…
Find out more »Booksigning with Annie Leibovitz
It is a great delight and honor to have one of our most celebrated - and favorite - photographers here once again; we’ve had the pleasure of doing so for over twenty-five years. This afternoon Annie Leibovitz will be signing her beautiful new book, Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005 - 2016 (Phaidon.com) at Elliott Bay Book Company. In order to attend the signing, you must purchase a copy of Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005 - 2016 from the Elliott Bay Book Company.…
Find out more »February 2018
André Aciman: Call Me By Your Name
Good books do stand the test of time. Esteemed writer André Aciman’s Lambda Award-winning 2007 debut novel, Call Me By Your Name (Picador USA), is one such book, one that has always enjoyed a readership. That has moved to another realm with the hugely acclaimed Luca Guadagnino film based on this novel sending readers to find the source. Dave Wheeler, Associate Editor at Shelf Awareness, will be moderating tonight's conversation. As part of tonight’s festivities, our friends at Queer Bar…
Find out more »March 2018
Jennifer Natalya Fink with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
What does it mean when corporations instead of states control not only the means to create environmental disasters, but also the tools to bury them? How does one revolt against these unelected entities? How do our most private desires get shaped by this stateless horror? In Jennifer Natalya Fink’s novel, Bhopal Dance (F2c/ University of Alabama Press), an owlish woman with a ménage of lovers, leads a revolutionary Canadian political movement catalyzed by the Bhopal disaster, only to end up…
Find out more »April 2018
Independent Bookstore Day 2018
Join us as we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day! In addition to being a participating store in the SEABookstoreDay Challenge, we'll also be hosting special in-store activities, events, and giveaways all day long. --------- In-Store Celebrations Visit Elliott Bay for photo booth fun, Book Jeopardy, Literary MadLibs, Blind Date with a Book, and an evening author event with Kit Bakke: Protest On Trial. ---------------- Join the Challenge! If you visit three bookstores on the SEABookstore Day map, you'll receive a 30%…
Find out more »May 2018
Love’s Not Color Blind Book Signing & Discussion Group
Polyamorous people and communities can appear, at first glance, to be very open and welcoming. In many case, they don't take the time to get introspective about why they may come across as unfriendly or inaccessible to people of color. Love's Not Color Blind is a book about what we can do to change that landscape. This book-signing event comes bundled with a workshop on intersectional polyamory + a personally-driven discussion/Q&A on how race can impact polyamory on both individual…
Find out more »August 2018
Pulitzer Prize Winner Caroline Fraser: Prairie Fires
However it worked out and has come to pass, we are delighted to this afternoon present Caroline Fraser, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, here for her magnificent book, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Picador USA), almost literally as it becomes available in paperback. “An absorbing new biography deserves recognition as an essential text.... For anyone who has drifted into thinking of Wilder’s ‘Little House’ books as relics of a…
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