BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220621T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220621T200000 DTSTAMP:20240328T020335 CREATED:20220527T045545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231116T220611Z UID:338183-1655838000-1655841600@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Book Talk: Ruth Ozeki DESCRIPTION:One of our favorite writers\, and human beings who are of the writerly persuasion\, novelist\, filmmaker\, and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki makes this most welcome in-person Seattle return for the paperback release of last year’s luminous novel\, her fourth\, The Book of Form and Emptiness (Penguin). We had a wonderful online launch for this book in hardcover – this scheduled in-person appearance should be even better. Ruth Ozeki is a presence. And her books\, including The Book of Form and Emptiness: “[A] tale of sorrow\, danger and tentative redemption serves as the springboard for extended meditations on the interdependence of all beings\, the magic of books\, the disastrous ecological and spiritual effects of unchecked consumerism and more . . . one of Ozeki’s gifts as a novelist is the ability to enfold provocative intellectual material within a human story grounded in sharply observed social detail . . . The Book itself has a marvelous voice: adult\, ironic\, affirming at every turn the importance of books as a repository of humanity’s deepest wisdom and highest aspirations.” — The Washington Post. \n \n“[Ozeki] writes with bountiful insight\, exuberant imagination\, and levitating grace about psychic diversity\, our complicated attitude toward our possessions\, street protests\, climate change\, and such wonders as crows\, the moon\, and snow globes. Most inventively\, Ozeki celebrates the profound relationship between reader and writer. This enthralling\, poignant\, funny\, and mysterious saga\, thrumming with grief and tenderness\, beauty and compassion\, offers much wisdom.” — Booklist. \n \n“This compassionate novel of life\, love and loss glows in the dark. Its strange\, beautiful pages turn themselves. If you’ve lost your way with fiction over the last year or two\, let The Book of Form and Emptiness light your way home.” — David Mitchell. \n  \nCo-presented by The Elliott Bay Book Company and Hugo House. The Book of Form and Emptiness is available for purchase Elliott Bay Book Company here. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/book-talk-ruth-ozeki_2022-06-21-2/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States CATEGORIES:Reading,Community Event END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR