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Book Launch: All the Secrets of the World by Steve Almond, in Conversation with Maria Semple

1634 11th Ave., Seattle

Join New York Times best-selling author and Hugo House teacher Steve Almond (Candyfreak, Against Football) for a reading from his long-awaited debut novel, All the Secrets of the World, followed by a candid conversation with local Lit Goddess Maria Semple (Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Today Will Be Different). Among the topics on tap: how humor helps us contend with tragedy, what we can

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Personal as Prelude: A Poetry Reading with Gabrielle Bates, Julia Guez, Luther Hughes, Dujie Tahat, and Tess Taylor

In this in-person reprisal of an October 2020 virtual event, Seattle-based poets Dujie Tahat, Luther Hughes, and Gabrielle Bates join Tess Taylor from El Cerrito, California, and Julia Guez from New York City to read original work that evokes bell hooks's notion of "the personal as a prelude" for investigations into collective themes. (Illustration: Juliana

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