Snohomish County book calendar

Published 1:30 am Sunday, November 13, 2016

Marcie Sillman

3:15 p.m. Nov. 13, McCaw Hall, Seattle Center

Regional arts journalist Marcie Sillman has written about beloved Pacific Northwest Ballet dancer Jonathan Porretta in her new book “Out There: Jonathan Porretta’s Life in Dance.” Porretta, Sillman and photographer Angela Sterling will be on hand to talk about and sign copies of the book in the McCaw Hall gift shop. The book’s message is “be yourself and people will love you for who you are.” No tickets are required.

Chandler O’Leary and Jessica Spring

7 p.m. Nov. 16, Third Place Books

The artists will talk about their new book “Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color” published by Sasquatch at the book store in Lake Forest Park. The book looks at 27 women who changed the world through art, lettering, archival photos and ephemera.

Mark Shields and Robert Merry

7:30 p.m. Nov. 18, Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, Langley

Shields, a syndicated political columnist, and Merry, a former political reporter and author of five books on American history, plan to talk about the recent election and other topics. Tickets, $25 each, are available at www.wicaonline.org or call 800-638-7631.

EDxSnoIsleLibraries

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 18

The second annual TEDx talks hosted by Sno Isle Libraries is Nov. 18 at Edmonds Center for the Arts, where all the seats already are taken. The event will be streamed live into 13 Sno-Isle libraries, the PUD auditorium in Everett, EvCC, EdCC and UWBothell. More information is at sno-isle.org/tedx.

James D. Shipman

2 to 6 p.m Nov. 19, Uppercase Bookshop

Shipman will talk about and sign copies of his new book “It Is Well” at the shop, 1010 Second St., Snohomish. The book is a World War II historical novel. It is Shipman’s third published novel through Lake Union Publishing. The story, based in Snohomish, involves Jonathan Beecher, a middle-aged widower and small-town store owner. The bombing of Pearl Harbor plunges America into World War II and deeply fractures Jonathan’s own family. His eldest son is trapped on a Japanese-occupied island in the Pacific. His younger son ignores the pleas to stay home and joins the Army. And his daughter, who Jonathan hoped would go to college, elopes with an abusive man instead. Then Sarah, a widow herself, emerges as a kind, compelling friend.

Ingrid Osterhaug

Noon Nov. 19, Edmonds Bookshop

The author will talk about and sign copies of her memoir “Kari’s Bog: A mother’s journey through her daughter life, tragic death and legacy” at the store on Fifth Avenue S. On the morning of Jan. 5, 2003, Kari, 31 and pregnant, was murdered by her mentally ill husband.

Patricia Smith

2 p.m. Nov. 20, Museum of Northwest Art

The celebrated New York poet will read from her published works in an event sponsored by the Skagit River Poetry Foundation. The museum is located at 121 First St. in La Conner. Smith will talk about her new book “Incendiary Art,” which examines the black experience in prose poems and sonnets. Smith is the author of six volumes of poetry, including the National Book Award-finalist “Blood Dazzler,” a chronicle of the human and environmental cost of Hurricane Katrina, and the National Poetry Series winner “Teahouse of the Almighty.” Her work has appeared in Poetry, the Paris Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post and in both Best American Poetry and Best American Essays.

Susan Casey

6 p.m. Nov. 29, Everett Community College

The author of “Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins” will speak in the Wilderness Room of the Henry M. Jackson Conference Center on the EvCC campus. Presented by EvCC’s Ocean Research College Academy, the talk is free and the public is welcome. Casey also is the author of “The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean” and “The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks.” All of her books will be available before and after her talk. A magazine writer and editor, she was part of the editorial team that developed the stories behind the bestselling books “Into Thin Air” and “The Perfect Storm,” as well as the movie “Blue Crush.”

Megan Snyder Camp

6 p.m. Dec. 1, Hibulb Cultural Center, Tulalip

The Seattle poet has written three books of poetry. She will read as part of the Hibulb’s First Thursday poetry series. Free. The reading is followed by a poetry open microphone.

— Gale Fiege, Herald staff