Authors Ken Jennings at Elliott Bay Book Company I remember that Ken Jennings was pretty good at Jeopardy. I didn’t see any of the shows, but his name was everywhere when he had that hot streak that earned him millions. Was he the last (and biggest) game show celebrity? I went to Seattle’s Elliott Bay Book
American Literature Hemingway I should be packing right now, but I got sidetracked by some old issues of The New York Review of Books [http://www.nybooks.com]. I’m afraid I’ve sort of squandered that expensive subscription. Great publication that I have too often saved for later. Later often became never.
Arts Andrew McCarthy: Just Fly Away On Thursday 6 April 2017, Andrew McCarthy – actor, author, director – visited Seattle’s Elliott Bay Book Company [http://www.elliottbaybook.com] to read from and discuss his debut novel, ‘Just Fly Away’. The story is about Lucy, a fifteen-year-old girl who decides to explore some family secrets after learning that
Authors Short Takes: Countdown to Pearl Harbor December 7th gets me everytime, much like the anniversaries of the JFK assassination, the lunar landing, and 9/11. It seems impossible to not reflect on how Pearl Harbor happened and what the country was experiencing. On the most recent anniversary of Pearl Harbor, I found myself thinking about how
