February and March 2008 Book Events

SOME BOOK EVENTS February and March

In PORTLAND, OREGON, Annie Bloom's Books at 7834 SW Capitol Highway, Tuesday, March 4, 2008 7:30 p.m., author Gin Phillips presents The Well and the Mine. Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:30 p.m., author Chitra Divakaruni presents The Palace of Illusions.

Also in PORTLAND, the famous and incomparable Powell's, City of Books, has way too many things in February and March on their calendar to include here but The Carnivore's Dilemma  author Michael Pollan will be speaking at the Aladdin Theater in Portland, Thursday , February 12th, on his new book, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto.

Politics and Prose, in WASHINGTON, DC, has something every day of the month of February, including former Bill Clinton press secretary, Dee Dee Myers, on Thursday, February 28, 7 p.m. and her new book, Why Women Should Rule the World. Books, good food (delicious Jambalaya Alfredo) and evening music can be found every night at Kramer Books and Afterwards on Connecticut Ave, just above DuPont Circle.

In LOS ANGELES, Book Soup at 8818 Sunset has a hefty calendar of events, including David Rieff's beautiful Swimming in a Sea of Death, a memoir of his mother, Susan Sontag, who succumbed to cancer in 2004.

In NEW YORK, try Bluestockings, at 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington, which also has an excellent looking, full events calendar, including a reading by Peter Linebaugh from his newest book The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All.

All For Kids Books in SEATTLE, a family-owned independant book store, presents weekly storytime every Tuesday at 10:30 a.am. At The Elliott Bay Book Company, Monday, February 18 at 7:30 p.m, author and lecturer Charles Barber presents Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation, from Pantheon: "Comfortably Numb chronicles the extraordinary psychopharmaceutalization of everyday life that has arisen in recent years and appears to be growing apace. Charles Barber marks out the inconvenient truths on our path to emotional climate change but also offers alternative to readers who wish to avoid pharmageddon." – David Healy.