Author reading of the Grand Promise, by Rebekah Anderson The Grand Promise is about the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in the 1930s, which will be 81 years old on June 1. The Grand Promise Media Kit

West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) book club Discussion of Dead Souls (Russian: «Мёртвые души»), by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature.  Recommended: 1996 translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (published by Pantheon Books).   Meeting outside at an outdoor table behind C & P.…