The West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) Book Club (all are welcome!)
2022-12-11 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | C & P Coffee, 5612 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA, 98136, United States
The West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) Book Club (all are welcome!)
we gather at an outdoor table in the back

Event: Discussion of two classic stories that have been adapted into movies. You are invited to view the films and compare them to the stories (if time permits). The books to read are:

Arthur Schnitzler, Dream Story. Also known as Rhapsody: A Dream Novel, it is a 1926 novella by the Austrian writer Schnitzler (128 pages). It was adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick calledEyes Wide Shut (1999), starring Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise.
James Joyce, “The Dead.” First published in 1924, this story is the last one in the Irish writer Joyce’s collection of short stories, Dubliners. It is about 50 pages. A film version of The Dead exists as well: it is the 1987 drama directed by John Huston, written by his son Tony Huston, and starring his daughter Anjelica Huston.

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West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) Book Club
2023-01-22 15:00 - 16:30
West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) Book Club meets to discuss The Master and Margarita, by Russian novelist Mikhail Bulgakov (published posthumously in 1966-67, written from 1928 to his death in 1940).

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West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) Book Club
2023-02-26 15:00 - 16:30
West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) Book Club
Discussion of Vanity Fair (1847-48) by English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray.
Optional: The novel was adapted into a film by director Mira Nair, starring Gabriel Burne and Reese Witherspoon, in 2004. Read the novel and compare it with the film, if time permits!
We gather at an outdoor table in the back.

Diode Editions Poetry Readings
2023-03-09 19:00 - 21:00
Diode Editions Poetry Readings
Poets Lee Ann Roripaugh, Rosanna Young Oh, and Jane Satterfield, and others share recent work.
More about the authors—
Lee Ann Roripaugh’s fifth volume of poetry, tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 (Milkweed Editions, 2019), was named a “Best Book of 2019” by the New York Public Library, selected as a poetry Finalist in the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards, cited as a Society of Midland Authors 2020 Honoree in Poetry, and was named one of the “50 Must-Read Poetry Collections in 2019” by Book Riot. She is the author of five other collections of poetry: #stringofbeads (Diode Editions Chapbook Contest winner, March 2023), Dandarians (Milkweed, Editions, 2014), On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009), Year of the Snake (Southern Illinois University Press, 2004), and Beyond Heart Mountain (Penguin, 1999). She was named winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose for 2004, and a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series. The South Dakota State Poet Laureate from 2015-2019, Roripaugh is a Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, where she serves as Director of Creative Writing and editor in chief of South Dakota Review. Roripaugh served as one of the jurors for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and was appointed as the Mary Rogers Field and Marion Field-McKenna Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at DePauw University for spring 2022.

Rosanna Young Oh, author of The Corrected Version (Diode Editions Book Contest winner, March 2023), is a Korean American poet and essayist who was born in Daejeon, Korea, and grew up on Long Island. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Best New Poets, The Harvard Review Online, Blackbird, and 32 Poems. A graduate of Yale, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she lives and writes in New York.
Jane Satterfield, author of The Badass Brontës (Diode Editions Book Contest winner, March 2023), is the recipient of awards in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, Maryland Arts Council, Bellingham Review, Ledbury Poetry Festival, Mslexia, and more. Her essays have received awards from the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society, Massachusetts Review, Florida Review, and the Heekin Foundation, among others. Her books of poetry are Her Familiars, Assignation at Vanishing Point, Shepherdess with an Automatic and Apocalypse Mix, winner of the 2016 Autumn House Poetry Prize. She is also the author of Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond. Born in England, she is a professor in the Writing Department at Loyola University Maryland and lives in Baltimore with her partner, poet Ned Balbo.

For more information, please visit the press online at diodeeditions.com/about-the-press

Diode Editions Poetry Readings
2023-03-10 19:00 - 21:00
Diode Editions Poetry Readings
Poets Lee Ann Roripaugh, Rosanna Young Oh, and Jane Satterfield, and others share recent work.
More about the authors—
Lee Ann Roripaugh’s fifth volume of poetry, tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 (Milkweed Editions, 2019), was named a “Best Book of 2019” by the New York Public Library, selected as a poetry Finalist in the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards, cited as a Society of Midland Authors 2020 Honoree in Poetry, and was named one of the “50 Must-Read Poetry Collections in 2019” by Book Riot. She is the author of five other collections of poetry: #stringofbeads (Diode Editions Chapbook Contest winner, March 2023), Dandarians (Milkweed, Editions, 2014), On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009), Year of the Snake (Southern Illinois University Press, 2004), and Beyond Heart Mountain (Penguin, 1999). She was named winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose for 2004, and a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series. The South Dakota State Poet Laureate from 2015-2019, Roripaugh is a Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, where she serves as Director of Creative Writing and editor in chief of South Dakota Review. Roripaugh served as one of the jurors for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and was appointed as the Mary Rogers Field and Marion Field-McKenna Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at DePauw University for spring 2022.

Rosanna Young Oh, author of The Corrected Version (Diode Editions Book Contest winner, March 2023), is a Korean American poet and essayist who was born in Daejeon, Korea, and grew up on Long Island. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Best New Poets, The Harvard Review Online, Blackbird, and 32 Poems. A graduate of Yale, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she lives and writes in New York.
Jane Satterfield, author of The Badass Brontës (Diode Editions Book Contest winner, March 2023), is the recipient of awards in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, Maryland Arts Council, Bellingham Review, Ledbury Poetry Festival, Mslexia, and more. Her essays have received awards from the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society, Massachusetts Review, Florida Review, and the Heekin Foundation, among others. Her books of poetry are Her Familiars, Assignation at Vanishing Point, Shepherdess with an Automatic and Apocalypse Mix, winner of the 2016 Autumn House Poetry Prize. She is also the author of Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond. Born in England, she is a professor in the Writing Department at Loyola University Maryland and lives in Baltimore with her partner, poet Ned Balbo.

West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) book club
2023-03-26 15:00 - 16:30
West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) book club
Discussion of an American classic, Light in August, 1932, by Nobel Prize winning author William Faulkner.
Meeting outside at an outdoor table behind C & P.

for more info, contact juliawsea@gmail.com

West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) Book Club
2023-04-23 15:00 - 17:00
West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) Book Club
Discussion of Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë
Meeting outside at an outdoor table behind C & P.

Poetry Reading by Marie Marchand, Ellensburg Poet Laureate
2023-04-29 14:00 - 15:00
Poetry Reading by Marie Marchand, Ellensburg Poet Laureate

Event Description: To celebrate National Poetry Month, Marie will read a selection of poems from her two books, along with new work. Her poetry has been published in Crannóg Magazine, Catamaran Literary Reader, California Quarterly, Paterson Literary Review, Tiny Seed Journal, Tikkun Magazine, and The Awakenings Review. Her second poetry collection Gifts to the Attentive was published in May 2022. Read more at mishiepoet.com and follow her @mishiepoet.

Author reading of the Grand Promise, by Rebekah Anderson
2023-05-18 18:00 - 20:00
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
2023-05-21 15:00 - 17:00
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.
for more info, contact juliawsea@gmail.com

West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) book club
2023-06-25 15:00 - 16:30
West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) book club
Discussion John Steinbeck’s The Winter of Our Discontent

Meeting outside at an outdoor table behind C & P.
for more info, contact juliawsea@gmail.com

2023-07-23 15:00 - 17:00
West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) Book Club
Discussion of Emile Zola’s 1883 novel, The Ladies’ Paradise (Au Bonheur des dames).

Meeting outside at an outdoor table behind C & P.
for more info, contact juliawsea@gmail.com

West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) book club
2023-08-27 15:00 - 16:30
West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) book club
Join us for a discussion of the first half of George Eliot’s novel, Middlemarch (1871–1872). The first half includes Books I –IV, approx. 405 pages.
FYI: In September we will discuss the second half of Middlemarch (Books V–VIII; approx. 390 pages).

Meeting outside at an outdoor table behind C & P.
for more info, contact juliawsea@gmail.com

West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) book club
2023-09-24 15:00 - 16:30
West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) book club
Join us for a discussion of the second half of George Eliot’s novel, Middlemarch (1871–1872).
(Books V–VIII; approx. 390 pages).

Meeting outside at an outdoor table behind C & P.
for more info, contact juliawsea@gmail.com

West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) book club
2023-10-29 15:00 - 17:00
West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) book club
In October, we’re turning to horror and mystery, with two novellas by Henry James: “The Turn of the Screw” (1898; 138 pages) and “The Aspern Papers” (1888; 106 pages). Both have been made into films: The Innocents, 1961, is a particularly wonderful adaptation of “The Turn of the Screw”.

We’ll meet at C & P Coffee at 3pm on Sunday, October 29, 2023; find us at an outdoor table in the back of the coffee shop. All are welcome!

Meeting outside at an outdoor table behind C & P.
for more info, contact juliawsea@gmail.com

PoetryBridge
2023-11-08 19:00 - 22:00
We are a community of poets, storytellers and fans of the spoken word.
Our mission is to promote the best of poetry and storytelling in West Seattle. Not best as in better than, but best as in authentic self-expression, in person, here and now. Best* that in the telling demonstrates diverse forms of bravery, expressiveness, sincerity and truthfulness

We are featuring three poets, live and in-person, at C&P Coffee in West Seattle, on Wednesday, November 8th, from 7-9 (PST), Mirian Bassuk, Yvonne Higgins Leach and Laura C Lippman. See my update on covid considerations below. I plan to once again stream the reading live on YouTube and record it for viewing later. The YouTube link will be sent out separately.

Miriam Bassuk:Though originally from the east coast, Miriam treasures her life in the Northwest. Her daily walks inspire her with the teeming life of eagles, herons, and the occasional sighting of Orcas that thrive in the Puget Sound. She has been published in The Journal of Sacred Feminine Wisdom, Raven Chronicles, PoetsWest Literary Journal, and 3 Elements Review. She was one of the featured poets in the digital portion of the WA 129 project sponsored by the Washington State poet laureate.

Yvonne Higgins Leach is the author of Another Autumn (Cherry Grove Collections, 2014). Her poems have been published in The South Carolina Review, South Dakota Review, Spoon River Review, The Cimarron Review, POEM, and others. Her second collection is forthcoming this fall from Kelsay Books. She spent decades balancing a career in communications and public relations, raising a family, and pursuing her love of writing poetry. Her latest passion is working with shelter dogs. She splits her time living on Vashon Island and in Spokane, Washington. For more information, visit www.yvonnehigginsleach.com

Laura C Lippman is a retired family doctor, lifelong reader and agitator who started writing poetry just ten years ago, (although upon recollection, she was the editor of her high school literary magazine.) Her poems have appeared in Avatar Review, Brief Wilderness, The Broken Plate, Chained Muse, Crack the Spine, Crosswinds, El Portal, Evening Street Review, Flights, Glassworks Magazine, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Hey I’m Alive Magazine, La Presa, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Perceptions Magazine, Plainsongs, Pontoon Poetry, Poydras Review, Journal of Family Practice, The Meadow, Neologism Poetry Journal, New English Review, Sin Fronteras/Writers Without Borders, Spotlon Review, and Synkroniciti. among others. She is co-author of the book Writing While Masked; Reflections on 2020 and Beyond, which was published by Basalt Books, an imprimatur of WSU Press. She meets weekly with a poetry group on Vashon Island and enjoys the natural world and her grandchildren and frets about their future.
https://www.poetrybridgetimes.net/about
https://www.facebook.com/groups/202391486908642

Author Sharon Podobnik Book Release Party
2023-11-11 16:00 - 18:00
Author Sharon Podobnik Book Release Party, author of the book It’s Not (All) Your Fault (info below!)
BOOK SUMMARY:
This could be the last self-help book you ever read.
Self-help books promise transformation and empowerment but rarely deliver real change. What gives?
Despite what we’ve been told, no amount of self-help, quick-fixes, or mind-hacks will get us where we need to go. We cannot transform our futures through willpower and hard work alone.
It’s Not (All) Your Fault reveals the ways self-help—though well-meaning—is deeply flawed and keeps us trapped in stagnant cycles. It makes all of society’s problems your problems.
Sharon Podobnik draws on extensive industry and personal experience to offer a fresh perspective on personal development and collective transformation, revealing their inextricable link and demonstrating that well-being depends on solidarity, not self-optimization.
Whether you’re a self-help enthusiast, skeptic, or outspoken activist, this book is essential reading. Through captivating stories and insightful research, Podobnik reorients us to our power, provides radical strategies for growth and change, and brings conscious awareness to what we already know: the future is a collaborative effort.
Despite what the world has told you, it’s not all your fault.
ADVANCED PRAISE:
“A wonderful chaser to our collective self-optimization hangover…“
~ Dr. Devon Price, social psychologist and author of the books Unmasking Autism and Laziness Does Not Exist

“Podobnik pulls no punches in her brilliant analysis…ultimately showing us that liberation is a collective project.”
~ Renee Powers, Founder & CEO, Feminist Book Club

“Sharon’s take on the self-help industry is refreshing and, as someone who has spent countless hours reading those books, made me realize that I’m not alone in my feelings of failure and inadequacy stemming from what’s meant to be helpful. Turns out, it’s not (all) my fault.”
~ Maricella Herrera, CEO, Ellevate Network

“Rather than fixing ourselves, Podobnik invites us to recognize our shared humanity, articulate our deepest values, and work together to build the future we deserve. Hers is a vision of radical hope with the power to transform lives and society itself.”
~Shasti Conrad, political strategist, Chair of the Washington State Democrats
AUTHOR BIO:
Sharon Podobnik is a leadership coach, author, and speaker known for her work at the intersection of individual development and collective transformation.

Her writing draws from her background in education and her personal experiences in the self-help industry, and explores the psychological and sociological factors that shape our lives and our futures. Podobnik synthesizes complex topics, blending research with storytelling to present ideas in compelling and accessible ways. Her writing has been praised for being as entertaining as it is enlightening. Her work has been featured in Forbes, The Washington Post, Good Morning America, and Oprah Magazine.

She is the founder of The Center for Conscious Leadership, which seeks to co-create a more peaceful, just, and equitable world. When she’s not exploring the world with her husband Mark, she’s writing at a local coffee shop or reading with her spunky kitty, Annie, in Seattle, Washington. Find out more at: sharonpodobnik.com.

West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) book club
2023-11-26 15:00 - 17:00
West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) book club
In November, we’re turning to Lampedusa’s The Leopard (1958)

The Leopard (Italian: Il Gattopardo) is a novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa that chronicles the changes in Sicilian life and society during the Risorgimento (1848-1871, when the modern-day Italian state united as one). Published posthumously in 1958, a year after his death and unbeknownst to the author, it became the top-selling novel in Italian history and is considered one of the most important novels in modern Italian literature. The novel was made into an award-winning 1963 film of the same name, directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon. {from Wikipedia}

We’ll meet at C & P Coffee at 3pm on Sunday, October 29, 2023; find us at an outdoor table in the back of the coffee shop. All are welcome!

Meeting outside at an outdoor table behind C & P.
for more info, contact juliawsea@gmail.com

The Classic Novels (and Movies) Book Club of West Seattle
2024-01-28 15:00 - 16:30, 2024-03-24 15:00 - 16:30
The Classic Novels (and Movies) Book Club of West Seattle
We begin each time with a fun trivia quiz–the winner receives a prize !–which raises issues and themes of interest. After one hour or so of free-range discussion on the book, we turn to the future, and collectively propose titles and choose one to read. If people haven’t had a chance to read that month’s book, they can come around 4pm and get in on the next month’s choice.
Date / Time: Sundays once a month 3:00-4:30
Place: Outdoor patio behind C & P Coffee House on California Ave SW (not far from Paper Boat Booksellers in West Seattle).
Contact: juliawsea@gmail.com to reserve a spot!

Midnight Mystery Theater,
2024-04-19 19:00 - 21:00
Midnight Mystery Theater, long running radio style comedy troupe

WordsWest
2024-05-01 19:00 - 21:00
One Night Only–Bring WordsWest Back Together Again

Come join us for a celebration of Susan Richs new book Blue Atlas

PoetryBridge
2024-05-08 19:00 - 22:00
We are a community of poets, storytellers and fans of the spoken word.
Our mission is to promote the best of poetry and storytelling in West Seattle. Not best as in better than, but best as in authentic self-expression, in person, here and now. Best* that in the telling demonstrates diverse forms of bravery, expressiveness, sincerity and truthfulness
https://www.poetrybridgetimes.net/about
https://www.facebook.com/groups/202391486908642

The Griot Party
2024-05-11 19:00 - 21:00
The Griot Party
a spoken word storytelling theater experience with keyboardist and DJ.

The Classic Novels (and Movies) Book Club of West Seattle
2024-05-19 14:30 - 16:30
The Classic Novels (and Movies) Book Club of West Seattle

July’s People by South African novelist and Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer (1981)

Contact: juliawsea@gmail.com

Carried Away, a graphic memoir by Mary Fields
2024-06-23 15:00 - 16:00
Presentation and Q&A: Carried Away, a graphic memoir by Mary Fields

The Classic Novels (and Movies) Book Club of West Seattle
2024-06-23 15:00 - 17:00
The Classic Novels (and Movies) Book Club of West Seattle

Title: Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya (1972), a classic of Chicano literature from New Mexico.

Contact: juliawsea@gmail.com

Midnight Mystery Theater
2024-07-05 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-07-22 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-08-16 19:00 - 21:00
Midnight Mystery Theater, long running radio style comedy troupe.
