April 2017

  • Seattle Reads 2017: A conversation with Angela Flournoy

    In 2017 Seattle Reads The Turner House by Angela Flournoy. Enjoy this interview with Flounoy conducted by Vivian Phillips. If you’d like to ask your own questions, attend any one of six author programs with Angela Flournoy from May 8-11, 2017. The Turner family could be my own or any number of families that surrounded my family during… Continue reading

  • Money Smart Week: It’s Never Too Early (or Too Late) to Save for Retirement

    Judy Hucka, editor of the BetterInvesting Puget Sound Chapter Newsletter is our guest blogger today. BetterInvesting is a non-profit organization dedicated to investment education. On April 29 they will be hosting a program on Basic Investing at Central Library. The Newsletter is available for viewing at the Level 7 Business, Science and Technology desk also at Central Library. If you’re in your 20s… Continue reading

  • Theater in the Library: The Dybbuk

    Seattle Jewish Theater Company and The Seattle Public Library will present a performance of S. Ansky’s classic Jewish drama The Dybbuk on Sunday, April 30 at 2:00 p.m. in the Microsoft Auditorium at Central Library. The play is directed by SJTC artistic director Art Feinglass and will be performed in English. The performance will be… Continue reading

  • New Magazine Subscriptions: Part 1

    We are excited to announce the start of several new print magazines subscriptions at the Central Library and at many branches! Thank you to all the patrons and staff who made suggestions over the last two years. You have helped our magazine collection remain current and a reflection of the many interests of our community.… Continue reading

  • Money Smart Week: Free Student Loan Advice

    Tony Leahy is our guest blogger today. He is the Education Subgroup Chair of the Washington Attorney General’s Student Loan Workgroup, and Executive Director at CENTS (Consumer Education and Training Services Program) – a financial literacy organization. On April 22 he will be co-hosting a program on Student Loan Repayment and Options. For more information… Continue reading

  • Money Smart Week 2017

    If you’re starting to feel fretful about this time of the year (end of March, beginning of April), you’re not alone. Tax deadline is near. Have you done what you promised your new year’s resolution you’ll be doing? Have you put your financials in order for the upcoming year? Have no worries. We’re here to… Continue reading

  • Gene Luen Yang: National Storyteller

    If we were to conjure a favorite high school teacher, one who’s smart, funny, innovative, caring, honest, and ever so talented, Gene Luen Yang would fit to a T. So personable a speaker, he can reach you through his website videos. Most writers share their deepest thoughts and ideas through their books, but to also… Continue reading

  • Spring into Pacific Northwest Food

    Never have I ever been so excited for spring! Each sliver of sun has me beaming as blooms burst forth from their winter burrows. And with spring sprung, all I can think about is our delicious PNW food. Now, let’s be clear: I don’t actually enjoy cooking… My husband is the chef in our house.… Continue reading

  • Nonfiction to read alongside The Turner House

    In 2017 Seattle Reads The Turner House, a novel about a large African-American family set in Detroit. We hope you’ve read it, or are planning to. Perhaps it has left you wanting to know more about the Great Migration of African-Americans from the South to the North; or about the city of Detroit; about the economic… Continue reading

  • Omar El Akkad, author of American War, on reading and the radical act of empathy

    Our guest blogger Omar El Akkad has been garnering rave reviews for his powerful, thought-provoking debut novel, American War. Set during the Second American Civil War of 2075, American War lays bare our own fractured cultural and political existence in a dystopian fantasy that rings all too true for many others struggling in war-torn places of the world. Today he shares… Continue reading

  •  Getting Down to Business: The Working Artist

    It counts! Effort given to artistic endeavors count. Long term benefits are derived from sustained focus, investment of time and the development of one’s craft. Allowing yourself time to grow and broaden your reach into work that no one else, but you, can do pays off in the long run. Compensation for your efforts can… Continue reading

  • Seattle Reads The Turner House: Fiction to Read Next

    In 2017 Seattle Reads The Turner House by Angela Flournoy. Set in Detroit in 2008, post-economic crash, we meet the Turner family as the 13 adult siblings must decide what to do with their family home, worth only 1/10 of its mortgage. As we get to know three of the siblings better, we also get the… Continue reading

  • Sexual Assault Awareness Month

    April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. While a difficult and uncomfortable topic for many to discuss, rape is a deep-seated and prevalent issue that has the ability to harm society just as much as any individual victim. Sexual assault affects everyone; no gender, class, ethnicity, or education can ensure absolute safety. Trauma narratives are as… Continue reading

  • Nonfiction new book round up – April 2017

    Looking for new nonfiction to read or a new cookbook to test out? Here is a selection of nonfiction being published in April 2017. Continue reading

  • Fiction new book round-up – April 2017

    Looking for a new novel to read? Here is a selection of fiction being published in April 2017. Continue reading