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A Fathers’ Day Reading For Grown-ups 

Sunday • June 21 • 5pm University Book Store Social Media Channels Online Reading

We can't all be where we want right now, or with the ones that matter most. This in mind, please join the University Book Store family and our own Brad Craft, senior used book buyer, for a special Fathers Day "virtual" event for grown-ups, to be played on our social media channels. Brad will read a selection of poetry and prose, celebrating our Dads, with material from two superb anthologies from Everyman's Library, Fatherhood: Poems About Fathers, from their Pocket Poets series, and Stories of Fatherhood, from Everyman's Pocket Classics. He'll close the evening out with a reading from his own most recent book, The Hat and Other Sentimental Essays for my Father. Pour yourself a scotch or what you will – and join us as we toast the Old Man. Here's to you, Dad!

Brad Craft is a beloved bookseller at University Book Store. He is the mastermind behind our used book buying program, and his annual reading of Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory draws a devoted crowd every year. He is the author/illustrator of The Serial Doodler, A is for Auden: An Alphabet Book of Poets, Just a Few Clerihews (and Yes, There are Some Pictures Too), as well as 102 Clerihews (and Some Pictures That I Drew), and his yearly author caricature calendar is not to be missed. He has recorded over 175 episodes of Breakfast at the Bookstore, the literary podcast he hosts alongside veteran bookseller Nick DiMartino. You can find regular caricatures and bookish delights on his blog at usedbuyer.blogspot.com.

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First published in 1956, Truman Capote's autobiographical tale of Christmas memories tells the story of an enduring friendship between a young boy, his elderly cousin, and the beloved holiday rituals they share. From buying illegally made whiskey for their fruitcakes to cutting down their own tree and decorating it with homemade ornaments, the joy of shared traditions and holiday cheer fills the story's pages. As part of our holiday celebrations, we invite you to share in one of our favorite traditions and join us for a chocolate tasting with Joe Chocolates, hot cocoa provided by Smashmallow, and a reading of Capote's heartwarming "A Christmas Memory" by our very own used book buyer Brad Craft. Tonight at 6PM at University Book Store, Seattle. (And live-streaming on our Facebook page!)

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Artist Catana Chetwynd of Catana Comics visits the bookstore Sunday • July 15 • 3pm   for a discussion of her comic collection, Little Moments of Love. It’s about about the simple, precious, silly, everyday moments that make up a relationship. What began as stray doodles on scraps of paper became an internet sensation when Chetwynd's boyfriend shared her drawings online. Now, Catana Comics touches millions of readers with its sweet, relatable humor. Little Moments of Lovecollects just that—the little moments that are the best parts of being with the person you love.

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Through forty years of New York Times best-selling Shannara novels, Terry Brooks always had an ending in mind: a series that would bring it all to a grand conclusion. Now that time has arrived. The Skaar Invasion is the second book of his epic four-part conclusion to the series. The Four Lands are under siege. Wielding a magical ability virtually impossible to combat, mysterious invaders defeat the most fearsome Troll armies, then focus their savagery on the Druid order—and all hope seems lost. Dar Leah, once the High Druid's Blade, has crossed paths—and swords—with their ruthless leader before. So he knows that if any hope exists, it rests in the hands of the Druid Drisker Arc, now trapped inside vanished Paranor. Watch Terry Brooks, a longtime friend of the University Book, read from his newest novel.

Produced by Seattle Video Production Company, GoodSide Studio

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Cocaine & Surfing (RARE BIRD BOOKS)

Tuesday • August 28 • 7pm

U District store

Reading & Book Signing

Former war correspondent and current Editor at Large at Surfing Magazine Chas Smith peels the curtains back on a hopped up, sometimes sexy sometimes deadly relationship with his new book Cocaine + Surfing. Using cocaine as the vehicle, he exposes and explains the utterly absurd surf industry to outsiders and explores where dreams go when they die.

Chas Smith the author of Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell (It Books, November 2013), which was optioned for television by Fox 21 (Homeland and Sons of Anarchy) with producers at Television 360 (Game of Thrones) and a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction. Chas began his writing career as a foreign correspondent, penning pieces for Vice, Paper, and Blackbook, amongst others, from Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Somalia, Azerbaijan and Colombia which led to a brief career as a war correspondent for Current TV

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New York Times bestseller, Georgetown University sociology professor, and one of America's premier public intellectuals, Michael Eric Dyson, joined us for a discussion of his new book, What Truth Sounds Like. In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf black America. Baldwin brought along some friends, including playwright Lorraine Hansberry, psychologist Kenneth Clark, and activist Jerome Smith. It was Smith's relentless, unfiltered fury that set Kennedy on his heels. Kennedy walked away from the nearly 3-hour meeting angry that the black folk assembled didn't understand politics and weren't as easy to talk to as Martin Luther King. But his anger quickly gave way to empathy, especially for Smith. He set about changing policy, the meeting having transformed his thinking in fundamental ways.

Produced by Seattle Video Production Company, GoodSide Studio

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Venerated television journalist Dan Rather celebrates what matters most in our great country with his collection of original essays, What Unites Us. Writing about the institutions that sustain us, such as public libraries, public schools, and national parks; the values that have transformed us, such as the struggle for civil rights; and the drive toward science and innovation that has made the United States great, Rather brings to bear his decades of experience on the frontlines of the world's biggest stories, and offers readers a way forward. With his famously plainspoken voice and a fundamental sense of hope, he has written the book to inspire conversation and listening, and to remind us all how we are ultimately united.

Produced by Seattle Video Production Company, GoodSide Studio