Sunday, January 24, 2010

Storytelling In the Anarchist Movement - Monday Feb. 1st @ 6pm


A Brief and Arguably Entertaining Evening With Margaret Killjoy, editor of Mythmakers & Lawbreakers. Discuss the role of storytelling in the anarchist movement! Learn about novelist assassins, post-colonial african squatters, writers who fought in revolutions and went on to write childrens’ stories! Find out what Tolkien, Camus, Orwell, and Kafka have to say about anarchism!

Saturday, January 23, 2010

The Book Pirates of Peru


Book piracy exists all over Latin America and the developing world, but any editor with regional experience will tell you that Peru’s problem is both profound and unique. The combined economic impact of the informal publishing industry is roughly equal to that of their legitimate counterparts. Pirated books printed in Lima are shipped all over the country, and have been seen in Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, and as far away as Argentina.

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Monday, January 11, 2010

Ker-bloom! Zine Tour Comes to Olympia!

Saturday, January 23, 2010 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm


Artnoose, writer and printer of the 13+ year old letterpress zine Ker-bloom! will stop in at Last Word Books in Olympia to do a dynamic zine reading as part of a Pacific NW tour. Topics for the evening will include dealing with bullies, not drinking vs. being straight edge, and jerky ex-boyfriends.

Additional local writers TBA.

Free to the public, although supporting local independent book stores a plus.