Next Live Production:

Thursday, October 18, 2007

7:oo p.m. @ The Puyallup Public Library

(Click here for address and directions)

Hosted by Jay Bates

And featuring the following artists: 

Karen Fisher is the author of the award-winning novel A Sudden Country, which, among its many acclaims, was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.  As a graduate of the University of California Santa Barbara, Karen originally taught high school English and History.  She later moved to an island in the Puget Sound with her husband and children, where they have lived in ten acres of forest and spent two years living through the Ages of Man, re-acquiring most standard modern conveniences.  In addition to her writing, she works as a carpenter and arborist.

Casey Fuller has (except for two stints in the South) lived all his life in Olympia, Washington, where, after detailing cars and rolling burritos at a fast food restaurant, he attended The Evergreen State College. After graduating, he began writing poems and became a board member for the Olympia Poetry Network. He currently works in a warehouse where listens to books-on-tape and sends out information to people who need low-income health care. As a second year student at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University, he lives in swanky downtown apartment, overlooking a liquor store, with his girlfriend and two thousand books. He is rarely, if ever, seen without his wool hat.

Wes Weddell is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter originally from Pullman, Washington. In the spring of 2001, he captivated the Northwest with his ambitions to chronicle the lives of contemporary Washington State residents in song.  In sixty-five days cavorting around the state, the multi-instrumentalist produced nine regionally-themed songs based upon stories he encountered in communities everywhere from Mossyrock to Toppenish. With the 2006 release of Songs to Get You From Here to There, Wes added another strong effort at home on the road. His new album features twelve original songs that span the in-between places and experiences that make us human. In addition to his music, Wes is the proud founder of Puget's Sound Productions, a non-profit organization dedicated to producing live music events in his community. Unrelated to his life as a musician, his parents met in New York and moved west to establish a commune.

Plus our standard favorite features:

Name That Book -- This audience-participation trivia contest will challenge your ability to name the titles and authors of three different books with only a short clue about the books history and reading of the book's first sentence. 

As the Publishing World Turns -- Follow this continuing saga of writers in crisis.  Meet our hero Heathcliff Beed, his nemesis Eustace Faulkner, and the woman they both love, Ophelia Payne, and listen to them solve the mystery of the murdered Reader's Digest editor.