PORT ANGELES — Author and columnist Mary Lou Sanelli will present A Woman Writing: A Memoir in Essays, her first new work in six years, at downtown’s Odyssey Bookshop, 114 W. Front St., this Sunday afternoon.
Sanelli’s 2:30 p.m. reading is free to the public.
In this 275-page paperback, Sanelli writes about marriage, politics, friendship, aging, nature, her distrust of too much technology, caring for her elderly mother and other topics.
A Woman Writing is published by Aequitas Books, an imprint of Pleasure Boat Studio; it’s an essay collection following her books Among Friends and Falling Awake.
Sanelli is a longtime contributor to the Peninsula Daily News, with columns appearing the first Wednesday of the month. She’s also written for Seattle Metropolitan, City Living and other magazines and for NPR’s “Weekend Edition.”
Carver on Seattle stage
SEATTLE — “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love,” Raymond Carver’s famed short story, is the centerpiece of Book-It Repertory’s season-opening production at Seattle’s Center Theatre, 305 Harrison St.
The story, in which two couples sit around a table, drink gin, and discuss what it means to love someone, will take the stage for previews Sept. 23 and 24; opening night is Sept. 25 for a run through Oct. 18.
Along with “Love,” theater-goers will see three other shorts: “Cathedral,” “Intimacy” and “The Student’s Wife,” all from Carver, who lived the last 10 years of his life in Port Angeles.
The Book-It production comes on the heels of the U.S. release this Tuesday of Beginners, Vintage Books’ new collection of Carver stories as they were originally written.
To find out more about the run of “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love,” which includes evening and matinee performances, visit www.book-it.org or phone 206-216-0833.
‘Hound,’ ‘Hamlet’ carry on
SEQUIM — “The Real Inspector Hound” and “The 15-Minute Hamlet,” short comedies by Tom Stoppard, are running this weekend at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave.
Colby Thomas, Kai Lavatai, E.J. Anderson, Jennifer Horton, Peter Greene, Ingrid Voorheis, K. MacGregor and Dynara Rystrom bring the pair of plays to life; Lily Carignan is their director.
Curtain times are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays now through Sept. 20 on the main stage. Tickets, via www.OlympicTheatreArts.org or 360-683-7326, range from $10 to $16.