September 19 | 6:00pm | Town Hall Seattle Hedgebrook Presents: Great Minds: On Ghosts, Ancestors, and the Nostalgia Machine Presenting partners Seattle Arts and Lectures and The Bushwick Book Club Seattle. Buy your Tickets HERE! - COMING SOON An evening of empowering performances and conversations at Town Hall Seattle! Seattle Arts & Lectures and Bushwick […]
Combining the propulsive energy of manga with the sobering weight of history, Sook’s graphic memoir brings to life the turbulent journey of a group of readers in 1980s South Korea who risk everything for the right to read. One school district in Florida was so impressed with Banned Book Club that they pulled it from […]
After inspiring nightmares—and controversy—for generations, the infamously eerie tales of Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark will now ooze, crawl, and haunt their way to the Bushwick stage. Crowned by the American Library Association as the most challenged book series of the 90s, Scary Stories is one hell of a good time. […]
Fall Open House, Coming Home to Hugo! November 10th from 2–6 pm PT IN PERSON at Hugo House The Bushwick Book Club Seattle is proud to support Hugo House in there open house. Join us for our community celebration on November 10 from 2–6 pm as we dive into the future of storytelling! Whether you’ve […]
We are having technical difficulties with our emails being sent out, so please use this for the live stream link: https://www.youtube.com/live/ny86VSPX3V8 Contact [email protected] if you have any questions about the tickets or stream. Thanks to the support of The Seattle Public Library foundation The year is 2024. The world teeters on the edge […]
Original music inspired by two local authors! – Shin Yu Pai and Claudia Castro Luna Curated by Pepe Montero Bushwick is happy to celebrate two of our past INKALOUD! curators as this year's featured authors. Each will give a short reading along with the songs inspired by their work. Don't miss this special event. Eight […]
Original music inspired by Maus by Art Spiegelman Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus has resonated with readers for years as a powerful graphic memoir of the Holocaust. Told through a son’s retelling of his father’s harrowing experiences, Maus captures raw emotion and historical depth in every panel—so much so that the Tennessee School Board removed […]
A favorite target of would-be censors nationwide—even the ever-charming Where’s Waldo? was one of the ALA’s 100 most challenged books of the 90s— picture books like And Tango Makes Three, They Call us Enemy, The Giving Tree, My Lost Freedom, Where's Waldo?, In our Mother's House, The Rabbits, and The Little Prince introduce ideas about […]
Free Drinks, Snacks, Music, Community, and prizes will be spread throughout the event for our amazing members! Could we have had a Banned Books Season without one of the most famous books about burning books? We think not. This classic book about censorship has been banned throughout the years for a variety of reasons, mostly […]
Informed by years of research and banned in Arizona upon publication, Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway paints a harrowing portrait of America’s boiling border deserts and the determined migrants who attempt the crossing. So effective was Urrea’s research, in fact, that it became the first book banned in Arizona for being “satanic” and “un-American.” […]
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