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"Book Lust" by the month

Evan Wolfson will be at Bailey Coy Books Thursday.

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First there was Nancy Pearl, executive director of the Seattle Public Library's Washington Center of the Book. Then there was "Book Lust," Pearl's phenomenally successful book on best books to read. Then there was the Nancy Pearl action figure. And now comes the "Book Lust" calendar.

Pearl, about to retire from her library job, is working on a sequel to "Book Lust." In the meantime, her publisher, Sasquatch Books, is betting on Pearl's many fans to snatch up copies of "Book Lust 2005: A Reader's Calendar" ($11.95).

The calendar is a month-by-month roundup of reading recommendations. It features a book-of-the-month selection — January's is "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser — questions to ponder while reading the book and an additional list of "Pearl's Picks."

Pearl unveils the calendar and discusses good reads at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Microsoft Auditorium of the Seattle Public Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Seattle. The event is free. For more information, call 206-826-4311.

Attorney/author to discuss gay marriage

One of the nation's foremost authorities on gay marriage will speak in Seattle this week and read from his new book.

Evan Wolfson, a civil-rights attorney who was named by the National Law Journal as one of the country's 100 most influential attorneys, has written "Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality and Gay People's Right to Marry" (Simon & Schuster, 242 pp., $22). The book aims to provide gay and nongay audiences with "easy-to-follow, common-sense answers as to what civil marriage equality means," according to the publisher.

Wolfson, also director of the organization Freedom to Marry, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Bailey Coy Books, 414 Broadway E., Seattle (free; 206-323-8842).
 
Mary Ann Gwinn, Seattle Times book editor