Author China Mieville, Housing Executive Sharon Lee, Humorist Roy Blunt, Jr., Open Spaces Magazine in SEATTLE CHANNEL’s Viewerguide for July 14-21

New Programs on SEATTLE CHANNEL, Cable 21

Seattle, WA – July 15, 2011 – (RealEstateRama)
Seattle Voices with Eric Liu
Low Income Housing Institute’s Sharon Lee
Premieres Tues., July 19, 7 p.m.
Sharon Lee is the Executive Director of the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI), a non-profit organization based in Seattle. LIHI develops and operates housing for low-income and homeless people, and also provides a range of support services to assist tenants in maintaining stable housing and increasing self-sufficiency. Lee oversees a staff of 100 engaged in housing development, management, advocacy and support services. LIHI’s staff has developed over 3,800 units of rental and homeownership housing in Washington State. LIHI owns over 1,600 units serving individuals, families, seniors, homeless people and those with special needs. LIHI’s housing has won numerous national and local awards for design excellence and environmental sustainability. See past shows by visiting: http://www.seattlechannel.org/SeattleVoices/.

Book Lust with Nancy Pearl
China Mieville sits down with everyone’s favorite librarian
Premieres Thurs., July 14, 10:30 p.m.
China Mieville joins host Nancy Pearl to talk about his many science fiction novels, including his newest, Embassytown. Mieville, who lives in London, is a three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award for Perdido Street Station, Iron Council and The City & The City and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice for Perdido Street Station and The Scar. Hear how he feels about fiction genres and how he develops and writes his books. Plus, Pearl gets him to share some of his favorite books from his childhood. View additional broadcasts of this show on Friday, July 15 at 8:30 p.m. or Saturday, July 16 at 1 p.m. To watch past episodes of Book Lust with Nancy Pearl visit http://www.seattlechannel.org/BookLust. While you’re there, be sure to check out the web extra’s of extended interviews with past authors. And sign up for the Book Lust podcast.

An Evening With
Roy Blount, Jr. shares more word play with his latest work
Premieres Thursday, July 14 at 8 p.m.
Humorist and author Roy Blount, Jr. has made his living using words in every medium, print or electronic, except greeting cards. After his 21st book, Alphabet Juice, it finally seemed he’d gotten over his ABCs. But one book could not contain the etymological goulash always simmering in Blount’s mind. Alphabetter Juice, a second helping of Blount’s dexterous wordplay, prescribes an “over-the-counter” mélange of language, unearthing a slew of factoids, fripperies, and flabbergasting phenomena that will change the way you speak—or misspeak. View additional broadcasts of this show on Friday, July 15 at 11 p.m. or Saturday, July 16 at 10 p.m. Watch past episodes of An Evening With at http://www.seattlechannel.org/AnEveningWith.

Front Row
Weird and Awesome with Emmett Montgomery
Premieres Thurs., July 21, 11:00 p.m.
Like Ed Sullivan presiding over the Gong Show, or Donny & Marie produced by Andy Warhol at the height of the Factory, “Weird & Awesome with Emmett Montgomery,” is entertainment at its most human and inexplicable. This show, taped before a live audience at Annex Theatre, features members of Seattle’s rich performance and arts scene, with an emphasis on the eclectic and the unique. The performers include host and comic Emmett Montgomery, Kevin Hyder as a human puppet show, “Ziegfeld-girl” clowns, standup comedy with former “Almost Live” host John Keister and more! See more Front Row episodes by visiting http://www.seattlechannel.org/FrontRow/.

An Evening With
Open Spaces – Voices from the Northwest
Premieres Thurs., July 21 at 9 p.m.
Open Spaces is one of the foremost journals of ideas and letters to focus and draw its work from the Northwest. This evening celebrates publication of an anthology drawn from the magazine, Open Spaces: Voices from the Northwest. Edited by Penny Harrison, with a foreword by Denis Hayes, this collection includes over thirty pieces from writers primarily based in Washington, Oregon and Montana. Kim Stafford, David James Duncan, Kathleen Dean Moore, and William Kittredge are among them. Readers at this event are former United States Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William Ruckelshaus and author and entrepreneur Eric Redman. Watch past episodes of An Evening With at http://www.seattlechannel.org/AnEveningWith.

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