— from Kathleen Lunde —
“Standing Tall” Art Thiel’s book
Meet the Author! Art Thiel Discusses His New Book, “Russell Wilson-Standing Tall”
Please join us Friday, November 28, 12 pm, (the day after Thanksgiving) at the Orcas Island Library as we welcome Seattle Sportswriter, Art Thiel.
Never having met a metaphor he could not twist beyond recognition, Art has been illuminating, agitating, amusing and annoying Puget Sound sports readers for a long time.
Along with Steve Rudman, he co-founded Sports Press Northwest because it didn’t seem right that the Google monster should aggregate daily journalism into oblivion without at least a flesh wound from somebody.
Thiel and Rudman labored under the Seattle Post-Intelligencer globe until the print edition died an undeserved death in March, 2009. Art continued on at its online successor seattlepi.com while working on SPNW’s creation. His radio commentaries can be heard Friday and Saturday mornings and Friday afternoon on KPLU-FM 88.9.
In 2003 he wrote the definitive book about the Seattle Mariners, Out of Left Field, which became a regional bestseller. In 2009, along with Rudman and KJR 950 afternoon host Mike Gastineau, Thiel authored The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists, a cross between historylink.org and “Mad” Magazine that has become mandatory reading for any sports fan who has an indoor bathroom.
A graduate of Pacific Lutheran University as well as two dead papers and a live one, the News Tribune of Tacoma, he has become a fan of entrepreneurial online journalism because it allows him to continue a lifelong passion to take the English language to places it rarely visits willingly, and does not involve the cleaning of kennels or stables.
Art has graciously agreed to bring up books to sell and autograph for that special Christmas gift!
This program is sponsored by the Orcas Island Library and the Friends of the Orcas Island Library and is free to the public.
Questions? Please call Kathy Lunde, 376-4985
