Friday Evening Author Event With Pam Houston

Name: Friday Evening Author Event With Pam Houston
Start: 2026-10-23T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Books on the West

Friday, October 23, 2026 · 6:00 PM
Books on the West · Renton, WA · Renton
Author: Pam Houston
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Join us for an evening with Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek and Cowboys Are My Weakness as she shares her new book Animals Taught Me Everything. Books will be available for purchase at the event and a book signing will follow. This event is free but we ask that you RSVP so we can get an approximate headcount. Seating is limited but there is plenty of standing room. About The Book: From Icelandic mares and Irish wolfhounds to elephants, leopards, hyenas, and a desert-adapted lioness named Charlie, Pam Houston has learned life's most important lessons from animals. How to play. How to rest. How to love. How to die. How to be present with the dying. How to be present with the living and with the Earth. How to find joy in the least likely places. How to find joy, literally, everywhere. With playful sincerity, Houston finds power and promise in the teachings of our fellow creatures and reminds us that animals are here for us, every day and everywhere. About The Author: Pam Houston is the author of the memoir Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, Cowboys Are My Weakness, and seven other books of fiction and essays. Houston teaches in the Creative Writing MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Writing MFA program, is a Professor of English at UC Davis, cofounder and creative director of the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers, and fiction editor at Terrain.org. She lives at nine thousand feet above sea level with her husband Mike and a menagerie of animals (three equines, two canines, and an ever changing number of Icelandic sheep and chickens) near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.