Learn How to Waste a Day Like a Champion

Sometimes, doing nothing can be the most appropriate response.by Rich SmithHampl reads tonight at Elliott Bay Books at 7 p.m.
No one knows how to kill time better than a writer, and Patricia Hampl is of the better time-murderers in the business. Over at NPR, Maureen Corrigan calls Hampl’s new book, The Art of the Wasted Day, “a swirl of memoir, travelogue, and biography of some of history’s champion daydreamers,” one that makes the case “for the profound value of le