SARAH DONNELLY
Donnelly is a Seattle-based author and designer whose motto is this: less intricate, less messy, and less confusing is more flexible, more playful, and more fun. Third Place Books,
17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3333, 7 pm, free.
* RODNEY BROOKS
Brooks' new book Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us suggests that humans are a highly orderly system of processes who act much like complex machines. Indeed! University Bookstore, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
LINDA BIERDS
Bierd's latest book, The Seconds, explores the many meanings of the word "seconds." Open Books, 2414 N 45th St, 633-0811, 7:30 pm, free.
* SHIERRY WEBER NICHOLSEN
Nicholsen is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist who also teaches environmental philosophy and psychology at Antioch University Seattle. She is the author of Exact Imagination, Late Work: On Adorno's Aesthetics, and has translated books by Adorno and Habermas. Her latest book is The Love of Nature and the End of the World: The Unspoken Dimensions of Environmental Concern. Elliott Bay Book Company,
101 S Main St, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
"WHO REALLY RUNS SEATTLE?" 2002 EDITION
Allied Arts' revived "Beer and Culture Nights" opens with a discussion about Seattle Weekly's 1998 article "Who Really Runs Seattle?" Speakers will include George Howland Jr, David Brewster, and other mystery guests. Apsel & Daoust, 622 38th Ave, 624-0432, 7:30-10 pm; suggested donation $15/person, $25/couple, $10 Allied Arts members and members of other civic organizations.
RICHARD FORD
Celebrated writer Richard Ford will read from his new book, A Multitude of Sins. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
EULA BISS
Martin Espada has this to say about New York poet and nonfiction prose writer Biss: "Biss writes in spare brushstrokes that evoke an emotional universe by turns funny, scary, dreamlike, haunting." Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
* J.M. COETZEE
See Stranger Suggests. Benaroya Hall, Third Ave at University St, 621-2230, 7:30 pm, $7.50-$18.
BARBARA R. STEIN
Seattle-based zoologist Stein has published a new book titled On Her Own Terms: Annie Montague Alexander and the Rise of Science in the American West. Alfred Runte writes: "Make no mistake--this is not a book about a single subject." Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
JAY BASU
Basu is a young London writer of Indian, Polish, and Russian descent. His debut novel, The Stars Can Wait, is set in Poland during World War II. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 5:30 pm, free.
AMITAV GHOSH
The Glass Palace is a book by Ghosh. Another book by Ghosh is The Calcutta Chromosome, in an Antique Land. Ghosh is from India, and will offer Seattle a taste of post-colonial prose. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
* ELLIOTT BAY BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
This excellent reading group is reading a book I have never heard of: I Served the King of England. It's by Bohumil Hrabal, who is a Czech novelist. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
* CHRISTOPHER RICE
Christopher Rice, son of Anne Rice, will be reading from his new novel, The Snow Garden, which is a gothic tale set in a small New England town. Bailey/Coy Books, 414 Broadway E, 323-8842, 7 pm, free.
RICHARD GOLD and PONGO TEEN WRITING PROJECT
Gold works with teens in grief therapy. He helps them use poetry to express their feelings. Peace Café, 5828 Roosevelt Way NE, 528-6022, 7-8:30 pm, free.
MARTHA ZWEIG
Ms. Zweig writes delightful poems. Open Books, 633-0811, 7:30 pm, free.
* BUCK DOWNS and EZRA MARK
Writer, editor, and poem-postcard series czar Buck Downs reads with Ezra Mark, who is the author of Narthex, Tenet, Re(a)a, and untitlea. Mark is a member of the Subtext Collective. DJ Yum Yum will provide music. Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, 322-7030, 7:30 pm, free.
RICHARD HOLLOWAY
Holloway is a renegade Bishop of Edinburgh whose book Doubts and Loves draws from Yeats, Nietzche, and, unfortunately, Ben Stiller. UW campus, Kane Hall, room 130, 7 pm; free tickets required from University Bookstore, 634-3400.
DAVID HENRY STERRY
Sterry reads from his sexy new book Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
