* MICHELLE GLASER and JOANNA KLINK
Oregonian Glaser reads from It Is Hard to Look at What We Came to Think We'd Come to See, which was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Klink reads from They Are Sleeping, which was published in the U of Georgia Press' Contemporary Poetry Series. Open Books, 2414 N 45th St, 633-0811, 7:30 pm, free.
JOHN DUFRESNE
This Florida-based fiction writer has been compared to Nabokov. More impressive yet, the title of his new novel, Deep in the Shade of Paradise, is also the title of a literary essay on Pale Fire, written by Vivian Darkbloom. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
JOHN DUFRESNE
Dufresne is the author of Louisiana Power and Light and Love Warps the Mind a Little. Unfortunately, Dufrense has been compared to William Faulkner. Dufrense's new book is set in lush Louisiana. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3333, 6:30 pm, free.
JUDY BLUNT
Missoula writer Blunt has written a memoir called Breaking Clean. Kim Barnes writes: "No biographical sketch can convey the depth of this literary achievement: substantial, powerful segments of writing [that] read like something out of the late 19th century." Zeitgeist Art & Coffee,171 South Jackson Street, 7 pm, free. For info call Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600.
SEATTLE OPERA PRESENTS: ASPECTS OF SALOME
Seattle Opera's general director Speight Jenkins and education director Perry Lorenzo discuss the historical, social, musical, and cultural aspects of this famous opera. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, $5.
* RIGOBERTO GONZALEZ and CARMEN CARRION
This afternoon, "A Latino National Conversation," a series curated by Hugo House Writer-in-Residence Kathleen Alcalá, will feature Rigoberto González--whose book, So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water Before It Breaks, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press--and Carmen Carrion, a local writer who is a member of Los Norteños. Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, 322-7030, 2 pm, $5.
* CEES NOOTEBOOM
Dutch novelist and literary travel writer Nooteboom reads from All Souls Day. A.S. Byatt called Nooteboom "one of the great modern novelists." Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
* PETER BACHO
See Stranger Suggests. Take Another Look BOOKS, 5100 S Dawson, 721-1022, 1 pm, free.
* JOHN WILSON
Wilson is to read and show slides from his collection of poems, Ink on Paper: Poems on Chinese & Japanese Paintings. The book is a collection of images of classical Japanese and Chinese landscapes. After watching Peter Bacho at Take Another Look BOOKS, you should drive downtown and check out this presentation. Elliot Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 5 pm, free.
* HEATHER McHUGH
Our excellent arts intern Colin Booy says, "McHugh is also remarkable for her book of criticism, Broken English: Poetry and Partiality, which I find as or perhaps more astonishing than her poetry. In it she problematizes wonderfully the relations between poem and (visual) art, author and language, and the tired idea of completion or closure that has come to plague much poetry. It's all quite fresh and liberating, and maybe even a little subversive." ACT Allen Theatre, 700 Union Street, 292-7676, 7:30 pm, free.
* DIANA GEORGE
The marvelous Diana George reads at Colloque Wheel with Brigid Brennan, Kevin Daniels, Charles Mudede, Mickey O'Connor, and Edmund Smith. Victrola Coffee & Art, 411 15th Ave, 325-6520, 8 pm, free.
SINCLAIR BROWNING
Sinclair Browning reads from and signs Crack Shot, her fourth mystery with rancher and part-time P.I. Trade Ellis. Seattle Mystery Bookshop, 117 Cherry St, 587-5737, 1 pm, free.
LINDA RABBEN
Anthropologist Linda Rabben, who is the Brazil specialist for Amnesty International USA, is in town to read and sign Fierce Legion of Friends: A History of Human Rights Campaigns and Campaigners. Howard Zinn likes Rabben. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 5 pm, free.
CAROLE GLICKFELD
Seattle writer Carole Glickfeld reads and signs Swimming Toward the Ocean, which is about a Russian Jewish émigré living in the '50s. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
LYNDA DOUGLAS
Lynda Douglas signs Deadfall, which is about a Seattle architect who is haunted by her past and a forest. Seattle Mystery Bookshop, 587-5737, 1 pm, free.
* ANN and LESLIE RULE
The great Ann Rule reads with her daughter Leslie. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 7 pm, free.
