* HEATHER McHUGH
The funniest, smartest, most famous poet in the Northwest delivers a lecture entitled "In Ten Senses: Some Sentences About Art's Senses and Intents." Don't miss this. University of Washington, Kane Hall 110, 543-3920, 7 pm, free.
BILL RADKE
Seattle is a "photo tour." University Bookstore, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
ROBERT WRIGLEY
Lives of the Animals is a collection of work by a poet who, as Philip Levine puts it, has "wandered into a ferocious cave of the natural world and suddenly sees his life." Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
FRIDAY 12/5
TARIQ ALI
The writer and filmmaker discusses Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq and The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads, and Modernity. UW, Kane Hall 130, 543-2985, 7 pm, free. (Also on Dec 6 at Keystone Congregational Church, 5019 Keystone Pl. N, 7 pm, free.)
STUART DYBEK
See review, page 23. Elliott Bay, 7:30 pm, free.
LEE GUTKIND & KATHLEEN ALCALç
Gutkind is the founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction. His new book is called Forever Fat: Essays by the Godfather. Alcalá is a local writer. Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, 322-7030, 7:30 pm, $5. (Also on Dec 6 at Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.)
SATURDAY 12/6
ELLEN WATERSON
Then There Was No Mountain is about addiction. Elliott Bay, 624-6600, 2 pm, free. (Also at Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3333, 6 pm, free.)
SUNDAY 12/7
ALICE DERRY, CARMEN GERMAIN, KATE REAVEY
Three poets from the Olympic Peninsula read recent work. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 1 pm, free.
BETSY WHARTON
Wharton reads Daughters of the Desert: Stories of Remarkable Women from the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions. Tree of Life Judaica & Books, 2201 NE 65th St, 527-1130, 3 pm, free.
MONDAY 12/8
PASCAL KHOO THWE
From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey is a memoir. Elliott Bay, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
WARREN ETHEREDGE
The critic discusses cinematic portrayals of the physically challenged in a lecture titled "Read, Willing, and Disabled." University Bookstore, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
TUESDAY 12/9
MABEL H. CABOT
Cabot discusses Vanished Kingdom: A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China, and Mongolia 1921-1925, which chronicles an ambitious journey taken by Cabot's mother, a pioneering National Geographic Society photographer. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3333, 6 pm, free. (Also at University Bookstore, 634-3400, at 7 pm, free; and on Dec 10 at Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.)
JUDITH KITCHEN
The main character in The House on Eccles Road is Molly Bluhm and, in other ways as well, the book contains Joycean overtones. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
THOMAS CAHILL
Cahill discusses Sailing the Wine Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter. University of Washington, Kane Hall 130, 634-3400, 7 pm, free with ticket.
WEDNESDAY 12/10
* SHERMAN ALEXIE
The poet and fiction writer is the keynote speaker for the City of Seattle Human Rights Day. Arctic Building Dome Room, 700 Third Ave, 684-4540, noon, free.
* JIMMY CARTER
See Stranger Suggests, page 17.
DAVID GUTERSON
The author of Snow Falling on Cedars reads from Our Lady of the Forest. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 7 pm, free.
