THURSDAY 3/25



DALTON CONLEY

Conley reads from The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why. University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.

TRUDY DITTMAR

Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky is a collection of essays. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3333, 7 pm, free.

JEAN REYNOLDS PAGE

A Blessed Event is about a surrogate mom. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free. (Also on Tues March 30 at Third Place Books, 366-3333, 7 pm, free.)

FRIDAY 3/26



PERPETUAL MOTION ROADSHOW

Keith Knight and Jennifer Daydreamer are cartoonists. Glenna is a "piano grrrl." Corey Frost is a "filthy dreamer." Confounded Books, 315 E Pine St, 7 pm, free.

DAWN PRINCE-HUGHES

The anthropology professor discusses Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.

SATURDAY 3/27



ROBERT NEWMAN

The Independent thinks Newman's novel The Fountain at the Center of the World might "herald a resuscitation of the English 'literary political' novel." Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 4 pm, free.

PAUL HUNTER, JUDITH SKILLMAN

John Ashbery calls the poems in Hunter's Breaking Ground "part georgics, part elegies." Skillman is a poet as well. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.

* JAMES CARVILLE, MARY MATALIN

See Stranger Suggests, page 19. McCaw Hall, 305 Harrison St, Seattle Center, 325-3554, 8 pm, $20-$75.

SUNDAY 3/28



JULIE MOSS SCANDORA

One in a Million is about how, like, you shouldn't force soccer lessons on young fey children who are obviously theatrically inclined. (Hi, Dad.) Ravenna Third Place Books, 6504 20th Ave NE, 525-2347, 2 pm, free.

MONDAY 3/29



COLLOQUE WHEEL

Human beings read. Victrola Coffee & Art, 411 15th Ave E, 325-6520, 7 pm, free.

PHILIPPA GREGORY

The Queen's Fool is a novel. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 7 pm, free.

OWEN GINGERICH

The Book Nobody Read seems like a risky title for a book. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.

ERIK LARSON

Larson reads from The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.

TUESDAY 3/30



SAMANTHA GILLISON

The King of America is a "taut, tragic, exquisitely written" novel (says Jhumpa Lahiri) set in New Guinea. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.

* CHARLES WRIGHT

The famous poet talks about his work. ACT Theatre, Seventh Ave and Union St, 292-7676, 7:30 pm, $14.

WEDNESDAY 3/31



DAVID SUZUKI

The scientist, environmentalist, and author reads from a collection of his work, The David Suzuki Reader. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 5 pm, free.

S. T. JOSHI

Joshi is the editor of In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales, a collection of Lord Dunsany's stories. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.

LOOLWA KHAZZOOM

Khazzoom is the editor of The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage. Zeitgeist Cafe, 171 S Jackson St, 583-0497, 7:30 pm, free.

* IAN McEWAN

See Sean Nelson's long, beautiful essay about McEwan on p. 24. Benaroya Hall, Third Ave and Union St, 621-2230, 7:30 pm, $23/$18/$9 students.