JOHN TARRANT
Bring Me the Rhinoceros is about "paths toward happiness." Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
DAVID VOLK
The Tribe Has Spoken is about reality TV. Ravenna Third Place Books, 6504 24th Ave NE, 525-2347, 7:30 pm, free.
FRIDAY 1/7
PETER CHARLES HOFFER, JON WIENER, RON ROBIN
A "summit on academic fraud," featuring the authors of Past Imperfect, Historians in Trouble, and Scandals and Scoundrels, respectively. University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
MELVIN PATRICK ELY
Ely is the author of Israel on the Appomattox. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free. SATURDAY 1/8
CHRISTOPHER HOWELL
Light's Ladder is a collection of poems. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
SUNDAY 1/9
MARGARET HOLLENBACH
Lost and Found is about a "group marriage commune." Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 2 pm, free. (Also Jan 10 at University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.)
MOLLY TENENBAUM
Tenenbaum is a poet and musician. Ravenna Third Place Books, 525-2347, 2 pm, free.
MONDAY 1/10
ANU GARG
Garg is the inventor of that "Word a Day" e-mail service. Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, 325-3523, 6:30 pm, free (bring a potluck item to share).
CHRISTIAN PARENTI
The Freedom is a nonfiction book about the Iraq war and how fucked it is. Elliott Bay Books, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
TUESDAY 1/11
JEFFREY PAUL CHAN
Eat Everything Before You Die is an account of drugs, sex, and China. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
ELLIOT PERLMAN
The characters in Perlman's novel Seven Types of Ambiguity face "confounding betrayals, rapes, maladies, accidents," and other crap, according to Booklist. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
WEDNESDAY 1/12
ADAM HOCHSCHILD
Bury the Chains is a history of activism, beginning in 18th-century England. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
NATALIA RACHEL SINGER
Scraping By in the Big Eighties is a memoir. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
"POEMING THE SILENCE"
What's wrong with a little silence, I ask? And since when is "poem" a verb? Ravenna Third Place Books, 525-2347, 7:30 pm, free.
