THURSDAY 3/24
FRANK PARCHMAN
Echoes of Fury is an account of the days following the crazy shit that happened on Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
WILLIAM McCAULEY
Need is a book of stories. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3333, 7 pm, free.
JUNE CAROLYN ERLICK
Disappeared: A Journalist Silenced is about the career and mysterious dematerialization of Guatemalan journalist Irma Flaquer. University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
FRIDAY 3/25
CASEY DORMAN
I, Carlos is a novel about an L.A. detective. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
CARA BLACK
Murder in Clichy is a mystery. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 6:30 pm, free. (Also on March 26 at Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 4 pm, free.)
EUGENE SMITH
The UW professor emeritus reads from Montlake: An Urban Eden. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
SATURDAY 3/26
JONAH KERRY
Baseball Prospectus 2005 is "packed with statistics, analysis, and attitude." Third Place Books, 366-3333, 6 pm, free.
SUNDAY 3/27
JEFF VANDERMEER, L. TIMMEL DuCHAMP
The fantasy writers read their stuff. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 3 pm, free.
MONDAY 3/28
W. S. MERWIN
W. S. Merwin writes sturdy, humanist poems and translations of classics. Intiman Theatre, 201 Mercer St, 621-2230, 7:30 pm, $10-$25.
JOY PASSANANTE
The Art of Absence is a collection of stories "infused with longing" (according to Kim Barnes). Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
ROBERT KAPLAN
Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and Greece is about a trip the travel writer took when he wore a younger man's traveling clothes. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
TUESDAY 3/29
RACHEL LEVITSKY, ZHANG ER
Levitsky is the author of several chapbooks, most recently Under the Sun. Er is also a poet; her chapbooks include Carved Water and Verses on Bird. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 6 pm, free.
STANLEY CRAWFORD
Petroleum Man is a dark novel. Joseph McElroy calls it a "satirical wonder" and sees in its prose a "Nabokovian malice." Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 8 pm, free.
WILLIAM DIETRICH
Scourge of God is about Attila the Hun, warlords, the Battle of Chalons, all that. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 7 pm, free.
JOSHUA COREY, RICHARD GREENFIELD
Corey is the author of Selah. Greenfield is the author of the collection A Carnage in the Lovetrees. Open Books: A Poem Emporium, 2414 N 45th St, 633-0811, 7:30, free.
DEAN KARNAZES
Karnazes reads from and signs Ultra Marathon Man. Seattle Running Company, 919 Pine St, 634-3400 for more info, 7 pm, free.
WEDNESDAY 3/30
DAVID KLINGHOFFER
Another random sentence from Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: "And so round and round the philosophers went." Third Place Books, 366-3333, 7 pm, free.
RANDALL WATSON
The Sleep Accusations is a collection of poems. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
MOBY
The bald recording artist (who shares a birthday with D. H. Lawrence, O. Henry, Harry Connick, Jr., and me) signs copies of his book Teany Book and his new CD Hotel. Barnes and Noble, 2675 University Village St NE, 517-4107, 5 pm, free.
