THURSDAY 5/11

recommended CHARLES D'AMBROSIO
See review, p. 28. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.

OAN BLADES, KRISTIN ROWE-FINKBEINER
They are the authors of The Motherhood Manifesto. Town Hall Seattle, 1119 Eighth Ave, 652-4255, 7:30 pm, $5.

recommended ARIEL GORE
The Traveling Death & Resurrection Show is not a novel about her father's career. It's about a traveling sideshow act. University Book Store, 4326 University Way, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.

FRIDAY 5/12

recommended SHIRIN EBADI
The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize reads from Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope. Town Hall Seattle, 652-4255, 7:30 pm, free.

ROZANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ
She reads from Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.

MICHAEL POLLAN
The author of Botany of Desire reads from his new book The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, 366-3333, 6:30 pm, free.

SATURDAY 5/13

ELIZABETH CUNNINGHAM
The Passion of Mary Magdalen is a novel. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 4 pm, free.

recommended ERIC SPITZNAGEL
He reads from Fast Forward: Confessions of a Porn Screenwriter. Amy Sedaris says, "Like most pornography, I found Fast Forward to be a relentless and indecent assault on the traditional family values that Americans find most sacred. Makes a great stocking stuffer." Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.

ERIC SCHLOSSER
The author of Fast Food Nation reads from Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food. University Book Store, 634-3400, 2 pm, free.

SUNDAY 5/14

LAURA ESQUIVEL
The author of Like Water for Chocolate reads from her new novel, Malinche. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 4 pm, free.

CHARLES DE LINT
He is the author of 47 novels, many involving fairies and spirits. The latest is called Widdershins. Science Fiction Museum, 325 Fifth Ave N, 724-3428, 4 pm, free.

recommended JONATHAN ALTER
The Newsweek senior editor talks about the first hundred days of FDR's administration. Ah, the old days. Seattle Public Library, Ballard Branch, 5614 22nd Ave NW, 634-3400, 2 pm, free.

MONDAY 5/15

ELIZABETH ROSSNER
Blue Nude is a novel about a painter and a model who meet in drawing class. One is German. The other is Israeli. Fireworks! Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.

recommended AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
The memoirist reads from his latest, Possible Side Effects. Town Hall Seattle, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, $5.

TERRI JENTZ
Strange Piece of Paradise is about the author's return to the Oregon woods where an axe-wielding cowboy attacked her 15 years earlier. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free. (Also on May 16 at Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 8 pm, free.)

ANASTASIA M. ASHMAN, JENNIFER EATON
The contributors discuss Tales from the Expat Harem. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 7 am, free.

TUESDAY 5/16

ELIJAH WALD
Riding with Strangers is a history of hitchhiking. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 6 pm, free.

recommended EDUARDO GALEANO
This "long-awaited Seattle return by one of the world's most vital and necessary writers" is occasioned by a new book, Voices of Time: A Life in Stories. UW Campus, Kane Hall 120, 624-6600, 6:30 pm, free. (Also on May 17 at Microsoft Auditorium, Seattle Public Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave, 624-6600, 7 pm, free.)

JIM LYNCH
The Highest Tide is a novel involving a giant squid. University Bookstore, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.

WEDNESDAY 5/17

NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
The maritime history writer reads from his latest, Mayflower. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.

PAUL RIECKHOFF
Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier's Fight for America from Baghdad to Washington is a memoir. Rieckhoff was a soldier in Iraq. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.