THURSDAY 6/29

ANNETTE SPAULDING-CONVY
The poet reads from In the Convent We Become Clouds. Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, 7 pm, free.

JEFF ANGUS, MARK ARMOUR, DAVE ESKENAZI, JONAH KERI, ROB NEYER
They've all written books on baseball. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.

recommended JIM LYNCH
The Highest Tide is a novel about a teen, a tide, and highness. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3333, 7 pm.

LEWIS BUZBEE
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop is a memoir. University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.

FRIDAY 6/30

MARK LAMSTER
Spalding's World Tour is about baseball promoter Albert Goodwin Spalding. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 5 pm, free.

recommended DAVY ROTHBART
The founder of Found reads from the magazine's second anthology, Found II: More of the Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.

TOM LUTZ
The author of the cultural history of Crying reads from his latest, Doing Nothing. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.

SATURDAY 7/1

GENE CARNEY
Burying the Black Sox is about the fixed World Series in 1919. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 2 pm, free.

ANDREW ZIMBALIST
In the Best Interests of Baseball is about Bud Selig. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 5 pm, free.

MONDAY 7/3

FRANZ KAFKA TRIBUTE
Various writers read. Hugo House, 322-7030, 6:30 pm, free.

TUESDAY 7/4

IAN R. MACLEOD
The sci-fi writer reads. Science Fiction Museum, 325 Fifth Ave N, JBL Theater, 7:30 pm, $4.

WEDNESDAY 7/5

BOB SEIDENSTICKER
He reads Future Hype: The Myths of Technology and Change. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.

recommended ED ROBERSON, APRIL DENONNO
"Christopher... FYI—our listings have had a sequence of absences or errors this year. Hoping that we can figure out what we can do to prevent these issues from continuing??" writes Robert Mittenthal, curator of the Subtext Reading Series. That's a great question, Robert. First of all, I'm sorry; the blame is largely mine. Second of all, the blame is largely someone else's. This calendar is assembled with the help of an unpaid intern. Any given intern for The Stranger's book section is here for three months, unless the calendars they're assembling are so error-studded that I have to, well, prevent said intern from continuing. To live. That's happened. Also, even with the good interns, Subtext's events are once per month. Pretty simple, not much to remember, you say. It even sounds simple as I write it here (which is what I do in the calendar-making conveyor—I make the patty, this stuff here between the buns, between the author's name [top bun] and the venue information [bottom bun]), but put it this way: If Subtext events happened every week, we'd never miss a single one, if that makes sense. Anyway, if you're still reading this, you're probably either (1) Robert Mittenthal, in which case, hey Robert, let's get lunch and you can tell me more about these poets Roberson and DeNonno, I owe you a burger at least; or, (2) you're interested in being an intern for The Stranger's book section, lit up suddenly by the thought of it, after all you're perfect for it: You love books more than you love people, you're dependable and don't make mistakes, and you read The Stranger so much that you've been known to offhandedly think, I could write damn good negative reviews of novels by John Irving and John Updike, to which it must be said, Paul Constant already has, so back the fuck off. But guess how Constant began his association with The Stranger? Correct! As books intern. Before that, he was a nothing. A total no one. He was air. He got the internship by sending a well-written note explaining why he was the right guy for the job to frizzelle@thestranger.com. Race you to the computer! Sorry again, Robert. Richard Hugo House, 322-7030, 7:30 pm, donations.