*RICHARD FLANAGAN
Tasmanian novelist Flanagan (The Sound of One Hand Clapping) reads from his latest novel, Death of a River Guide. "Flanagan has a sense of history as a vast entanglement of genealogies," writes Publishers Weekly, "beginning with the original sin of deportation and compounded by the extermination or expropriation of the 'blackfellas.' Flanagan has written a Tasmanian anti-epic, an honest, painful investigation of the repressed, convict-haunted past." Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, tickets required (available free at store).
KAREN KARBO
Reading and signing by the author of Generation Ex: Tales from the Second Wives Club, a book about the hee-larious detritus that piles up in the wake of multiple marriages. University Bookstore, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
*LEAH VOSKO
Vosko, an assistant professor of Labour Studies and Political Science at McMaster University in Ontario and author of Temporary Work, speaks on the subject of "No Jobs, Lots of Work: The Rise and Spread of Temporary Work in Canada in an International Context." University Bookstore, 4 pm, free.
RICHARD PAUL RUSSO, THOMAS ORTON
Dual reading by Philip K. Dick Special Award-winning novelist Russo (Ship of Fools) and local bookseller and writer Orton (The Lost Glass Plates of Wilfred Eng). Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3311, 7 pm, free.
SONIA "SUNNY" JACOBS
Jacobs, a Florida death row inmate whose sentence was overturned when a friend dug up new evidence, will lecture on "An Encounter with Injustice and the Death Penalty: A Personal Account." University of Puget Sound, 1500 N Warner St, Tacoma, 253-879-2611, 8 pm, free.
IT'S ABOUT TIME WRITERS READING SERIES
This week's featured readers are Nick Eldredge, Julie Gerrard, Sarah Barsness, Catherine Reynolds, and Danny Godiness, preceded and followed by an open mic. Seattle Public Library, 5009 Roosevelt Way NE, 684-4063, 6:30 pm, free.
NATIONAL POETRY MONTH READING SERIES
Readings by contributors to Pontoon, an anthology of Washington state poets, featuring Mark Halperin, Joseph Green, Kevin Miller, and Joseph Powell. Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave, 622-9250, 7 pm, free with admission.
*ANTHONY GIARDINA
Reading by the author of Recent History, a novel in which "ticklish issues of sexual identity, class, and intimacy wreak frightening confusion in the life of an Italian American boy growing up in 1960s Massachusetts" (Publishers Weekly). Elliott Bay Book Company, 7:30 pm, tickets required (available free at store).
ZACK ROGROW
Bay Area poet, translator, and essayist discusses "Feelings vs. Fragments in American Poetry," and reads from his own work. Open Books, 2414 N 45th, 633-0811, 8 pm, free.
*GARRETT EPPS
Reading and discussion by the author of To an Unknown God: Religious Freedom on Trial, a book that examines the U.S. Supreme Court's bigoted decision to deny Native Americans the religious use of peyote. Elliott Bay Book Company, 5 pm, tickets required (available free at store).
*HAHM HYE-RON
Hahm Hye-Ron is a celebrated Korean poets whose books include Body Language as well as numerous anthologized poems. Elliott Bay Book Company, 7:30 pm, tickets required (available free at store).
T. M. SELL
How timely is this? Sell--a "member of the Boeing family" who has covered Boeing in the pages of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer over the years--reads from his new book, Wings of Power: Boeing and the Politics of Growth in the Northwest. Elliott Bay Book Company, 2 pm, tickets required (available free at store).
THREE POETS & AN OPEN MIC
Featured readers are Murray Gordon, Patricia Travers Ryan, and Donna Lathrop. Wit's End Bookstore & Tea Shop, 770 N 34th St, 682-1268, 7 pm, free.
RED SKY POETRY THEATRE
Kathleen Alcala is this week's featured reader. Open mic sign-ups begin at 7 pm. Globe Cafe, 1531 14th, 633-5647, 7:30 pm, free.
*TRAVIS CULLEY
Booklist calls Culley's new book, The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power, "fast-paced, danger-filled, and thoroughly spellbinding... so rich, so unusual, and so aggressively written that readers will leave the book gasping for breath." Elliott Bay Book Company, 5 pm, tickets required (available free at store); and University Bookstore, 7 pm, free.
MARK JUDE POIRIER
Poirier, a Portland-based writer, reads from his debut novel, Goats. Elliott Bay Book Company, 7:30 pm, tickets required (available free at store).
JUDITH AVINGER
Avinger is a Quebec-based poet whose bilingual books include The Empty Bowl and the soon-to-be published Lifting the Veil. Village Books, 1210 11th St, Bellingham, 360-671-2626, 7:30 pm, free.
TUESDAY 4/17
*FRANCINE PROSE
Prose reads from her latest novel, Blue Angel, a book that Russell Banks described as "a smart-bomb attack on academic hypocrisy and cant... [Prose] is a world-class satirist who's also a world-class storyteller." Elliott Bay Book Company, 7:30 pm, tickets required (available free at store).
TANANARIVE DUE
Award-winning local author reads from her latest novel, The Living Blood. Elliott Bay Book Company, 5 pm, tickets required (available free at store).
*VANDANA SHIVA
See Stranger Suggests. Kane Hall, UW Campus, 634-3400, 7 pm, tickets required (available free at University Bookstore).
T. M. SELL
See Saturday listing. Museum of History & Industry, 2700 24th Ave E, 634-3400, 7 pm, free with admission.
JAMES THAYER
Reading and signing by the local author of Force 12, a thriller. University Bookstore, 7 pm, free.
LORRIE HARRISON
Reading by the local author of Kindred Spirits: Stories, Passions & Portraits from the Heart of a Community. Third Place Books, 7 pm, free.
CAREN GUSSOFF
Gussoff, who recently moved to Seattle, reads from her debut work of fiction, Homecoming, described as "a streetwise, subversive novel" by Patricia Duncker. See Bio Box. Elliott Bay Book Company, 7:30 pm, tickets required (available free at store).
*NICK NICHOLS, MIKE FAY
Nichols, a renowned wildlife photographer, and Fay, a biologist, give a multi-media presentation on the "Megatransect," a project whose goal was to chronicle the great central African forests before they succumb to human development and settlement. Benaroya Hall, 200 University, 624-5677, 7:30 pm, $15/$7.50 students (tickets available at box office on the night of the event).
CARL HOFFMAN
Reading and signing by the author of Hunting Warbirds: The Obsessive Quest for the Lost Aircraft of World War II. University Bookstore, 7 pm, free.
NATIONAL POETRY MONTH READING SERIES
Readings by contributors to Pontoon, an anthology of Washington state poets, featuring Michael Bonacci, Kevin Craft, Eugene S. Fairbanks, Andrew Gottlieb, and Marlene Muller. Parrington Hall, UW Campus, 860-0508, 7 pm, free.
