LISE GOETT and RIGOBERTO GONZALEZ
Ms. Goett's collection, Waiting for the Paraclete, received an important poetry prize. Mr. Gonzalez's collection, So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water Until It Breaks, is 88 pages long. Open Books, 2414 45th St, 633-0811, 7:30 pm, free.
* DAVID BARSAMIAN
Barsamian is an award-winning (I wish one press release, just one, would say award-losing) left-wing journalist who has done a book with the indefatigable Noam Chomsky. The title of one of his books, The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting, refers to Spengler's Die Untergang des Abendlandes and Habermas' Transformation of the Public Sphere--just kicking some knowledge, yo. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 12:15 pm, free. Also tonight at Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3333, 7:30 pm, free.
STANLEY COREN
Coren reads from and signs Pawprints of History: Dogs in the Course of Human Events. Coren is a world-recognized canine expert (I wish one press release, just one, would say an unrecognized expert) who has had therapy sessions with the Dali Lama's poodle. University Bookstore, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400, 7 pm, free. Also at Third Place Books, 366-3333, Friday April 19, 6:30 pm, free.
JEFF LONG
Long reads from Year Zero, which takes place on a remote Greek island and involves the discovery of a relic that releases an ancient airborne plague. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 6:30 pm, free.
MICHAEL FRAYN
Frayn is an "award-winning" playwright and journalist. He is here to push Spies, a novel with emotional intensity and gripping prose. Imagine two arms reaching out from the pages of the book, grabbing your shirt fronts, and shaking you like a dummy--that is the kind of prose you'll find in Frayn's Spies. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
ALFREDO ARREGUIN and LAURO FLORES
Seattle painter Arreguin and writer/editor and University of Washington professor Flores present their book, Alfredo Arreguin: Patterns of Dreams and Nature. Tess Gallagher writes: "Arreguin's palpitations of color and light and arrested movement awaken our sublimated vision. His paintings seem to force our entire being to experience its livingness as an insatiable yearning and questing of the eyes." Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
GLORIA BURGESS
Burgess (which in Spanish would be "Borges") reads from The Open Door, a collection of poetry. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 5:30 pm, free.
AARON ELKINS
Reads from and signs Turncoat. Seattle Mystery Bookshop, 117 Cherry St, 587-5737, noon, free.
MAME HUNT
Intiman Theatre's dramaturg Mame Hunt speaks about the upcoming production of G.B. Shaw's Arms and the Man. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, noon, free.
MICHAEL WORKMAN, GREG PURCELL, RYAN KENEALY, ADAM VOITH
This reading celebrates the fourth issue of Bridge magazine. Coffee Messiah, 1554 E Olive, 683-8398, 5:30 pm, free.
* RANDALL SULLIVAN
Sullivan reads from and signs Labyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. The book reveals how members of the LAPD became caught up in the violent rap industry. Special security procedures may apply. UW Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room, free w/ticket, available at University Bookstore, 634-3400.
* MICHAEL MOORE
See Stranger Suggests. Town Hall, Eighth Ave and Seneca St, free w/ticket, available at Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600.
* CHARLES D'AMBROSIO
See Stranger Suggests. Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, 322-7030, 7 pm, $6.
MARK BOWDEN
The man who wrote Black [Folks]Hawk Down is here to promote a paperback book about killing a Latin American. It's called Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 5 pm, free.
ALICE RANDALL
Randall's debut novel, The Wind Done Gone, caused a stir last year because it stuck a fork into Gone With the Wind. Tony Earley writes: "The Wind Done Gone... binds the fairy tale of Gone With the Wind to the gothic nightmare of Absalom, Absalom!" Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
DAVID RAKOFF
Rakoff reads from and signs Fraud. Rakoff has been described as the funniest person on the planet. University Bookstore, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
* JONATHAN DEAN and REBECCA BROWN
The wonderful Jonathan Dean and the great Rebecca Brown (and Stranger contributor) explore the politics of opera, and, more specifically, the role of censorship in Verdi's opera A Masked Ball. UW Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room, 7 pm, free w/ticket, available at University Bookstore, 634-3400.
HARI KUNZRU
Kunzru is here with his novel The Impressionist, a picaresque journey of a chameleon-like figure from India to England to Africa. The book echoes Waugh, Kipling, Bowles, and Rushdie. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 6 pm, free.
RICHARD FLANAGAN
Flanagan's latest novel, Gould's Book of Fish, takes place near the coast of Tasmania, during the old penal colony days. The book echoes Rabelais, Smollett, Fielding, Sterne, Melville, Hemingway, and, of course, Dostoyevsky. Zeitgeist Art & Coffee, 171 S. Jackson, call Elliott Bay Bookstore (624-6600) for details, 7:30 pm, free.
SQUARE LAKE DEBUT READING
This reading celebrates the first issue of Square Lake, a new literary journal, with featured poets Jody Aliesan, J. Glenn Evans, Ed Harkness, Thomas Hubbard, Jill McGrath, John Olson, John Shemerdiak, Molly Tenenbaum, and David Thornburgh. Hosted by Carrington MacDuffie, Square Lake's poetry editor. Wit's End Coffee & Books, 770 N 34th, 343-1941, 7 pm, free.
