Friday 11/24
ANN NICHOLS ROULAC
She talks about Power, Passion & Purpose: Seven Steps to Energizing Your Life and How to Create the Life You Want. Ravenna Third Place, 6504 20th Ave NE, 525-2347. Free. 7:30 pm.
Saturday 11/25
MICHAEL DONNELLY
False Harbor is a mystery involving a sculptor on San Juan Island. Seattle Mystery Bookshop, 117 Cherry St, 587-5737. Free. Noon.
JEN MARLOWE
The local author and filmmaker shows a screening of her documentary Darfur Diaries, made with Aisha Bain and Adam Shapiro, and talks about their book Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival. There's a discussion and book signing. Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, 104 17th Ave S, 684-4757. $7. 7 pm.
Monday 11/27
PETER VITALIANI
In this installment of Science On Tap, Vitaliani, from the UW's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, gives a lecture called "Stress, Aging, and the Effects on Our Body: Is Caregiving Hazardous to Your Health?" Ravenna Third Place, 6504 20th Ave NE, 525-2347. Free. 7 pm.
Tuesday 11/28
JOHN KEEBLE, KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN
Keeble won Prairie Schooner's award for fiction this year (his book is Nocturnal America) and Flenniken won Prairie Schooner's award for poetry (Famous). Both writers are local. University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400. Free. 7 pm.
REAL LIFE TONIGHT
Spoken word written and performed by students from John Marshall Alternative High School. JoAnna's Soul Cafe and Jazz Club, 2514 E Cherry St, 650-2029. $5 suggested donation. 7 pm.
JULIE SCHEERES
Scheeres reads from the paperback of her memoir Jesus Land, which is about being raised by missionaries in Indiana in the '80s. It is, as Stranger writer Gillian Rose wrote, "both a tale of the most sincere loyalty, a complicated and sometimes impossible love, and a fierce critique of a strict Christian upbringing (can any critique be fierce enough?)." Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600. Free. 7:30 pm.
Wednesday 11/29
WILLIAM C. GORDON
Duelo en Chinatown is a Spanish-language mystery set in San Francisco in the 1960s. Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave, 386-4667 for info. Free. 6 pm.
ELIZABETH GEORGE
What Came Before He Shot Her is a novel about murder and a dysfunctional family. University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400. Free. 7 pm.
RICHIE UNTERBERGER
Unreleased Beatles is a book of outtakes from interviews with the Beatles, lists of unreleased recordings, unusual photos, etc. Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park), 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3333. Free. 7 pm.
Open Mic
ELLIOTT BAY OPEN MIKE NIGHT Signup at 7 pm, reading at 7:30 pm. Last Wednesday of the month. at Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600. Free. Last Thurs, 2 am.
MELLOW MONDAYS Poetry, a little music, and happy hour prices for poets and their friends at Bai Pai Thai, 2316 NE 65th St Ste 101, 527-4800. Free. 8 pm.
POETSWEST Featured readers and an open mic at Ballard Library, 5614 22nd Ave NW, 682-1268 for info. Free. 4 pm.
SCRATCHING POST Poetry open mic, all ages; signup at 7:30 pm at Mr. Spots Chai House, 5463 Leary Ave NW, 297-2424. Free. Thurs, 8 pm.
SEATTLE POETRY SLAM Every Tuesday at ToST, 513 N 36th St., 547-0240. $5. Tues, 8 pm.
STAGE FRIGHT Youth open mic. Fourth Wednesday of every month at 7 pm. at Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, 322-7030. Free. Fourth Thurs, 7 pm.
