BUMBERSHOOT LITERARY EVENTS
See separate Bumbershoot guide in this week’s issue.
THURSDAY 8/28
ROGER WEAVER
Weaver’s poems (collected in Reading the Stones) have “a cryptic quality” not unlike Emily Dickinson, says poet Madeline DeFrees. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
FRIDAY 8/29
TODD BRABEC, JEFF BRABEC
These two industry insiders discuss Music, Money, and Success, their book about how to be a musician and not get fucked over. Experience Music Project, JBL Theater, 325 Fifth Ave N, 367-5483, 5 pm, free.
SATURDAY 8/30
MICHELLE TEA
The (miraculously not-annoying) lesbian memoirist and sometime Stranger contributor also happens to have been one of the cofounders of the local queer reading series Sister Spit. She is up from San Francisco for Bumbershoot and, tonight, to read with fellow spitting sisters Bee Lavender and Anne Elizabeth Moore. Wildrose, 1021 Pike St, 369-2471, 9 pm and 11 pm, $5.
SUNDAY 8/31
BELLE RANDALL, AMMA MOCKLER, AREN CRONACHER
Randall’s True Love is a limited-edition book (assembled by the careful hands at Wood Works Press) written in a formalist mode: It’s a series of sonnets. Mockler is a widely published storywriter whose latest collection is Burning Salt. Cronacher, a performer, is harder to define. Titlewave Books, 7 Mercer St, 324-6379, 7:30 pm, free.
MONKEYBICYCLE EVENT
The theme of this literary and musical event–whose participants will include McSweeney’s contributor Ed Page and NPR’s Rewind regular Barb Klansnic (as well as the editors of the fiction magazine Monkeybicycle, Steven Seighman and Shya Scanlon)–is “An Evening with Weapons of Mass Destruction.” Rendezvous, Jewel Box Theater, 2322 Second Ave, 441-5823, 7 pm, free.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
See Stranger Suggests, page 23.
WEDNESDAY 9/3
MIKE HAWLEY, SHARON DUNCAN
Hawley’s Silent Proof is a crime thriller set in Seattle. Duncan’s The Dead Wives Society is a mystery novel about a bad husband; he’s a homicidal maniac. Seattle Mystery Bookshop, 117 Cherry St, 587-5737, noon, free.
JIMMY McDONOUGH
The author of Shakey, the best-selling biography of Neil Young (the New York Times called it “exhaustive, quarrelsome, and sometimes maddening”), talks about the book and the elusive musician. Borders, 1501 Fourth Ave, 622-4599, 12:30 pm, free.
DAVID PERRY, C. E. PUTNAM
This month’s installment of Subtext, Hugo House’s experimental reading series, features New York poet David Perry (Range Finder) and C. E. Putnam, the local poet who maintains the Putnam Institute for Space Opera Research. (Who knows.) Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, 322-7030, 7:30 pm, donations requested.
LIZ ADAIR, RUTH LAVINE, TERRY GIFFORD
The editors of Lucy Shook’s Letters from Afghanistan–a collection of correspondence written in the 1960s by an American woman–discuss the book’s cultural insights and show slides. University Village Barnes & Noble, 2700 NE University Village, 517-4107, 7 pm, free.
KENT NELSON
Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still is a novel about an accidental death on a farm in South Dakota. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7 pm, free.
POETRY/OPEN MICS
HOMELAND–Words. So many words. Tuesdays at 7 pm. Caffe Vita, 1005 E Pike St, 709-4440, free.
OPEN MIKE NIGHT–Musicians, poets, whoever. Thursdays at 8 pm. 15th Avenue Alehouse, 7515 15th Ave NW, free.
POETSWEST–Featuring Susan Harmon and Daniel Moore. Sun Aug 31 at 7 pm. Penny Cafe, 1707 NW Market St, 682-1268, free.
RED SKY POETRY THEATER–Featured readers and an open mic. Sundays at 7 pm. Globe Cafe, 1531 14th Ave, 547-4585, free.