THURSDAY 9/25
ANITA PRATAP
Pratap, a journalist for CNN and Time, talks about where her job has taken her and signs her new book, Island of Blood: Frontline Reports from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Other South Asian Flashpoints. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 5 pm, free.
ART THIEL
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer‘s sports columnist signs Out of Left Field: How the Mariners Made Baseball Fly in Seattle. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
JAMES CARROLL
The characters in the Berlin-based historical thriller Secret Father include two variously impaired young men: One has polio, and one’s a socialist. University Bookstore, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400, 7 pm, free. (Also at Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3333, on Fri Sept 26 at 6 pm.)
ANNE LAMOTT
The “noted author, single mom, and cranky Christian” (the New Yorker)–also a Salon columnist and the author of Bird by Bird, among other inspiring titles–talks about, you know, life. The paperback of her most recent novel, Blue Shoe, is now out. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave, 325-3554, 7:30 pm, $20.
FRIDAY 9/26
* FRANCIS ITANI
“Deafening is a remarkable and absorbing first novel,” says Cold Mountain author Charles Frazier. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
SATURDAY 9/27
GEORGE W. SCOTT
The former senator signs A Majority of One: Legislative Life. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 2 pm, free.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
The bestselling author of sepia-toned novels like Message in a Bottle signs his latest, The Wedding. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 4 pm, free.
TONY HOROWITZ
Horowitz signs the paperback release of Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
SUNDAY 9/28
GERRY SPENCE
The Smoking Gun is an account of an unfair trial. Downtown Borders, 1501 Fourth Ave, 622-4599, 12:30 pm, free.
DAVID OATES
The Portland author signs Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 3 pm, free.
TATYANA MISHEL
Mishel is at work on a novel and a book of poems. Victrola, 411 15th Ave E, 325-6520, 7 pm, free.
PRIYA KEEFE, CLARK HUMPHREY, PAUL NELSON
Keefe and Nelson are poets, and Humphrey is working on a novel about the world’s blandest person. Titlewave Books, 7 Mercer St, 324-6379, 7:30 pm, free.
MONDAY 9/29
ANNE PERRY
No Graves As Yet is a mystery that begins with a car accident. Seattle Mystery Bookshop, 117 Cherry St, 587-5737, noon, free. (Also at Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3333, at 7 pm.)
ANN BANCROFT & LIV ARNESEN
The two explorers sign No Horizon Is So Far, their story of being the first women to cross Antarctica on foot. University of Washington, Kane Hall 130, 634-3400, 7 pm, free (tickets required).
SENA JETER NASLUND
Four Spirits is a novel set in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1960s. University Bookstore, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
* JEFFREY EUGENIDES
See Stranger Suggests. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St, 621-2230, 7:30 pm, $9-$23.
TUESDAY 9/30
* ROBBIE CONAL
See preview, page 25, and Stranger Suggests. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 5 pm, free.
DAVE BARRY
The humorist signs Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, But Some Actual Journalism. Third Place Books, 633-3333, 7 pm, free.
* HENRY PETROSKI
Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design examines how objects shape our lives. University Bookstore, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
CAROLINE ALEXANDER
The author of The Endurance reads from her new book, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, which is “destined to become the definitive, enthralling history of a great seafaring adventure,” according to Publishers Weekly. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free (tickets required).
WEDNESDAY 10/1
ORATRIX
A bunch of dyke performance poets who, you know, aren’t going to take it anymore. Re-bar, 1114 Howell St, 233-9873, 7 pm, $5-10 (sliding scale).
AN UNCENSORED CELEBRATION
An evening of dramatic readings from books that have faced censorship, emceed by city librarian Deborah Jacobs. Broadway Performance Hall, 1625 Broadway, 624-2184, 7:30 pm, free ($5 donations welcome).
MICHAEL WIEGERS
The Copper Canyon Press editor reads from Contemporary Mexican Poetry. Marco Polo Travel Resources, 713 Broadway E, 860-3736, 7:30 pm, free.
