SPENCER WELLS
The DNA specialist talks about genetics and biology and all that other horrifying stuff in The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey. Kane Hall, Room 110, University of Washington, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
SCOTT HAAS
Are We There Yet? Perfect Family Vacations and Other Fantasies is about carsickness, strange road-trip destinations, etc. University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
BRENT HARTINGER
The Last Chance Texaco is a young-adult novel. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3333, 7 pm, free.
* HUGO AWARDS BONANZA
Hugo House is giving a bunch of awards, and money, to writers Crysta Casey, Roger Fanning, Netter Hansen, Ionata Iese, Priscilla Long, and Corrina Wycoff. A celebration will ensue. Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, 322-7030, 7 pm, free.
BRYAN JONES
The UW political science professor lectures on "Politics, Policy, Media, and Money." Following his lecture is a panel discussion with Washington State republican Chris Vance and King County Executive Ron Sims. Town Hall, Eighth Ave and Seneca St, 543-3839, 7 pm, $15/$12 UW alumni/$5 students.
SALLY DENEEN, OMA IZAKSON
The writers are contributors to Feeling the Heat: Reports from the Frontlines of Climate Change. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
FRIDAY 3/12
ELLEN GOODMAN
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist signs Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times, a collection of her columns. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 6 pm, free.
SUZY BECKER
I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse? is a memoir. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
SARAH SUSANKA
The author of The Not So Big House talks about, well, all kinds of stuff, very little of it having to do with houses. Kane Hall, Room 130, University of Washington, 448-4938, 7 pm, $18 adv/$22 door.
BRAD LAND
Augusten Burroughs calls Land's memoir, Goat, "riveting and relentless, shocking, brutal, just savagely good." Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
WAYNE BESEN
The activist signs Anything but Straight, all about the stupid, stupid ex-gay movement. LGBT Community Center, 1115 E Pike St, 323-5428, 7:30 pm, free.
SATURDAY 3/13
* VIRGINIA NICHOLSON
Nicholson, the daughter of Quentin Bell, the great-niece of Virginia Woolf, and the author of Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939, gossips about Dylan Thomas and Katherine Mansfield and all the crazy/ brilliant bohemian artists and writers of the early 20th century. Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave, 622-6952 ext. 234, 1 pm, $15.
DAN SILVER
Silver discusses Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis. Ravenna Third Place Books, 6504 20th Ave NE, 525-2347, 6 pm, free.
M. ANNE SWEET
Nailed to the Sky is a book of poetry. Richard Hugo House, 322-7030, 7 pm, free.
RICHARD GOLD
Gold reads his poems from The Odd Puppet Odyssey: An Adult Epic on a Small Stage. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
SUNDAY 3/14
SAHAR SABA
Here from Afghanistan, Saba reads from Anne E. Broadsky's book With All Our Strength: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 2 pm, free.
POETSWEST
Poets Jed Myers, Robinson Bolkum, Anitra Freeman, David A. Hecker, Thomas Hubbard, Ed Mast, and Vanessa Pepoy read new work. Sam Hamill, of well-intentioned (but stupid) Poets Against the War fame, will also make an appearance. Frye Art Museum, 682-1268, 2 pm, free.
* "SHORT STORIES LIVE!"
Actors do staged readings of three of the best damn short stories ever written: Flannery O'Connor's "Everything That Rises Must Converge," Vladimir Nabokov's "Lake Castle Cloud," and Adam Haslett's "Devotion." Town Hall, Eighth Ave and Seneca St, 652-4255, 4 pm, $18/$15 students, seniors, and Town Hall members.
* CHANG-RAE LEE
Aloft is a novel about an American everyman who's really aloof--a trait of which his hobby (flying a small plane) is a symbolic extension. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 5 pm, free. (Also on Mon March 15 at Town Hall, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.)
MONDAY 3/15
JAGDISH BHAGWATI
The Columbia University professor speaks In Defense of Globalization. Town Hall, 441-5910, 7 pm, $15/$10 students and World Affairs Council members.
* BUDDY WAKEFIELD
See Stranger Suggests, page 21. Re-bar, 1114 Howell St, 233-9873, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, $10.
SARAH DUNANT
The Birth of Venus is a novel set in Renaissance Florence. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
* PAUL MULDOON
See Stranger Suggests, page 21. ACT Theatre, Seventh Ave and Union St, 621-2230, 7:30 pm, $14.
TUESDAY 3/16
ROBIN HOBB
Fools Fate is a sci-fi/fantasy novel. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
CRAIG STANFORD
Upright: The Evolutionary Key to Becoming Human questions some widely held assumptions about our origins. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
NANCY RAWLES
Crawfish Dreams is about a Southern family in Watts, Los Angeles, in 1984. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7 pm, free.
WEDNESDAY 3/17
TED HALSTEAD
Halstead reads from and signs The Real State of the Union: From the Best Minds in America, Bold Solutions to the Problems Politicians Dare Not Address. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
* EDWIDGE DANTICAT
The Dew Breaker, by the author of Krik? Krak! and other books, is a collection of linked stories about a Haitian man with a brutal past. Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, 104 17th Ave S, 624-6600, 7 pm, $7.
BRIAN GOEDDE, SPECS ONE
Brian Goedde, who used to work for this paper, is the author of The World Is Yours: The Geography of Hiphop. Beat engineer Specs One has produced six hiphop albums and is working on two new ones. Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Ave, 329-4224, 7:30 pm, $5 donation.
