NORM JOHNSTON
Author of A Campus Grows in Washington: UW Architecture and Physical Expansion, Norm Johnston, is to describe how nearly 100 years ago the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition celebrated, on the UW campus, profits made by tricking mad men into believing there was gold in them hills. Kane Hall 130, UW Campus, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
STEPHANIE KALLOS
Like all cities, Seattle has it authors, one of whom is Kallos. Her novel, Broken for You, is published by Grove (the real deal). Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3333, 7 pm, free. Also reads on Oct 11 at Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
FORUM: GLOBALIZATION FIVE YEARS AFTER SEATTLE
Without the WTO riots Seattle would be nothing. Town Hall Seattle, 1119 Eighth Ave, 652-4255, 7 pm, free.
STEPHANIE M. H. CAMP
University of Washington Professor Stephanie Camp reads from her new and first book, Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women & Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
FRIDAY 10/8
* SUSAN ORLEAN
The author of the book that was made in to the film Adaptation (The Orchid Thief), Susan Orlean, reads from her new book, My Kind of Place. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 6:30 pm, free.
ERIC ALTERMAN
Media columnist for the only important magazine in the U.S. (The Nation) reads from his new book When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
DAVID MONTGOMERY
With King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon, Montgomery has written a book about something I would much rather see on a plate than on a page. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7:30 pm, free.
SATURDAY 10/9
TAHIRA NAQVI
Part of Sadaa: Voices of Women, Naqvi, a Pakistan translator and author of several books, reads some of her translations of Ismat Chughtai. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 2 pm, free.
* FARAI CHIDEYA
Farai Chideya and Charles Tondrai Mudede have two things in common: We are writers and we are from Zimbabwe. Sometime ago, Chideya was the popular-culture critic for USA Today, and, if memory serves me correctly, had or was part of a show on either MTV or BET. What I do know for certain is that she lives in San Francisco and has completed a new book, Trust: Reaching The Missing 100 million Voters. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
MONDAY 10/11
KELLY M. CRESAP
Art lovers, take out your debit and credit cards because this right here is a new book about Mr. 20th Century, Andy Warhol. It is called Pop Trickster Fool, and it is by Kelly Cresap. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 5 pm, free.
TUESDAY 10/12
JILL CONNER BROWNE
If you are hungry for some Southernfried wisdom then come on down to Browne's reading of her latest book, The Sweet Potato Queen's Field Guide to Men: Every Man I Love Is Either Gay, Married or Dead. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 7 pm, free.
WEDNESDAY 10/13
LORI WALLACH
Wallach, the director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, reads from a recent book she co-authored with Patrick Woodall, Whose Trade Organization? A Comprehensive Guide to the WTO. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 5 pm, free.
A. J. JACOBS
The Know-It-All describes Jacob's attempt to become the smartest man in the world by reading the Encyclopedia Britannica cover to cover. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
* JON LEE ANDERSON
New Yorker contributor Anderson is here to read from a book, The Fall of Baghdad, that describes the early stages of the first major invasion of the 21st century. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
