WENDELL BERRY
The author reads from his new novel, Hannah Coulter. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave, 624-6600 for info, 7 pm, free.
DAVID BOIES
The guy who, in my admittedly inexpert opinion, fucking blew it big-time four years ago defending Al Gore in Bush v. Gore reads from his memoir, Courting Justice. UW Gates School of Law, UW, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Gifts is a young-adult novel. UW Kane Hall 130, University of Washington, 634-3400, 7:30 pm, $3/free with purchase of Gifts. (Also on Nov 5 at Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 6 pm, free.)
FRIDAY 11/5
MARIE ROSE WONG
It's called Sweet Cakes, Long Journey, but it's a serious book about the history of Chinatowns in Portland. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, 366-3333, 6 pm, free.
DANIELA KUPER
Hunger and Thirst is a debut novel whose themes involve coming of age, Jewishness, and the 1950s. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 8 pm, free. SATURDAY 11/6
CLAUDE AN SHIN THOMAS
At Hell's Gate: A Soldiers Journey from War to Peace is based on the author's hellish experiences. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 6 pm, free. (Also on 11/9 at Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.)
"STRINGTOWN"
Gregory Hischak, Matt Briggs, Anita K. Boyle, and a lot of other writers read their contributions to the new issue of StringTown. Second Story Bookstore, 1815 N 45th St, #215, 547-4605, 7 pm, free.
* DENNIS COOPER, MARTHA KINNEY, DEREK McCORMACK, BENJAMIN WEISMAN
The authors of the novels in Akashic Press' "Little House on the Bowery" series read their weird, great stuff. Dennis Cooper, the series editor and the laureate of weird shit, joins them. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
SUNDAY 11/7
DAVID MASON
The poems in Arrivals provide, according to W. S. Merwin, "the pleasure of discovery." Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 2 pm, free.
EILEEN WARBURTON
John Fowles is a biography. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 4:30 pm, free.
JIM MUNROE, ARIEL GORE
Munroe is the author of An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil. Gore is the author of The Essential Hip Mama. Confounded Books, 315 E Pine St, 382-3376, 7 pm.
MONDAY 11/8
* MARK HELPRIN
The (famous, acclaimed) fiction writer (Winter's Tale, etc.) reads from his new book, The Pacific and Other Stories. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, noon, free. (Also at Third Place Books, 366-3333, 7 pm, free, tix req'd.)
TUESDAY 11/9
* RUSSELL BANKS
The (famous, acclaimed) author of Cloudsplitter reads from his new novel, The Darling, which is about political turmoil in West Africa, the 1960s and '70s, and a naive woman. Seattle Public Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave, 624-6600/386-4650, 7 pm, free.
WEDNESDAY 11/10
JOHN PERKINS
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is about screwing over the Third World, by a man who used to consult companies like Halliburton on how to do just that. University Bookstore, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
