THURSDAY 10/27
NIC HARCOURT
The radio DJ spins records and reads from his book Music Lust. Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Ave, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
JENNIE SHORTRIDGE
Eating Heaven is a novel involving a sick uncle, a caregiver, and family secrets. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3333, 7 pm, free.
TONY ANGELL, JOHN MARSLOFF
In the Company of Crows and Ravens is about crow-human "cultural coevolution." Third Place Books, 366-3333, 7 pm, free.
MATT BRIGGS, STACEY LEVINE
The two great fiction writers read from their two great new novels, Shoot the Buffalo and Frances Johnson, respectively. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
DAVA SOBEL
See review, p. 43. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave, 652-4255, 7:30 pm, $5.
GILLIAN CONOLEY
Profane Halo is a collection of poetry. Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, 322-7030, 7:30 pm, free.
LILLIAS BEVER
The poet reads from her new book, Bellini in Istanbul. Open Books, 2414 N 45th St, 633-0811, 7:30 pm, free.
FRIDAY 10/28
BRIAN STRAUSE
Maybe a Miracle is a debut novel involving a near-drowning, sibling bonds, and a coma. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 6:30 pm, free.
ARLENE BLUM
Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life is a memoir. University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
H. W. BRANDS
The history professor talks about Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
SATURDAY 10/29
HEATHER ROGERS
Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage "investigates the unmentionable," as John Berger puts it. Rogers's film about garbage shares its name with this book. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 4 pm, free.
JENNIFER LEO
The Thong Also Rises is a collection of funny stories by other women. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 5 pm, free.
SUE MACKEY, LAURA TONKIN
They are the authors of Living Well, Living Smart. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 6:30 pm, free.
SIBYL JAMES
James reads from Ho Chi Minh's Motorbike: A Vietnam Travel Journal. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
SUNDAY 10/30
GLORIA ESTEFAN
The recording artist who got that damn song "Bad Boy" stuck in my head repeatedly when I was a kid ("Bad, bad, bad, bad boy/You make me feel so good...") reads from her first children's book, The Magically Mysterious Adventures of Noelle the Bulldog. In Spanish, it's called Las Magicas y Misteriosas Aventuras de una Bulldog Llamada Noelle. Town Hall, 652-4255, noon, free.
PHILIPPE SANDS
The London barrister reads from Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules—From FDR's Atlantic Charter to George W. Bush's Illegal War. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 4 pm, free.
THE HORRIFIC TALES OF EDGAR ALLEN POE
Actor Robb Towner presents Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and other favorites. Seattle Museum of the Mysteries, 623 Broadway E, 328-6499, 8:30 pm, free.
MONDAY 10/31
JONATHAN KOZOL
The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid in America is all about how, basically, schools are still segregated. St Marks Episcopal Cathedral, 1245 10th Ave E, 323-0300, 7 pm, free.
ALAN LEE COSTUME PARTY
The Lord of the Rings illustrator signs his Lord of the Rings Sketchbook. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
HAYNES JOHNSTON
The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism begins: "Thursday afternoon was overcast, the temperature hovering just above freezing, when the black-haired, heavyset man carrying a bulging, battered tan briefcase boarded a Capital Airlines plane for the two hundred-seventeen-mile flight from Washington's National Airport to Wheeling, West Virginia. 'Good afternoon, Senator McCarthy,' the head the stewardess said after he took his seat." Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
AL FRANKEN
The commentator reads from his new book The Truth (with Jokes). It's also, weirdly, a costume party. So have at it. Town Hall, 652-4255, 7:30 pm, $5.
TUESDAY 11/01
GRAEME GIBSON
Gibson, bird nerd, reads from The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 6 pm, free.
CAROLINE SWOPE
Swope reads from her historical book on local architecture, Classic Houses of Seattle: High Style to Vernacular 1870–1950. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
ANDREW GUMBEL
The journalist reads from Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America. Town Hall, 652-4255, 7:30 pm, $5
GEN. JANIS KARPINSKI
One Woman's Army: The Commanding General of Abu Ghraib Tells Her Story is a memoir that contends that the blame for Abu Ghraib goes all the way to the top, by a woman who would know. Town Hall, 652-4255, 7:30 pm, $5.
PAM HOUSTON
The fiction writer (Cowboys Are My Weakness and other books) reads from new work. Richard Hugo House, 322-7030, 7:30 pm, $3–$5.
ARIEL DORFMAN
Why for Years I Did Not Seem to Care if I Was a Jew and Whether I Was Wrong is about Chile, Pinochet, and exile. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St, 215-4800, 7:30 pm, $8–$10.
PETER DONAHUE
Madison House is a novel set in Seattle a hundred years ago. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 8 pm, free.
WEDNESDAY 11/02
DAVID WOLMAN
Wolman reads from A Left-Hand Turn Around the World: Chasing the Mystery and Meaning of All Things Southpaw. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
JOY CASTRO
The Truth Book is a memoir about growing up in a family of Jehovah's Witnesses. Third Place Books, 366-333, 7 pm, free.
MARGARET CHO
The standup comedian reads from I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight, which is activisty. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
RICHARD LAVOIE
Lavoie reads from It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend: Helping the Child With Learning Disabilities Find Social Success. UW Medical Center, Experimental Education Unit Room 150, UW campus, 634-3400, 7:30 pm, free.
FLORIAN SCHULZ
Yellowstone to Yukon is a book of wildlife photography. Slides will be shown. UW Kane Hall 220, UW Campus, 634-3400, 7:30 pm, free.
DODIE BELLAMY, KEVIN KILLIAN
Bellamy, author of several books, is at work on a multidimensional sex novel called The Fourth Form. Killian is a poet, memoirist, and fiction writer. This is a Subtext event. Richard Hugo House, 322-7030, 7:30 pm, free.
