THURSDAY 4/19


*MICHAEL DIDBIN

A British mystery writer recently transplanted to Seattle, Didbin reads from his latest novel, Thanksgiving. See Stranger Suggests. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, tickets required (available free at store).


STANLEY WILLIAMS

Reading and signing by the author of Surviving Galeras, a first-person account of an expedition into a suddenly erupting Columbian volcano. University Bookstore, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.


NATIONAL POETRY MONTH READING SERIES

Tonight's featured readers are Larry Crist, Neile Graham, Paul C. Hunter, and Arlene Naganawa. Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave, 622-9250, free.


YOLANDA SINDE

In celebration of Earth Day, Sinde--Executive Director of the community Coalition for Environmental Justice--gives a talk entitled "We're Not Just Environmentalists! Environmental Justice: A Movement Among People of Color." Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center, 104 17th Ave S, 323-4032, 7 pm, $8.


RHONDA BRITTEN

Oh Lord, when will it all end? Britten is the author of Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3311, 7 pm, free.


FRIDAY 4/20


KEN McLEOD

Presentation by the Los Angeles-based author of Wake Up to Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention, a spiritual guidebook that Surya Das called "a wake-up call to your true life." Elliott Bay Book Company, 5 pm, tickets required (available free at store).


*CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

See Stranger Suggests. Elliott Bay Book Company, 7:30 pm, free.


JONATHAN WATERMAN

Slide show, reading, and signing by the author of Arctic Crossing: A Journey through the Northwest Passage and Inuit Culture. University Bookstore, 7 pm, free.


*ROBERT MEEROPOL

Meeropol, the youngest son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, will discuss the wrongful execution of his parents by the U.S. government and other issues around capital punishment in his lecture "Fatally Flawed: The Death Penalty from the Rosenbergs to Mumia Abu-Jamal." Central Lutheran Church, 1710 11th Ave, 324-8165, 7 pm, free (donation will be accepted for the Rosenberg Fund for Children).


JUAN WILLIAMS

Williams--host of NPR's "Talk of the Nation" and author of the biography Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary--is the guest speaker at the Urban Enterprise Center's "It's Time to Talk" Forum on Race. Sheraton Hotel, 1400 Sixth Ave, 389-7337, noon, $45 ($500 per table).


SATURDAY 4/21


*BIG-ASS SEX READING

Group reading by contributors to the new book Sex and Single Girls: Straight and Queer Women on Sexuality, including Karen Rosenberg, Nomy Lamm, Augusta Moore, Mary Martone, Abby Levine, Diana Courvant, and Tara Hardy. Cafe Solstice, 4116 University Way NE, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.


BIG-ASS POETRY READING

Readings by contributors to the poetry anthology Pontoon, including Carol Barrett, Curt Colbert, Gregory Hischak, Joannie Kervan Stangeland, and A.E. Swaney. Elliott Bay Book Company, 3 pm, tickets required (available free at store).


RACHEL NAOMI REMEN, M.D.

Reading by the author of My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging. Elliott Bay Book Company, 7:30 pm, tickets required (available free at store).


DAVID MAXWELL

Booksigning by the author of Men Lie, a noir mystery. Seattle Mystery Bookshop, 117 Cherry St, 587-5737, noon, free.


SUNDAY 4/22


THREE POETS & AN OPEN MIC

Featured readers are David D. Horowits, Eirik Ott, and Herbert Sundvall. Wit's End Bookstore & Tea Shop, 770 N 34th St, 682-1268, 7 pm, free.


RED SKY POETRY THEATRE

Tonight's featured reader is Elliott Bronstein, plus open mic (sign-ups start at 7 pm). Globe Cafe, 1531 14th Ave, 633-5647, 7:30 pm, free.


ALAN DURNING

Durning--executive director of Northwest Environmental Watch and author of This Place on Earth 2001: Guide to a Sustainable Northwest--discusses "Salmon, Sprawl, and Aikido Politics" Plymouth Congregational Church, 1217 Sixth Ave, 622-4865, 10 am, free.


JULIA BUTTERFLY HILL

Note to Wistful Hippies: Literal tree hugger and author of The Legacy of Luna, Hill (the "Rosa Parks of the environmental movement") is keynote speaker at the Wilderness Awareness School and the Circle of Life Foundation's annual Earth Day event, "Seattle Earth Day 2001: Living the Life We Wish to See." Lincoln Building Auditorium, 4400 Interlake Ave N, 425-788-1301, 6 pm, $10 advance/$15 door.


MONDAY 4/23


DAVID BARASH & JUDITH EVE LIPTON

Reading and signing by the authors of The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People, a book about the biological basis of indiscriminate humping. University Bookstore, 7 pm, free.


DAVID WHYTE

Whyte, a Whidbey Island-based poet, reads from Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work As a Pilgrimage of Identity, a book that Paul Hawken calls "the most consoling piece of writing ever published on the subject of work." Elliott Bay Book Company, 7:30 pm, tickets required (available free at store).


EAST INDIA TRADING COMPANY

All-ages poetry, prose, and spoken word open mic. Coffee Messiah, 1554 E Olive Way, 208-1188, 7 pm, free.


T. M. SELL

Sell, a professor of journalism and political science at Highline Community College, reads from his new book, Wings of Power: Boeing and the Politics of Growth in the Northwest. Third Place Books, 7 pm, free.


TUESDAY 4/24


TERRY GROSS

Referred to by the Boston Globe as "almost certainly the best cultural interviewer in America," Gross--host of NPR's Fresh Air--appears tonight as the final speaker in Seattle Arts & Lecture's 2001 season. Benaroya Hall, 100 University St, 621-2230, 7:30 pm, $15/$7.50 students (main floor sold out).


HEIDI HOWKINS

Reading and signing by the author of K2: One Woman's Quest for the Summit, another goddamn book about mountain climbing. Kane Hall, Room 130, UW Campus, 634-3400, 7 pm, tickets required (available free at University Bookstore).


RONA BERG

Reading and signing by the author of Beauty: The New Basics, a hip new guide to tarting yourself up. University Bookstore, 7 pm, free.


ELENA PONIATOWSKA

Renowned Mexican feminist journalist, novelist, and author of the books Hasta No Verte Jesus Mio and Luz y Luna, Las Lunitas asks the question "Is There a New Mexico?" Kane Hall, Room 210, UW Campus, 6 pm, free.


SUSAN HERRMANN LOOMIS

Reading by the author of On Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town, a memoir that Barbara Kafka praised as "a radiant love letter to France--particularly Normandy--its countryside, food, markets, people." Elliott Bay Book Company, 7:30 pm, tickets required (available free at store).


WEDNESDAY 4/25


MARK EPSTEIN, M.D.

New York psychiatrist Epstein (author of Thoughts Without a Thinker and Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart) reads from his latest work, Going on Being: Buddhism and the Way of Change, a book that Daniel Goleman says is the author's "most brilliant yet... a mindful cartography of the human heart." Elliott Bay Book Company, 5 pm, tickets required (available free at store); and Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave, 634-3400, 7:30 pm, tickets required (available free at University Bookstore).


JAMES WARREN

Presentation by the local author of The War Years: A Chronicle of Washington State in World War II. Third Place Books, 7 pm, free.


NICHOLSON BAKER

Baker, author of such novels of psychological minutiae as Vox and The Fermata, reads from his latest work of non-fiction, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. Lee Auditorium, Seattle Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave, 624-6600, 7 pm, free.


JODI PICOULT

Reading by the author of Salem Falls, a modern retelling of the Salem witch trials. Elliott Bay Book Company, 7:30 pm, tickets required (available free at store).