Bailey/Coy Books—9/14: Poet and essayist Nancy Venable Raine reads from After Silence, an account of her rape and its aftermath, as a benefit for Home Alive. 10/19: Chastity Bono reads from Family Outing. 10/29: Cartoonist Alison Bechdel discusses her new collection, Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For. 414 Broadway E, 323-8842
Eleventh Hour Productions—Various venues, 346-0180.
Poetry After Dark at the Bellevue Art Museum: 9/22: DJ and Stranger critic Riz Rollins, Canadian poet Neile Graham, Raven Chronicles contributor David Lloyd Whited. 10/13: Neo-symbolist playwright George Wolfe, poet and essayist Jan Wallace, painter and poet Patrice Tullai. 10/27: 18-year-old novelist Philip Guichard, Stranger writer Trisha Ready, poet Robin Merrigan. 11/10: "Staggered Thirds": Washington Free Press contributor Doug Nufer, writer Anna Mockler, Farm Pulp editor Gregory Hischak. 11/24: Poet Joan Fiset, Swarm of Edges author John Olsen, environmentalist poet Reuben Green.
Real to Reel literary performance series: 10/6: Real Change contributor Mary Park, e-zine editor Juliette Torrez, and Yakama poet Arthur Tulee. 11/3: Playwright Wesley Middleton, Woodworks Press founder Paul Hunter, and poet Tracie D. Hall.
Elliott Bay Book Co.—Highlights only from this bookstore's busy calendar. 9/11: Journalist Ellis Cose appears with his first novel, The Best Defense. 9/11: New York Times Northwest correspondent Timothy Egan talks about the West and his book Lasso the Wind. 9/15: Robert Clark reads from Mr. White's Confession. 9/16: Literary doctor Abraham Verghese (My Own Country) reads from his newest, The Tennis Partner. 9/17: Novelist Howard Norman reads from his new work, The Museum Guard. 9/21: Irish writer Sebastian Barry, with a new novel, The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty. 9/24: Atlantic Monthly writer Robert D. Kaplan, with his book An Empire Wilderness. 9/24: The Undertaking author Thomas Lynch, with a new book of poems. 9/25: Epitaph for a Peach author David Mas Masumoto appears with a new book, Harvest Son. 9/28: Big, famous novelist Tim O'Brien reads from his new book, Tomcat in Love. 9/29: LA writer/performer Laurie Fox appears for My Sister from the Black Lagoon. 9/30: Former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten talks and signs his book East and West, the book Rupert Murdoch cancelled in the UK. 9/30: Western historian and fire expert Stephen J. Pyne reads from his new book, How the Canyon Became Grand.
10/6: Marianne Wiggins reads from her new novel, Almost Heaven. 10/8: Ethan Canin appears with a new novel, For Kings and Planets. 10/9: Andrea Barrett reads from Voyage of the Narwhal. 10/10: Seattle mystery novelist Michael Dibdin reads from a new Aurelio Zen mystery, A Long Finish. 10/11: Journalist Rick Bragg reads from his acclaimed memoir, All Over But the Shoutin'. 10/13: Edwidge Dandicat reads from a new novel, The Farming of Bones. 10/14: Clinton's favorite, Walter Mosley, reads from a new science fiction novel, Blue Light. 10/15: LA historian and cultural writer Mike Davis reads from his new work, Ecology of Fear. 10/17: Photographer Art Wolfe and writer Brenda Peterson team up on Pacific Northwest: Land of Light and Water. 10/17: Lorrie Moore reads from her new story collection, Birds of America. 10/18: Ex-senator and Knick Bill Bradley reads from Values of the Game. 10/19: Margaret Drabble reads from The Witch of Exmoor. 10/20: Wired executive editor Kevin Kelly reads from New Rules for the New Economy. 10/21: Greg Sarris reads from his novel, Watermelon Nights. 10/21-22: Two nights of Berlin writers: Marcel Beyer, Ingo Schulze, Felicitas Hoppe, and Das Gorinbein. 10/27: DC journalist Juan Williams reads from his biography, Thurgood Marshall. 10/28: Susan Minot reads from a new novel, Evening. 10/29: Lan Samantha Chang reads from a debut book of stories, Hunger. 10/30: Barbara Kingsolver comes to town with her new novel, The Poisonwood Bible. 10/31: Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee and their joint memoir, With Ossie & Ruby in This Life Together.
11/6: Exiled Somalian novelist Nuruddin Farah reads from his book Secrets. 11/9: DC journalist William Greider reads from Fortress America. 11/11: Former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan reads from his new book, Love Undetectable. 11/19: Jim Harrison reads from his new novel, The Road Home. 12/4: Michael Cunningham reads from his new novel, The Hours. 101 S Main, 624-6600.
Richard Hugo House—9/10: Friends of Nelson Bentley, a benefit poetry reading with Beth Bentley, Emily Warn, Brenda Shaw, Mark White. 10/2-4: Hugo House hosts a three-day arts and humanities symposium, "The Power of Place: A Celebration of Richard Hugo's Work." Among the speakers: novelist Ivan Doig, journalist Timothy Egan, UW professor Donna Gerstenberger, poet Ripley Hugo (the late writer's widow), Montana writer William Kittredge, composer David Mahler, poet Colleen McElroy, filmmaker Annick Smith, novelist Matthew Stadler, poet J.T. Stewart, poet David Wagoner, and novelist James Welch. Big, big weekend. 10/13: Rendezvous Reading Series continues, curated by Matthew Stadler; runs second Tuesday of every month. 10/13: Fall debut of Sketch Club Reading Series, curated by Rebecca Brown; runs third Wednesday of every month. 10/13: Slam poet Eben Eldridge with others. 11/10: Rendezvous Reading Series. 11/17: The award-winning and tireless promoter of good writing Rebecca Brown reads from her new story collection, The Dogs. Book publication party to follow. 11/18: Sketch Club readers: Donna Miscolta, Liz Walsh-Boyd, Stokley Towles, Nancy Rawles, and others. 12/8: Rendezvous Reading Series. 12/10: Poet Galway Kinnell. 12/16: Sketch Club readers: Jerome Gold, Gordon Janow, and others. 1634 11th, 322-7030
The Mountaineers—9/24: Michael Chessler, proprietor of Chessler's Books, the legendary mountaineering mail-order catalog and bookshop, talks about how much those signed first editions of Into Thin Air are worth, and other bibliophilic issues. 10/15: Robin Erbesfield, sport climber. 10/22: The Everest IMAX film finally opens in Seattle, with filmmaker/climber David Breashears, author of Everest: Mountain Without Mercy. Check yer ice axes at the door. 11/5: Jim Haberl, Canadian climber talks about climbing in the Karakoram and Peruvian Andes. 11/12: Banff Book Festival night, with climber Stevie Haston. 11/19: Greg Child, Seattle's big-mountain climber, author, and North Face poster boy, reads from and talks about his latest work, Postcards from the Ledge. 300 Third W, 284-6310.
