Seattle Lit Calendar May 5-May 11, 2008

May 5, 2:20 PMSeattle Literary ExaminerDave Clapper

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Here are the literary events for this week that I could glean from the calendars of Richard Hugo House, Elliott Bay Book Company, University Book Store, and Third Place Books. In cases where no ticket cost is mentioned, the event is free. I'm running behind this week, so the listings won't have full descriptions this time around.

Question for readers: should I weed out some of the less "literary" events? For example, do readers of this page care about books about planning weddings? Or do you want all of the bookish events I can track down? My temptation is to include only events that pertain to either fiction or poetry, but then that leaves out all the memoir-type stuff and some good non-fiction as well. What are your thoughts?

Also, if you're a part of Seattle's lit scene and you know of events that aren't being covered here, shoot me an email at dclapper@smokelong.com, and I'll add them to future calendars. I'm still playing with format, too. Right now, I'm pretty much copying and pasting (with a little tweaking to make all events follow a similar format). If there's a particular event that I have a little more insight into, I'll make sure to include that.

Monday, May 5

7:00pm
Richard Hugo House
Hugo Works in Progress

7:00pm
University Book Store
Diana Abu-Jaber, Origin

7:00pm
Third Place Books
Sarah O'Leary Burningham, How to Raise Your Parents : A Teen Girl's Survival Guide

7:30pm
Elliott Bay Book Company
WILLY VLAUTIN, Northline

7:30pm
Town Hall Seattle, 1119 Eighth Avenue, $5.00
DANIEL BROOK, The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America

Tuesday, May 6

6:00pm
Elliott Bay Book Company
MARC ACITO, Attack of the Theater People

6:30pm
Elliott Bay Book Company
ELLIOTT BAY BOOK GROUP, The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches

7:00pm
Richard Hugo House
Lamba Literary Award Finalists' Reading: Nicola Griffith and Corrina Wycoff

7:00pm
University Book Store
Dr. Christopher Sanford, The Adventurous Traveler's Guide to Health

7:00pm
University Book Store
Ch'oe Yun and Bruce Fulton, There a Petal Silently Falls: Three Stories

7:00pm
University Book Store (Bellevue)
Linda Chalker-Scott, The Informed Gardener

7:00pm
Third Place Books
William Dietrich, Rosetta Key

8:00pm
Elliott Bay Book Company
ALEKSANDAR HEMON, The Lazarus Project

Wednesday, May 7

12:00pm
Elliott Bay Book Company
LISA GARRIGUES, Writing Motherhood: Tapping into Your Creativity as a Mother and Writer

12:00pm
Green Lake Branch, Seattle Public Library, 7364 E Green Lake Drive N
DINAW MENGESTU, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

7:00pm
Douglass Truth Branch, Seattle Public Library, 2300 E Yesler Way
DINAW MENGESTU, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

7:00pm
UW Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room
Maresi Nerad and Mimi Heggelund, Toward a Global PhD?: Forces and Forms in Doctoral Education Worldwide

7:00pm
University Book Store
William J. Bernstein, A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

7:00pm
Thrid Place Books
Elizabeth George, Careless in Red

7:30pm
Elliott Bay Book Company
DOMENIC STANSBERRY, The Ancient Rain

Thursday, May 8

12:00pm
Broadway Performance Hall, 1625 Broadway
DINAW MENGESTU, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

7:00pm
The Henry Art Gallery, 15th Ave NE & NE 41st Street
Roger Ballen, Shadow Chamber

7:00pm
Piggott Auditorium, Seattle University, 901 12th Avenue
DINAW MENGESTU, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

7:00pm
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs, 1119 8th Avenue
Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart with Sanjeev Khagram, Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World

7:00pm
University Book Store
Mark Sarvas, Harry, Revised

7:00pm
Third Place Books
Charlie Ayers, Food 2.0 : Secrets From the Chef Who Fed Google

7:30pm
Elliott Bay Book Company
SIRI HUSTVEDT, The Sorrows of an American

Friday, May 9

6:30pm
Third Place Books
Ellie Matthews, The Ungarnished Truth

7:00pm
Microsoft Auditorium, Seattle Public Central Library, 1000 Fourth Avenue
DINAW MENGESTU, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

7:00pm
University Book Store
Chelsea Handler, Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

7:30pm
Elliott Bay Book Company
ANDREW FOSTER ALTSCHUL, Lady Lazarus

Saturday, May 10

11:00am
Queen Anne Branch, Seattle Public Library, 400 W Garfield Street
DINAW MENGESTU, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

2:00pm
Elliott Bay Book Company
EMILY R. TRANSUE, Patient by Patient: Lessons in Love, Loss, Hope and Healing from a Doctor's Practice

4:00pm
Columbia Branch, Seattle Public Library, 4721 Rainier Avenue S
DINAW MENGESTU, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

4:30pm
Elliott Bay Book Company
RAJ PATEL, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System

6:30pm
Third Place Books
Cynthia Lair, Feeding the Whole Family

7:30pm
Elliott Bay Book Company
SARAH KATHERINE LEWIS, Sex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad for Me

Sunday, May 11

2:00pm
Elliott Bay Book Company
KERRY REICHS, The Best Day of Someone Else's Life