Monday
FANTASTIC FICTION SALON: Novelist, nonfiction author, and short story writer Terry Bisson has swept every honor in the science fiction field as well as France's Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. He joins Hugo House's Writing Fantastic Fiction workshop series, where he will teach "Who Likes Short Shorts? We Like Short Shorts!"

7pm // Hugo House // $4 donation

ARTS & LECTURES POETRY SERIES: "Poetry is what maintains our capacity for contemplation and difficulty." That's what Carolyn Forché says. She is the editor of Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, an anthology of poets from around the world who “endured conditions of extremity during the twentieth century.”

7:30pm // Intiman Theatre // Tickets $20/$10 students/under-25

SURVIVING IRAQ: Bob Woodruff was named co-anchor of ABC’s World News Tonight in December 2005. On January 29, 2006, while reporting on U.S. and Iraqi security forces, Woodruff was seriously injured by a roadside bomb. In An Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing is a memoir of one family’s love and courage and a guide for how a family deals with the personal consequences of a nation at war.

7:30pm // Town Hall // $5

Tuesday
LIBERTARIAN AUTHOR: In Radicals For Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement, Brian Doherty, senior editor at Reason magazine, traces the history of the philosophy of libertarianism: those who are enthusiastically pro-capitalist and deeply mistrustful of the centralizing of power.

7pm // University Bookstore // FREE

LIONEL IS A WOMAN'S NAME? What if you’d made a split-second decision that changed your life? What would the future have held, down that road not taken? In The Post-Birthday World, Lionel Shriver’s follow-up to her Orange-Prize winning We Need To Talk About Kevin, she uses a playful parallel-universe structure, alternating chapters that follow one woman’s future as it unfolds under the influence of two drastically different men.

7pm // Third Place Books // FREE

Wednesday
NAPOLEON NOVEL: William Dietrich, a novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, reads from his new novel Napoleon´s Pyramids, a historical thriller set in post-revolutionary France and Egypt.

7-8:30pm // Seattle Central Public Library // FREE

CHURCH OF SPORTS: "Baseball: An American Religion?" The lecture features Professor Christopher H. Evans, of the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. Evans, the author of The Faith of 50 Million: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture, examines how baseball is a civil religion, revealing much about the American character.

7:30-9pm // Kane Hall Rm 220 // Tickets $10 general/$8 UWAA members/$5 students

Thursday
MOUNTAIN PHOTOGRAPHY: Michael Collier presents his striking new book of photography, Over the Mountains: An Aerial View of Geology, with photographs taken from his own fifty-year-old small plane over the mountain ranges and landscapes of the U.S.

7:30pm // Elliott Bay // FREE

EVOLUTION UNDRESSED The Foundation For the Future has selected Eric J. Chaisson, Ph.D., to receive the Walter P. Kistler Book Award for 2007 for Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos, in which he covers the processes by which primal energy evolved into elementary particles, then particles into atoms, atoms into stars and galaxies, stars into heavy elements, and those elements into the molecular building blocks of life.

7pm // UW Kane Hall Rm 130 // FREE

Friday
SPIRITUAL SYNTHESIS SERIES: Anne Lamott, discusses Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, a radiant, spirited new book of essays on faith, motherhood, politics, forgiveness, and other challenges faced by our evolving selves. She writes from further along the journey begun with her memoirs Traveling Mercies and Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith.

7pm // Seattle First Baptist Church // FREE

AUTHOR, AUTHOR: The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay: in this debut novel about the eccentricities and passions of booksellers and collectors, a young Australian woman takes a job at a vast, chaotic emporium of used and rare books in New York City and finds herself caught up in the search for a lost Melville manuscript.

6:30pm // Third Place Books // FREE

Saturday
JONATHAN RABAN: The British-born Seattle author reads from Surveillance. We've mentioned it before somewhere. In his latest work, a post-9/11 novel set in Seattle a few years in the future, Raban explores the current political climate. National identity cards are mandatory and America has become thoroughly obsessed with intelligence-gathering.

3-4:30pm // Seattle Central Public Library // FREE

SEATTLE READS, FAMILY EDITION: Join Anjali Banerjee, author of Maya Running and Looking for Bapu, discusses how she became an author, where she finds ideas for her books, and how her experiences living in India, Canada, California, and Washington have shaped her stories. For families with children ages 10 and older.

11am-noon // Seattle Central Public Library // FREE

Sunday
LOCAL AUTHOR: Mary Lou Sanelli is a local author, poet, NPR commentator, and journalist and her book of essays is called Falling Awake, and subtitled: An American Woman Gets a Grip on the Whole Changing World One Essay at a Time.

5:30pm // Third Place Books // FREE

ZINE-O-RAMA: We didn't know Zine-O-Rama had a Pacific Northwest tour. Join ZAPP and two San Francisco Bay Area zine writers for an evening of dynamic reading and performance: Tomas from the zines "Rad Dad" & "Boxcutter" and Artnoose from the letterpress zine "Ker-bloom!"

7pm // Hugo House // $5