Can't Miss It: Tuesday

Don't miss Nick Cave's Soundsuits at SAM.

COWBOY POETRY: Baxter Black is well known in much of western America for his work as a cowboy poet on NPR. This modern poetry legend is also a large-animal veterinarian. The Arizona-based Black is visiting Elliott Bay Book Company to read and perform from his newest book, Lessons from a Desperado Poet. It's part how-to book, part-memoir and draws from his experiences while home on the range.

7 pm // Elliott Bay Book Company // FREE

CATCH IT WHILE YOU CAN: There are only a few days left to check out Nick Cave's sculpted clothes at the Seattle Art Museum. Cave's "Soundsuits" have been described as "a cross between Carnival, Liberace, Shonibare, Cockney, haute couture and African ceremony." He has managed to make sculpture that "combines high fashion, surface design, recycling, dance, and sound." Seriously, you gotta see this work in real life to fully appreciate the exquisite detail of these opulent sculptures.

Until 6/5 // Seattle Art Museum // $15

HISTORICAL FICTION: New York Times bestseller and local author Erik Larson (The Devil in the White City) is back with a new novel that is sure to top the bestsellers list. Set on the cusp of World War II, In the Garden of Beasts follows American ambassador William E. Dodd and his family to Nazi Germany as they settle in the heart of Hitler's Berlin in a grand old house on the city's central park, the Tiergarten. The family first experiences an optimistic city but ultimately, they find it holds a terror, on a scale they could never have imagined. one review says, "In this mesmerizing portrait of the Nazi capital, Larson plumbs a far more diabolical urban cauldron than in his bestselling The Devil in the White City...a vivid, atmospheric panorama of the Third Reich and its leaders, including murderous Nazi factional infighting, through the accretion of small crimes and petty thuggery."

7 pm // Central Library // FREE