POETSWEST-Featuring Judith Adams, Murray Gordon, David Hanna, and Jeanne Lanigan. OUT OF TUNE-Poetry and music free-for-all hosted by Jon Hogan.

Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.

Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.įormer priest L'Heureux delivers The Miracle, a novel regarding a priest in a crisis of faith. He's old, and he's better than you: Literary icon Plimpton proves his superiority with an engaging evening of articulate ramblings. Local thriller writer Ferrigno signs Scavenger Hunt, his latest novel featuring such unsavory monikers as 'Rollo' and 'Jimmy Gage.' Barnes & Noble, 2700 NE University Village, 517-4107, 7 pm, free. Weight-loss 'guru' Cruise wakes your housewife ass up early on a Tuesday morning to discuss his latest, 8 Minutes in the Morning. The Mariel Hemingway, a talent unmatched in the field of Lifetime network thespians, discusses Finding My Balance, her reflections on yoga and its life lessons. The typically speculative Tananarive Due takes a turn for the nostalgic in a maternally collaborative memoir about her and her mother's battles for civil rights in Freedom in the Family. Local film critic and 3 cofounder Larsuel-Ulbricht discusses 3 Black Chicks Review Flicks, her sista-soaked 'film guide with flava!' that addresses such prevalent topics as the 'late-night booty-call flick,' 'The Black Factor,' and 'The Brotha Rule.' Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 3 pm, free. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 4 pm, free. In The Lives of the Saints, Paola attempts to sex up the sainthood with verse, weaving such embarrassingly time-sensitive subject matter as sheep cloning and cyberspace with classic parables of saintliness. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7 pm, free. Three representatives from Evergreen's faculty try to sort things out with their latest explorations of the topic. With all the talk of gender and sexual politics down there in Olympia, it's a wonder there's any breeding at all. GREG MULLINS, ALICE NELSON, THERESE SALIBA Southern Oregon professor and playwright Smith visits with his debut novel, The Miracles of Santo Fico. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.

If you prefer your pornography dirty and hairy and painted purple, be sure to take an ashamed National Geographic glance at Kreuter's Drama in the Desert, her 10-year account of the sprawling Burning Man festival. University Bookstore, 4326 University Way, 634-3400, 7 pm, free. The Seattle resident and Z Magazine columnist signs his debut, American Newspeak: The Mangling of Meaning for Power and Profit. The powerful say the darnedest things Grytting calls bullshit.

Drama in the Desert by Holly Kreuter