The best talks and readings happening in March. by Julianne Bell Want more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This That. Richard Hell MAR 9 In his 2005 novel Godl ike, punk pioneer Richard Hell reimagines the tumultuous relationship between 19th-century French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine in 1970s New York. Hell’s adaptation follows esteemed poet Paul Vaughn, a married 27-year-old New Yorker, and a newly transplanted teenage poet, R.T. Wode, as they embark on a messy affair full of acid trips, crashed parties, and unrequited love. The book is getting a snazzy rerelease from NYRB (the Criterion Collection of the book world), and Hell will be there in the flesh to discuss the book and maybe even sign a few (if we’re lucky). (Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free) AUDREY VANN Scott Broker with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore MAR 13 Scott Broker’s first novel, The Disappointment, starts where so many stories do: a man trying to sneak his mother’s ashes into his suitcase without his husband noticing. The book is described as a surrealist vacation through this couple’s desperate, disconnected trip to the Oregon Coast. And no one could be better to interview him than Seattle’s own Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (who recently released Terry Dactyl, if you somehow haven’t gotten your hands on it yet). The conversation promises to be brilliant, funny, and very, very queer. (Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free) HANNAH MURPHY WINTER Stephen Graham Jones MAR 30 With books like The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and I Was a Teenage Slasher, Stephen Graham Jones has established himself as one of the most thrilling and urgent voices in horror right now. His latest release is the critically acclaimed historical horror novel The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, which tells the story of a Blackfeet Indian vampire named Good Stab who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation, searching for vengeance. Jones will discuss his chilling oeuvre with local horror expert Sadie Hartmann, aka “Mother Horror,” co-owner of the horror fiction subscription company Night Worms and a Bram Stoker Award–nominated editor. (Town Hall Seattle, 7:30 pm) JULIANNE BELL More James McBride Mar 3, Town Hall Seattle, 7:30 pm Norma Wong Mar 4, Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free The Moth StorySLAM Mar 5, Fremont Abbey, 8 pm Olivia Waite: Nobody’s Baby Mar 10, Charlie’s Queer Books, 7 pm Lit Lounge: A Prose Poetry Salon with Jodi-Ann Burey, Minda Honey, Deesha Philyaw, Mitchell S. Jackson, and DJ Twilight Mar 13, Royal Room, 8 pm Kate Schatz with Molly Wizenberg Mar 16, Third Place Books Ravenna, 7 pm, free Darcy Michael with Jeremy Baer Mar 18, Third Place Books Lake Forest Park, 7 pm Lauren Westerfield with Erin Langner and Katie Lee Ellison Mar 19, Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free Bob Crawford with John Roderick Mar 19, Third Place Books Lake Forest Park, 7 pm The Moth StorySLAM Mar 20, St. Mark’s Cathedral, 8 pm Tayari Jones with Ijeoma Oluo Mar 23, Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free Ibram X. Kendi Mar 23, Town Hall Seattle, 7:30 pm Sasha taqwšblu LaPointe with Katie Campbell Mar 23, Seattle Public Library Central Branch,6:30 pm, free Jane Hirshfield Mar 24, Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free Sydney Langford: Someone to Daydream About Mar 28, Charlie’s Queer Books, 6:30 pm Rebecca Brown with Christopher Frizzelle Mar 28, Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free Ashley McGirt with Marcus Harrison Green Apr 1, Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free Lindy West Apr 3, Town Hall Seattle, 7:30 pm ...read more read less