Only two events going on today. At Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle Public Schools’ Nova Alternative School students read some of their work. And up in the U District, Ann Bannon is reading from her 1950’s lesbian pulp classic The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, which I wrote about in this week’s Constant Reader, in conjunction with a performance by Seattle Women’s Chorus. Bannon is a delight and a joy, and her novels are a pretty amazing thing to read; they have a pulp sensibility, but they talk about lesbianism in a surprisingly open way, considering the time and context. She’s a regular treasure, and one of the few ladies still standing from that time, when literature was dirty and quick and exciting in a way that we can’t fully understand nowadays. It’s definitely worth a look.

Full readings calendar, including the next week or so, here.

Also, if you haven’t already, you should check out the nifty, brand-new books page, which has a ton more reviews and a mini-blog revue of the last week’s books-themed Slog posts, over here.