There’s a ton of readings today, including an open mic and a seminar on how to write a novel. Lisa Kleypas is reading from Blue Eyed Devil, a “Texas-hot romance,” up at Third Place Books, and Michael Gruber reads from The Forgery of Venus, which is a mystery, at Elliott Bay Book Company.

Also at Elliott Bay, Rebecca Wolff, who blogs on Girls Gone Child (which is about raising children and not whatever you were thinking, you dirty, dirty monkey) will be talking about alternative parenting.

And in addition to those two readings at Elliott Bay, Kevin K. Kumashiro reads there today from his book The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right Has Framed the Debate of America’s Schools. I normally don’t like to pick on people for their names—as my first grade classmates could tell you, Paul Constantly Constipated has no right to do that, after all—but if your first name and last name begin with the letter K, you really shouldn’t advertise that your middle initial is also K.

The book-related event of the day is a reading of Mr. Thoreau Tonight, a play about Henry David Thoreau by David Wagoner, the writer-in-residence at the Hugo House. I wrote about how wonderful Wagoner is in this week’s Constant Reader and there’s a recording of him talking about this play in his wise, oak-y voice here.

Also, don’t forget to check out the full readings calendar.