Stuff is going on everywhere tonight, including a young adult novelist, a book about gardening, an open mic or two, a group reading, and a book about keeping up with our parents or, alternately, not keeping up with our parents.

There’ll be a recommends popping up soon about the Cheap Wine and Poetry event at the Hugo House. Suffice it to say: David Schmader. Wine at $1 a glass. Why wouldn’t you go?

There’s a group reading at the University Book Store that explores the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens in “both poetry and prose, with literary and scientific writing.”

At Town Hall, Chuck Palahniuk is reading from his new, horrible book Snuff. I write about this book in Constant Reader, which you can find here:

And here comes Snuff, a skinny book with gigantic, beginning-reader-style print about five people filming a gang-bang who are tied together through secret connections. There’s lots of information about porn films. There’s a litany of trivia about Hollywood actors who nearly died while filming their roles. And there’s a climax so intentionally outrageous that it couldn’t have been written with a straight face. No doubt people will love it because it is, like Mountain Dew and Dane Cook and various other safe and over-packaged products, extreme.

Full readings calendar, including the next week or so, can be found over here.