There’s an open mic night and two other options for your reading pleasure this evening.

At the Hugo House, Deborah Lawrence reads from Dee Dee Does Utopia. If I understand the premise correctly, Ms. Lawrence sent out a group e-mail to her friends to describe utopia. Then she created collages depicting the utopias that her friends described. Ms. Lawrence is local, which means that she has read or will be reading at just about every venue in the city.

And up at Third Place Books, we have Karin Bauer, the editor of a book called Everybody Talks About the Weather…We Don’t. It’s a collection of writings by Ulrike Meinhof, a German journalist who became a terrorist. The book has a foreword by Nobel Literature Laureate Elfriede Jelinek and an afterward by Meinhof’s daughter, who tries to tear her mother down and de-accentuate the writing. Should be fun.

Also, as Mr. Poe pointed out yesterday, Andre Dubus II reads at Town Hall Seattle on the 26th and you should buy your tickets beforehand, because it’ll probably at least come close to selling out. Tickets can be bought at Elliott Bay Book Company.

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