Four readings tonight.

Up at Port Townsend, Kathleen Alcala and Chris Abani will be reading as part of the Port Townsend Writer’s Conference. Abani wrote the great GraceLand, about a young man named Elvis growing up in Nigeria, and Alcala wrote Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist, which is a collection of stories set in California and Mexico.

At Elliott Bay Book Company, Adrián Arancibia reads from a collection of poems called Atacama Poems. I don’t know anything else about the man, except he founded a group of poets called Taco Shop Poets in Chicago, back in the mid-nineties.

At the Shorewood High School Auditorium, Eoin Colfer reads from his newest in the young adult series, Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox. Apparently, the series is about a teenage boy who’s a real dick, and several people I know who read young adult books say that it’s impressive how dickish the boy remains throughout the series. In this one, he goes back in time to confront his earlier dick of a self.

Lastly, up at Third Place Books, Thor Hansen reads from The Impenetrable Forest: My Gorilla Years in Uganda, which is a book about living with gorillas in Uganda. Which is awesome, and entirely reading of the night material.

The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here.