We have a book about the wine trails of Washington and four other readings tonight.

Marc Brown and Judy Serra read at Third Place Books tonight from Born to Read, which is a book for children about the importance of reading. But if the children don’t know about the importance of reading, how will they come to read the book in the first place? Nobody knows the answer to this puzzle.

At the University Book Store, Brian Herbert continues to cash in on his dead dad’s Dune book, with a continuation of the long-since-uninteresting series. Herbert will be joined by his alleged “co”writer, Kevin J. Anderson.

At the Central Branch of the Seattle Public Library, Christopher Buckley reads from Supreme Courtship, which is his newest humorous novel about government. Buckley wrote Thank You For Smoking and other funny books. He’s also written No Way To Treat a First Lady, which was not funny, and other not-funny books. This one looks like it might be one of the funny ones, but attending the reading could be a good way to figure that out.

Finally, at the University Book Store, at 5 pm today, Philip Roth is going to be doing a reading from his new book, Indignation, on a large video screen live via satellite. Which is kind of weird, I know, but Philip Roth never goes on tour. So unless Seattle Arts and Lectures manages to snag him for an appearance at some undetermined future date—it would have to be at least 2010, because SAL has already announced their 08-09 series, and Roth ain’t on it—this is as close to Philip Roth as you will ever be. I hope he has a sense of humor about it and shows up in a leather chair, stroking a large, hairy cat like a James Bond villain.

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