Two open mics, two readings by authors who always read in Seattle—Garth Stein, Jennie Shortridge, and David Guterson—and a whole bunch more tonight.

Up at Third Place Books, Jeffrey Overstreet reads from Cyndere’s Midnight, which is another book in the Aurelia’s Thread young adult fantasy series. You’ll have to Google if you want any more information on this one—young adult fantasy series all sound alike to me.

At the University Book Store, David Arnold explores the relations between salmon and people—not like that, you pervert—in The Fishermen’s Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska. Since this is Seattle, and since the book has Alaska in the title, I bet at least one Palin-related question will be asked.

At Elliott Bay Book Company, Rinku Sen and Fekkak Mamdouh talk about how shitty it is to be an immigrant in post-9/11 America. They are here in support of their new book, The Accidental American.

And over at Town Hall, Robert J. Shiller reads from The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do About It. A month ago, this probably seemed like a nice little mid-level-attendance reading. As of last week, this became the reading to attend. Expect a madhouse of panicked Americans. In other words, it should be fun.

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