It's the first Wednesday of the month, which means the silent-reading party is tonight!!

You know what it's like at the reading party, right? You've heard this radio segment about the silent-reading party, right?

Did you know that it's so popular that other cities now copy it? They do it in Brooklyn, they do it in San Francisco, they do it in Dundee, Scotland, and according to a press release I just got, they're doing one in Phoenix on September 29. That one "will be held on Thursday, Sept. 29, from 6–7:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Hilton Garden Inn Phoenix Downtown, which you may recognize as the 1932 skyscraper which appeared in the opening scenes of Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho and is known for its limestone exterior, wrought-iron doors, and art deco architecture."

Anyway, we did it here in Seattle first. And we do it best, don't you think? No other city has Paul Matthew Moore on piano. He'll be playing tonight from 6 pm to 8 pm. The rest of us will just sit there and read whatever we feel like reading (silently, to ourselves), while Paul plays the piano and waiters bring us things. The Sorrento may not have been in Psycho, but it is a hotel Alice B. Toklas is rumored to haunt.

The reading party happens here, it's all ages, and it's free.