There's a whole lot going on tonight, including three mystery authors at the Seattle Mystery Bookshop. Bill Cameron signs Chasing Smoke, in which a cancer-stricken homicide detective thinks his doctor might be a murderer. At the same time, Eric Stone signs Flight of the Hornbill. Then, three hours later, Katherine Neville, who wrote The Eight, which is kind of like Foucault's Pendulum, signs her newest one, The Fire. Of the three, I'd pick Neville's signing.

There are two University-related readings about ecology, too. Toby Miller is at Bothell's North Creek Events Center reading from Green Cultural Citizenship: A Future for Cultural Studies. And Van Jones, who is a really smart guy I've interviewed for other magazines before, reads from The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems. This book used to be important and now it's really fucking important. Of the two, I'd pick the Jones one.

At Town Hall, Ivan Doig reads from The Eleventh Man, which is a novel about 11 high school football players joining the army all at once. To fight Nazis. And Robert Clark reads from Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces at Elliott Bay Book Company. Apparently, the city of masterpieces is Florence. I thought it was Reno.

And, lastly, at Benaroya Hall, it's JFU. This could be a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see Updike. He hasn't been here in at least a decade, probably longer.

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