There's a lot going on, including a Junot Diaz event that should be popping up as a Suggest somewhere around here soon.

At the Sand Point Branch of the Seattle Public Library, Ann Wendell reads from Seattle’s Ravenna Neighborhood, which is about the history of Seattle's Ravenna Neighborhood. Does Ravenna have its own flag? Find out tonight!

The "Fierce Five" read at the Hugo House. While it sounds like they should be preparing to fight the Fantastic Four, the Fierce Five is a group of female slam poets who want to go to the Women of the World Poetry Slam in Detroit, and this reading is a fundraiser for their trip.

Way up north, Paul Brians reads from Common Errors in English Usage. Grammar nerd road trip! At Elliott Bay Book Company, Yiyun Li reads from The Vagrants, which is a novel about China in the 1970s.

And at Third Place Books, Miriam Gershow reads from The Local News, which is about a teenage girl whose brother is abducted. I read this one last week—too late to wind up in the paper—and found it to be a pretty good novel. Gershow manages to avoid all the Lifetime movie cliches of the genre, mainly because the main character is a petulant little brat a lot of the time. It's nice to not read about a Holy Victim—see: The Lovely Bones or any of the early Oprah book club picks—but instead read about a character who alternates between healthy acceptance of loss and utterly selfish behavior. In the long run, it makes her more believable, and even more likable. If you can't afford the Seattle Arts and Lectures ticket prices, this is the reading of the night.

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