There are many events today.

Two lectures, first. At the Frye Art Museum, Tony Fretton, who is an architect, discusses his work in Europe. And Joe Raiola, a senior editor at Mad Magazine, discusses censorship at the Seattle Public Library. Which is to say, he will talk at the Seattle Public Library about censorship in general, not that he will talk about censorship that has been committed by the Seattle Public Library.

The Pan Pacific Hotel hosts David Benioff. He's the author of The 25th Hour, and he will discuss his newest novel, City of Thieves, with Warren Etheredge. With wine! Forty five bucks gets you all the wine you can drink and a signed copy of the book and some appetizers. There are worse deals.

Up at Third Place Books, Iris Graville and Summer Moon Scriver read from their book Hands at Work, about people who work with their hands. And Open Books is hosting a reading for a book titled Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems. I hope that title is tongue-in-cheek.

Midge Raymond reads at Elliott Bay Book Company, too. Raymond reads from her debut collection of stories, Forgetting English. Many of the stories are set in exotic locales all over the world, from the Antarctic to the South Pacific. You probably don't read enough short stories, especially not short story debuts by local authors. That makes this the reading of the night.

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