Many book events tonight.

At the U, Ania Loomba, who teaches English at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses "The Modernity of Race." Later, at the University Book Store, Sarah Waters, the author of the lovely Victorian romance Tipping the Velvet, returns to town with a ghost story titled The Little Stranger.

At Third Place Books, Candy Spelling, who is apparently the mother of someone who was vaguely famous once, a very long time ago, reads from her memoir, Candyland.

John Bradshaw reads at First Baptist Church from Reclaiming Virtue, a book that is subtitled How We Can Develop the Moral Intelligence to Do the Right Thing at the Right Time for the Right Reason. It is apparently a book for sociopaths.

Open Books hosts Idra Novey, author of The Next Country, and Carey Salerno, author of Shelter. Both are poets.

Ryan Boudinot and Lesley Hazelton read at Ravenna Third Place Books. Both are great local authors, and both appear in Looking Together: Writers on Art, which is an anthology of great local writers writing about artwork that has been at the Frye. Boudinot's story is a highlight of the book.

Elliott Bay Book Company hosts Will North, whose new book, Water, Stone, Heart, is a love letter to Cornwall. Sadly, North is often compared to Nicholas Sparks, so I can't in good conscience justify attending this reading.

And the Hugo House hosts Castalia, the long-running UW creative writing program readings series. Readers include David Bosworth, Elizabeth Cooperman and the awesome Kary Wayson.

Waters is delightful and my Suggests for her reading should be popping up any minute now, but the two local author events at Ravenna Third Place and the Hugo House look great too. You can't lose tonight.
The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here.