Arthur Sze is at the Central Library tonight. The prolific poet and translator of poetry reads from The Ginko Light. You can read the title poem here. Another translator is reading up at the Nordic Heritage Museum, too. Paul Noren, who is the translator of Selma Lagerlöf’s The Saga of Gosta Berling, discusses the art of translation tonight.

Langdon Cook reads at University Book Store. Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager is a book by someone who forages for food, but not in that icky Pioneer Square foraging for food kind of way.

Diana Gabaldon is up at Third Place Books. The popular romance author, who is also a semi-sci-fi and fantasy author, signs her newest book, An Echo in the Bone. I expect that this crowd will smell more of flowery perfume than the average book reading. At Third Place's sister store in Ravenna, Jeff Bell reads from his book When in Doubt, Make Belief : An OCD-Inspired Approach to Living with Uncertainty. It is a book about the spirituality of obsessive-compulsive disorder. ( Bee Season is a very good novel about that same subject, by the way.) And the Hugo House hosts Castalia, the reading for UW MFA students, professors, and alumna.

If you haven't already gotten your ticket for Alexie, I would like to respectfully suggest that you attend one of the translation readings. I bet you'll even learn something.

The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here. And if you're planning on staying in and you're looking for personalized book recommendations, feel free to tell me the books you like and ask me what to read next over at Questionland.