Tonight is the Literary Death Match at Re-Bar. Authors, including brand-new Stranger Genius Stacey Levine, will compete in front of judges, including Jonathan Evison and myself. The audience will get drunk and probably turn mean before the night is through. I hope you'll join me.

Besides that, you have some great choices tonight.

Dave Boling is at Queen Anne Books. Guernica is a "multigenerational family saga" set mostly during the Spanish Civil War, which, as we all know from Pan's Labyrinth, was a barrel of laughs. In other literary novels, Jennie Shortridge is at Third Place Books tonight. When She Flew is a novel about "a father and daughter living in the Oregon woods who find understanding in a policewoman."

Catherine Corman is at Elliott Bay Book Company. Daylight Noir: Raymond Chandler's Imagined City is her newest book. It's a gorgeous book, too: Corman basically travels through L.A. taking photos of places that would appear in a Raymond Chandler novel. I believe there will be slides here tonight, so you can take a look at the photos before you invest in the book.

Malalai Joya reads at First Baptist Church tonight. Ms. Joya is the author of A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice. She is also the youngest person to ever be elected to Afghanistan's parliament. In other geopolitical book news, Mark Danner is at Town Hall. Danner is a foreign affairs journalist. Stripping Bare the Body: Politics, Violence, War is about how the United States has been a real son of a bitch to the world at large.

And Lesley Hazleton is at the Sorrento Hotel this evening. Fifty bucks is relatively cheap for an evening of food and booze with Ms. Hazleton, who is the remarkable author of After the Prophet. The Sorrento has been host to some great, exciting stuff lately, and this reading looks like a great time.

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.