Slog reader Mandi writes:

Whatever happened to the silent reading party at the Sorrento? I was hoping it would come back last month, but heard nothing. Now we're coming up on the 1st Wednesday of October and it's not on SLOG, Line Out, or the Sorrento event cal. Is it gone forever?

No, no!! The silent reading party is back, starting this Wednesday—I've been meaning to crow this from the rooftops. We took a hiatus for the summer months, when it's so much nicer to just read outside, but summer is now long gone, as anyone who's been outside lately can tell you. This week, the special guests are two past Stranger Genius Award Winners: Ryan Mitchell (of Implied Violence and Saint Genet) and D.K. Pan, "Seattle's patron saint of collective art."

The musical guest on Wednesday will be Samuel Anderson of the band Hey Marseilles, playing cello.

Details: It starts at 6 pm, it happens in the Sorrento's Fireside Room, you bring whatever you feel like reading and sit there and read it to yourself while classical music plays, and the $4 Manhattan drink special is available until 9 pm. The silent reading party is a collaboration between The Stranger and Night School, curated by Michael Hebb. It's very relaxing. If you've never been, come.