Fighting Suicide on the Silver Screen: Tomorrow at Cinerama, Northwest Film Forum and Cinerama co-present the Seattle premiere of Nothing Against Life, Julio Ramierez's Seattle-set drama about a network of lives connected by the prospect of suicide. Tickets (the sale of which help support Washington's Youth Suicide Prevention Program) can be found here, and a trailer for the film is below.

King Cat Named King of Short Run: John Porcellino was just announced as the guest of honor at the 2014 Short Run small press festival, which will take place on November 15th of this year.

Dep't of Narcissism: This weekend, Unexpected Productions—one of Seattle's two anchor improv companies—opens I Saw U: A Comedy With ♥, in which they take each week's "I Saw U" listings and extrapolate what would happen if the couple actually met and went on a date. A sample entry from this week's listings: "You're bad news. I get that. Not to be facetious, but that definitely makes two of us. When we first met, I scrambled to get your respect. Kissing you would be stupid, but I'll be damned if that would stop me. It's a neat trick, how I can be thinking about that while we are having a perfectly civil conversation, and you have no idea. Make my day. Bomb my life. Tell me you know that trick too." That sounds like a drama waiting to happen.

Give Him a Whirl: Playing tonight (and tomorrow) at the fancy Jazz Alley is the great pianist Fred Hersch. He is not experimental nor even challenging, but simply and truly a master of the instrument. If you miss the show, then I recommend buying his 2010 album Whirl. If you can't watch the show or afford the album, then I recommend listening to his version of "Spartacus Love Theme" on YouTube. If do not have a connection to the web, then I can do nothing for you, man.

So Harper Lee Is the Publishing Equivalent of Metallica, Then? To Kill a Mockingbird will finally be available on e-book.

Comic Relief: The newest Humble Bundle is a huge collection of digital comics. Is it worth it? Well, Lazarus, Fatale, Chew, and Saga are all definitely worth your time, and Walking Dead is way better than the TV show. Besides just being an introduction to some great comics series, this Humble Bundle benefits the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which is a very worthy cause.

America Still Loves Physical Books: This map of all the bookstores and libraries in America is very heartening.