David Kirkpatrick reads at Elliott Bay Book Company tonight. Kirkpatrick, the author of The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World, might have something to say about Facebook's latest privacy kerfluffle. In other internet reading news, Town Hall hosts Nicholas Carr, whose book The Shallows is about how the internet is making us dumber. What an original concept for a book! (In case the internet has made you too dumb to figure it out: I'm being sarcastic.)

But the reading of the night is up at University Book Store. Elif Batuman reads from The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, which is a book about how sometimes you can get completely obsessed with dead Russians.

The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here.