1. Tonight is the Hugo House's farewell reading for Ryan Boudinot and Karen Finneyfrock. They were the House's writers-in-residence—the next writers-in-residence will be announced later this year—and tonight they'll read stuff that they wrote while they were in residence at the House. Both of them have novels coming out next year; I'd expect to hear pieces from those books tonight.

2. If you'd prefer something more non-fictional, Scott Miller reads up at University Book Store tonight. His new book, The President and the Assassin, is a non-fiction book about how President William McKinley's assassination almost shook the 20th century to pieces.

3. At Chop Suey, it's time for The Bushwick Book Club. If you're unfamiliar with the Bushwick schtick: A bunch of musicians read the same book, and then they respond to the book with original songs they've written just for the book club/concert. This event might be of special interest to you nerds, because it's the first-ever Bushwick Book Club to respond to a comic book, and that comic book is Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. The mind boggles when trying to picture DKR-appropriate music. A goth-y industrial dirge? A raspy, slowed-down take on the 1960s Batman TV show theme song? Something more operatic? This should be fun*.

4. Visit the readings calendar for more information about everything.

* A sick part of me can't help but wonder what these musicians would do if they were forced to read Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Strikes Again. What a piece of shit that comic book was.