Matthew Simmons's first novella, A Jello Horse, documents a road trip through the middle part of America, where stuffed jackalopes don't roam and people install thousands of phones in their homes to get tourists to stop. Brandon Scott Gorrell's funny, uncapitalized poetry collection during my nervous breakdown i want to have a biographer present is the third book to be published by Tao Lin's Muumuu House press. Both authors will be writing fortunes and stuffing them into fortune cookies just for you tonight. (Pilot Books, 219 Broadway E, www.pilotbooksseattle.com. 7 pm, free.)