Tonight is the debut of Seattle's littlest bookstore: 12 Books in the lobby of the Sorrento Hotel. Guests can order books up to their rooms from a rotating menu of a dozen titles. To celebrate 12's launch, Stranger Genius Matt Briggs and Pacific Agony author Bruce Benderson will read and discuss why the Northwest is such a bizarrely fertile literary landscape. John Roderick of the Long Winters will read from his new collection of Twitter posts, Electric Aphorisms, and Matthew Stadler will discuss his brand-new line of bootleg books. (Sorrento Hotel Fireside Room, 900 Madison St, 622-6400. 7 pm, free.)