1. Earlier this week, Brendan Kiley told you about the Lit Crawl that's happening tonight. It's a pub crawl, but with great local authors—Ed Skoog! Stacey Levine! Sarah Galvin! Greg Bem! Kate Lebo!—reading work at every stop. I heard a rumor that the walks in between each reading may or may not be enlivened by a poet reading work from a wheelbarrow. This looks like it could be the kind of literary event you'll reminisce about for years to come.

2. Tomorrow, the Hugo House is hosting something called "Recto Verso: An Independent Press Expo." This is a selection of dozens of small presses selling their wares, with readings throughout the day in the Hugo House's theater, and a bar. At this expo, you will be able to buy copies of Fast Machine, the great new book by Elizabeth Ellen that I reviewed in this week's paper. If you miss Pilot Books, this should be kind of like that. Come get your independent literature on.

3. There's also Emerald City Comicon, which is taking place all weekend long at the Washington State Convention Center. Local publisher Fantagraphics always throws an ECCC afterparty, but tomorrow night's afterparty looks to be a doozy, featuring Stranger Genius Jim Woodring and "a low-score pinball tournament," whose prize is a "beautiful backglass from a forthcoming Frank pinball machine." It's at Shorty's, naturally.

4. Find much, much more about all the events going on this weekend, including an appearance by sci-fi author Richard Paul Russo at Ada's Technical Books on Capitol Hill, in our readings calendar, which now features all the events taking place in the next three months..