Monday, August 27: To the Bridge Reading

Nancy Rommelmann's latest true crime story is about an Oregon mother who dropped both of her children in a river. Rommelmann will appear in conversation with Seattle's own true crime author Claudia Rowe, whose book The Spider and the Fly took a new angle on the traditional serial-killer story.

Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Ave, 624-6600, http://elliottbaybook.com, 7 pm, free.

Tuesday, August 28: Cocaine + Surfing Reading

Chas Smith has written for Vice and been a war correspondent for Current TV. His new book is a history of the connection between cocaine and surfing. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., 634-3400, http://www2.bookstore.washington.edu/, 7 pm, free.

Wednesday, August 29: American Chordata Reading

Local editor Matthew Hitchman celebrates a new issue of the gorgeous literary magazine American Chordata with contributors. This is a good way to get a handle on one of the more exciting new-ish literary magazine on the stands right now. Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Ave, 624-6600, http://elliottbaybook.com, 7 pm, free.

Thursday, August 30: Sanpaku Reading

Kate Gavino is the cartoonist behind Last Night's Reading, a blog featuring cartoons about author events that was then turned into a book. She's giving a reading of her own, of a new fictionalized comic memoir called Sanpaku. Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Ave, 624-6600, http://elliottbaybook.com, 7 pm, free.

Friday, August 31; Saturday, September 1; Sunday, September 2: Bumbershoot

See our Event of the Week column for more details.

Seattle Center, https://www.bumbershoot.com/2018-lineup/