Literary Hump Day

Even if a lit lover could be in six places at once he or she still wouldn’t take in all the public readings and book events in town tonight. Poets Wayne Clifford, Shane Neilson, Robyn Sarah and Zachariah Wells, all published with Biblioasis press, do a group reading at Ben McNally Books (366 Bay Street), 6 p.m., FREE, while House of Anansi Press authors Shani Mootoo, Emily Schultz, Karen Solie and Zoe Whitall gather for an all-female reading at at The Ossington (61 Ossington Avenue), 7 p.m., FREE. Brooklyn’s Jonathan Lethem is interviewed on stage for the fall season’s last Authors at Harbourfront Centre (235 Queens Quay West) event (7:30 p.m., $8), while up at the Indigo Manulife store (55 Bloor Street West) Margaret Atwood speaks about her latest novel, The Year of the Flood, with the bookstore chain’s CEO Heather Reismann. And if you’re heading to parts north, poet’s poet A.F. Moritz is reading and discussing his work at the North York Central Library (5120 Yonge Street, 7 p.m., FREE) while author and ubiquitous media commentator Hal Niedzviecki reads from The Peep Diaries at the McNally Robinson at Don Mills Store (1090 Don Mills Rd, 8 p.m., FREE). See today’s Urban Planner for even more book events.