THURSDAY 6/30

Shannon Applegate
Applegate presents Living Among Headstones, a poorly titled memoir of the overgrown community graveyard she inherited. Powell's Books on Hawthorne , 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, 238-1668, 7:30 pm

Sam Brumbaugh
See review this issue. Powell's City of Books , 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651, 7:30 pm

FRIDAY 7/1

David Vann
Writer Vann paid $150,000 for a 90-foot Turkish sailboat, then found himself mired in one of the most disastrous ocean adventures imaginable. Clearly, he lived to tell about it, in A Mile Down. Powell's City of Books , 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651, 7:30 pm

Rob Roberge
Roberge hits town with his band, the Violent Rays, to promote his new book, More Than They Could Chew, a noirish comedy. Reading Frenzy , 921 SW Oak, 274-1449, 7 pm

SATURDAY 7/2

Christian Bök
See preview this issue. New American Art Union , 922 SE Ankeny St., 231-8294, 7:30 pm, $5-15 sliding

TUESDAY 7/5

Inga Muscio
Über-feminist Muscio teams up with DJ Yaga to share her new book Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil. Her last book was Cunt, if that's any clue to what's in store this evening. Goodfoot , 2845 SE Stark, 8 pm, $1-50

Tin House Editors
Tin House editors Lee Montgomery, Holly MacArthur, Jon Raymond, and CJ Evans congregate to give aspiring writers publishing perspective from the other side of the rejection letter, and also to shamelessly promote the upcoming Tin House Writers Workshop (July 9-16). Powell's City of Books , 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651, 7:30 pm

WEDNESDAY 7/6

Ward Sutton
We've never quite figured out how cartoonists do "readings" of their cartoons, but tonight would be a good night to find out, when popular Village Voice political cartoonist Sutton arrives to share his new collection, Sutton Impact. Powell's City of Books , 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651, 7:30 pm