• Nothing like a good old-fashioned monolouge slam to get rid of your post-4th of July malaise. Try Bowery Poetry Bar's aptly-titled Manhattan Monolouge Slam at 8:00 PM. [flavorpill]
• Literary do-gooders Sarah Vowell, Joyce Carol Oates, Akhil Sharma, and others participate in a reading hosted by David Sedaris at Cooper Union in support of 826NYC, the writing center founded up literary do-gooder numero uno, David Eggers. [826NYC]
• We couldn't find a third to-do listing that held up to our usual scrutiny (we ran out of drugs and can't concentrate), so we're picking one at random from our friends at upcoming.org. Oh My! Levy is playing at Rothko tonight. Go forth and multiply, downtown trash. [Upcoming]