• What would happen if an epidemic of organ failures resulted in the frentic harvesting of human organs, collected by brutal genetic repo men? Check out REPO! The Genetic Opera tonight at Wings Theatre to find out. Marijuana pretty much seems to be a requisite. [flavorpill]
• Postmodern venue selection reaches its zenith (or nadir, depending on your perspective), when Sam Lipsyte reads from his new novel, Homeland, at a laundromat on Avenue C as part of the Howl! Festival. [Paper]
• Tickets for September 23-25's New Yorker Festival go on sale today. Jhumpa Lahiri or Michael Chabon on Friday night? Malcolm Gladwell's meditation on America's obesession with precociousness, or John Updike's interview with David Remnick, on Saturday? Oh, the choices of a culture snob! [NYer]