Unrequited Records presents American literature scholar Hilary Holladay, founder of the Kerouac Conference on Beat Literature, reading from and signing her biography of the Times Square hustler who was an inspiration for the Beat movement, American Hipster: The Life of Herbert Huncke, with a screening of rare film clips, Alley Cat Books, 3036 24th Street, at Harrison, San Francisco, 6:00 (dogearedbooks.com)