Kepler's Literary Foundation presents best-selling novelist Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End, discussing her new novel, Truth of the Divine, the second book of the Noumena trilogy, in conversation with novelist John Scalzi, Old Man's War, online, $36 ticket includes a copy of the book, 5:00-6:00 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: www.keplers.org/upcoming-events-internal/ellis-scalzi)
Fourth Saturdays Poetry at the Claremont Library presents a reading by Nancy Lynée Woo, poet and teaching artist, and Ron Koertge, Pandora's Kitchen: Poems, award-winning poet and young adult novelist, Helen Renwick Library, 208 North Harvard Avenue, Claremont, free, 2:00 pm (www.claremontlibrary.org/monthly-poetry-readings.html)