Vroman's Bookstore presents fiction writer Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter, winner of the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, discussing his new novel, The Presence of Absence, free, online, 6:00 pm PST (Register to attend: www.vromansbookstore.com/Simon-Van-Booy-presents-The-Presence-of-Absence)
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)