LAist and Show and Tell welcome humor writer David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day, for a reading from his previous books, his diaries, and his most recent publication, Happy-Go-Lucky, The United Theater on Broadway, 929 South Broadway, Los Angeles, starting at $54, 7:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.axs.com/events/589004/david-sedaris-tickets)
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)