Here I go with a little shameless self-promotion: My friend, Elizabeth J. Colen and I (Kate Beles) will be reading poetry and nonfiction tonight at Uptown Billiards at 6:00 p.m. Elizabeth will be reading from her new book Money for Sunsets, which won the Steel Toe Book Award and Denise Duhamel calls "David Lynch meets Gertrude Stein." I will be reading from a new series of poems, some of which recently appeared in Gulf Coast, and my latest nonfiction essay "Good Fortune." We'll be talking a lot about sex and death while drinking Uptown whiskey, all before dinner. In other words, it'll be a literary bad-girl happy hour. Sound like your kind of fun? We hope so.