Tonight, the Franklin Park Reading Series hosts Alexander Chee, Blake Butler, Sarah Rose Etter, Robin Beth Schaer, and Scott McClanahan. That’s a lot of good writers in the same space, we daresay.

• The New York Times looks at the excellent movie-poster art being made by the designers of Mondo.

• At Pitchfork, Tom Ewing on albums with fictional backstories, with a spotlight on the work of Jürgen Müller.

• WORD’s Missed Connections event has, in fact, spawned a Missed Connection.