READING: Head down to the awesome 192 Books to catch New Yorker A.M. Homes read from her latest, hyperbolically-titled novel - This Book Will Save Your Life. A.M. Homes, whose dead-pan morbidity brought us Music For Torching, brings her eye to the world of Richard Novak, a day-trader determined to change his life. Some of the reviews have been less than celebratory, but Homes is a fascinating character on the literary scene and certainly worth seeing live. - Krissa Corbett Cavouras

7pm // 192 Books [192 10th Ave. at W. 21st St] // Free

THEATER: Last year, the Brick Theater got in some good satiric pokes with its cheeky Moral Values themed festival. This year, it's "The $ellout Festival," which proudly proclaims itself to be "corporate sponsored, commercially viable and artistically void." Do we detect the tongue going even further in cheek? The monthlong extravaganza has a smorgasboard of offerings that's hard to encapsulate; tonight you can see Dean Cameron's "Nigerian Spam Scam Scam," which follows what happened when Cameron emailed one of the infamous Nigerian spammers back; also tonight is Lisa Levy's "Red Carpet Live!" in which she takes her "Psychotherapy Live!" schtick to the Joan/Melissa Rivers beat. There's tons more, and thankfully you don't have to sell out yourself in order to be able to afford to get in. - Mallory Jensen

Brick Theater [575 Metropolitan Ave] // Through July 2, schedule here and tickets via Theatermania

MUSIC: Every Wednesday this summer Baskethouse will help you get over the hump with a night dedicated to acoustic folk music. Each show will bring a half dozen or so performers on stage for a short set of covers and originals - introducing you to new songs as well as traditional ones. Tonight's line up: Burning Down Rome, Cara Behan, Daniel Leanse, and Kamara Thomas

Interesting aside: One of Bob Dylan's favourite haunts back in the day, The Gaslight, was originally a "basket house" - where performers were paid from money gathered in a passed around basket.

6:30pm // The Bitter End [147 Bleeker St] // Free

FILM: The Michelangelo Antonioni festival at BAM begins tonight. Feautring new prints of fifteen movies by the Italian director. In addition there will be a week long run of the 1966 film "Blow-Up", in which a London photographer snaps a photo just as a murder is taking place in the backdrop.

4:30, 6:50 and 9:15pm // Brooklyn Academy of Music, Peter Jay Sharp Building [30 Lafayette Ave, Fort Greene, Brooklyn] // $10