READING: Mira Jacob and Alison Hart host yet another of Pete's Reading Series. Tonight they welcome Nell Freudenberger, author of "The Dissident" - which sounds almost like a Tom Robbins novel, with a Chinese performance artist and former political prisoner accepting teaching fellowships at a girls school. Also reading tonight will be Dana Spiotta, author of "Eat the Document", which focuses on lives in the aftermath of 1970s radicalism. 7:30pm // Pete's Candy Store [709......

DISCUSSION: A performance artist, an art critic, an art scholar, a restaurateur, and a gallery owner all walk in to a bar...Oh wait, that's not the beginning of a joke. Those creative types will all be at The New Museum tonight though for their Hot Button! discussion series. Find out their motivation behind the craft. What will win, love or money? 6:30 to 8pm // Cooper Union [7 E 7th St // $6 THEATER: Bhutan......

THEATER: The Mint Theater, which has earned a formidable reputation by yanking old, forgotten plays out of oblivion, has struck gold again with their latest production of John Ferguson, an intense melodrama about a poor Irishman who will lose his farm unless his daughter marries some creepy tool. A 1919 edition of The Times called it a “smashing play”; 87 years later the Gray Lady stays regular with “thoroughly engrossing”. 7:00 p.m. // The Mint......

READINGS: An afternoon event for those of you who don't need to be sweltering in a thankless office - Erica Jong has a conversation with writer Ariel Levy and reads from her new autobiography, Seducing the Demon: Writing for my Life in the sunny Bryant Park Reading Room as part of the Word for Word Series. In the book, Jong tells spicy tales of New York and Hollywood, and describes life after best-selling novel Fear......

Land of Talk played our Movable Hype 7.0 show back in April. Check out the above clip (thanks again to Autopilot, for filming the show for us!) Their set left us wanting more. Luckily, the band is able to play enough shows in the city to satiate us. They'll be at Mercury Lounge on June 28th and The Syrup Room in Brooklyn on June 29th. Heads up! Movable Hype 8.0 is JULY 11th! That's......