>> In case you missed our full interview with Josh Ritter this morning, check it out before heading over to see the singer/songwriter at 9:30 club, with Old School Freight Train. $20 tickets are still available, doors 7:30 p.m.
>> Renowned poet Simon Armitage is at Olsson’s in Old Town for a free reading of his latest translation of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”. 7 p.m., read all about it in our preview.
>> Venerable Silver Spring documentary festival SILVERDOCS is presenting the
International Documentary Challenge Showcase tonight, the results of 95 filmmaking teams from 10 countries who participated in the challenge earlier this year. This showcase includes nine Washington DC-area produced films presented with several of the international winners. 7 p.m. at the AFI Silver Theater, head over here for tickets and complete schedule of films.
>> Diane Vadino travels in cool circles and writes for cool publications, and she will be at Olsson’s in Dupont Circle to read from her first novel, Smart Girls Like Me, which sounds like chick lit except it has all these glowing endorsements from people we like a whole lot, like John Hodgman. 7 p.m.
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