Photo by Kevin Wolf.

MISERY: Watch a screening of Misery, “a multimedia film project based on Anton Chekhov’s short story.” A Q&A with composer Michael J. Evans will follow the screening. West End Library (2522 Virginia Avenue NW) 7 p.m. Free

HITCHHIKING: Poet Craig Czury reads from his new collection, Thumb Notes Almanac: Hitchhiking the Marcellus Shale, “a collection of ‘docu-poems’ created from a collage of voices gathered while hitchhiking Route 29 in Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna and Wyoming Counties.” Upshur Street Books (827 Upshur Street NW) 7 p.m. Free

GEORGIA: Dawn Tripp discusses her book, Georgia, the story of Georgia O’Keeffe and her love affair with photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Café (1517 Connecticut Avenue NW) 6:30 p.m. Free