We're heading down to the Make Out Room (3225 22nd St. b/w Mission and Valencia) tonight for LitPAC and LitQuake's Progressive Reading Series featuring Dave Eggers, Keith Knight, Mary Roach (author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers), and more, hosted by Stephen Elliott author of Looking Forward To It: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the American Electoral Process. This is the last of this year's series of monthly literary benefits to support progressive congressional candidates nationwide. 7pm.

More political action is happening down the Peninsula, as the World Affairs Council of Northern CA presents an evening with David Gergen, former advisor to Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton, speaking on building a bi-partisan foreign policy and ideological divisions in US politics. Gergen, not to be confused with Brad Pitt's character in the film, Fight Club, (ok, maybe it's just us that risks confusing the two) was one of the appointees that signalled Clinton's move rightward. Gergen speaks tonight at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts and tomorrow night in SF, though that event is sold out.

And for politics of a more personal nature, conscious hip-hop group, Sol.illaquists of Sound, bring their "Quit Your Dead End Job Tour" to Bottom of the Hill (1233 17th St.) tonight.