Get that gigantic backpack and sleeping bag and trek on over to Cody's Books on Fourth Street, as Tony and Maureen Wheeler, the founders of Lonely Planet, read from their new books, Unlikely Destinations (the story of Lonely Planet) and Bad Lands (Tony's trips to dangerous countries).

If you can't make tonight's reading (7 p.m.), they're in town through Friday, reading at Get Lost in SF tomorrow night and Book Passage in Corte Madera on Friday. They've probably already found three great restaurants in the area that none of us have ever heard of before too.

Other events:

--Contemporary queer beat poets at the SF Public Library. 6 p.m. at the Main Library (100 Larkin, x Grove).

--Michael Ondaatje, author of the English Patient and the intriguingly-titled new book Divisadero, speaks at City Arts and Lectures. 8 p.m., Herbst Theater (401 Van Ness, x McAllister), $19.

--The Tinhorn Gallery is closing down -- there's a farewell party tonight. Momi Toby's will continue to show their art across the street, though. 5 p.m., 511 Laguna (x Fell).

--The band Making Dinner (friends of our food critic SFist Ced!) play tonight at the Rickshaw Stop. They "take over the stage the way the smell of cookies baking take over a kitchen." 155 Fell (x Van Ness), $5 benefit for the Excel After School Program, music at 9.

--Drew Curtis from FARK.com reads at Diesel Books in Oakland. 7:30, 5433 College Ave.

--And a discussion of feminist art and photography at SF Camerawork. 6 p.m., $5, 657 Mission, 2nd floor (x New Montgomery).