Tonight is the night of nights.  Vol. 1 and Nerve present the Greatest 3-Minute Sex Drugs, and/or Rock n’ Roll Stories at Bar Matchless.  See you there?  RSVP here.

• The Christine O’Donnell tour for her book, Making America Great Again, brought the woman who is not a witch to Piers Morgan’s show on CNN, where she ended up walking out during the interview because Morgan was asking her questions about things covered in her book.

• Roxane Gay’s brilliant essay at The Rumpus on The Help is your longread assignment of the day.

• Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel picks Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March for the city’s One Book, One Chicago program.

• A 1984 video of a post-Birthday Party, pre-Bad Seeds Nick Cave fronted group known as The Cavemen.

• Nice to wake up to news of a new Cass McCombs album.