LOCAL LIT: Tired of living la vida loca after pride weekend? Sick of the sun and the heat? Want to retreat back into your dark, shade-drawn house and dream of the rain? Of course not, which is why it's so hard to recommend you spend your Monday at a literary reading. Still, local author and medical expert Carol Casella has a reading tonight down at Elliott Bay Books, for her debut novel Oxygen. Casella, a physician, draws on her intimate knowledge of the health industry to construct a dramatic portrait of the subtleties and complexities of medical malpractice, when a child's death on the operating table sends an anesthesiologist's life into a tail-spin.

7:30 p.m. // Elliott Bay Books, 101 South Main Street // free!

NEW(-ISH) MUSIC: The crazy kids at Nada Mucho and the High Dive are packing the line-up with "new" music tonight. "New" as in, hasn't Climber been hitting the circuit for a couple years now with their Coldplay/Radiohead-esque sound? Portland hipsters we're in contact with assure us they're wearing out their welcome, but they still deliver an intense show. Worth checking out if you relish early Kraftwerk's themes but prefer them song by a guy with a purty, purty voice. Women are sure to swoon. Also appearing The Unspeakable Horror, The Jet Age, and Yellow Peril.

9 p.m. // The High Dive, 513 N. 36th // $6 // 21+

WONDERFUL WORLD: For those who are truly tired today, as is this Seattlester, and would prefer to find some late-afternoon respite from the fun and the sun, preferably in a climate controlled environment, there's a cool art show down at Art/Not Gallery that closes this Thursday. Elizabeth Sheets's painting style is heavily influenced by the colors and shapes of 1930s-style animation, a pastiche that captures a certain whimsy and mystery that animation has lost over the years. Truth is, we never get get tired of seeing this stuff, and what better way to dodge the mid-day heat and over-crowded buses than to hang out in a galley till six?

11 a.m.-6 p.m. // Art/Not, 2045 Westlake // thru 7/3 // free!