TONIGHT: An interesting and thought-provoking evening at Brooklyn Reading Works at the Old Stone House tonight (2/16) at 8 p.m.

The Old Stone House is in JJ Byrne Park on Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets. Free. Refreshments. Books to buy and get signed. Two Park Slope non-fiction writers will read and discuss their work.

David Berreby reads from his non-fiction book, US AND THEM: UNDERSTANDING YOUR TRIBAL MIND.

"Berreby’s quest is to understand what he sees as a fundamental human urge to classify and identify with "human kinds." We project this urge onto what we see. Are races and human kinds real? The fact that they change all the time, and we can switch from one to another so easily, suggests not. Instead, Berreby says, our ideas of the "human-kind code" are based "on facts about how we relate to [other] people at the moment we categorize them–what we want, or expect, or fear from them." Henry Gee, Scientific American

Paul LaRosa, author of TACOMA CONFIDENTIAL: Gig Harbor, Washington, a quiet Tacoma suburb, knew little of tragedy and scandal-until April 26, 2003. On that day, David Brame, distraught over his impending divorce, shot his wife to death in a busy public parking lot. Then, with the couple’s two children only feet away, he turned the gun on himself. It was a horrific event, but Tacoma residents had special reason to be shocked. Brame was, after all, the chief of police.But as the investigation unfolded, a bizarre and depraved side of Brame and his marriage came to light. Here, in chilling detail, is the full story of one of Gig Harbor’s most violent and disturbing crimes.