Death matches, musicians-turned-authors and more in this week’s See + Hear + Do.

AN EVENING OF MUSIC WRITING WITH 33 1/3 (4/07@7:30PM, NYC)
Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New York 11217
33 1/3, a series of short books centered around music albums, presents four of their writers this evening: Daphne Carr (Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine), Hank Shteamer (Ween’s Chocolate and Cheese), Christopher Weingarten (Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back) and Bryan Charles (Pavement’s Wowee Zowee).  Free.

LITERARY DEATH MATCH (4/08@7PM, SF)
Elbo Room, 647 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110-1150
Literary Death Match combines literary and performative aspects of Def Poetry Jam, each episode this reading series is a competitive, humorous ride.  The match begins with each of the night’s four writers performing, in seven minutes or less, their most electric writing.  They are then judged by a trio of all-stars on literary merit, performance and intangibles.  The two favorite writers advance to the finals where they go head-to-head to fight for the Literary Death Match crown.  Readers: Monica Youn, Dean Rader, Kim Wong Keltner and Kris Saknussemm.  Judges: Kim Addonizio, Anthony Bedard, Glendon Hyde a.k.a. Anna CondaHosted by Alia Volz and comedian Ngaio Bealum.  Doors open at 6:30PM.  21+.  $7 in advance, $10 at door.

THE CLEVELAND CONFIDENTIAL BOOK TOUR (4/08@7PM, Brookline)
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, Massachusetts 02446-2908
Three legendary musicians-turned-authors discuss their lives and art.  Featuring: Cheetah Chrome (A Dead Boy’s Tale), former lead guitarist for the punk band The Dead Boys whose songs have been covered by Guns N’ Roses, Pearl Jam, and The Beastie Boys; Mike Hudson (Diary of a Punk), founder of punk rock group The Pagans; and Bob Pfeifer (University of Strangers), founding member of Human Switchboard and Tabby Chinos, and was the President of Hollywood Records.  Free.

MEG WOLITZER’S THE UNCOUPLING (4/10@4PM, Portland)
Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, Portland, OR 97209
Meg Wolitzer’s novel about female desire, The Uncoupling, has been labeled funny and provocative.  The choice of “Lysistrata” — the comedy by Aristophanes in which women stop having sex with men in order to end a war — for the school play seems to cast a strange spell over the campus population.  Free.