Joel Berg is the executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, and his new book All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America? summons the "biting wit of Super Size Me" (confidential to publicists: DOES NOT WORK) to take our government to task for failing to comprehensively address our nation's hunger problem. Berg is reading at Powell's tonight, and he's even got a "simple and affordable plan" to end hunger for good. That's at 7:30 pm at the City of Books—that is if you can talk yourself down from what CNN informed me last night is a "sense of growing outrage" about the AIG bonuses, which are, um, obviously way more outrageous than hunger and war and stuff.

And just to bulk up this blog post a bit, because there really is nothing else going on in books tonight:

U.S. and Canadian demand for newsprint fell a combined 33 percent in February, the most in at least 27 years, as newspaper publishers cut purchases, according to the Pulp and Paper Products Council.

Demand for newsprint in the U.S. dropped 35 percent in February from a year earlier, while demand in Canada declined 21 percent, Martine Hamel, the head of research at the Montreal- based pulp and paper group, said today in a telephone interview.

Because if we don't cover the death of print, who will! (Via.)

UPDATED 3:48 pm!! FUCK!!

Tonight at Broadway Books, 7 pm:

In celebration of Oregon's Sesquicentennial, Matt Love, editor of the new collection Citadel of the Spirit: A Merging of Past and Present Oregon Voices and Stories, joins contributors Monica Drake and Cheryl Strayed. There will be cake. CAKE. I can't believe I almost forgot that.