For your monthly fix of the local literary scene, be sure to check out the readings and author discussions coming up at The Book Cellar, an independent book store located in Lincoln Square. Here are just a few of their upcoming events:

Saturday, February 13 @ 7 PM: Brian Costello hosts the reading series Second City / Third Person. Readers include Erin Teegarden and Brandon Will.

Monday, February 15 @ 7PM: ”Chicago’s only first-person charitable reading series,” Essay Fiesta, presents comedian Robert Buscemi, writer/comedian Kelsie Huff, comedian/SecondCityTraining Center instructor Bryan Bowden, novelist/essayist Mary T. Wagner, comedian Adam Guerino, and improviser Janna Sobel.

Wednesday, February 17 @ 7PM: Local Author Night at the Book Cellar! Featuring: Kathleen Rooney (author of the memoir Live Nude Girl, and a new essay collection For You, For You I am Trilling These Songs); Cristina Henriquez, (author of the short story collection Come Together, Fall Apart and the novel The World in Half, recently released in paperback); and Melanie Benjamin (author of the new release, Alice, I Have Been).

Friday, February 19 @ 7PM: More authors! Featuring: Jerry Gabriel (author of the new story collection Drowned Boy), Patrick Sommerville (New York Times Best Books of 2009 – The Cradle), and Mark Rader (Nominee for the 2009 Pushcart Prize).

Friday, February 26 @ 7PM: Kevin Sampsell reads and discusses his memoir, Common Pornography.

For more information, or to check out future events, please visit The Book Cellar Online Events Calendar.