Wednesday Happenings

Readings

-- Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize winner and MIT professor, is now also a sold-out act. The Domincan-born author, whose novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao harmonized all the correct cultural keys last year (comic book geeks, urban multiculturalism, hip hop, and dictatorships and violence), reads to a packed house tonight. Presented by Harvard Book Store. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, 6 p.m. Sold out. Díaz will sign books at Harvard Book Store beginning at 8 p.m., no ticket required.

Photography

-- Esteban Pastorino Díaz is an Argentinian photographer with an unusual approach to his craft. He fashions homemade kite contraptions to take remote-controlled aerial photographs. The resulting images, out-of-focus, drifting like a lazy eye, render landscapes in a suggestively impressionist haze. Shifting Perspectives is the largest U.S. show of Díaz's work. Through October 13. Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 230 The Fenway, 6 p.m., artist's talk at 7 p.m. Free.

Comedy

-- Improv troupe Anderson Comedy presents a showcase of stand-up tonight in JP. Featuring jokes form Shane Mauss, Ken Reid, Renata Tutko, Nate Johnson, Tom E. Morrello, Maria Ciampa, Matt Wilding and Rob Crean. Milky Way Lounge, 403 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, 9 p.m. $5.

Image of Esteban Pastorino Díaz's Alcazaba, 2006. Stereophotographic projection. Courtesy of the artist and PDNB Gallery and SMFA.