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Thursday, May 11, 2006

What You Should Do Tonight…

Posted by on May 11 at 13:47 PM

…is go see Charles D’Ambrosio read from his new book of short stories, The Dead Fish Museum, at Elliott Bay Book Company. To prepare yourself for the reading, check out this week’s book section. Jonathan Lethem, Dale Peck, Gary Lutz, Adrianne Harun, Tom Nissley, Anna Maria Hong, Trisha Ready, and Charles Mudede review the stories in the book—one writer per story. Short story buffs and Sean Nelson will detect, in the headline, the (attenuated) echo of another great book of short stories.

Here’s Dale Peck—you remember him, right?—on the first story in The Dead Fish Museum:

Imagine Ernest Hemingway and Flannery O’Connor holding hands as they walk down a dusty country road, animist and Christian both hedging their bets by conflating faith in God with mental illness, and you’ve got a pretty good idea of this story’s ethos. What would God say to that? He’d probably pass the buck to one of his writers. O’Connor, ever the bossy boots, would probably respond that no one should be surprised by how bad things are. Hemingway would be mad she spoke first, but sadness would mute his anger, because nothing has changed since his day. As for D’Ambrosio, well, he can tie it all together with some of the prettiest metaphorical bows around…

The reading goes down at Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main Street, 624-6600, at 7:30 pm, and it’s free.

(Confidential to certain of you: Yes, it’s true, I’ve been writing a lot about D’Ambrosio in the last year. [But this is his first book of stories in 10 years!] After tonight’s reading, I promise to find a new obsession.)


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Sorry, I'm off to see Goldfrapp at the Showbox.

goldfrapp!!!! that's what's happening tonight. period. anything else pales.

Damn! Hoist by visiting relations!

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