Arts Books Intern Recommends (Happy Birthday, Mom!)
posted by on February 15 at 17:57 PM
As The Stranger Books Intern, I now get the keys to the Slog kingdom. For the next six weeks, I’ll be giving my own recommendations from the readings calendar… I knew that B.A. in literature was good for something.
TODAY
Monica Drake. If I go it’ll be because Chuck Palahniuk champions her so much, and Mr. Palahniuk is one of the PacNW’s major authors. I suppose the same could be said for Jonathan Raban, who is reading tonight himself; but Mr. Raban didn’t write a little novel that turned into a Brad Pitt/Edward Norton vehicle called Fight Club. Thus is my dirty, dirty logic. Monica Drake.
Ravenna Third Place, 6504 20th Ave NE, 525-2347. Free. 7:30 pm.
FRIDAY
Mika LaVaque-Manty. This one’s about Scandanavian Hegelianism, which has to do with the conflict between personal rights and the public good. This conflict has repurcussions for everything from the managing of capital to the slope you’re allowed to give your roof. If you go, be polite. It’s at the UW’s Simpson Center, and I’m not totally positive this event is, strictly speaking, open to the public. But it’s not like I’m going to divert a huge crowd there, so I figure if we’re discreet (no cell phones, no crinkly-sounding bags of chips, no excessive coughing) no one will know the difference. Just don’t make a scene and then tell them you heard of the event from The Stranger.
UW Communications Building, Rm 202, UW Campus. Free. 3:30 pm.
SUNDAY
Stephen J. Hartnett. If Lewis Lapham says he’s A-OK, then he’s A-OK to me because I love Harpers magazine, Mr. Lapham’s erstwhile employer. Mr. Hartnett will be scratching Seattle’s favorite itch by reading from a book entitled Globalization and Empire: The U.S. Invasion of Iraq, Free Markets, and the Twilight of Democracy.
Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600. Free. 7:30 pm.
Okay, that gets us through the weekend, which is enough for now. Check back later in the week for more Books Intern Recommends.
P.S., To see all the recommended readings this week, at least according to Frizzelle, click here.
—Chris Weeg
while we are on the topic of palahnuik, what the fuck was up with his last book, "haunted." that shit was terrible. like one of those "horrror" films that existed just to show gross shit.
One difference between Palahniuk and Raban is that Raban is very, very good.
Holy crap! A B.A. in Literature is good for something?! Oh, happy day!
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