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Saturday, February 16, 2008

Reading Today

posted by on February 16 at 10:12 AM

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Shit-fire, do we have a lot of readings going on today.

There’s an open mic, an anti-evangelical Christian, a discussion about love, something called Killer Year: A Criminal Anthology, and Mitsuyo Kakuta, reading from her U.S. debut novel at the Panama Hotel. Also, up at Third Place, and possibly most intriguingly, Toby Barlow is reading from Sharp Teeth, which is a werewolf novel told entirely in (unrhymed) poetry. I’m about halfway through it, and I still don’t know what to think about it. Here’s part of a stanza:

“Some of us have problems./They still talk about Bone and what the grease does to him./He can’t go into fried chicken places/the smell, the scent, turns his blood right away./They say he took out a Popeye’s once./It made the news unsolved.”

Full listings here.

UPDATE: The conversation about love at the Hugo House, listed as being at 10:30 pm in the listings, is actually at 10:30 am, or about eighteen minutes from now. I regret the error, but not as much as my team of calendar-assembling monkeys is going to regret the error on Monday.


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You may have just sold a copy of Sharp Teeth, "High Fidelity"/Beta Band-style.

Posted by Kent M. Beeson | February 16, 2008 12:15 PM
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Barlow's also reading at SPL Ballard tomorrow. you might want to go and check it out and see if it works for you. It's always nice to see someone trying something, though, isn't it?

Posted by Paul Constant | February 16, 2008 12:26 PM
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I'm really glad you are posting these "Readings Today" entries. Conveniently in Google Reader instead of having to go check all the various web sites for any decent readings.

Posted by King Rat | February 16, 2008 6:57 PM

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