http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_today 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... Copyright 2008 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:12:00 -0800 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:57:44 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss You may have just sold a copy of Sharp Teeth, "High Fidelity"/Beta Band-style.

]]> Kent M. Beeson http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_today#c940360 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_today#c940360 Books Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:15:07 -0800 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?

]]> Paul Constant http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_today#c940362 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_today#c940362 Books Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:26:15 -0800 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.

]]> King Rat http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_today#c940448 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_today#c940448 Books Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:57:44 -0800