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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Reading Tonight

posted by on February 28 at 10:36 AM

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Tonight there are two open mics, “a reading of first-person true stories” at the Rendezvous (I tried to find out more information about this one, but that was seriously the most in-depth description I could find), and “inspirational reflections on black history” at Third Place Books to celebrate the waning days of Black History Month. Also:

Two very Stranger-centric readings tonight: First, Ellen Forney is at Bailey/Coy Books with Lust, which is of course a collection of Stranger readers’ most sextastic personal ads. She always puts on a good show. And: Stranger Genius Rebecca Brown hosts an evening at the Frye art museum featuring awesome young writer Ryan Boudinot and another Stranger Genius, Jonathan Raban. Boudinot and Raban will be reading new pieces based on artwork from the Frye. If it helps, think of it as a live comic book, only with the art entirely separated from the text (by both decades and space).

Gary Wills, author of the fabulous Nixon Agonistes, is at First Baptist Church, with What the Gospels Meant. Wills also wrote What Jesus Meant and What Paul Meant, and both were bestsellers. He’s providing new translations, along with interpretation. He’s not a literalist; he believes that the gospels were intended to be used as prayer and meditations. Still not my cuppa, but I won’t think less of you if you go.

And, at the Hugo House, we’ve got a tagteam duo of poetry: Janet Norman Knox and Jeannine Hall Gailey. I don’t know Knox’s stuff, but I know that Gailey has written poems with titles like “Amazon Women on the Moon” and “Cinderella at the Car Dealership.” That’s something right there.

Full readings calendar, including the next week or so, here.


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