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Friday, February 29, 2008

Reading Tonight

posted by on February 29 at 10:19 AM

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Five readings on this, the leapiest day of the year:

Dan Kennedy is reading from Rock On at the Sunset Tavern. I read Rock On, and I liked it quite a bit, which was surprising to me. The subject (working at a corporate music label) didn’t interest me, and it wasn’t exactly packed with stunning observations about the music world, but Kennedy, a contributor to McSweeney’s, is very funny, and a amiable-enough narrator. Hopefully, he’ll be the same in person. There’s a review by Stranger book critic (and current books intern) Christopher Sabatini here.

George Legrady will be discussing his artwork on display in the Seattle Public Library Central Branch at the SPL today. If I had my way, there wouldn’t be any art in the library; in libraries, as in the home, books are all the decoration you need. But, then, I’m biased.

Jean Haner reads from The Wisdom of Your Face (yes, I’m serious, and it does sound like a put-down: “Oh, yeah, the Wisdom of my Face? Let me tell you about the Wisdom of Your Mom!”) at Third Place Books, and Bruce Barcott reads from The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw, which got a good review on the front page of the NYT Book Review a week or so back, at Elliott Bay. Barcott will be reading elsewhere this weekend, too, so don’t feel bad if you have plans but you also have a powerful urge to learn about scarlet macaws. You’ll have your chance, my friend. You’ll have your chance.

And, lastly—and a late addition not on the readings calendar!—there will be some musicians at the Rendezvous Jewel Box Theater, starting at 7:30, but there will also be a spoken word set by the always-entertaining Doug Nufer where he will channel “Jackie Mason, Perry Mason, and a verbal version of Chainsaw Jason.”

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

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