Slog - Comments on Reading Tonight http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_9 Two open mics, a poetry reading, and a few other readings going on tonight. At Town Hall, Frederick Kaufman is reading from A Short History of the American Stomach. Here's what Publisher's Weekly said about the book: "...a hip, journalistic approach to America's all-consuming relationship to the gut, from Puritan rituals of fasting to the creation of the Food Network. Kaufman maintains that the feast-fast syndrome that torments America—obesity, anorexia, overeating, dieting, fads and cures, gastroporn, pollution and purity of food, and self-sufficiency—all originate from our understanding of virtue and vice, first established by the Puritans." To which I... Copyright 2008 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:20:32 -0800 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:06:26 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by josh I liked His Illegal Self.

I mean, it probably won't get him his third Booker Man Booker, but I enjoyed reading it. The structure of reveals at the beginning was really nicely done, and although it gets a bit rambly in the middle it kind of redeems itself in the end.

]]> josh http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_9#c946899 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_9#c946899 Books Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:32:36 -0800 Comment by Kathy Fennessy I'd also recommend Carey's The True History of the Kelly Gang. I read it shortly after seeing John Hillcoat's The Proposition, which almost plays like an adaptation. Almost. Funny, but The Kelley Gang reminded me of Cormac McCarthy, and now Hillcoat is adapting The Road...

]]> Kathy Fennessy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_9#c946957 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/reading_tonight_9#c946957 Books Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:06:26 -0800