http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/reading_tonight_21 Three events tonight. Firstly, Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, the authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar are at the University Bookstore with Aristotle and an Aardvark Go To Washington. The previous book is about how philosophy can be fun, and the newest one is about how we can learn to crack the political doublespeak code. I have no patience whatsoever for this sort of thing, really. These two authors, who I suspect would really enjoy being referred to as "that wacky duo," are delivering the kind of annoying, mushy 'insight' that a zany high school... Copyright 2008 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:12:55 -0800 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:08:59 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss No, the Stegner to start with is his autobiographical masterpiece Wolf Willow, and also Big Rock Candy Mountain, the most acute novel ever written about the West. His bio of Bernard DeVoto is excellent too.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/reading_tonight_21#c964641 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/reading_tonight_21#c964641 Books Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:08:59 -0800