Books Reading Tonight
posted by on April 18 at 10:11 AM
Three readings today, but only two authors. How can that be? Well, let me talk at you for a minute about it.
Susan Griffin is reading from Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy at noon at the Elliott Bay Book Company, and then at seven tonight at the university bookstore. Tricky Susan Griffin! Her book focuses on America through the lens of Thomas Jefferson. It studies how we want to simultaneously be an empathic and democratic nation and then simultaneously want to take over everything in the world because we’re America, fuck yeah.
But also, at Neptune Coffee, Suzanne Burns reads from her new book, Double Header, which is a dual-story flip book published by Future Tense Books, an Oregonian publisher that does really fine work. The two stories are about a woman who eats dirt and the smallest man in the world. There might be music, although things are looking tenuous in that direction. It should be really neat and you should go.
Check out the upcoming week’s worth of readings in the readings calendar.
Is it just me, or does anybody else want to give up all their hobbies and commitments and just go to book readings since Paul Constant started slogging?
Sad to say, it does look like Tunnel-Tunnel (a Trespassers William side-project) will not be playing Neptune Coffee after the reading tonight. But the publisher of Suzanne Burns—the one and only Kevin Sampsell—will read from his new book Creamy Bullets. And local poet—and soon to be Coffee House Press published novelist—Travis Nichols will read, as well.
Some other person will read as well. He'll be brief, though.
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