Books Reading Tonight
posted by on April 23 at 10:20 AM
We’ve got one of your so-called poetry slams and a bunch of other things going on today in the world of readings.
First, Saadia Pekkenan is reading at the University Book Store from her book Japan’s Aggressive Legalism: Law and Foreign Trade Politics Beyond the WTO. Two or three times a month, the University Book Store has a reading so specialized and wonky and intelligent-sounding that it makes me want to say “Der” and drool on myself. This is one of those readings.
The E.M.P.’s science fiction museum has Lois McMaster Bujold, reading from The Sharing Knife: Passage, which is the third book set in “an alternate, magic-using future world, where a great catastrophe has reverted North America to a 1800’s technology.” I have never read Lois McMaster Bujold, but the sharp edges of her very name intimidate me to no end.
Michael Meade is reading at Langston Hughes at 7 pm, from The World Behind The World. I can’t tell from Elliott Bay’s writeup exactly what this book is about:
This is, from our perspective, the most resonant application of looking at the world we’re in now through a mythically-informed viewpoint that we know of.
Yeahbuhwha? At Elliott Bay Book Company proper, Susan Jacoby is reading from her new book, The Age of American Unreason. It looks like another of those marvelous “Why everyone but my reader is a mediocre idiot” books, but Jacoby is a good writer, so there could be something worthwhile here.
And at Town Hall, Charles Halpern is reading from Making Waves and Riding the Currents: Activism and the Practice of Wisdom. Halpern started the nation’s first public interest law firm and public interest law school, and so this should be a good one for people interested in non-profits and charitable works.
And, as ever, we have the full readings calendar, including the next week or so, for your perusal.
Saadia Pekkanen's Picking Winners was pretty interesting and convinced me that the type of state favoring of industries and subsidization of industries that occurs in japan would be impossible here due to the way political appropriation of money is actioned here.
and because no one wants to stop supporting non-competitive industry here.
watch out, that Bujold's gotta knife!
POTTERY SLAM! Let's set the damn thing up already!
I watched Susan Jacoby speak on that books channel (is it CSPAN?)and some of what she had to say was fairly interesting. I have the book but haven't gotten very far in it yet, it seems like the topic goes with another book that's just out, "True Enough" by Farhad Manjoo.
And both books seem particularly interesting to read in light of all that is going on in politics this year. (and with Britney Spears for that matter...)
I hear that Ursula K. LeGuin is visiting soon for readings.
That will be fun!
(hint - she won't let the guys talk, she's been doing that for about 30 years now, it's not going to change, so get used to it and let ECB talk instead)
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