Slog - Comments on Reading Tonight http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_52 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... Copyright 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:20:47 -0800 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:54:36 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Bellevue Ave 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.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_52#c1004547 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_52#c1004547 Books Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:41:52 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave and because no one wants to stop supporting non-competitive industry here.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_52#c1004549 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_52#c1004549 Books Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:43:50 -0800 Comment by orangekrush watch out, that Bujold's gotta knife!

]]> orangekrush http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_52#c1004577 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_52#c1004577 Books Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:58:05 -0800 Comment by Bethany Jean Clement POTTERY SLAM! Let's set the damn thing up already!

]]> Bethany Jean Clement http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_52#c1004631 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_52#c1004631 Books Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:34:50 -0800 Comment by PopTart 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...)

]]> PopTart http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_52#c1004747 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_52#c1004747 Books Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:09:53 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle 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)

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_52#c1004797 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_tonight_52#c1004797 Books Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:54:36 -0800