Slog - Comments on Reading Last Night: Dim Unshiny Evening http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_last_night_dim_unshiny_evening Against my advice, Tori Centanni, the intrepid--and unpaid--Book Intern went to last night's James Frey reading at Town Hall. Here's what she had to say on the matter: The turnout was sad. At 7:30 I counted 28 people, and though a few more trickled in, there were never more than 40 people in the room. This was sort of pathetic. Frey, trying to cement his image as a rebel and a rule breaker, wore a baseball cap inside and refused to stand during his reading. He did not bring any materials and borrowed a copy of his book from a... Copyright 2008 Tue, 20 May 2008 10:44:54 -0800 Tue, 20 May 2008 11:05:05 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle Pretty bad.

We had twice that at the Sierra Club panel on Green Economics at REI.

But tonight is Arianna Huffington at Town Hall - that should get people in the door!

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_last_night_dim_unshiny_evening#c1028238 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_last_night_dim_unshiny_evening#c1028238 Books Tue, 20 May 2008 10:57:12 -0800 Comment by john I worked at TH the last time Frey came to promote My Friend Leonard. We called it the most attractive audience ever to grace the hall. Groupies, starfuckers, Hollywouldabeens, bottle blondes, and phony drug addicts. One guy actually asked Frey, "the bottle or the pipe?" Frey demurred, then talked about struggling with all the movie deals he was being offered. He was a snob, but he totally played the hipsters, so it was sort of a draw. Then I got AMLP out of the library and thought it sucked.

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