Books Reading Tonight
posted by on May 3 at 10:00 AM
Only one reading tonight. Cristina Garcia is reading at the Elliott Bay Book Company from A Handbook To Luck, a novel. I had a girlfriend who loved Cristina Garcia. Things ended badly with that girlfriend, and that’s why I’ve never read Cristina Garcia. She could be a lovely author for all I know, and I should totally get over it. I have a similar situation with Gretl Ehrlich.
Also, it’s Free Comic Book Day. If you go to pretty much any comic book shop, you should be able to get free comic books. Some shops that are participating in Free Comic Book Day have advertised in our paper this week, including a shop I’ve never been to, Dreamstrands, up in Greenlake. Apparently, Jonah Spangenthal-Lee thinks that Free Comic Book Day is a bunch of bullshit, but his post has some good recommendations for comics to look for if you’re interested.
And now, some advice from Ernest Hemingway:
Full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is ready for you now.
Poor Papa...he put a gun in that mouth.
As a person who *adores* the comic book industry, I think I have to agree with Jonah on the issue of free comic day. (But we disagree over our feelings about Spiderman.;) It would be nice if it were a celebration of the art-form, but just about every year I've gone, the free comics they've given out are almost always pure crap.
10-page teasers designed to make you want to buy the rest of the 14- books in the series. Reissuing comics that came out sometimes up to 6 months ago. (An eternity in comics time.) I adore comics, but I've always felt free-comic day always comes up lacking.
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