Books Reading Tonight
posted by May 15 at 10:12 AM
onNo less than eleven book-related activities tonight, including an open mic, a group reading, a book about a midlife crisis, a fishing book, and a mystery/thriller about cracking some sort of code.
David Rothenberg is at the University Book Store with Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound. The press materials for this book insist that we love whales for their songs. I don’t think that this is true, exactly. I thought we loved whales because they are big, gentle creatures. Their songs sound kind of like a cow stuck in a barbed-wire fence. Of course, without whale songs, we wouldn’t have the greatest Star Trek movie of all time, so there’s that.
Up at Third Place Books, Jim Sheeler reads from Final Salute, which is his account of being the man who the military pays to tell soldiers’ families that their sons and daughters are dead. It probably won’t be a laugh riot, but it should be a thoughtful and interesting reading.
At Town Hall, George Johnson, who writes about this thing called “science” for a paper called The New York Times, reads from his book The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments. I really wanted to cover this book, but the publisher never sent us a copy. Bummer. Also at Town Hall, Susan Halpern reads from her book, Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the Frontlines of Memory Research. Expect lots of jokes in the audience about forgetting what they’re there for.
At the Hugo House, Jessy Randall reads from A Day in Boyland, which is a book of poetry. Unfortunately, now Mr. Poe is going to have to find a new title for his memoir.
And at Elliott Bay Book Company, Will Durst, who is not Fred Durst, reads from The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing: Confessions of a Raging Moderate. Press materials compare Durst to Hunter S. Thompson and Charles Osgood. I say, “Barf.”
To see what else is going on, don’t forget to consult the full readings calendar.
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"It's where they keep the nuclear wessels. NUCLEAR WESSELS."
Gillian "Sure you won't change your mind?"
Spock "Is there something wrong with the one I have?"
You son of a bitch! I would never write a memoir. How tasteless.
/hugz
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