http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/reading_tonight_112 A book about utopia, an open mic, and a whole lot more going on tonight. Up in Port Townsend, it's the Port Townsend Writer's Conference, a weeklong festival packed with readings. Today, Chris Abani, who wrote Graceland and now seems to put out a book every week or so, will be reading. He's always fun live. Also in Port Townsend, Joan Larkin, who has edited many, many excellent gay and feminist anthologies, will be speaking. At Elliott Bay Book Company, Susanna Sonnenberg reads from Her Last Death, which is a memoir about Sonnenberg's mother, who was a con artist.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:53:45 -0800 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:54:24 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss What does the Fortune Cookie say? The image is too small...

]]> Melanie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/reading_tonight_112#c1072795 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/reading_tonight_112#c1072795 Books Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:10:59 -0800 The first 2 books Marten Troost wrote are very funny and recommended. "Sex Lives of Cannibals" is about being the husband of an NGO worker sent to Kiribati, a hellhole in the Pacific with little agriculture, wild dogs, and a garbage disposal problem. I'd give him the benefit of the doubt on this one, but I haven't read it yet, either.

]]> lara7 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/reading_tonight_112#c1072838 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/reading_tonight_112#c1072838 Books Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:54:24 -0800