Slog - Comments on Reading Tonight http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/reading_tonight_113 A book about a con artist mom and three other events tonight. Up in Port Townsend, Anne Waldman, who is one of the last surviving Beat poets (well, depending on who you ask—I've talked to quite a few old men who think that women can't be Beats), will read work from one of her 40 books. This is part of the Writer's Conference that's going on up in Port Townsend all week. Over at Elliott Bay Book Company, Rachel Kushner reads from her novel Telex from Cuba, which is a debut novel set in Cuba just before Castro. I... Copyright 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:38:01 -0800 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:13:01 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by scary tyler moore paul, are you wearing those ugly hipster pants? you better not be!

]]> scary tyler moore http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/reading_tonight_113#c1073591 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/reading_tonight_113#c1073591 Books Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:08:44 -0800 Comment by Jonny H I highly recommend the Anne Waldman reading. Not only is she a highly talented writer and performer, but she has many great stories to tell.

In Boulder, CO in 2006 I was fortunate enough to be part of a conversation with Waldman and Thurston Moore which basically basically covered the last 60 years of poetry in this country- complete with anecdotes from Waldman about her time spent with Allen Ginsberg.

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