http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_127 One open mic and quite a few quality events going on for a Saturday. First, at Elliott Bay Book Company, Doug Dorst reads from Alive in the Necropolis, which I wrote about in this week's Constant Reader: When people consume fictions, they experience an urge, so strong that it feels almost reptilian in origin, to categorize the story into a genre, even something as basic as drama. Doug Dorst's debut novel, Alive in Necropolis, toys with this urge and manipulates the reader's expectations to great effect. There'll be a Suggests box about it popping up here any minute now,... Copyright 2008 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:00:00 -0800 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:54:07 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Ooh, I love fiction of the "when animals attack" variety. In elementary school we had to read a short story (maybe it was even a novella) detailing a terrifying grizzly attack, and I have since spent a portion of each camping trip planning my escape routes. Dont's: Climbing trees, running away, hiding near the food.
Do's: Hiding under the truck, hiding in the truck, pretending to be brave.

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