There are two open mics tonight, one in Ravenna and one at the Hugo House. There are no actual readings about books.

Instead, to mollify the commenters on this post, who seem to think that I wrote a short post about Aleksander Solzhenitsyn because I didn’t know anything about him rather than because it was a gorgeous Sunday and I didn’t want to spend my day off on the internet, here’s a short video for people who don’t know why it’s important to read Solzhenitsyn:

For some reason, I thought that he died in the late nineties. I accept the fact that not everybody can read the Gulag Archipelago, but everyone should read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and next year Harper is releasing, for the first time ever, a complete English translation of Full Circle, which is an important book. The man probably did more than just about anybody to bring down the Soviet Union, and he did it by writing books. And that’s why you should pay attention to Aleksander Solzhenitsyn.

Full readings calendar is here.