Slog - Comments on Reading Tonight http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_132 An open mic and two readings tonight. At Elliott Bay Book Company, there's a tribute to Leadbelly, with music, to celebrate the release of a new book called Leadbelly: A Life in Pictures. I think this sounds like a good time, but maybe it's just me; I really like Leadbelly, but I'm pretty much in favor of any blues music at all, as long as there are no goddamned electric guitars involved. And up at Third Place Books, Kate Veitch reads from Without a Backwards Glance, which is apparently already a bestseller in Germany. It's about a mother's secrets... Copyright 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:04:40 -0800 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:25:07 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle Electric slide guitars, in the hands of a master, are always good.

Don't be hatin' the player, be hatin' the imitator.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_132#c1095790 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_132#c1095790 Books Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:29 -0800 Comment by Kelly Simmons Y'know, Simon & Schuster makes the same author comparisons about my novel about family secrets -- Standing Still. Must be a trend. Still, I bet Kate's book is great. I'll check it out!

]]> Kelly Simmons http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_132#c1095916 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_132#c1095916 Books Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:48:56 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Wow, Will, I didn't realize you were such a connoisseur of the real down-home way of speakin'.

Electric guitar blues is always, always, always an embarrassment, perpetrated exclusively for the amusement of clueless middleaged white frat types, usually wearing Hawaiian shirts and ponytails. The last good blues record was made before World War Two, and didn't have any guitars on it at all.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_132#c1096104 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_132#c1096104 Books Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:25:07 -0800