Slog - Comments on Reading Tonight http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_137 Only one reading tonight, down at Elliott Bay Book Company. Sean Carswell reads from Train Wreck Girl. It's a novel about a man who breaks up with his girlfriend and then finds her dead on some train tracks the next morning. There's also a woman named Helen, "with a face that launched a dozen Greyhounds." I knew a girl like that, once. Also at this reading, for reasons that are unclear, Carswell will be joined by Mickey Hess. Hess has written books about hip-hop, and he's also written a 20-minute story that was published by McSweeney's. The full readings... Copyright 2008 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:53:23 -0800 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:36:48 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Ziggity Would you go to this, Paul? It seems like a sad (likely poorly written) book to hear from on a Friday evening in summer...

]]> Ziggity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_137#c1101743 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_137#c1101743 Books Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:33:03 -0800 Comment by MEC “With a face that launched a dozen greyhounds”

Could some of the literary people help me out? Does that mean that she looked like a little motorized bunny’s ass?

]]> MEC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_137#c1101791 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_137#c1101791 Books Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:15:13 -0800 Comment by Paul Constant @2: It means exactly that.

@1: I probably would not go to this, even if I weren't leaving town. No offense to the authors, but I'd rather appreciate the weather while it's still here.

]]> Paul Constant http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_137#c1101949 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_137#c1101949 Books Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:36:48 -0800