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<description> There are two open mics tonight and no other readings. This is because everybody is going to be listening to Barack Obama, who is a published author. Like Jen Graves did a few short posts ago, I would like to remind you to read Dreams of My Father. It&apos;s really very good. I would ignore The Audacity of Hope, though, unless you buy the audio book version of it because you like to hear Barack Obama talk. I would like to take issue with something that Jen Graves said. In the above-referenced post, she writes: What’s the last book...</description>
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<title>Comment by The Incredible Sulk</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Paul,</p>

<p>So you're saying to be wrong is delightful?</p>

<p>And no, I don't feel like letting it go.<br />
</p>]]></description>
<author>The Incredible Sulk</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_146#c1115640</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:09:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Paul Constant</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>@1: Being wrong is delightful when Jen Graves does it.</p>]]></description>
<author>Paul Constant</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_146#c1115644</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:12:02 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by jameyb</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Paul, to answer your question, yes, most visual artists are simply interior decorators for bored rich people.</p>]]></description>
<author>jameyb</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_146#c1115649</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:16:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Travis</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>"The Autobiography of Malcom X" sold quite a few copies.  Sells quite a few still, I think.  </p>]]></description>
<author>Travis</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_146#c1115650</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:16:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by PC</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Without quibbling over words like "billions" of white people the point is valid:</p>

<p>the whole racial experience is largely unknown to many whites because they don't read the great books that deal with it.</p>

<p>There was one novel called The Unknown World or Edge of the Known a few years ago about the Cane River blacks who owned slaves.....</p>

<p>The Anne Rice book about the free person of color in New Oleans.....</p>

<p>I'd really like to see a major motionpicture about enslaved persons' revolting....one thing that is white washed is how enslaved persons fought back to such a degree that there were dozens of ensalved persons' revellions, there were constant night patrols (thus the Southern penchant for having a militia and for calling any upstanding citizen "Colonel" -- like in KFC)....this hisotry is very submerged.</p>

<p>So is how slavery ended in the Northern states.  They had some slaves.  Then they didn't.  How did that happen? No one knows.  In fact people think that up north they never had slaves when the fact is they did usually up to about 1777 or 1810 or so.</p>]]></description>
<author>PC</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_146#c1115657</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:22:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by The Incredible Sulk</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>@2,</p>

<p>So when will Jen declare "Poker Playing Dogs" to be the Greatest Artwork Of All Time?</p>

<p>And how delightful will that be?</p>

<p>And no, I don't feel like letting it go.<br />
</p>]]></description>
<author>The Incredible Sulk</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_146#c1115667</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:37:49 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Fnarf</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>"The Color Purple" sold a ton of copies to white people. Malcolm X, not so much.</p>]]></description>
<author>Fnarf</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_146#c1115685</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:47:03 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by elswinger</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>"Fatherhood" by Bill Cosby. (But that might not touch on race.</p>]]></description>
<author>elswinger</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_146#c1115822</link>
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