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News & ArtsThursday, December 11, 2008
Books Also Reading Tonight
Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Dammit! This is a much better event than all those readings I listed this morning:
Third Place Lake Forest Park
Jonathan Evison with ALL ABOUT LULU
Thursday December 11 at 7:00 pmNot only a reading but also an Appalachian Wedding Buffet!
On the menu: lil smokeys, mini corndogs, pigs in a blanket, twinkies, and hohos. People will be adjourning to Jonathan's favorite dive bar afterwords.
Evison's first novel, All About Lulu, is a novel about a young man growing up in a family of bodybuilders. He becomes obsessed with his step-sister, Lulu, and spends a good long time lusting after her. It's a kind of early John Irving-esque novel, and I mean that in the best possible way.
If I wasn't going to Slog Happy, I'd be going to this, and you should think about going to this one, too. Evison is a Bainbridge author who's got tons of ideas—I think he's already working on his third novel, even though his second has yet to be published—and I have no doubt he's going to be a big damn deal someday soon. I've never met another author more eager to meet and talk to everyone. He just seems to really enjoy people. Which is weird for a novelist, but a welcome change. If you can't make the reading, pick up Lulu. It's a really great debut novel by a small press that's doing great work.
Many apologies to Third Place Books and mammoth apologies to both Jonathan Evison and you, the innocent Slog reader.
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