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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Books Reading Tonight

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:03 AM

Soon we enter the Christmas-through-New Year break for readings, so if you want to attend a reading, you better do it this week.

Alan Jacobson reads at the Barnes & Noble in the University Village. He is the author of The 7th Victim, which is about a profiler tracking a serial killer. That plot is so generic my brain can't get a hold on it. It keeps wanting to add twists. But...the profiler is a parapalegic? The serial killer is a dog? The profiler is played by Morgan Freeman?

At the Hugo House, there is a reading to celebrate the life and work of Irene Drennan, a local poet who passed away this fall. Tonight, Jack Remick, Priscilla Long, M. Anne Sweet, Geri Gale and Jim Karnitz will read work by and inspired by Ms. Drennan.

And at Elliott Bay Book Company, Rikki Ducornet reads from her new book, One Marvelous Thing, which is a collection of short stories with illustrations. Ducornet is awesome, in part because of her beautiful, surreal stories, but also because she is friends with the similarly awesome Robert Coover. And also because the Steely Dan song "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" is written about Rikki Ducornet. I am completely serious. That is, as they say, teh awesome. You don't see, say, Billy Joel writing any songs about John Grisham, do you?

The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here.

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I believe the story goes that Rikki Ducornet was one of Donald Fagen's profs at Bard College back in the day, and Fagen had a bit of a schoolboy crush on her. Writing "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" (love that song! love that song!) was Fagen's way of breaking the spell. Is that right?

Posted by Jeff Stevens on December 16, 2008 at 11:23 AM

I unironically love Steely Dan. They own.

Posted by laterite on December 16, 2008 at 12:31 PM