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Monday, January 12, 2009

Books Reading Tonight

Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:08 AM

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There's a lot going on tonight.

At University Book Store, William Iggiagruk Hensley reads from Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir Of Alaska And The Real People, which is a memoir is about growing up native in Alaska. I think that, nowadays, that "real people" in the title makes for a nice, back-handed dig at Sarah Palin.

At the Richard Hugo House, Bruce Beasley reads from from The Corpse Flower and Deborah Poe reads from Our Parenthetical Ontology. Both are poets. This is part of the Spontaneously Luminous Series, which is a reading series that allegedly roves from venue to venue. Here is a poem by Beasley, here is Poe's blog.

At Elliott Bay Book Company, Indu Sundaresan, who primarily writes novels about India, reads from In the Convent of Little Flowers, which is a collection of stories about India. I have not read Sundaresan, so I can't say for sure, but I know that readers of Indian fiction in English are generally fans.

Michael Pollan reads at Benaroya Hall, but that reading has been sold out for months. Sorry, suckas.

At Town Hall, Steven Johnson discusses The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America. It's about the man who discovered oxygen, which is really quite a feat when you think about it.

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