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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Books Reading Tonight

Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:27 AM

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We have a manageable number of readings tonight.

University Book Store hosts a reading in which students of a literary fiction class read their work. And the Columbia City branch of the library is hosting Nancy Rawles, author of My Jim, which is a novel told from the point of view of Jim from Huckleberry Finn's wife. This is the Seattle Reads book, which the library is promoting as a book that the entire city should read. I'm not a huge Rawles fan, and I thought the book was stuffy.

Up at Third Place Books, Glen David Gold reads. His new novel Sunnyside is about 800 Charlie Chaplins appearing all over the world at once, causing mass hysteria and panic and something to do with World War I. I haven't read it (yet) but I can tell you that Gold's last book, Carter Beats the Devil, was something special—a historical thriller with puzzles and conspiracies and pathos and drama.

And Elliott Bay Book Company hosts Reif Larson, the author of The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, a heavily-illustrated novel about a "precocious twelve-year-old mapmaker" who travels the country by train. I just read this one this weekend, and if you're into Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close or young adult fiction, you'd probably love this book and you should go listen to Larson read and see if it's for you.

The Larson reading ties with the Gold for the reading of the night.

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

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I liked the kid's story in Extremely Loud, but the grandparents were insufferable. Their story was like The History of Love except unbearably shitty. Safran Foer is not as good a writer as his wife.

Posted by keshmeshi on May 20, 2009 at 11:08 AM