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News & ArtsTuesday, June 2, 2009
Books Reading Tonight
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Two readings tonight.
Elizabeth Austen and Erin Malone read at the Richard Hugo House. Austen reads from her intriguingly titled poetry collection My Uterus, That Party Balloon. Malone reads poetry also. That is all I know about this reading.
And the Seattle Public Library hosts a reading for Seattle Noir, an anthology of Seattle-based crime stories written by local authors from small press Akashic Books.
I'm going to have to go with the Noir reading as the reading of the night, although there will be plenty of opportunities to see a reading for this book again—they're doing at least two other events in town in the next few weeks.
The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here.
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I just finished the Seattle Noir book. There were a couple of somewhat good stories, but mostly it was pretty bad. Most annoying, he wrote as seethed silently over the wasted hours he had spent trying to find this book enjoyable, was the all-too frequent use of embellished dialogue. That is not writing people. That's multiplying words beyond necssity, and it's crap.
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