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Monday, July 13, 2009

Books Reading Tonight

Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:24 AM

9ff8/1247248308-mccannltgws.png Four readings today.

Heather Barbieri reads at Elliott Bay Book Company from her novel The Lacemakers of Glenmara, in which a woman visits Ireland to recover from some sort of loss.

Joanna Smith Rakoff reads from her novel A Fortunate Age at the Hugo House. It's a book about the enduring (or not-so-enduring) friendship of a group of Oberlin graduates at the end of the last century and the beginning of this one. It has a pretty cover.

Up at Third Place Books, Jean Reynolds Page reads. Her novel The Last Summer of Her Other Life is about three men and a pregnant lady. Before you think of Steve Gutenberg, though, you should know that the pregnant lady is "charged with 'inappropriate behavior' towards a teen boy."

But most importantly, at the Central Library, Colum McCann reads. Let The Great World Spin is a novel about the guy who walked on a wire between the World Trade Center towers. Of course, he was also the basis for the documentary Man on Wire. Ordinarily, I'd suggest watching the documentary instead, but McCann is an excellent writer, and this is the reading of the night.

The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here. And if you're planning on staying in and you're looking for personalized book recommendations, feel free to tell me the books you like and ask me what to read next over at Questionland.