The first event today is at Seattle Public Library. At lunchtime, a librarian will read two great short stories: "Man from the South" by Roald Dahl and "The Story About a Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God" by Etgar Keret. The pairing of Dahl and Keret is decidedly brilliant. I hadn't thought of those two authors together before, but now it seems really obvious.
University Book Store hosts Jeff Hertzberg, MD and Zoe Francois. They wrote Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day: 100 New Recipes Featuring Whole Grains, Fruits, Vegetables, and Gluten-Free Ingredients. Baking bread is one of those things, like combing my hair, that I want to do but just can't find the time. Someone try this book out and tell me if this "5 minutes a day" thing is for real.
At Third Place Books, horror novelist John Saul reads, two days too late for Halloween. The titular house in Saul's new novel House of Reckoning is haunted. Perhaps it is haunted with reckoning.
Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt are at Town Hall. Freakonomics was not that good or intelligent a book, but it was incredibly successful. I bet that SuperFreakonomics will be even less intelligent and good and even more successful.
But Heather McHugh at Elliott Bay Book Company is the reading of the night.
