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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Reading Today: After Nick and Norah, the Zombies

Posted by Paul Constant on Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:05 AM

There's a lot going on today, including a book about Paul McCartney, a starchy cookbook, and much more.

Anthony Flacco reads at Seattle Mystery Bookshop at noon. The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders is about a horrible man who committed horrible crimes from 1926 to 1928 and tortured his nephew all the while.

At the Central Branch of the library, David Levithan, who wrote the novel that the film <em>Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist was based on, reads from his newest young adult novel, Love is the Higher Law

Up at Third Place Books, there is a reading for Zombies : A Record of the Year of Infection, which is a collaboration between a Seattlite and a Californian.

Loren Rhodes, who used to make a zine called Morbid Curiosity, reads at Elliott Bay Book Company. Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox, and Unusual collects essays from the zine. San Francisco Weekly apparently called it "a Reader's Digest of the dark side." I can't tell if that's supposed to be an insult or not.

And the big reading of the night is at Benaroya Hall. Tomaž Šalamun appears in conversation with Wave Books editor Matthew Zapruder. The Slovenian poet and author discusses his life, translation, and writing 37 books.

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.