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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Books Reading Tonight: Wills to Power

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:22 AM

Four readings tonight.

At Third Place Ravenna, Christina Dudley reads from her novel Mourning Becomes Cassandra. It's about a Christian who moves in with some friends and decides to mentor a "prickly, dog-whispering 15-year-old." If you are a prickly 15-year-old—dog-whispering or not—you might want to go to Secret Garden Books tonight. Heather Brewer reads from The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eleventh Grade Burns, which is the fourth installment in a young adult vampire series. No, not that young adult vampire series.

Geoffery Canada reads at Kane Hall. Canada, the President and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, wants to completely revive inner cities all at once. Oddly, this is the same debate that takes place in the French action movie District 13: Ultimatum, which is now playing at the Varsity.

The reading of the night, though, is at Town Hall. Garry Wills is a big damn deal. Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State looks at the office of the president and how it's become over-reliant on nuclear weaponry.

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.

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Wills is a very big damn deal, yeah. One of my greatest pleasures was an odd event at the Westin with him "debating" the odious little turnip Michael Medved concerning Ronald Reagan's legacy. His offhand dismantling of Medved was a delight, and his unshowy catalog of Reagan's awful influence breathtaking, if you're as into that stuff as I am.

Posted by gloomy gus on February 9, 2010 at 10:58 AM