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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Books Reading Tonight: Enemies of Gluten

Posted by on Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:22 AM

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At Town Hall tonight, Erika Lee and Judy Yung, who are reportedly "two renowned scholars of Asian-American history," will discuss how San Francisco's Angel Island immigration station served as the Ellis Island of the west coast.

Elliott Bay Book Company is hosting an enormous group reading. The press release says that "...two dozen local and regional poet/contributors to New Poets of the American West take turns reading from their work." 24 poets in a row sounds more like a test of an audience's strength than a reading to me.

Local author Shauna Ahern will be at the Queen Anne Farmer's Market this afternoon. Ahern's Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back...And How You Can Too is about how Ahern vowed to wipe all gluten from the face of the earth. (Or something slightly less hyperbolic.)

But the reading of the night is at Pilot Books. Matthew Pitt is the St. Louis-based author of a short story collection titled Attention Please Now, which is a very good title, if a little bit needy.

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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TVDinner 1
Oh good lord, I cannot deal with the gluten-neurotic. I know that some people legitimately have Celiac disease, but good-fucking-god am I sick to death of the people who wig out about it because it's something new to wig out about. If you have an eating disorder, just fucking own it.
Posted by TVDinner http:// on September 2, 2010 at 10:54 AM
samanthaf63 2
Okay... if you are gluten-intolerant, don't eat gluten. But why keep the rest of us from it who are NOT gluten-intolerant?

sheesh
Posted by samanthaf63 on September 2, 2010 at 11:07 AM
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I think Paul was being glib. Paul's comment doesn't help everyone who has to eat gluten-free though. Ahern isn't "anti-gluten" or some such nonsense. She's relentlessly positive about living a gluten-free life because she has celiac. And she's out to help other people in the same boat make more delicious things that they can eat.
Posted by Lorange on September 2, 2010 at 11:12 AM
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I'm still waiting for someone to write Gluten's Greatest Hits.
Posted by whitney ricketts on September 2, 2010 at 1:09 PM

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