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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Books / Enviro Tonight: Tell Your Kids About How Screwed the Oceans Are

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:13 AM

Mark Kurlansky is maybe the only person alive—with the possible exceptions of John McPhee and Joan Didion—who could write a book about the history of man's relationship with cod and imbue it with such charm that it becomes a bestseller. Cod wasn't a freak accident: Kurlansky's book Salt is a surprisingly comprehensive history of the world, as explained through a narrative about our dealings with salt.

Tonight, he'll be at Third Place Books, reading from his new book for kids. It's a comic book titled World Without Fish, and it's about how the oceans are being farmed and exploited to the point of disaster. If anybody can make this subject interesting for teens, it's the guy who made cod the subject of a page-turner.

If you're not in the mood for a serious book about the environment, you should consider Castalia at the Hugo House. Castalia is the UW grad student's reading series, and this month's reading features poet Cody Walker, whose Shuffle and Breakdown is an excellent collection you should read. Walker is funny and his language is spry. I saw him read at Open Books for the release of Shuffle and Breakdown and he was a terrific, entertaining poet. Seeing him read aloud makes his poetry even better.

Visit the readings calendar for more information about all the events that are going on around town tonight.

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When will that meteor hurry up and get rid of homo sapiens?

Posted by lrb on May 3, 2011 at 12:07 PM

I'm in the middle of Salt! Kurlansky is awesome. Thanks.

Posted by starsandgarters on May 3, 2011 at 12:56 PM

No, tonight I'll tell my kid that we can kill Osama if we really set our mind to it because among the things that can kill people he ranked pretty low and we're never going to have fusion power or get to Mars so I'll take what I can get.

Posted by dirac on May 3, 2011 at 1:17 PM

Meh. I'm a thousand miles from the nearest ocean. Why should I give a shit?

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on May 3, 2011 at 1:27 PM

I loved Cod. Wish I'd known about this reading appearance sooner, but I will definitely pick up World Without Fish...

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