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Monday, October 3, 2011

Nightlife / Books The Silent Reading Party Is Back!! With Special Guests and a Cellist!

Posted by on Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:02 PM

Slog reader Mandi writes:

Whatever happened to the silent reading party at the Sorrento? I was hoping it would come back last month, but heard nothing. Now we're coming up on the 1st Wednesday of October and it's not on SLOG, Line Out, or the Sorrento event cal. Is it gone forever?

No, no!! The silent reading party is back, starting this Wednesday—I've been meaning to crow this from the rooftops. We took a hiatus for the summer months, when it's so much nicer to just read outside, but summer is now long gone, as anyone who's been outside lately can tell you. This week, the special guests are two past Stranger Genius Award Winners: Ryan Mitchell (of Implied Violence and Saint Genet) and D.K. Pan, "Seattle's patron saint of collective art."

The musical guest on Wednesday will be Samuel Anderson of the band Hey Marseilles, playing cello.

Details: It starts at 6 pm, it happens in the Sorrento's Fireside Room, you bring whatever you feel like reading and sit there and read it to yourself while classical music plays, and the $4 Manhattan drink special is available until 9 pm. The silent reading party is a collaboration between The Stranger and Night School, curated by Michael Hebb. It's very relaxing. If you've never been, come.

 

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DeaconBlues 1
Super excited about this.
Posted by DeaconBlues http://radzillas.blogspot.com/ on October 3, 2011 at 2:23 PM
Jubilation T. Cornball 2
I'm coming!
Posted by Jubilation T. Cornball on October 3, 2011 at 2:26 PM
care bear 3
I would like a $4 Manhattan right this very second.
Posted by care bear on October 3, 2011 at 2:29 PM
Suz 4
Can you post a schedule for the next few months? I can't make it this Wednesday but hope to be free for the next ones.
Posted by Suz on October 3, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Fnarf 5
Is this a special kind of cello that is silent, or will Anderson be holding it but not playing it, or what? (I love Hey Marseilles btw).
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on October 3, 2011 at 3:04 PM
OuterCow 6
woot!
Posted by OuterCow on October 3, 2011 at 3:26 PM
7
@5 -- Oh Fnarf, always parsing! But you're onto something, I suppose: It should be the "silent-reading party," not the "silent reading party." It's the reading that's silent, not the music. You oughta come sometime.
Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on October 3, 2011 at 4:19 PM
Fnarf 8
@7, I know, I was trying to find the humor in hyperliteralism. A doomed effort but I am compelled. Now I want to see you go out on the roof and crow.

I should come, it would be fun. Even though I find music distracting. But the pressure of finding a book that would strike just the right note of superiority, cleverness, yet some measure of humility and human decency terrifies me. Maybe a big, battered copy of "Atlas Shrugged", and pretend to write out copious angry marginal notes the whole time -- "NO!!! YOU MOTHERFUCKER!!! THIS IS BULLSHIT!!!" In Sharpie, totally mashing the point.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on October 3, 2011 at 6:24 PM
9
Does the special guest do anything besides sit there and read? Just curious, as it seems an odd event to have a "celebrity" present.
Posted by Jude Fawley on October 3, 2011 at 6:45 PM
Jubilation T. Cornball 10
@8 - I'm reading "Fallingwater Rising" at the party, which details in great depth the large quantity of material Rand lifted from the building of that house -- and the major dramatis personae of its erection (tee hee) -- for "The Fountainhead." I feel that this will meet the bar you set.
Posted by Jubilation T. Cornball on October 3, 2011 at 7:01 PM
Cato the Younger Younger 11
It would be nice to have more warning about these things. Some of us have to plan ahead for our evening activities!!

So I won't be going; previous plans
Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on October 4, 2011 at 4:09 AM
12
I would like to point out that silent reading is a modern invention. I like thinking about this. Silently.
Posted by Jen Graves on October 4, 2011 at 10:38 AM

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