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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Books Very First Outdoor Silent Reading Party Is Tomorrow Night in Two Hours!

Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:12 PM

This post has been bumped up from yesterday.

Plenty of places to sit.

Tonight we're taking the silent reading party outdoors. IT WILL BE SO FUN. We're doing it at Louisa Boren Lookout Park (on 15th Avenue East, across from Lake View Cemetery) from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. The musician Sam Anderson, from Hey Marseilles, will be playing cello starting at 6 pm.

And even though there won't be the Sorrento waitstaff bringing you drinks, we are selling picnic baskets of yummy things to eat and drink, including sandwiches by Homegrown, bagels by Eltana, fresh fruit by New Roots and Madison Co-op, Fran's chocolates, Trophy cupcakes, and Rachel's Ginger Beer. It's about $90 worth of stuff, and we're selling them for $30, and all the money goes to support the 2012 Genius Awards. (BUMMER/UPDATE: all the picnic baskets have been sold. You will have to make friends with someone who got one!)

What will you read? Well, the new issue of The Stranger has the fall issue of A&P in it, our arts and performance quarterly. We'll bring a stack of 'em. Or you could read The Stranger's new book based on the best of our Back to School issues, full of advice about life and Lindy West jokes, which we'll also have on hand. Or, of course, you could pull that one book that's been staring at you from the shelf for so long and finally read that.

The weather's great. And it's free. And it ends early enough to run home afterward and see Bill Clinton's speech at the DNC. Come!

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That's a lovely place to have a reading. Though what it's across from is not so much Volunteer Park as it is Lakeview Cemetery, worth mentioning in this instance not only because I am a nudge but because it is the final resting place of Denise Levertov.

Posted by gloomy gus on September 4, 2012 at 5:13 PM

@1 Good points, all. It has been changed!

Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on September 4, 2012 at 5:21 PM

The map on StrangerTickets doesn't point to anything near Lakeview Cemetery...

Posted by lblah on September 4, 2012 at 5:37 PM

Damn. All that and picnic baskets too. I'm tempted to fly to Seattle just for the day.

Posted by Prettybetsy on September 4, 2012 at 5:52 PM

Picnic baskets? I'm in!

Posted by ScienceNerd on September 4, 2012 at 6:59 PM

NYC has a topless coed pulp fiction reading group. It has a blog. With pictures. Can't we have that?

Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

on September 4, 2012 at 9:03 PM

Put a little DEET on... at Volunteer this evening the mosquitos were huge and thirsty.

Posted by Amy Kate Horn on September 4, 2012 at 10:15 PM

Tickets for the baskets are "no longer available"; does this mean they're sold-out, or can we buy them at 5pm at the park?

Posted by G g on September 5, 2012 at 10:15 AM

I can't believe I didn't recognize the pic right away, but my under-aged self downed many, many a Mickey's bigmouth and Laser 40oz and that locale.

Posted by Dougsf on September 5, 2012 at 1:00 PM

Losers, it's almost time!

Posted by Confluence on September 5, 2012 at 3:14 PM

I can't make it tonight, but please do this again. Maybe as before the weather sours or as an annual event...?

Posted by Revenge! on September 5, 2012 at 3:30 PM

I went (my first time) and it was WONDERFUL. Read Nancy Guppy's hilarious self-interview and political articles, will go bookish next time. Please do it again soon -- the first week of October will still be warm enough for a repeat outdoor party. Again, sweet!

Posted by jitterbugperfume on September 6, 2012 at 10:33 PM

I don't understand how it was silent, but there was a cello.

Posted by whywasthereacello on September 21, 2012 at 8:03 PM