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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Books The Reading Party's in Three Hours! What Will You Be Reading?

Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:07 PM

I surveyed the special guests and I have some answers: Bree McKenna will be reading Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb. ("Best Belgian writer!" Bree says.) Emily Nokes is either reading Mick Jagger by Philip Norman, I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvia Simmons, or Luck or Something Like It by Kenny Rogers. (I've got my money on Kenny Rogers.) I'm finishing up Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story by D. T. Max, the biography of David Foster Wallace that I really do not want to end, because it's so smart and I don't like the idea of what's coming. And you? What will you be reading?

More about the reading party right here. As usual, it's 6 pm to 9 pm, free, and all ages. And from 7 to 8 tonight, Will Bielawski will be playing harp. If you have not witnessed that yet, you're missing out.

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It's Kenny. I knew in my heart it would be Kenny, but tried to keep my options open.

Posted by Emily Nokes on December 5, 2012 at 3:34 PM

APPROVE

Posted by Anna Minard on December 5, 2012 at 4:15 PM

I would love to come, but I will be taking my 'Marriage Equality Disco Nap' at that time, so as to be able to stay up late with the kids.

What, you don't think Dan is asleep right now? Please.

Posted by Womyn2me $http://http:\\www.shelleyandlaura.com$ on December 5, 2012 at 4:28 PM

I'll be reading in solidarity with you in my living room in Oakland. Tonight is the academic paper "Inequality Before The Law: Holding States Accountable For Sex Discriminatory Laws Under The Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women And Through The Beijing Platform For Action" from the Harvard Human Rights Journal. Dry and boring, the opposite of Seattle.

Posted by dangerousgift on December 5, 2012 at 4:37 PM

I've got to see one these parties. Tonight though, it's pasta and Moonwalking with Einstein, which I can't seem to finish.Read two Rolling Stone issues in the meantime, including the best Jimmy Page intereview ever .

Posted by biffp on December 5, 2012 at 5:15 PM

The Sylvie Simmons book has the best writing on Cohen's "Various Positions" period I've read. Wonderful insights into how the LP around "Hallelujah" was created, with information I've not read otherwise. Don't know if she took that one with her ...

Posted by Estey on December 5, 2012 at 7:39 PM