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SUNDAY 9/4

recommended The Back Room
Clear Cut Press editor and ripe writer-in-residence (the fact that the quirky restaurant has a writer-in-residence at all is wonderful) Matthew Stadler presents another installment in his ongoing Back Room series of stimulating evenings with notable intellects. Tonight, subtitled "Art & Friendship," finds us with Dean of the California College of the Arts, Larry Rinder, and Laurie Reid, a San Francisco painter and curator of this month's "Bay Area Bazaar" event at the Pulliam-Deffenbaugh Gallery. Ripe, 2240 N Interstate, 235-2294, 7 pm, $35

TUESDAY 9/6

recommended Charles Cross
See My, What A Busy Week! pg 21. Powell's City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, 228-4651, 7:30 pm

WEDNESDAY 9/7

Jennie Shortridge
The author of Riding With the Queen presents her follow-up book, Eating Heaven, about a magazine writer's relationships with food and her ailing uncle. Annie Bloom's Books, 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, 246-0053, 7:30 pm

John Baur & Mark Summers
These two rapscallions are authors of the frontrunner for 2005's Most Poorly Titled Book of the Year: Pirattitude!: So you Wanna Be a Pirate? Here's How! Borders (Downtown), 708 SW 3rd Ave, 221-9814, 7 pm

recommended Bret Easton Ellis
See review this issue. Powell's City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, 228-4651, 7:30 pm