One-Year Anniversary Party Pinball Publishing, 2621 SE Clinton, 238-4514, 8 pm It’s appropriate that the folks at Pinball Publishing used the phrase “eye-rhyme” as the title for their journal of experimental literature. “Eye” and “rhyme” almost actually rhyme, but don’t. The words are half-rhymes, aligning just closely enough to force the mind to look for […]
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FRIDAY 11/29 Language of Consumerism The Enteractive Language Festival concludes its run with this night of multimedia. Adbusters provides “noncommercials,” The Consumption Junction soundtracks, and Dina Noto provides visual art for your eyeballs. Disjecta, 116 NE Russell, 781-6499, 8:30 pm, free David Thompson Notable film critic/novelist Thompson has just published The New Biographical Dictionary of […]
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Elmer McCurdy: The Misadventures in Life and Afterlife Of An American Outlaw
Elmer McCurdy: The Misadventures in Life and Afterlife Of An American Outlaw Mark Svenvold (Basic Books) Calling Elmer McCurdy an outlaw is generous. After the Wild West era began its remission, he made bungled attempts to rob banks and trains, trying to emulate such icons as Bill Doolin and Butch Cassidy, who embodied the raucous […]
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The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathenatical Puzzles of Our Time
The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathenatical Puzzles of Our Time Keith Devlin (Basic Books) In 2000 the Clay Mathematics Institute offered a cool million bucks for the answer to any of the seven math problems that they’ve deemed the hardest in the world. The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of […]
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THURSDAY Robert Ferrigno Professional gamblers are cool, especially ones that eventually became mystery writers. Ferrigno is one of these. Friends of Mystery, at the NW Cultural Center, 1819 NW Everett, 241-0759, 7:30 pm, free Stringtown The popular Pacific Northwest magazine of creative writing celebrates itself with readings from Matt Briggs, Steve Cleveland, Elizabeth McLagan, and […]
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Joel Schalit
Reading Frenzy, 921 SW Oak St, 274-1449 Fri Nov 22, 7 pm, free Joel Schalit is a model punk. Outspoken and revolutionary yet levelheaded, he has channeled his wild intellectual energy toward the pursuit of organized rebellion. A graduate of Reed College, he lives in San Francisco and helps edit Punk Planet, a marvelous periodical […]
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Girl Imagined by Chance
Lance Olsen (Black Ice Books)
“The unreal is exactly like the real, only more sincere,” posits the nameless narrator of Lance Olsen’s sixth novel, Girl Imagined by Chance. The narrator and his wife Andrea have become regional vagabonds of sorts, moving from suburban New Jersey to the woods of Northern Idaho. He describes their move from the familiar to the […]
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All My Life For Sale
John Freyer (Bloomsbury)
John Freyer personifies an American paradox with his book All My Life For Sale. He feels the need to collect, consume, and accumulate, and yet also desires a sense of unburdened freedom and the ability to travel at will. It’s a complex issue to tackle in any setting, especially in a coffee table book. In […]
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THURSDAY 11/14 Michael Toms Toms, host of the radio show New Dimensions, has put together A Time for Choices, a book of dialogues by Terry Tempest Williams, Anita Roddick, Howard Zinn, and many others discussing the post-9/11 crisis in American values. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, 238-1668, 7:30 pm, free Jeffrey Moussaieff […]
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THURSDAY Unmarried to Each Other Marshall Miller, who co-authored this book with his wife, Dorian Solot… whoops! I mean with his PARTNER, Dorian Solot, will read from it and talk about what it means to live with a significant other permanently without being married to them. In Other Words, 3734 SE Hawthorne Blvd, 232-6003, 6:30, […]
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Review: The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Fall and Rise of an American Icon
The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Fall and Rise of an American Icon Ronald K. L. and David M. Skover (Soucebooks MediaFusion) Reading at Powell’s City of Books, Mon Nov 11, 7:30 pm, free Fuck. Shit. Cock. Cunt. These are among the dread dirty words comedian Lenny Bruce, and later his disciple George Carlin, were […]
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Review: The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories
The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories Alisa Surkis & Monica Nolan (Kensington Books) Nolan reading at Reading Frenzy Wed Nov 13, 7 pm, free I have to admit, I thought (and hoped) The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories was a clever way of titling raunchy erotica. Horses? Lesbians? Hot! Even the cover tag […]