(READING) He went from being the high-powered
New Yorker fiction editor to
being a "slave" in a Mario Batali restaurant. His previous book,
Among the Thugs, about hardcore soccer hooligans, is a
nonfiction classic; this new one is called
Heat, and it begins with an epigraph by George Orwell, which begins: "
A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into." (
Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600. 7:30 pm, free.)