And then at the Northwest African American Museum, Daniel Atkinson will give a lecture about "the musical legacy of the Louisiana’s Angola State Penitentiary." This looks pretty interesting.
This week's Constant Reader is all about the reading at the Hugo House tonight, which is the debut of a new novel by Seattle's newest publishing company:
Back in November, just before a heart-crushingly awful reading, a polite young man named Aaron Talwar introduced himself to me. He had just moved to Seattle from the East Coast, and he said he was starting a publishing company. This is something I've heard many times before, and it never amounts to anything. I wished him luck and forgot all about it. A few weeks ago, at a wonderful reading at Pilot Books, Talwar approached me again. Turns out, he had started the publishing company and was about to launch his maiden title at Hugo House.This is the kind of situation for which interrobangs were invented.
The novel is titled An Dantomine Eeerly, it's experimental fiction, and while it's not perfect, it's a good, challenging, lyrical read. Paul Nelson will also read from his impressive history of Auburn, Washington told entirely in a long-form poem, A Time Before Slaughter. I hope you'll read the column.
The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here. And if you're planning on staying in and you're looking for personalized book recommendations, feel free to tell me the books you like and ask me what to read next over at Questionland.
