author readings

  • Five authors and one Smartypants in six days

    So many authors in town this week  — and something free going on every SINGLE night at the Central Library. Here’s a quick event round-up: Monday: Russell Banks reads from his newest novel Lost Memory of Skin, which a Booklist review described as “intrepidly inquisitive, magnificently compassionate, and darkly funny novel of private and societal… Continue reading

  • Nightstand Reads: Russell Banks

     Usually I’m reading three or four books more or less simultaneously — just starting one, halfway through a second, and about to finish a third or fourth. They await me somewhat impatiently in different spots around my house and studio: the bedside table, yes, and the chairside table in the living room, even the kitchen… Continue reading