Teetering Pile of Guilty Pleasure #3
Last weekend was the Rain Taxi Twin Cities Book Fest, one of my favorite events of the year. I go, I listen to authors, meet authors, chat with friends, make some new ones. For this reader and writer, it’s just one more reason I love the Twin Cities.
Oh, and did I mention, there are books for sale?
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon (because Festival Director gushed about her, and because it won the National Book Award and was a selection of the Morning News Tournament of Books, and because I liked the excerpt she read from it.)
Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber (because a woman in the audience said she led retreats on the book and it always provoked great responses, and because I liked what she read from her current book.)
Winters Bone by Daniel Woodrell (because the Festival Director gushed, because I really liked the movie based on it, because I liked the excerpt he read from his current book. Unrelated but cool: he served on Guam in ‘70 to 71; I lived there ‘72 to ‘74.)
Whose Hand? by Judith Yates Borger (because she’s in my writing group and I saw this book from beginning to publication)
Get In If You Want to Live by John Jodzio (because it’s a cool little book with illustrated flash fiction, and because he’s funny, and my neighbor)
White Truffles in Winter by N.M. Kelby (because I really liked her reading of it, and both she and Diana Abu-Jaber talked about food in fiction, which I’m working on, too.)
Thus ends of the recent book bender. I hope to spend a lot of time reading. Soon.
Links to come.
October 20th, 2011 at 7:55 pm
Lord of Misrule is on my teetering stack as well. I’ll be interested to hear your report.