Category — readings

Two notable events this week:

Celebrity chef Lidia Bastianich, of Lidia’s Italy fame, is going to be at Farmstead in Wayland Square signing books from 3-6.

Tomorrow, Kevin Roose, Noam Dorr, Sandra Allen, Rachel Arndt, and Emily Silverman will be reading at 4 pm at the Brown Bookstore.  They’re the undergraduate recipients of Brown’s Nonfiction Writing Program Awards.

There’s an exhibit of chapbooks right now in the windows of the URI library on Washington Street.  Organized by Kate Schapira in tandem with an exhibit at Pace University, the exhibit features work by author’artists including Jennifer Borges Foster, Anne Gorrick, Kate & Max Greenstreet, Jen Hofer, Brenda Iijima, Dorothea Lasky, Matthew Klane, Jill Magi, Lori Anderson Moseman, Kate Schapira, Jessica Smith, and Janaka Stucky.

On Wednesday, four of the artists will be reading at the URI Gallery, which is technically on Washington but more realistically on Union St.  That starts at 6pm.  Reader bios after the jump:

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This isn’t for a week-and-a-half yet, but I know how busy you all are, particularly on Mondays in the middle of March.  But prepare to take off your winter hat and put on your tam o’shanter because winter is (at least technically) ending soon and Saint Patrick’s Day is fast approaching.

On March 16th (St. Patrick’s Eve), I’ll be hosting The Dead-In at Ada Books, wherein I’ll mumble a few words about James Joyce before everybody launches into an out-loud reading of Joyce’s long short story/short novella.  It’ll be  a festive, though moody, way to say goodbye to winter and celebrate possibly the greatest short story to ever come out of Ireland.

(Last year’s Frome-In was lots of fun, and by several accounts the best thing that Not About The Buildings has organized so far.  I can only imagine that this one will be better, especially since most people don’t generally have a deeply-rooted dread of “The Dead” the way they do with Ethan Frome.)

Ada Books
717 Westminster St
7 pm
free.

Tonight authors Kathleen Rooney and Kyle Minor will be stopping at Ada Books (717 Westminster St, Providence) as part of their cross-country reading tour.  Rooney’s book, Live Nude Girl: My Life As An Object, details the history of artists’ models (including some of the author’s own experiences.)  Publishers’ Weekly, in their review of Kyle Minor’s In The Devil’s Territory, says that the author “has a knack for capturing melancholy and establishing empathy for his book’s many wayward characters.”

The reading starts at 7pm.