... it's back to the MOCAD (Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit) for readings with fiction writer Peter Markus and poet Kristin Palm.
I'm new to both their work, but I have it on good Dzanc-style authority that this is going to be good. I rather like jumping into the live literary events of writers who I don't know well. Rather than attending a reading only to nod knowingly and mouth the words right along with the author's reading, this is a chance to jump into something new and three-dimensional. I want to walk away having fallen in love.
Markus's book is enticingly titled Bob, or Man on Boat. Rumor has it that "Markus has a remarkable ability to strip life down to its basics, to the point where the metaphors we manufacture as the looking-glass for our existence end up standing in for existence itself."
Sounds good, yes? I'm ready to make a night of it.
If you're in the Detroit area, I'll see you there at 7 p.m.
Image Credit: www.mocadetroit.org
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