Tonight ...

... 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