On the NYC Oscar Wao reading
“‘You motherfuckas are so funny,’ he said. ‘If I do anything, you’ll applaud.’” Richard Grayson reports on Junot Díaz’s NYC reading.
“‘You motherfuckas are so funny,’ he said. ‘If I do anything, you’ll applaud.’” Richard Grayson reports on Junot Díaz’s NYC reading.
“Reader, I didn’t marry him. But I almost wanted to.” The lovely Ms. Baroque remembers a Drown-era Díaz reading.
Daniel Alarcón & Flavor Flav spin at Oakland’s Velvet on 9/12 to raise money for Peruvian earthquake victims. ($10, 8 p.m.)
A federal judge likens the Patriot Act’s warrantless spying provisions to breaking and entering, and strikes them down.
Any magic experts in the house? New age gurus? Does it take more than a day to learn astral projection? Tonight I need to break into two people so I can be at both Junot Diaz’s reading (can you hear the hymns of the seraphim? the trumpets sounding in Zion?) in midtown, and the New Stories from the South event . . .