LIT

Great book hunting in Jimbo-cho, Tokyo, the largest district of used book stores in the world. I got a rare version of Brautighan’s Watermelon Sugar and Ginsberg’s poetry book. So happy!

To me, collecting Richard Brautigan is finding unseen landscape. There was a river, creek and dumb old lawn for revenge I’ve never seen.

i admire you, New Yorkers!
 

Selected Shorts: Murakami Madness!Wed, Nov 2 at 7 pm
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
$27; Member $23; 30 & Under $15
LITERATURE
SELECTED SHORTS

In a mini marathon celebration of his long-awaited magnum opus 1Q84, actors Jane Curtin, Aasif Mandvi (The Daily Show),Campbell Scott (Secret Lives of Dentists),Miriam Silverman (Septimus and Clarissa), Parker Posey (Best in Show) and others perform a selection from the new book as well as a variety of his hypnotic, funny, mysterious, far-out tales. The evening includes special guests super-fan Isaac Mizrahi and Murakami’s friendJohn Wray (Lowboy), who interviewed him for The Paris Review. With Murakami-inspired musical accompaniment.The evening will begin with a reading by Andre Holland of a brand-new short story by Ben Loory for the Selected Shorts Commissioning Project.

standing in the rain

with air umbrella

a bird stepped in

rain falls harder

a girl next to me

sigh, wetly

thunderstorm-

a red car turns yellow

and then black

lightning strikes

i saw a tree across the park

devil’s tail

from Landsdown to Spadina, i walked down on Bloor st to find a used bookstore. there were a few nice ones and many so-so’s.
 

summer breeze

a conversation among

me and bookshelves