Great stage, lighting, sound, space, crowd, staff, and tap offerings at Underbelly. It was the kind of bar reading where one gets the sense that either readings have been held here before or else the crowd is a moveable feast that knows what to do when a writer steps up the mic.
My colleague and friend Lynette Reine-Grandell's new memoir, Wild Things: , is out. Her spouse and co-star of the memoir, Venus De Mars, asked her to read something that would make her cry, and Lynette obliged. I have read before with and know David Groff and Lee Ann Roripaugh, and have read and am acquainted with Jan Beatty. Jen Manthey lives in the Twin Cities and so I know of her travel in the obits with many who also travel in hers, but this is the first time I have met her. Laura Bandy and her book are both new to me.
My colleague and friend Lynette Reine-Grandell's new memoir, Wild Things: , is out. Her spouse and co-star of the memoir, Venus De Mars, asked her to read something that would make her cry, and Lynette obliged. I have read before with and know David Groff and Lee Ann Roripaugh, and have read and am acquainted with Jan Beatty. Jen Manthey lives in the Twin Cities and so I know of her travel in the obits with many who also travel in hers, but this is the first time I have met her. Laura Bandy and her book are both new to me.