Don't miss out on this special Labor Day surprise. The internationally revered Kennedy shares with us her comedic repertoire. “Her stand-up is startlingly good. She works the audience and makes the most of her cleverness with words, her knack for seeing things freshly. She has a great riff about people scraping moss off each other every morning in Scotland, but the audience seems most to enjoy the material about pubic hair." - The Guardian
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News of Note
Ghosts
Written by Dustin
Monday, 15 June 2009
by Cesar Aira (New Directions, $12.95)
Cesar Aira doesn't write novels. No, he's perfected something new and brash -- small stories about small folks that are perfect in every detail but obviate those details in the telling. It's just a coincidence that these tales resemble the novel form at its best. Here, a Chilean family in Argentina, groceries and sweat and joy and enormous naked ghosts, all in such a slim book.
Cesar Aira doesn't write novels. No, he's perfected something new and brash -- small stories about small folks that are perfect in every detail but obviate those details in the telling. It's just a coincidence that these tales resemble the novel form at its best. Here, a Chilean family in Argentina, groceries and sweat and joy and enormous naked ghosts, all in such a slim book.