Posts Tagged “the pale king”
The Pale King finale / Nostalgia woes
by Morgan on July 5, 2011
On Saturday night, our reading group for The Pale King had their last meeting. It’s been intensely pleasurable to journey through this novel with other readers, and I was sad to bring it (the book and the club) to a (…)
April reading
by Morgan on May 5, 2011
The Silent Land, Graham Joyce (my review, in which I compare it to the Fear Street series, is here) Fear Street No. 32, College Weekend, R.L. Stine (that’s right) All the Time in the World, E.L. Doctorow (Bookslut review here) The (…)
LA Times Festival of Books
by Morgan on May 2, 2011
Admittedly, I only made it to the festival on Saturday, despite reserving a full weekend’s worth of panel tickets, and for this I’d like to formally blame something called a “Moscow mule. ” Let’s not talk about it. USC is (…)
Celebrity Wallace reading
by Morgan on May 1, 2011
On Thursday night, I went to PEN Center USA’s night of monologues from The Pale King. The reading was held at the Saban Theater, sort of a stately choice for something like this. It was difficult not to be embarrassed (…)
The Pale King, round 1
by Morgan on April 19, 2011
First meet-up for The Pale King reading group was Sunday evening, and it was lovely. One of the reasons I wanted to do this group was to allow myself some slack in the way of my own self-imposed book discussion (…)
The Pale King reading group
by Morgan on April 3, 2011
I am alive, I’ve just been in Vegas. So listen, I have some fun things to post in the next couple days (an indictment of what I’m calling the “ELLE memoir,” and an interview with the LA Times book critic, (…)