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October 02, 2004
New Yorker Festival
I've been a huge fan of Sherman Alexie for years and try to catch him whenever he's in town which, unfortunately, isn't very often. The last time I tried to catch him, we were meeting with the rabbi who we ended up choosing to officiate our wedding and it took longer than I expected so I ended up missing the event. The time before that I schlepped down to and waited in front of St. Mark's Church in cold rainy weather only to later find out that the event had been cancelled at the last minute due to a family emergency. So when I saw that he was going to be at The New Yorker Festival, I quickly bought a ticket for the event. The fact that Dave Eggers was part of this event was a bonus but nothing significant to me. I tried reading A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius but stopped reading it halfway for some reason that is lost to me now and I've never been a fan of McSweeney's. But they both turned out to be equally good--Alexie's always been very funny everytime I've seen him and the book in progress that he read from sounded really good and Eggers read some short pieces that were really funny and one serious piece that was quite good. I have to say though that Alexie was a little mean in his response to one person's question for him during the Q&A session afterwards but other than that he and Eggers did not disappoint.
How Berkeley Can You Be? parade photos and commentary. The funniest images have to be the protestors against circumcision. Did I tell you I went to Berkeley? (just for one semester tho')
Posted by Jennifer at October 2, 2004 01:12 AM