Review: Later, at the Bar

This is the last time I'll harass you about this, I swear.

Check out the NY Times review!

Reading: Later, at the Bar

Hello everyone!

I am writing to inform you all of a reading to take place this Tuesday, May 8, at 6PM at the Publick House in Brookline . The book:

Later, at the Bar by Rebecca Barry

Rebecca is an old friend of John Hodgman's, who some of you know from our Brookline schooldays. When Rebecca decided to do a tour of bars with her book, to complement her more traditional bookstore tour, John said: "You have to read in Brookline! Contact Jen Deaderick!"

I am the center of Brookline literary life. Perhaps you didn't know that.

So, Rebecca did contact me. I set up this reading, and she and I became fast friends through the magic of email.

The book is amazing. Really. Don't take my word for it; read the NY Times Book Review. It's a series of linked short stories about people who sort of waste their lives away in the same bar. It's funny and poignant and all those good things.

I'm sure the Times will do a better job of describing it.

Again, the reading is at the Publick House in Brookline. That's right in Washington Square at 1648 Beacon Street.

It starts at 6PM and should last about an hour, although you can stay at the Publick House for as long as you'd like.

Rembs and I will be there front and center. I do hope you can make it.

-Jen

P.S. - If you have a Mac, I have attached, for your convenience (and as a shout-out to John) a pre-formed iCal event. If you open the file, the event should pop right into your iCal, like Athena springing from the head of Zeus.