Jim Haba, director of the Dodge Poetry Festival, said the poet, in the course of a second reading on the same day, omitted the lines suggesting that Israel had forewarning of the World Trade Center plot and then kept 4,000 Israeli citizens away.
Of course, a reading or signing at BookPeople is so much more than a reading or signing.
Again, editors don't make changes, though they should have something or a great many things to say in the course of reading a book as carefully as possible.
Last night I rolled up New Yorker and in the course of a couple hours reading killed 101 mosquitoes on the living room wall.
As I learned over the course of a weekend after reading nothing but women's mags from the 50s, 60s and 70s, there are some truly bonkers things buried in their dusty pages.
I like picking up that sort of information unexpectedly, in the course of reading a book or playbill or cereal box.
Then, in the course of a year, I read Heidegger's 1927 masterwork, "Being and Time," along with "The Essence of Truth," a book based on a series of lectures that Heidegger gave in 1932.
Amis recommended, among other things, a course of "hangover reading," one that "rests on the principle that you must feel worse emotionally before you start to feel better.
Of course, even as a reading lamp "should be highly functional, not take up a lot of space, and comfortably complement where you're sitting," she said, "you still want it to look great" on or off.
(Maybe you can figure out why fantasy authors love using their first initials?) The course culminates in a reading of two "Harry Potter" books to determine how the previous series influenced Rowling's work.
