Baby Got Books

Coming Soon

Next Tuesday Baby Got Books is co-sponsoring a reading that you need to come down and check out. Consider it tapping into your cognitive surplus. Once again we’re partnering with our podnahs at Wordsmiths Books, this time to bring you Ben Tanzer who will be reading from his new novel, Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine (which is also the name of a track on Bob Dylan’s 1966 LP Blonde on Blonde if you’re keeping score at home). A brief overview of the novel goes something like this:

It is a story about fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, the value of friends, the reason its best to go out for coffee on first dates and what exactly defines being on the rebound. The characters riff on their favorite books, channel Yoda and Bob Dylan, deal with siblings and try to make sense of a world that shouldn’t be as confusing as it seems to be. They also seek greater self-awareness and debate why Dallas will always be superior to Knots Landing, even as they find love, lose it and find it again.

I can get on board with that. But wait…there’s more.

The evening will also feature story-telling by Benji Carr and Will Young, who both performed to “applause and red-faced hilarity” at Tanzer’s last visit to Wordsmiths.

The evening will be capped off by a performance by local funksters The Extraordinary Contraptions.

Put that all together and you’ve got yourself a happenin’ Tuesday night. As usual, there is NO cost.