All This Wasted Beauty
Eric Bogosian is a jack of all trades. That's the feeling we get from taking a gander at his IMDB profile and his website's biography/list of works. Ah, but who the f*** is Eric Bogosian anyways? Good question, albeit one that has already been asked elsewhere. He's a playwright, having authored five full-length plays and six full-length solo works, as well as an actor and a screenwriter. In fact, he adapted his two best known plays, Talk Radio and SubUrbia, for the screen---films that were directed by Oliver Stone and Richard Linklater, respectively. Not bad, Bogosian.
He's also a novelist, and his latest book, Wasted Beauty, is the reason why he'll be in town tonight, doing a reading at the University Bookstore at 7pm. Seattlest hasn't read the book (yet), but the Salon review certainly makes it sound interesting and definitely to our twisted liking. We've always been a fan of flawed characters who are neither good nor bad, just struggling with being human, and this book's got three enticing ones: a heroin junkie model, her mental patient brother, and the midlife-crisising ER doc whose life intersects with theirs. Fodder like that should make for a lively book reading, especially since we're sure that anyone who has appeared in Under Siege 2, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, and Blade: Trinity will have an interesting thing or three to say.
University Book Store
4326 University Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
206-634-3400
Reading begins at 7pm.
