Can't Miss This: Monday

We're not fools -- a lot of you will miss this, purposefully, because you don't care about rail-riding hobo culture. But that is your loss. When he was still under 40, the New Yorker called William T. Vollman "one of the twenty best writers in America under 40." He's been to Afghanistan, Cambodia, and Seattle.

He's in town tonight to talk about his voluntary hobo-age, chronicled in Riding Toward Everywhere. We read an excerpt of it, and it's a vintage-Vollman adventure in social class mobility, with some mid-life examination on the side. You will walk out feeling much less bourgeois just for breathing the same air. Besides, you can't get tickets to the Mary Oliver talk.

If readings aren't your thing, that James Blunt guy stows a little social consciousness into some of his songs. He's at the Moore tonight, 8pm, $30-$45.

7pm // University Book Store // FREE