Can't Miss It: Tuesday

The Irish writer whom we hadn't heard of until writing this, Anne Enright, is in town flogging her fourth book, The Gathering, a Booker Prize winner. (Which reminds us that Eavan Boland is visiting this March 3.)

Her book, says the NY Times:

...inhabits the restless, angry consciousness of Veronica Hegarty, one of a dozen children of a “vague” mother — a “piece of benign human meat, sitting in a room” — and a mannerly, laconic father, long since buried, whose dignity was so “undermined by his crazed rate of reproduction” that mourners sniggered at his funeral. Now 39, Veronica is mourning the recent suicide of her favorite brother, Liam, an alcoholic and a “terrible messer” who put rocks in his pockets and slipped into the sea at Brighton.

Enright is reading at the Seattle Public Central Library, downtown, and will likely bring you down, too. Plan to have tea or Bushmills after, to recover your good spirits.

7-8:30pm // Seattle Public Central Library // FREE

But perhaps you'd be more interested in running down film critics, or self-styled film critics? In that case, drop by the Northwest Film Forum for their Film Saloon.

Panelists Kathy Fennessey (SIFFblog, Film.com), Charles Mudede (the Stranger), and Jay Kuehner (Cinema Scope, GreenCine Daily) discuss the brave new world of internet criticism and what can be done about the opinions of others.

8pm // Northwest Film Forum // Tickets: $5 general, $3 NWFF members

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