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SHERMAN FREAKING ALEXIE: The best-selling author returns with his first novel in ten years. Flight tells the story of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a violent search for his true identity. Real Change-published poets (that would actually include Alexie, too) read as part of the program.

Naturally, it's not without controversy. Apparently, if you do the monologue titled "The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could" these days, you have to leave out the line "If it was rape, it was good rape," from a woman recalling her teenage experience with an older woman. Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor. For ourselves, we found "Because He Liked to Look At It" particularly relatable. This year's production features a scene called "Crooked Braid" that they haven't done before.

Books: Isabel Allende reads from her new novel, Ines of My Soul. The Ines in question here is...ah...a real person...who, well, she's got something to do with Chile, historically. It's all there in the book. And what difference does it make? Allende is so damn charming to listen to.