As previously reported, made it to Ron Currie's reading of Everything Matters! in Cambridge last week. It's dangerous to predict that books are going to win huge prizes when all you/I have read is a few draft chapters, heard the author read one ("Brother") from the published manuscript, and read between the covers (and under the covers, come to think of it) only the opening chapter...but, I'm going out on one of the many leafy limbs that throw the acre of shade--carpeted with wisdom, humor, and some kind of preternatural understanding of human nature--that is this book.
The Harvard Bookstore staff loves it
Ron reading
The happiest moment for an author
And thanks so much, Ron, for the friendship, beautiful inscription, and the acknowledgment. Zoetropers: when asked if he's in a writing group, Ron talked about "us."
I'm loving it too! (right along with Harvard Book Bookstore, the NY Times, and just about everyone else. I'm right in the middle of it. (slow reader) And it's uniquely wonderful.
But Mr. Currie is a unique writer.
Posted by: Bev Jackson | Saturday, 11 July 2009 at 01:43 PM