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April 22, 2006
yawn
Oh my gosh, what a day!
After my first Wordstock session listening to Ed Hirsch, I saw Dave Eggers in the afternoon. The reading was packed -- more than 500 people squeezed into and flowing out of a standing-room-only space, including two folks I used to work with at The Daily News. Eggers read from a forthcoming fictionalized biography he's writing with one of the lost boys of Sudan, a refugee from that country's civil war and genocide.
When asked about his favorite writers, he named Saul Bellow right off the bat, and said "Herzog" and "Henderson the Rain King" are his two favorite Bellow books, so now I feel doubly motivated to read "Herzog."
This evening, Ben and I went downtown for a night of music anchored by Pride of Portland, a 125-woman harmonic chorus, to which Ben's mom belongs. The show was really something. In addition to performances by the chorus, a couple of female barbershop quartets played, a high school student hoping to embark on a music career sang an aria, and Aaron Meyer -- who performed original music for a public radio documentary I listened to -- played his violin.
We've only just gotten home, and I'm exhausted.
Tomorrow, I'm going back to Wordstock. Then I may drive out to Longview to visit with another friend from The Daily News. I'm not sure how I'll manage to make time for my long-overdue laundry.
Posted by Courtney_Sherwood at April 22, 2006 11:06 PM