{"id":37,"date":"2006-09-29T13:23:16","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T21:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=37"},"modified":"2006-09-29T13:23:16","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T21:23:16","slug":"reading-at-city-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/29\/reading-at-city-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading at City Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/clflog.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Sylvia and I were up in SF yesterday.  I love the air there.  And the fog returning in the late afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/clroom.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnidawn.com\/paraspheres\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Paraspheres<\/i><\/a> reading of &ldquo;New Wave Fabulist&rdquo; writers was upstairs at City Lights, in the room where they have the poetry and the Beat books.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/clrudy.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I read a version of my story &ldquo;The Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics&rdquo; &#8212; I&rsquo;d abridged in the sense that I edited it down so as to be able to read it in under fifteen minutes.  I kind of like the short edit. I forgot to tape the reading, so I&rsquo;m posting a PDF of my abridged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/pdf\/kerouac_story_abridged_sept_28_2006.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> Kerouac story<\/a>.  But for the whole story and all the others, you need to buy <i>Paraspheres<\/i>!<\/p>\n<p>It was great to be reading about Jack in this room; like being in a shrine to the man.  With Jack Kerouac Alley right out the back window.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/clrikki.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The other readers were really good too.  I got a picture of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;rlz=1B2GGGL_enUS177&#038;q=rikki+ducornet\" target=\"_blank\">Rikki Ducornet<\/a>, she has a cool new book out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/clcharlie.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>And here&rsquo;s a picture of SF culture hero <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlieanders.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Anders<\/a>, who&rsquo;s also in Paraspheres.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&rsquo;t get pix of Laura Moriarty, Stephen Shugart, Mark Wallace, and William Luvaas, but they were there in full force as well.  A great evening of literary art.<\/p>\n<p>Makes me feel like could get a bit further out of the SF box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sylvia and I were up in SF yesterday. I love the air there. And the fog returning in the late afternoon. The Paraspheres reading of &ldquo;New Wave Fabulist&rdquo; writers was upstairs at City Lights, in the room where they have the poetry and the Beat books. I read a version of my story &ldquo;The Jack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}