bookish love November 10, 2006
Behrens, Egan and Rakoff at Happy Ending
Jennifer Egan / photo: kashish
Matt Ashby writes: Amid torrential rain, Happy Ending’s innovative reading series still managed to fill the room. Somewhere around 50 people sat or stood wherever there was space, on the floor, in the hall, at glittery tables inside the red velvet partitions. It was the first time I’d been to Happy Ending and, from the looks of it, I was pretty certain it wasn’t a very good place for a reading. There wasn’t enough space and everyone was holed off in little divots about the room, unable to view the readers without wrenching his or her back. I sat on a small, cushioned stool and rolled myself against the end of a partition in the space between two tables. I had a good view of the podium.
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