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Just got back from the extremely fun Sarah Bird event at Borders in Dallas. Austin's Ms. Bird, author of the newly released How Perfect Is That, had about 50 very enthusiastic fans turn out for her talk and reading. She claims to have once been "pathologically shy ... borderline catatonic ... on my way to a cloistered convent," but she's definitely gotten over that! She told a very funny, very raunchy story about going to a writer's workshop with "queen of the groupies" Pamela Des Barres that I'm sure made the Borders folks a little nervous as it went out over the microphone. But hey, the crowd loved it. She also showed heretofore unsuspected acting abilities -- giving a hilarious rendering of the West Texas mom in her book, as well as a dead-on impersonation of Dubya. And good news: How Perfect, she just found out, is already in its second printing. Read more about it in our review and interview with her. |
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Posted by Michael Merschel @ 12:04 AM Thu, Jun 19, 2008
Thanks for the report, Joy. Wish I could have made it myself.