During FrizzLit’s first-ever in-person Symphony of Sentences, and Peg King read a sentence from To the Lighthouse. Brooke, Kate, Justin, and other book club regulars are shown here lined up to read their sentences next.
Christopher Frizzelle welcoming everyone and thanking Mother Faucault’s for having us. This is one of the coolest rooms in Portland.
Readers Jake Rummel, Zach Dundas, Audrey Van Buskirk, and Chris Lydgate lined up on the book-lined mezzanine.
Writer and organizer Audrey Van Buskirk organized the reading based on sections of a newspaper.
Author and journalist Zach Dundas gave the weather report—in the form of a short story.
Becky Ellis talked about her forthcoming memoir Little Avalanches— be a good book club friend and preorder it here.
FrizzLit Podcast producer Jake Rummel read an essay about fishing with his late grandfather that had us all crying one moment and laughing the next.
Audrey Van Buskirk, representing the lost & found section, read a memoir piece about motherhood, walking in New York City, and fishing a pair of shoes out of Dumpster.
Chris Lydgate, our virtual newspaper’s music section, gave a history lesson on Handel, said funny things about kings, and played Handel’s coronation anthem.
Book club’s Kate Redmond during the live Symphony of Sentences.
The live symphony was so fun. We have to do this more often.
The happy audience included a 6-year-old Welsh dachshund named Lapka.
Looks like great fun!
So cool!!!