What are you reading?
If you’re attending today’s reading party, I’d love to know! If you’re not attending today’s party, I’m still curious to know.
It’s always fun to see what everyone else is reading — and I get good ideas about what to read next.
Author event after today’s party
If you are attending the in-person reading party at the Sorrento today, you are invited to stick around afterward for free Q&A by the fire with the fiction writer and data scientist Blaise Agüera y Arcas, author of the novella Ubi Sunt and his new nonfiction masterpiece Who Are We Now?
If you have ever wondered:
What is digital culture doing to us as a species?
What kind of political or biological secrets do people carry around and not share with anyone except under cover of anonymity?
How does covid-19 compare to the pandemics in history?
Is human evolution speeding up because of AI?
What is happening with gender?
Or anything related to technology, ecology, reproductive rights, mythology, patriarchy, death, or history, this book going to blow your mind.
After I interview Blaise, there will be a chance for you to ask him anything you want.
The event begins with live music at 2:30 — after reading party ends, Paul will play an extra half an hour of music (unlike usual, chitchat will be allowed) — and the conversation with Blaise by the fire begins at 3 pm and goes till 4 pm.
Elliott Bay Books will be at the Sorrento today if you decide you want to go home with a copy of Blaise’s book.
How to tip today’s musician
If you attend today’s party in-person or virtually and would like to send Paul a little extra love for playing piano for two hours straight:
His Venmo is paulmatthew-moore (and if you need them, the last four digits of his number are 9033)
His Paypal is paulmatthewmoore
What are you reading?
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