The Ed McClanahan tour: Morehead, Missoula and more …

Kentucky, Kentucky’s foremost chronicler of comic culture, is going on tour for his new book, O the Clear Moment. O the Clear Moment is described as “implied autobiography” of “coming-of-age to coming-of-old-age” stories. McClanahan, the author of The Natural Man, is a stitch. You should go.

McClanahan will read on Wednesday, October 8 at 5 p.m. on the 18th floor of Patterson Office Tower at the University of Kentucky. The reading is sponsored by the UK English Department.

 

 

McClanahan’s book begins in 1950 with his “personal best great moment” – which of course involves a pair of Kentucky high school basketball players and raw eggs. This is what McClanahan does, the inspired juxtaposition of Kentucky with the ridiulously sublime. It’s not that he’s exactly laughing at Kentucky. Well, sometimes it is, but he’s doing it with great affection.

 

Here’s Ed’s tour schedule:

 

October 18: Book Passage @ 4:00pm (Corte Madera, CA)

 

October 21: Booksmith @ 7:30pm (San Francisco, CA)

 

November 5: Powell’s Books @ 7:30pm (Portland, OR)

 

November 7: Fact and Fiction @7:00pm (Missoula, MT)

 

November 13: Coffee Tree Books @ 7:00pm (Morehead, KY)

 

November 19: McNally Robinson @ 7:00pm (New York, NY)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Published in: on October 2, 2008 at 12:34 pm


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