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From the Seattle PI
Hip Mama Gore does it herrr way, even on a book tour
Step right up! Watch the continuing transformation of Ariel Gore!
See the Bay Area native turn her own single parenting into a growth industry, from zine to Web site to books to apparel, all bearing the unmistakable imprint of Hip Mama to the delight of her legions of fans. See the Portland resident turn her hopscotch, vagabond life into a well-regarded memoir.
Now watch Gore turn her latest book, "The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show" (HarperSanFrancisco, 234 pages, $13.95), into a West Coast book tour worthy of the novel's road-show subject. Author doing solitary lecturer turn at the mike? Forget it.
Gore is accompanied by musicians (Maria Fabulosa on bass, Nester Bucket on sax, Moe Bowstern on fiddle), plus a pupperteer (Dwayne Hedstrom). Plus, her obliging partner at the University Book Store, events maven Stesha Brandon, has lined up a couple of fire-eaters to set the mood outside the bookstore's entrance.
"The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show" is a May Booksense pick of national indie bookstores and is generating great buzz with its blend of outlandish characters, outsized happenings and surprising takes on Catholic faith.
The genesis of this unlikely amalgam, according to the ringmaster herself (daughter of an excommunicated priest), was twofold: "A West Coast book tour with a band and a shadow-puppet show, then a summer in Italy wandering saint sites."
The show goes on. Be there or be dreadfully square.
Ariel Gore discusses "The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show," plus assorted delights, at 7 p.m., Thursday, at the University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E.; 206-634-3400.
-- John Marshall
Hip Mama Gore does it herrr way, even on a book tour
Step right up! Watch the continuing transformation of Ariel Gore!
See the Bay Area native turn her own single parenting into a growth industry, from zine to Web site to books to apparel, all bearing the unmistakable imprint of Hip Mama to the delight of her legions of fans. See the Portland resident turn her hopscotch, vagabond life into a well-regarded memoir.
Now watch Gore turn her latest book, "The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show" (HarperSanFrancisco, 234 pages, $13.95), into a West Coast book tour worthy of the novel's road-show subject. Author doing solitary lecturer turn at the mike? Forget it.
Gore is accompanied by musicians (Maria Fabulosa on bass, Nester Bucket on sax, Moe Bowstern on fiddle), plus a pupperteer (Dwayne Hedstrom). Plus, her obliging partner at the University Book Store, events maven Stesha Brandon, has lined up a couple of fire-eaters to set the mood outside the bookstore's entrance.
"The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show" is a May Booksense pick of national indie bookstores and is generating great buzz with its blend of outlandish characters, outsized happenings and surprising takes on Catholic faith.
The genesis of this unlikely amalgam, according to the ringmaster herself (daughter of an excommunicated priest), was twofold: "A West Coast book tour with a band and a shadow-puppet show, then a summer in Italy wandering saint sites."
The show goes on. Be there or be dreadfully square.
Ariel Gore discusses "The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show," plus assorted delights, at 7 p.m., Thursday, at the University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E.; 206-634-3400.
-- John Marshall
posted by Contact at 6:02 PM
1 Comments:
It is a fact that Ariel's stepfather was excommunicated? I will look it up in the annuls of the Chancery Office of the Catholic Church. I should like to know more about this fellow -- why he was excommunicated, for example.I quote from the Church's own lips regarding excommunication of any one of its members:
"Not only would it be wrong for a Christian to be punished without having committed a punishable act, but justice demands a proportion between the offence and the penalty; hence the most serious of spiritual chastisements, i.e. forfeiture of all the privileges common to Christians, is inconceivable unless for a grave fault."
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