The second event in the Beatrice.com reading series at the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction is taking place Wednesday night, and the lineup includes two writers whose latest novels have recently been released in paperback. Arthur Phillips will be reading from his third novel, Angelica, while Paulina Porizkova shares an excerpt from A Model Summer, her debut novel. I’ll be doing my usual introductory remarks, and we’ll have wine and cheese and books for sale afterwards.
Even with the competition from PEN World Voices and various other literary events around town, I’m hoping for a good-sized audience for this reading (which starts at 7 p.m.). I hope you can make it!