“Manual of Detection” reading in Portsmouth.
Via FoC Michele at Reading is Breathing comes this welcome news:
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 – 7:00pm
RiverRun Bookstore and The Red Door present Jedediah Berry reading from The Manual of Detection
Join RiverRun at The Red Door (107 State Street in Portsmouth) for our new literary series featuring some of today’s best contemporary writers. Enjoy a drink at the martini bar while listening to an imaginative novelist read from his debut novel.
“Berry’s ambitious debut reverberates with echoes of Kafka and Paul Auster….This cerebral novel, with its sly winks at traditional whodunits and inspired portrait of the bureaucratic and paranoid Agency, will appeal to mystery readers and non-genre fans alike.”
─ Publishers Weekly
“In his first novel, Berry has created a wonderful and fantastic world, a vintage mystery seen through a hall of fun-house mirrors….”
─Kirkus Reviews
A night out, with other grown-ups, a frosty beverage and a reading: now that’s a wonderful and fantastic Kafkaesque idea.
