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July 17, 2008

Check It Out: The return of the haiku

Think you're a haiku master? Try taking your skills to Ukazoo Books in Towson tonight, and let the audience decide. Or just take a bunch of friends and have a little fun. If you're a crowd-pleaser, you'll even walk away with a few prizes. The sign-up begins at 6:45 p.m.

If you want to share the book love with the younger members of your household, TJ Perkins, author of the Kim and Kelly Mystery Series, will be at Greetings & Readings at noon Saturday.

That night, check out the 510 Reading Series as they present Savannah Schroll Guz, author of "The Famous and the Anonymous"; Rupert Wondolowski, author of "The Whispering of Ice Cubes"; and Sean Carman, satirist and contributor to Huffington Post.

And for a special treat, join Sun reporter Julie Scharper on Sunday at Clayton Fine Books as she shares of bit of her work that you won't see in The Baltimore Sun. The event starts at 3 p.m.

For more information, and more bookish activities, visit the Read Street calendar.

Posted by Nancy Knight at 12:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Thanks for the shout-out Nancy. I owe you another haiku.

Posted by: Julie | July 17, 2008 4:09 PM

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While she always preferred The Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew, Nancy Knight grew up reading nearly everything she could get her hands on, including a probably unhealthy amount of R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike, with the obligatory Jane Austen thrown in. She'll still read just about anything you put in front of her, especially the funny or weird. She lives in the city with her books, cat and drum set.

Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is an assistant managing editor and Sunday editor. He reads a wide range of books (but never as many as he'd like), usually alternating between non-fiction and fiction. Some all-time favorites: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; and anything by Calvin Trillin or John McPhee. He belongs to a book club with a Jewish theme.