Ben Reed & Bill Cope Read Christmas Fiction, Live!
Friday, November 30th
Cafe Mundi (1704 East 5th St.)
Free, 8pm - onward

Remember back when words actually meant something? Back when they meant “on paper, in printed form, to be read aloud to people who like hearing stories told by the authors who write them”? Back when books were things of interest to people who followed stuff of interest? Before James Frey went and selfishly fucked it all up for everyone in the whole wide universe?

Man, that guy is awesome. Still.

Remember those days of literary naïveté? No? Well that’s probably because you’ve always had a cell phone, don’t remember when book reports were constructed on Stalin-era typewriters (NO SPELCHEK? Fuk dat mayng.), and likely think The Old Man And The Sea refers to... some old fucker and his relationship with fish sticks. "Is it funny? That on youtube yet or do I have to dig the old dvd player out of my parents' garage?"

But you remember Christmas, right? You bet your Battleship you do! Christmas time is STORY TIME! And that’s why you should go check out one of Austinist’s own, Ben Reed (of the oft-acclaimed and periodically accosted Accidental Gentrifist), as he and fellow Austin literary icon-iconoclast-icon-iconoclast Bill Cope each read a piece from their most current works of Christmas fiction. It’s free to listen and hang out, but Mundi will definitely charge you for liquids. That’s just how they roll.