HUM525: Hitting the Books

Your required reading for the fall semester.

Comments (0) By Jonathan Kiefer Wednesday, Sep 2 2009

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Music: I-LXXIV
By August Kleinzahler
(Pressed Wafer, 306 pages, $17.50)
The much-lauded longtime local poet also has a warm, funny, cranky, effortlessly literate way with the essay. Kleinzahler, who once held court in a weekly music column for the San Diego Reader, has collected a broad range of easygoing missives on music, whose subjects include Liberace, Louis Prima, Thelonious Monk, Glenn Gould, and Dinah Washington.

GRADING POLICY
Students are required to keep a commonplace book in which to record favorite quotations from the books they read during the semester.

Katherine Emery

Stephen Elliott

Details

Litquake festival, Oct. 9-17; www.litquake.org.

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Pop quizzes will be in the form of impromptu conversations on Muni buses and in coffee shops, by which students will be judged for their ability to convey deep reading of the material without sounding pretentious.

Attendance at author events, as they come up, is encouraged. Attendance at Litquake festival field trip (Oct. 9-17; www.litquake.org) is mandatory.

Fall Arts Guide

Opera/Classical
• Nicola Luisotti by Chloe Veltman
• Five Classical Music and Opera Events to See This Fall by Chloe Veltman

Dance
• Margaret Jenkins Dance Company by Bonner Odell
• Fall Dance Picks by Bonner Odell

Theater
• Stage Sage: Speculating about this season's theatrical experiments by Chris Jensen
• Other Fall Stage Events by Chris Jensen

Visual Art
• Harpoons and Harbingers:This fall, visual artists bite, reflect, and cannibalize by Traci Vogel
• Art listings compiled by John Graham