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This month's literary events

HUM525: Hitting the Books

Your required reading for the fall semester.

Dark Matter

Opens Friday at the Lumiere.

Sonic Outlaws

Opens Friday at the Lumiere.

Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes

Merrill Feitell's collection of short stories insists that sharp wits, good education, and a keen sense of observation do not equal happiness

A Bus Trip

Affirmative-action Adventures

The Past and Future Fraud

Yes, punch-card voting machines are error-prone. The touch-screen systems planned to replace them may be just as bad.

Poet of the Fallen World

How an S.F. theater troupe helped turn a reclusive novelist into a full-fledged playwright

Solitary Man

Tom Armstrong gave up on punk rock -- and Iowa -- for honky-tonk

God and Country, Remixed

The Christal Methodists and Ralph Johnson turn the rhetoric of politics and religious radio against itself

Riff Raff

The Christal Methodists and Ralph Johnson turn the rhetoric of politics and religious radio against itself

Stage

The Christal Methodists and Ralph Johnson turn the rhetoric of politics and religious radio against itself

Night+Day

The Christal Methodists and Ralph Johnson turn the rhetoric of politics and religious radio against itself