it's drizzly rainy here, heading to more. BookExpo America (BEA) begins at the Jacob Javits Center, our huge convention center. On the main stage, in the Special Events Hall, the Opening Night Keynote will be given by rollers and rockers Steven Tyler, of Aerosmith fame, and author of Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? (Ecco) and Clarence Clemons, saxophonist-god for the E-Street Band, and author of Big Man (Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Book Group). They'll hold sway. They're BIG.
On just a little bit tinier stage, I'm reading for the first time tonight (if I could Twitter, I'd Twitter and Tweet that) at the Shavuot study holiday evening at the Sixth Street Community Synagogue, (the "xth" of that looks wrong to me, but I can't spell), where Rabbi Charlie Buckholtz has asked a few community authors to read and talk about "revelation", since Torah was received from Sinai tomorrow/tonight (the Jewish way of marking days) about a lot of years ago. Charlie is the author of In Heaven Everything is Fine: the Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theater (and a Ripton book club member). It's a tradition to study Torah tonight, some people all night, some much of it, and Charlie wants a contemporary books aspect as well. It'll be late, 10:30'ish, and really not an EVENT, but community....