Another reading

I had coffee with Tom, the saxophone, Italian, and English major (newly graduated). As usual, our conversation covered music, Italy, and writing. Later, we joined Irene and Corina, a Romanian comparative literature PhD student, who were having an early dinner next door at Noodles and Company. The four of us talked endlessly about writing, travel (Tom's off to India and then to Grenoble in France to teach English for a year; Irene is headed to Korea on a Fulbright; and Corina always seems to be traveling to Europe), and a professor whom we all worked with. It was the first time Tom was meeting Corina and Irene, so when Tom learned Corina is fluent in several languages, they began conversing in French since Tom needs the practice.

After dinner, the four of us headed to Borders to catch Nicole Krauss' reading. Her second novel, The History of Love, is about an aging man who named the heroine of his novel after his one love, Alma. The book, the manuscript, gets lost in the war, and after he goes to America where he becomes a locksmith, he thinks it gone forever. But it did get published, and a young girl is named after the heroine. Somehow, these two characters find each other.

Posted by Monoceros at June 17, 2005 11:50 PM