- The Henry Miller Lab at The Barnyard in Carmel has been bringing its usual brand of smart, hip and meaningful event curation to Carmel since the whole “Big Sur Island” thing. Now they’ve booked a guest speaker that may inspire a few people to go “huh?” Maybe, were he here, even Henry himself. Paul Miller, longtime journalist and conservative publisher of the Carmel Pine Cone, is up next, addressing the declaration “Newspapers: The internet is still here, but so are we!” He speaks on it 5pm Saturday, Aug. 12. 667-2574 to RSVP.
- There is a bunch of happy news emanating out of Old Capitol Books of late. Employees Ali Elfaki and Stephanie Spoto, who, they say, “bonded over [their] love of books and literature,” have pooled their money and bought the place from previous owner Matthew Sundt. Also, they got married the same week. And they’re celebrating by giving all of us a goodie bag – a half-off sale of used books til Aug. 15. Congratulations all around. A good time to take them up on that sale might be around 2pm Sunday, Aug. 13, when Kent Leatham and Wanda Sue Parrott read poems there. 333-0383.
- The Carmel Foundation’s weekly Wednesday program pulls out in front of Car Week, showing the documentary Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans, about how “creative differences and a flood of personal issues nearly doomed [the film],” according to the foundation. The film screens 2:30-4pm on Aug. 16, is free to the first 100 people, and they’ll serve popcorn and lemonade. 620-8705.
- If you’ve got Netflix, you’ve got access to one of the unlikeliest and hottest hit comedies to have graced Broadway of late. It’s called Oh, Hello on Broadway, with comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney subsumed in their geriatric alter egos Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, going off on the most laughable excesses of the craft of theater.
- In this special literature/reading issue, it’s a good time to give a round of applause to Michiko Kakutani, who after 38 years has stepped down as the New York Times’ chief book reviewer. She’s been revered and feared for her smart and insightful takes on writers including David Foster Wallace, Toni Morrison, J.M. Coetzee, Susan Sontag, Dave Eggers, J.K. Rowling, Alice Munro, Thomas Pynchon… basically anyone who mattered in serious literature. I’m coming to her late in the game, but am enjoying her past reviews, including her scathing breakdown of Jonathan Franzen’s memoir.
Steve Hauk has recently released a book, Steinbeck: The Untold Stories.
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