Poetry by Lisa Robertson, John Wilkinson, and Devin Johnston. Music by The John Lennox band. Beer by Peroni.

When: Friday, November 17, 7p-11p.

Where: Around the Coyote Gallery, 1935 1/2 W. North Avenue, Chicago.

Free admission.

Sightings, an email broadsheet put out by the U. of Chicago Divinity School, has run my take on Martin Amis’s recent Guardian essay. I count myself a fan of Amis’s fiction, especially London Fields, but watching him follow Christopher Hitchens down the primrose Britcon path has not been thrilling.

UPDATE (Oct. 2007): Check out this page for the longer original version of my essay.