Literary Nor’easter

It’s one thing to sit back in your Shaker chair next to the clipper-ship-decorated Rumford fireplace in your Colonial-style house and read New England author Jennifer Haigh’s The Condition, a drama about a Cape Cod family’s disintegration. It’s yet another to actually drive out to Rainy Day Books (2706 West 53rd Street in Fairway, 913-384-3126) and hear the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author read aloud from her newest novel in what we assume will be a thick Good Will Hunting Boston accent. At 7 p.m., meet the author and get your copy signed. She probably won’t sound like Cliff Clavin during the reading, but the disparity between sight and sound would be hilarious if she did.

Tue., July 29, 2008