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Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

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Once upon a time, there was this guy named John Carroll running things around here. A little over a year ago, he abdicated his throne and fled to parts unknown.

Spoken word is usually not for us. Quality artists are few and far between, with most seeming to be about performing, rather than the words themselves. The artists add weight to dull selections through tone and inflection, but left alone on the page, their words become tepid.

, to coincide with the publishing of the text of his original draft scroll (yep, you heard us: scroll). Well, that reading begins today at 4:00 p.m. and will continue to midnight or later: they won't stop till the whole book has been read. The Writers House promises live jazz music and foods mentioned in the novel (no Benzedrine though—sorry!), and readers of the scroll will include local literary luminaries, Writers House employees and volunteers, and, ehem, this Phillyist. (She's reading at 8:00 p.m., if you're trying to avoid her.)

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We know, we know. You're sick of The Raven, and your tell-tale heart wants Halloween poetry with more substance than black cats and mysterious floorboards. Never fear: Phillyist knows that you want literary without the Anne Rice bullshit (her conversion to write "for the Lord" aside). And, like us, you also want free food that doesn't taste like the Philly Diner.

We've pimped them before and we'll pimp them again: the Quake kids, led by our very own Jessica Haralson, are hosting a preview party this evening for the first issue of their new erotic literary magazine, the first of its kind at Penn. The magazine follows in the footsteps of Harvard's infamous H-Bomb and Boston University's Boink (read an interview with Boink co-founder Christopher Anderson at Bostonist).

Unless you've been living under a mossy literary rock, you've probably heard that this week is The 215 Festival, Philly's very own homegrown tribute to damn good writing. If you have been living under a mossy literary rock, we feel sorry for you because that kinda sucks.

Dear Fellow Penn Students:

Wandering down Locust Walk at Penn tonight like you always do on a Friday night? Stop by Van Pelt Library for an outdoor performance of Love's Labour's Lost, a play from William Shakespeare that may possibly be popular and well-known. We don't know, we're not the literary types, unless literature includes flipping through Philadelphia magazine.