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Finally, a Literary Event Involving Pigeons!
Filed under: On the Spot Tagged: books, pigeons, readings
Martin Schneider writes:
Longtime readers will know that this blog looks kindly on the noble rock dove, otherwise known as the pigeon.
On Monday, August 18, at 7 pm, McNally Jackson Books hosts a reading by Courtney Humphries, author of Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan and the World.
The book has an amusing cover (click to enlarge):
McNally Jackson Books is located at 52 Prince Street.
Comments
I think a more suitable illustration would show a typically scrofulous pigeon missing a toe or two, picking desultorily at greasy chicken bones in an overflowing trash can overturned in an alley, but I guess this book has other ideas!
Ooh, carolita, such snooty, polysyllabic words you use in your deprecating, myopic, and ignorant characterization of pigeons. Perhaps allowing even a modicum of the the glory of these doves to penetrate your obvious prejudice would enlighten you to the feathered beauty you so blindly besmirch.