Myla Goldberg
May 9 2007, 7:30 PM
Tractor Tavern
"Trumpets and tubas, that's what we need," says Myla Goldberg. "Let us declare from every roof of every five-story walkup: LITERATURE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD! READING IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT!" Goldberg's ambitions for literature are matched by her ambitions for her own work. Her debut novel,
Bee Season, the story of a Jewish family drawn together and pulled apart by competing obsessions—spelling bees, mysticism, kleptomania, and filial love—was a surprise bestseller. But Goldberg was not satisfied. Determined not to be pigeon-holed as a writer of "domestic dramas blah-blah-blah," she wrote
Wickett's Remedy, a sprawling novel set in Boston during the influenza epidemic of 1918. When not making noise as a writer, Goldberg plays accordion, banjo, and flute for the band The Walking Hellos. Goldberg will read and discuss her work with Eli Sanders, Senior Staff Writer at The
Stranger.
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