Back to the Tannery for a literary stuffing

The Tannery Series in Newburyport offers its final event of 2010 this weekend, "One Furious Feast," celebrating the original Thanksgiving idea, "Two different worlds - mutually incomprehensible, occasionally hostile - brought together at one table." Actually this is like your family and both sets of in-laws, because three authors will be reading. Harvard Review editor Christina Thompson touches on cannibalism and romance in "Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All," her account of marriage to a Maori man. PEN Award winner Rishi Reddi reads from "Karma and Other Stories," tracing Indian-Americans "as they search for a freedom that transcends both custom and country." And poet Daniel Tobin, who connects Ireland and America in traditional forms and free verse, will read from the brand new "Belated Heavens," which encompasses "Babylonian gods and paparazzi, medieval cartography and DNA." The event is at Jabberwocky Bookstore in the Tannery mall in Newburyport, Saturday at 7 p.m., and it's free! (Full disclosure, the organizers, Dawne and Kirun, are my friends and neighbors, but after previous events with the likes of Steve Almond, Peter Guralnick and Major Jackson, I'd be all about this anyway.)