Darkness on draft
It's one of the worst reasons you could ever come up with to vote for a politician, but thinking "That's the type of guy I'd like to have a beer with" about a novelist, well, that's just fine by us. Andre Dubus III fits the bill nicely, and with his reading at the Newtonville Books "Books and Brews" series tonight, we may get to the chance to do just that. The celebrated Massachusetts-based author of the bestseller "House of Sand and Fog" returns with another portrait of our all-too-human failures, a book about the darkness of sex, love, and violence. He reads from "The Garden of Last Days" tonight (and at Porter Square Books on next Tuesday). 7 p.m. Free. Newtonville Books, 296 Walnut St., Newtonville. 617-244-6619. newtonvillebooks.com [L. O.]
